Where to Eat in Downriver: An Essential Guide. The most unusual place in each of Michigan's 83 counties. Updated March 20, 2017 Posted March 20, 2017 Photo by Emily Rose Bennett | MLive.com By Jessica Shepherd | jessica_shepherd@mlive.com If you've ever randomly stopped to gaze at a roadside attraction or planned a family trip around a visit to a "world's largest" item, this list is for you. There are definitely more than 83 unusual sites within the state of Michigan, but we sought out the most unusual spot in each Michigan county.
Perhaps you can use our guide as a summer vacation planning tool for the next several years. Do you have a difference of opinion about one of the 83 places we listed? MLive file photo Alcona County What: Cedarbrook Trout Farms Where: 1543 N Lake Shore Dr, Harrisville, MI 48740 Details: Open to the public seasonally, Cedarbrook Trout Farms gives you the chance to (easily) catch and clean your own trout.
More info: Facebook Photo by Amy Sherman | MLive.com Alger County What: Christmas, Michigan Where: 4.5 miles west of Munising on Lake Superior Photo by John Lok | MLive.com. Rejected Princesses | Women too Awesome, Awful, or Offbeat for Kids' Movies. Updated Wednesdays. Ranking Michigan's 14 congressional districts by economic impact of immigration. MLive file photo of migrant workers picking strawberries in Van Buren County.
Economic impact of immigration in each Michigan congressional district This slideshow ranks Michigan's 14 congressional districts by economic impact of immigration, based on the taxes they pay plus their net income. It starts with the district where immigrants have the least impact and ends with the district where immigrants have the most income. There are two slides for each congressional district, which each have about 700,000 residents. MLive file photo Migrant worker picks asparagus in Oceana County. Data comes from Census and 2016 report promoting immigration reform The numbers in this slideshow come from the U.S. District includes entire Upper Peninsula plus Alcona, Alpena, Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Crawford, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Leelanau, Manistee, Montmorency, Oscoda, Otsego, and Presque Isle counties and areas of Mason County 14.
Source: Contributions of New Americans in Michigan. What if Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Had Swapped Genders? After watching the second televised debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in October 2016—a battle between the first female candidate nominated by a major party and an opponent who’d just been caught on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women—Maria Guadalupe, an associate professor of economics and political science at INSEAD, had an idea. Millions had tuned in to watch a man face off against a woman for the first set of co-ed presidential debates in American history. But how would their perceptions change, she wondered, if the genders of the candidates were switched?
She pictured an actress playing Trump, replicating his words, gestures, body language, and tone verbatim, while an actor took on Clinton’s role in the same way. What would the experiment reveal about male and female communication styles, and the differing standards by which we unconsciously judge them? But the lessons about gender that emerged in rehearsal turned out to be much less tidy. Here are 20 fun Detroit date ideas for $10 or less. The 7 Most Effective Exercises to Get Rid of a Double Chin. Do you have an accent? These are the words to try | Public Radio International. When linguist Bert Vaux posted a corpus of words and questions on his Harvard website back in the early 2000s, little did he know that he would spawn an international meme. The quiz was supposed to test his students’ regional American accents.
Did they say soda or coke or pop? Was it a roly-poly or a doodlebug? Did they TP a house or wrap it? Do they wear sneakers or gym shoes or tennis shoes? Vaux was inspired to research the regional variations of English around the country because of his own mixed up accent. “Moving around [as a kid] made me interested in these things,” he says.
His parents were from New York and Indiana, he spent his formative years in Texas and then moved to Chicago and then moved to England as a teen. “I always liked to use ‘you all’ to address a group of people. Tens of thousands of people ended up taking that initial quiz that Vaux posted and in the years that followed after the advent of social media, hundreds of thousands more accent enthusiasts followed. Words: How each county in Michigan got its name. Updated February 28, 2017 Posted February 28, 2017 A new map of Michigan with its canals roads distances by H.S. Tanner (1842), Public Domain By Emily Bingham | ebingham@mlive.com What's in a name? Sometimes, a whole lot of history — especially when it comes to names of places.
Michigan's 83 county names reflect our state's rich, complicated past, informed by everything from political flattery to the languages spoken here long before English was. By Beal Brothers - Visual Resources Database, Minnesota Historical Society; Public Domain The man responsible for naming many of Michigan's counties was Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, a 19th-century geographer and ethnologist who studied and wrote about Native American cultures and languages.
Of course, this muddied the historic context of those place's names — and, as time passed, made it difficult in some cases to tell if a name was real or if it was essentially Schoolcraft's own jargon. A new map of Michigan with its canals roads distances by H.S. The Resistance Calendar. R42965. R42965. School choice gutted Detroit’s public schools. The rest of the country is next. – VICE News. It was a chilly afternoon in April 2013 when Roy Roberts, a former GM executive now charged with righting the struggling Detroit Public Schools, appeared in the auditorium of Oakman Elementary/Orthopedic, a school on the city’s northwest side. Roberts had arrived with an entourage of district officials and he didn’t waste any time with small talk. “We’ll be closing Northwestern,” he announced. About a dozen parents were there, among them Aliya Moore, the president of the parents’ organization. Moore’s older daughter, Chrishawana, was in fifth grade and her final year at the school, where she’d been since kindergarten.
Her youngest, Tylyia, just a toddler at the time, had become a fixture on the campus, often seen coloring in the back of one of the kindergarten classrooms. Now she and the other parents looked at Roberts, perplexed. READ MORE: Amina, a Somali refugee, was about to reunite with her son, Mohamed, after nearly two years apart. “Oakman! How Tracking Down My Stolen Computer Triggered a Drug Bust | Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers. This is a true story. The names have been changed because, well, a guy ended up getting charged with a felony, something he’s probably not thrilled about.
Call me cautious. Have you ever had something stolen? Your heart sinks, your mind races, and you become increasingly paranoid about the vulnerability of your personal property. I know because this is a picture of my coworker’s (let’s call him Steve) rental car, a Chevy Impala, after lunch at Slow’s Bar-B-Q in Detroit (amazing food, don’t park on a side street), the Monday after Maker Faire Detriot. There was nothing significant in the front of the car to entice thieves to break in, but we both had computers in backpacks in the trunk.
One quick jab from a screwdriver unlocked the car, allowing the thief to pop the trunk and liberate the bags. If you’re in Detroit, don’t park here. We didn’t see the hole at first, so we both thought we were crazy when we found the trunk empty at the hotel. At Slow’s, we didn’t see any clues. Why hello! New Signage Near Slows Warns of "Car Break-In Area" Slow's BBQ parking security | Detroit.