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Now What Detroit?

Posted by on October 22, 2010 at 10:53 am

Tweet On October 20, 2010 I spent my day at 140 Conference Detroit.  This was another very successful social media event in Detroit.  The speakers were very inspiring, they highlighted some of the amazing things that are going on in Detroit.  From Lemonade Detroit  “a film about the disarming resilience of those who are moving [...]

TEDx Brings Energy to Detroit

Posted by on October 6, 2010 at 2:46 pm

Tweet After attending the TEDxDetroit conference on September 29th at the Detroit Institute of Art, I left in a daze.  There are so many great things going on in and around Detroit.  The mix of established businesses, up and coming companies along with the artist that inhabit the city, left me with a great sense of [...]

1 Year of Basking in the Wonder of Michigan

Posted by on June 10, 2010 at 8:53 am

Tweet 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 [...]

A True Michigan Man

Posted by on May 6, 2010 at 10:59 am

Tweet 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 [...]

Detroit Short Film shows the Future.

Posted by on January 21, 2010 at 4:13 pm

Tweet 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 [...]

Birmingham Store Makes Buy Local Statement

Posted by on January 6, 2010 at 10:52 am

Tweet 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 [...]

Stand Up for Detroit

Posted by on December 29, 2009 at 8:51 pm

Tweet 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 [...]

When Underdog Wins (or, Why I Love Detroit)

Posted by on November 3, 2009 at 1:54 pm

Tweet 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 [...]

Brightening Up My Day

Posted by on September 23, 2009 at 11:34 am

Tweet 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 [...]

Positive Detroit

Posted by on September 14, 2009 at 11:33 am

Tweet 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 [...]