Talk:Northern Michigan
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we ned a map of Northern michigan with cities listed. I am lazy but will do it if nobody else wants to contribute to the legacy of wikipedia by drawing and posting one. MPS 20:41, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
Midland is in the county directly east of Isabella County (where Central Michigan University is located). Midland County is not considered part of northern Michigan, therefore neither is Northwood University. This means there are no four-year universities in northern Michigan.
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[edit] Four year colleges
Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan (and also in Grand Rapids, Michigan) most definitely offers four year and post graduate degrees. So your statement that there are "no four-year universities in northern Michigan" would be unfounded. [1]
FWIW, Northwest Michigan University and Alpena Community College offer four year degrees in partnership with other colleges.
However, I think the article gets this material right. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 19:58, 19 December 2007 (UTC)Stan 7&6=thirteen (talk) 01:30, 21 December 2007 (UTC)STan
[edit] The AM radio listing is a complete mess
DONE It should be reordered by someone based on the numbers, and create a 'dial' like the FM listing. Right now its just random. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 01:29, 21 December 2007 (UTC)Stan
7&6=thirteen (talk) 03:09, 21 December 2007 (UTC)Stan 7&6=thirteen (talk) 18:11, 23 December 2007 (UTC)Stan
[edit] Road work
Somebody needs to do a commentary on US-31, US-27 and US-131. I almost never drive those, and I'm bored with the size of putting this whole road thing together. There are probably fairly good descriptions of at least one of them in Traverse City, Michigan.
DONE. We should also add in M-115 and M-13 (needs commentary) (the latter runs north from Bay City to Standish and US-23, and is the hypotonous of a right triangle, where one might have considered using I-75 to get to US-23.
7&6=thirteen (talk) 19:29, 22 December 2007 (UTC)Stan
[edit] History
This article is completely lacking in a broader and better researched history section, which it really needs. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 16:49, 23 December 2007 (UTC)Stan
[edit] Statistics on Michigan
There are relevant statistics on Michigan, which I believe are part of the larger picture. One of our editors removed this as 'irrelevant'. My request to him for more relevant data (presumably limited to Northern Michigan) has gone unanswered. Here is the data:
- The geographical theme of this region is shaped by the fact that it is part of greater Michigan, which has:
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- 58,110 square miles (150,500 km²) of land.
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- 1,305 square miles (3,380 km²) of inland water.
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- 38,575 square miles (99,910 km²) of Great Lakes water area.
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- 3,288 miles (5,292 km) of Great Lakes shoreline.
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- 11,037 inland lakes.[2]
7&6=thirteen (talk) 16:25, 27 December 2007 (UTC)Stan
- Those stats are in the Michigan article already. Why re-add them here? Comparative statistics (as in, "this region comprises 1/4 of the land area of the state" (I made that up)) are useful, but not stats about the state and not the region. I agree with Rmherman on this one. Also, I don't think that a complete listing of every detail is really useful -- such as every single AM radio station. It doesn't add to the encyclopedic quality of the article and just adds a lot of extra material to wade through. That may be more relevant on, say, WikiTravel. -- dcclark (talk) 05:39, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
I reworked the statistics, so it is just a simple paragraph. I think it adds something to the article. I did put in an internal link to the Michigan article, which oddly may not have been in there at all. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 12:13, 28 December 2007 (UTC)Stan
This link shows Michigan's coastline at 3224 miles. http://coastalmanagement.noaa.gov/mystate/mi.html Asher196 (talk) 03:55, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
Here's antoher source that repeated the 3288 figure. http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/mi.htm 7&6=thirteen (talk) 12:41, 29 December 2007 (UTC)Stan
[edit] Lists of radio stations, etc.
As to the criticism on the radio stations, maybe it does belong somewhere else, and a simple link would solve the issue. However, I don't think that this information is anywhere else, and simply deleting it makes little sense, as it is potentially useful to users. On the other hand, it si at the end of this article, and doesn't really detract from the flow. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 12:13, 28 December 2007 (UTC)Stan
[edit] Business section
Added it. This needs a list of prominent Northern Michigan businesses. Such a list exists in Western Michigan. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 16:32, 2 January 2008 (UTC)Stan
