I can’t believe that Wonder Michigan is turning 1 year old. Did Wonder Michigan live up to everything that I wanted it too? I started this journey with A Marathon is Won with the First Stepand have tried to experience all that Michigan has to offer. Just as the state that we love, we are [...]
Many great writers and great speakers have had their say about how great of a person Ernie Harwell was. The radio has been full of stories of people who Ernie touched their lives in one way or another. People are taking time out of their day was we speak to go down to Comerica Park, [...]
A documentary about Detroit featuring Toby Barlow (NYTimes and Huffington Post contributor, Team Detroit) and Mark Covington (Chairman, Georgia Street Community Collective). The film takes a positive look at Detroit forward rumbles throug the prism of two totally different figures that are changing the city for the better in their own way. One would never [...]
For years Tender in Downtown Birmingham Michigan, was a place that my wife spends lots of money. It is a very fashion forward store, that carries the some of the best brands and fashions in Michigan. Again this is what my wife tells me. Well this morning while reading the “The Detroit Blog” they had a [...]
Detroit does not have a good reputation in the national media. Over the last four days it has not gotten any better. Somehow an idiot gets through security in Holland, and tries to ignite a homemade bomb on a flight that just so happends to be landing in Detroit, and all the sudden all the [...]
I found this article on PositiveDetroit.com about why the author has chose to stay in Detroit. I wanted to share this with my readers because it is very well writen and allows the reader to really see the geatness that lays below the surface of Detroit and it’s surrounding areas. It is nice to see [...]
I was having kind of a bad day today, just chalk it up to the mid-week blues. Then I found an article that just made my day. In this months Forbes is an article by Kathleen Bushnell Owsley, “In Defense of Detroit”. This realistic, down to earth description of the strengths and weaknesses of Detroit, [...]
While scanning the Tweets from the weekend, I stumbled a non profit that is working to make the perception of Detroit better. Positive Cities Detroit are looking for people who are sick of waking up in the morning to negative news, and want to do something about it. The donations start at $10, and at different levels have [...]
On the day after it is official that Chris Chelios will not be back next year with the Detroit Red Wings, I thought it important to point out that Mr. Chelios is a professional athlete that should be admired. He played hard, which earned him a reputation for being the most hated man in hockey if he was not on your [...]