-- Bay City has launched a public campaign to become one of the communities Google will use to test an experimental high-speed fibre optic network. To make it happen the city needs your help by simply nominating Bay city for this project, which can be done by filling out a short form on Google. -- Story: [Bay City Times] -- Before a student audience at the University of Alabama, Chief Justice John Roberts called into question the nature of Washington's abusive politics. He cited the partisan political process in approving chief justices, and he question whether or not justices should even attend the State of the Union message, where the justices where directly chided by President Obama for their decision on campaign contributions. -- Story: [FoxNews] -- Detroit may shrink in size to save itself. Proposed is the clearing blighted areas turning them into natural landscapes, and consolidating neighborhoods for better living environment. The result could dramatically improve the city's image and its future. However, there are many obstacles that would need to be overcome. -- Story: [MLive] -- "The Hurt Locker" gained six Oscar awards last night, including best screen play and best picture. It also set a record with Kathryn Bigelow becomeing the first woman to get best director. Best actress went to Sandra Bullock, and Jeff Bridges took best actor. -- Story: [Oscars] -- The Earth's closest celestial body, once consider a dead waste land, is becoming a more popular piece of real estate with the discovery of water. On March 1st, NASA announced a mother load of ice in the moon's north pole region, that's estimated be in the millions of tons, or enough to support human colonization. I can't help but wonder what other surprises the moon will soon reveal, and how can I stake a land claim while moon property is still cheap? -- Story: [NASA] -- Progress in getting Bay City's largest piece of river front property developed has been slow, but now that the old industrial building have been cleared, the Rivers Edge Development Corp., is hoping this will push the project foward at a more rapid pace. -- Story: [Bay City Times] -- Ron Bloomfield, Curator and Director of the Bay County Historical Society Museum, has been with the museum for the past 17 years. Early on in life he became captivated by just how interesting history can be. His goal was to become a history teacher. Now he has the best of both worlds, he not only has opportunities to do teaching, but he can also indulge in researching it and in the preservation of over 200,000 artifacts related to local history. During his tenure, the number and size of artifacts on exhibit at the museum has grown substantially. If you've missed seeing them, the museum is located next to City Hall in Bay City, and admission is "free!" -- Artcle: [The Bay City Times] -- The U.S.A. bobsled team upset the favorite German team, capturing the U.S.A.'s first gold metal in bobsledding since 1948. You can see the race on the Winter Olympics 2010 website. [Video] -- There were no surprises during the 7 hour long health care discussion last night. President Obama who said he was there to listen as moderator, used up about a third of the time himself. On one occasion he sternly told Senator McCain the campaign was over. He often interrupted the statement of Republicans giving his own opinion, then turned to a Democrat for the next statement. It seemed clear that most everyone was playing to the camera. In doing so, reinforcing the publics opinion that Washington is broke, financially and politically.
-- Story: [Reuters] [Video] -- Paul Otellini, CEO /Presidsent of Intel has announced plans for an alliance to invest $3.5 billion in fledgling U.S. technolgy companies. Intel sees a need for more and stronger innovated companies that would ultimate use its products. Underlining this concern is the increasing growth and competition from foreign high tech companies.
-- Story: [CNet] -- He did wrong, and deserves forgiveness, but only after he has demonstrated that he is sorry. Tiger Woods is not unique in having failed to live by the moral principles of his faith. He is just the latest and greatest to be caught. His public apology came up lame in my opinion, indeed, if his personal life is more important than to him than his fame as a golfer, he should have kept it personal, and just do the hard work needed to reconcile the with those who loved him them most, his family and friends. -- GM's Powertrain plant in Bay City has been chosen to build connector rods for the next generation of the Ecotec 2.4-liter engines destined to appear in several car models by 2010, such as the Equinox picutred here. The plant already builds the connector rods for the 1.4-liter version. Another 15 jobs will be added. -- Story: [MLive-Business] -- An invitation only audience were treated by Vice-President Biden with some good news yesterday, the nearly trillion dollar government Recovery Act is working! His stop here is part a campaign to spread the word across the country. Afterwards, the select group toured the plant of Hemlock Semiconductor Co., the world's leader in producing the silicon based material essential for solar panels, a truly good news story... about a year ago. - Stories: [Saginaw News] [Detroit News] -- We have word that Vice-President Biden is suppose to hold an "invitation only" meeting today at Delta College. A reliable source says he will be talking about the Recovery and Reinvestment act to a selective group people... and, the meeting "might" begin at 11:45 a.m., and... Senator Carl Levin might be there as well? -- [Source] -- Google has launched an experimental project with the goal to expedite the move towards a nation wide broadband system that will provide speeds 100 times faster than what presently available. Several communities will be used as pilot sites, those interested in participating need to apply by March 26. --- Ref.: [New York Times] [Google] -- A tiny low sensor develped at the University of Michigan could lead to new medical implants, and monitoring devices. The sensor is a 1,000 times smaller than it's comparable commercial counter parts, and it uses 2,000 times less power, giving it exceptional life-time. -- Story: [MSNBC] -- I missed Governor Granholm's last State of the State message, but thanks to CSPAN I found the entire address in their video library, including Sarah Palin's speech last night at the Tea Party Convention. A quit browse of their library revealed a long list of categorized, current and past videos, that included all of Gov. Granholm's previous SOS speeches. -- Learn more: [CSPAN] -- Missed Midland County may soon join the regional alliance known as the Great Lakes Bay Region, a cooperative marketing effort to merge the individual strengths of Bay, Saginaw, and Midland counties to attract new businesses, highly sought after professions and tourist to this region of the state. In our opinion a regional concept is the only long term solution to improving the economy of our area. Story: [Bay City Times] -- A new study shows we need less sleep as we age. Heathy older adults sleep about 20 minutes less than middle-aged adults, it also show the older we get the longer it takes to fall to sleep at night. -- Story: Aging