Wolverine State


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Noun1.Wolverine State - a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes regionWolverine State - a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
Mackinac Bridge - a suspension bridge across the channel between the lower and upper peninsulas of Michigan
middle west, Midwest, midwestern United States - the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America)
Isle Royal National Park - a national park on an island in Michigan; includes prehistoric iron mines
U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
Alpena - a town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron
Ann Arbor - a city in southern Michigan near Detroit; site of the University of Michigan
Detroit, Motor City, Motown - the largest city in Michigan and a major Great Lakes port; center of the United States automobile industry; located in southeastern Michigan on the Detroit river across from Windsor
Flint - a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing
Grand Rapids - a city in west central Michigan; noted for manufacturing furniture
Houghton - a town in northwest Michigan on the Upper Peninsula
Jackson - a town in south central Michigan
capital of Michigan, Lansing - capital of the state of Michigan; located in southern Michigan on the Grand River
Marquette - a town on Lake Superior on the Upper Peninsula in northwest Michigan
Monroe - a town of southeast Michigan on Lake Erie
Traverse City - a town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Michigan
Detroit River - a short river flowing from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie along the border between the United States and Canada; one the busiest inland waterways in the world
Grand River - a river in southern Michigan that flows northwest to empty into Lake Michigan
Lake Saint Clair, Lake St. Clair - a lake between Ontario and Michigan; connected with Lake Huron and Lake Erie
Lower Peninsula - the part of northern Michigan between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron
Upper Peninsula - the peninsula between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan that forms the northwestern part of Michigan
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NCSL President and Utah Senator Curt Bramble (on the right) traveled to Michigan to discuss pressing state issues and NCSL resources with Wolverine State lawmakers.
Michigan at Antietam: The Wolverine State's Sacrifice on America's Bloodiest Day
Liz Crowe, one of the founders of the Wolverine State Brewing Company and Amazon best-selling author is returning to the Charles Reinhart Company to resume her successful career in real estate.
For his home state, Okkonen put together another pictorial and overview gem, Minor League Baseball Towns of Michigan: Adrian to Ypsilanti, the teams & the ballparks of the Wolverine State from the 1880s to the present.
Though I have been helping landowners manage their deer in Michigan for more than 20 years, I will never forget my first experience in the Wolverine State. I was invited to give a talk near Rogers City on deer management.
The Wolverine State Brewing Company of Ann Arbor, Michigan, a small-scale contract brewer since 2006, just started in-house production with a 10-barrel system in November 2010.
Michigan may be freezing in winter, but when it comes to filming, it's now hot year-round in the Wolverine State, thanks to its 3,000 miles of coastline that can double even for the Caribbean, gritty urban locations, deep crew base, film-friendly communities and--most of all--incentives on steroids.
When the Washtenaw Community Health Organization(WCHO) in Ypsilanti, Mich., appointed Patrick Barrie as its new executive director in November of last year, they gained a leader with more than 30 years of experience and the financial know-how that can help see them through the economic turmoil in the Wolverine State.
In 2002, brothers Scott and Todd Leopold launched an in-house distillery at their eponymous microbrewery in Ann Arbor, Mich.--making everything from vodka and gin to vermouth and triple sec--because of Wolverine State laws requiring brew pubs to make every alcoholic beverage sold on premise.
From a Mob hit thirty years ago on the outskirts of Detroit to a fight over a piece of luggage at an airport carousel, "Dead Bang" lopes around the Wolverine State, leaving a trail of bullets, fires, loose cash, kidnappings and bodies.

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