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Monthly Archives: December 2007

End of year fundraising push

Submitted by Dan Scripps on December 30, 2007 - 1:35pm. UPDATE (January 1, 2008): We did it! Thanks to all of you who contributed online in the last couple days (and over the past year). Your support puts us in a formidable position as we enter the 2008 election year.Before we leave 2007 behind, we [...]

Consumer-driven health care: Michigan leads a long-overdue approach

A new website from the Michigan Health and Hospital Association now provides Michigan residents with information on costs, payment options, and quality of care at Michigan’s 146 nonprofit community hospitals. According to this write-up in the Great Lakes IT Report, the site provides specific information on the average charge, average payment, average length of stay [...]

Venture investments and Michigan’s burgeoning new economy

With this pre-Christmas announcement, the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund has now made 18 investments totaling more than $4 million to companies that are creating and retaining jobs in Michigan. Fund officials say their investments have retained 87 jobs and will add 300 more in both 2008 and 2009 in the fields of advanced manufacturing and [...]

With a bold goal, we will rise again with renewable energy

That’s the headline from this great editorial from today’s Bay City Times, passionately arguing that the legislature should drop its “wobbly” plans for reduced Renewable Portfolio Standards for renewable energy, and get on board with a 25% requirement by 2025. The whole editorial should be required reading for everyone working to build a brighter future [...]

Woods, water and wind (not to mention jobs and investment!)

Yesterday featured a number of interesting stories at the intersection of where we’ve been and where we’re going. First, the Traverse City Record-Eagle had another great story by AP environmental writer John Flesher about declining access to thousands of acres in the UP that has been available to the public for more than a century [...]

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Here’s a cool story from downstate: by moving from traditional incandescent lights to more energy-efficient LED lights, Lansing Township has dramatically cut the amount of energy necessary to power its annual Christmas light display. The LED Christmas lights were purchased from HolidayLEDs.com, an e-commerce company based in Jackson, Michigan. In addition to the energy savings, [...]

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