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Michigan politicians addressed the region's business community and shared their goals to improve affordable broadband connectivity, housing and childcare for the area.
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The shortest route to get a ship from Asia to the U.S. is through America's West Coast ports. But given the pileup there, some ships are going the long way through eastern Canada into the Great Lakes.
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Wojtek Kornet/wip-studio - stock.adobe.com/201346429There is a national blood supply crisis. Michigan hospitals are facing tough choices because of the shortage. Red Cross and Versiti are encouraging donations.
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Revisit a 1985 recital by renowned soprano Marvis Martin given at Interlochen. -
This week on Great Lakes Concerts, hear guitar virtuoso Sharon Isbin perform with the Flint Symphony Orchestra. Also, the Traverse Symphony Orchestra plays music of Les Deutsch.
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This week's requests included everything from Voices of Spring to Sleigh Ride.
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Music composed for a variety of racing video games, from realistic driving simulations to lighthearted games where half the fun is knocking your friends off the track with a turtle shell!
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The Traverse Symphony Orchestra returns in full on Janurary 16
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Jerry Herman's 1984 Best Musical Tony Winner features big hair and big heart
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Max Copeland/Interlochen Public Radio“I’ve gotten more calls this year than I’ve ever gotten for people looking for wholesale trees,” said Jamie Helsel, who owns a Christmas tree farm in McBain. “They can’t find ‘em.”
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Dr. Jian Duan/USDAAsh trees were once abundant in Michigan, now hundreds of millions of them are dead. They were killed by the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle native to Eastern Asia.
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