Geocaching!

Parker Wilson
http://www.studentprintz.com/treasure-hunts-not-just-for-pirates-1.793389
http://www.geocachingzone.com/searching-for-hidden-treasure-a-growing-hobby/
The second link contains a link to the full story, but the link doesn’t work. However, this does give evidence to the growing sport. Finding evidence on the growth of it would be the national aspect of the sport, as well as its origin. To localize it I would find specific examples of geocachers [...]

Localized Story Idea

There are all sorts of commercials on TV for Flirty Girl Fitness, which offers a strip routine for excercise, and Carmen Electra’s excercise videos, which are all strip based.  These commercials indicate a national trend in pole dancing and striping as a method of excercise for women.  In East Lansing, there is a learn-to-strip workout center [...]

Best Buy movie downloading service

Best Buy is planning a movie downloading service in a partnership with Sonic Solutions, who have a system already in place called Roxio CinemaNow. The new system will be built into devices sold at stores including television sets, portable media players, computers, mobile phones, and other devices from a variety of manufacturers. Sonic Solution’s stock [...]

Michigan High School Football Playoffs Fever

The Michigan High School Athletic Association state football playoffs are in full swing and playoff fever is in the air.  Lapeer West, a high school from my home town, is in the playoffs and is playing at home Friday.  I plan to go to the school Friday and attend the pep rally (if there is [...]

Michigan High School Football

The Goodrich High School football team is renewing their rivalry with Powers Catholic High School.  The game is being played at Goodrich High School, and is a rematch of a game that Powers won already this season by 28 points.  One of the stars of the Powers Catholic team is a transfer from Goodrich High [...]

Medical marijuana could lead to millions in tax revenue

According to CNN Money, the state of Michigan could make up to 32.4 million dollars in tax revenue if it were taxed in the state. Michigan would rank 6th among all the states, behind California, New York, Florida, Texas and Ohio, respectively. The only place in the country that currently taxes medical marijuana is Oakland, [...]

Gas Price Hikes

The New York Times published an article on Oct. 27th titled ‘Gas Prices Up for 2 Straight Weeks’. The article details how consumers across the nation have found themselves paying more for gas than they did over last year due to rapidly increasing prices of crude oil and the conversion of crude oil. I would [...]

Something to Pine About

According to the Great Lakes Echo (http://greatlakesecho.org/2009/10/28/michigan-braces-for-three-invaders-from-ohio/); three invasive species are being found in Michigan, the Asian longhorned beetle, sirex woodwasp, and the hemlock woolly adelgid, these bugs are likely to cause a lot of trouble in the next few months as they begin killing trees.
The Asian longhorned beetle attacks maple, willow, elm, and ash [...]

Taking Back the All-American Concert

Back from their world tour, the All-American Rejects have teamed up with  Taking Back Sunday and Anberlin for a U.S. tour. The first of this tour- MSU; the nearly 4 hour concert was held on Nov.3 in the Auditorium.
With approximately 4000 screaming fans packing the smoke-filled auditorium, the All- American Rejects were defiantly welcomed back [...]

Are retailers finding ways to entice customers in the upcoming holiday season?

According to an MSNBC online article, retailers are lacking the adaptations that the consumers have adopted in the current economic times. Especially with the critical upcoming holiday season, the article reports that retailers need to keep up with the shopping habits of customers and figure out what will get them interested in purchasing.
This would be [...]