NEXT: Click here to go to 1980 → Adjusted to 2014 dollars: The median U.S. household income in 1975 was $51,923, with families spending 14.2% of their income on public university ($7,938 sticker price, annually) or 31.7% on private university $16,475 sticker price, annually). Also in 1975… John Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman […]
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Posted inBusiness Watch
Postcards from paradise: A daughter of Petoskey finds homecoming a real page-turner
Like lots of smart young natives, Katie Capaldi thought her destiny lay far from the northern Michigan town where she was raised. But she’s writing another chapter. Plus, five other looks at people and life Up North.
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Postcard from paradise: In the inky dark, a glimmer of starshine – and tourism
The Headlands is drawing stargazers to a 550-acre park at the very tip of the mitten, officially designated an International Dark Sky Park.
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Postcard from paradise: Custom skis, made by hand
Jeff Thompson figured he could make his own skis as easily as buying them. Then mom and dad sold their house to come work for him.
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Postcard from paradise: At Coolhouse Labs, a native son incubates startups in Harbor Springs
Internet-based companies can live anywhere. One twenty-something hopes giving entrepreneurs a great northern Michigan summer might turn their heads.
Posted inTalent & Education
Postcard from paradise: Not a book learner, but put a torch in his hands and sparks fly
NEXT POSTCARD: At Coolhouse Labs, a native son incubates startups in Harbor Springs → In certain high school classes, Mike Kibbe might as well have been from the moon. Shakespeare? He makes a whistling sound, pointing to one ear with his forefinger and continuing the motion past the other. “It just went in one ear […]
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Postcard from paradise: Needing to get out, a young man looks to the water
His parents always warned: In a small-town economy, the pie is too small for everybody to get a slice.
Posted inSuccess
Postcard: How a git-’er-done spirit helps one rural school district
Every school bus that stays on the road represents more money for the classroom at Inland Lakes Schools. The district’s mechanic is onboard. Plus, three more looks at life Up North too complicated to fit on a postcard.
Posted inChildren & Families
Postcard: When elk is for dinner
Food pantries, like their customers, mostly take what they can get.
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Postcard: Luxe life at Bay Harbor reflects changing economy
A luxury playground grows where an abandoned cement plant once stood on the shores of Little Traverse Bay.