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Pure Michigan Spent $295 Million and Even Hotels Only Got Scraps Back
Michigan Capitol Confidential ^ | 11/5/2016 | Derek Draplin

Posted on 11/07/2016 11:20:00 AM PST by MichCapCon

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To: BRL

Back in 1997 we drove from Chicago to the UP via Green Bay; toured the waterfalls, waded into the very chilly Lake Superior and enjoyed the drive down the western shore back to Chicago. It was a memorable week for us and something I’d do again. Love the Pure Michigan ads, especially the music (soundtrack from Cider House Rules). Sorry the expenditure by the state government hasn’t produced the desired result.


41 posted on 11/07/2016 12:22:53 PM PST by CARTOUCHE (After 8 yrs of the Sta-Puft Presidency, America yearns for a strong leader. Trump WILL win!)
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To: dfwgator

GMTA. See Post #40.


42 posted on 11/07/2016 12:23:46 PM PST by kosciusko51
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To: PGalt

I went to Michigan Tech for my undergrad.

I used to stand on Brockway Mountain’s inland side on gusty days and dream of hang gliding.

Left after graduation for San Diego to start my career, found an instructor, got my hang IV rating, flew Torrey Pines and the Mountains for the next 9 years - the 90s basically.

Gliders: Wills Wing HP (jokingly called “hard pound”, small flare window) and x2 Euro Sports.

Sites: Elsinore, Mt. Laguna, Little Black, Big Black, Horse, Soboba, Torrey Pines, Blossom Valley

:)


43 posted on 11/07/2016 12:24:53 PM PST by Eddie01 (Democrats are the Liquidate America Party)
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To: kosciusko51

I use another one:

They say Beirut used to be the “Paris of the Middle East.”

Now, Paris is the “Beirut of Europe.”


44 posted on 11/07/2016 12:27:42 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: kosciusko51
I wouldn't know. Detroit is five or six hours south of us. I haven't seen a muslim or mosque in at least two years.

Where we live is redneck pinejack woods and crystal clear lakes. Friendly good people on a dirt road, red fox, pileated woodpeckers, northern lights that we watch from the bedroom window. Everyone carries and there is zero crime in our small town of 1000 where everyone kinda knows each other.

45 posted on 11/07/2016 12:28:22 PM PST by MarMema (GO RED MICHIGAN)
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46 posted on 11/07/2016 12:37:12 PM PST by MarMema (GO RED MICHIGAN)
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To: MarMema

That’s great. You must be near the kirtland warblers


47 posted on 11/07/2016 12:38:18 PM PST by BRL
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To: MarMema

That looks a lot like where I grew up in Western PA.

It is too bad that states like MI and PA are known by the bad (Detroit and Philly), and not for good places outside of the liberal hellholes.


48 posted on 11/07/2016 12:40:15 PM PST by kosciusko51
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To: BRL

So they tell me. We get groups from Japan and all over the world to see them. Makes the local papers...but we have never seen one. That we know, at least.


49 posted on 11/07/2016 12:41:13 PM PST by MarMema (GO RED MICHIGAN)
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To: MichCapCon

-98% ROI? Gosh, who could say no to that deal?


50 posted on 11/07/2016 12:45:02 PM PST by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everyone stands around reloading.)
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To: MichCapCon; sit-rep; Squantos; Hot Tabasco
I suggested "Go to Hell, Michigan" as a slogan but nobody listened.


51 posted on 11/07/2016 12:48:45 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Carly Simon is so vain, she thinks we think her insipid song is about us.)
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To: Eddie01

WOW! HOORAY adventurous Eddie 01. My mom (RIP) was born in raised near Calumet/Kearsarge (Traprock Valley). My parents retired near Copper Harbor (Lac LaBelle). Me and dad (RIP) used to go to Tech hockey games when I was in the U.P. visiting. Keewenaw was our summer vacation every year when we were kids.


52 posted on 11/07/2016 12:54:21 PM PST by PGalt
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To: PGalt

There was a forest watch tower you could climb shortly after the turn off 41 to Lac Labelle.

I looked for it a few years back, but learned it had be removed.

Those were the days.


53 posted on 11/07/2016 1:47:11 PM PST by Eddie01 (Democrats are the Liquidate America Party)
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To: kosciusko51

The old iron mining towns in the Western U.P. remind me a whole lot of Western PA.


54 posted on 11/07/2016 1:56:44 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Larry Lucido

There is a town in Lancaster County, PA called Intercourse.

Years ago they had a contest to pick a new travel slogan for PA.

One guy submitted this entry:

“Virginia May Be For Lovers, But Only Pennsylvania Has Intercourse!”

That wimpy RINO Governor Dick Thornburgh wouldn’t approve it.


55 posted on 11/07/2016 1:59:35 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Eddie01

I climbed the fire tower (road off to the left as you were going down the final hill toward Lac LaBelle) many times. I was sad to see it gone one summer. My dad built the big A-frame on the far side of the lake. The tallest pine trees were (and still are) on that property. Great memories.

Mom’s cousin Pauline is still on the zoning board...

http://keweenawcountyonline.org/commissions-zba.php


56 posted on 11/07/2016 2:07:32 PM PST by PGalt
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To: MarMema

I disagree with your premise. Ive been a “Non-Resident” in CA on Active Duty since 1987 and will soon hang’em up. I enlisted out of Detroit, I was raised there...Detroit is small, but Wayne County is large enough that the entire state is held captive by its vote; it impacts the rest of the state in very significant ways. The “size” of the big D matters much less than the density of its population. I will not ever live there again...ever. A blue state that wants so much to turn even bluer...California’s little brother.


57 posted on 11/07/2016 2:58:43 PM PST by TheGunny
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To: Eddie01; PGalt
Some of the most happy memories of my life brought back by your post. From London, England to just across from the American side in Canada, I explored the old towns. Central Mine, Red Jacket, Calumet and Laurium. This when I got my first car- a 55 Ford.

Had my daughter who was only six years old when she first went there in the 1970's, drive my wife and self last year. Visited Gay, Michigan and had a beer at the Gay Bar. (Joseph E. Gay founder of the town). Took the cog railway which went 541 feet underground near Hancock and Houghton. At the end a huge stope appeared. I got claustrophobia and had to sing an old hymn on the way back out. Welsh miners used to sing it. Nobody minded. Excuse my ramble

58 posted on 11/07/2016 4:54:18 PM PST by Peter Libra
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To: Larry Lucido

lol


59 posted on 11/08/2016 9:16:10 AM PST by sit-rep
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