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In a year where the economy has taken its toll on many people across our community, state and nation,what are you thankful for?

MLive.com Is singling out overweight students the best way to tackle obesity, or should all students be required to take fitness courses?
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Lincoln College outside Philadelphia is requiring overweight students to take a fitness course before they graduate.

MLive.com Noah's mother Diana thanks everyone who sent their support, and now wants to harness the outpouring into donations to cancer-fighting organizations.
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The 5-year-old South Lyon boy who captured the nation's attention early this month, died on Monday after battling cancer for nearly three years.

MLive.com Let the Thanksgiving meal preparation begin...
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We've got tips and tricks from some of the best food writers around on how to set up a fantastic holiday meal. From grocery shopping tricks to what phone number to call in case of a kitchen disaster, we've got you covered.

Melissa Pepper Amber Alert - 11 yr. old Brianna M. Randall and 12 yr. old Monica L .Clark abducted from Burton, MI. Details: http://bit.ly/6L3Dxa

Lynne Dykema Bart EAST GRAND RAPIDS HIGH SCHOOL Girls Swim & Diving Team is poised to win the State Championship today at EMU! Let's hope the GR Press Sports Editor will give this big win more coverage than just the usual small write-up it usually gets!

MLive.com The American Family Association has called a boycott against Gap and its sister chains for its latest commercial aimed at holiday shoppers. Watch the ad below and decide for yourself if it's warranted.
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Ah, it's that time of year again. City workers putting up Christmas decorations. Seasonal music piping through retail establishments. Secular humanists resuming their annual plot to dismantle the fabric of American society. That's right, the annual war on Christmas -- or, rather, people screaming i...

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The state’s unemployment rate, now at 15.1 percent, will rise to an average 15.8 percent next year — the highest in at least 40 years — and drop slightly to 15.4 percent in 2011, according to the forecast by U-M economists George Fulton, Joan Crary and Don Grimes.

MLive.com We apologize in advance if this story caused the song to get stuck in your head.
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As a writer on MLive, I'm very familiar with an audience that can, at times, take things a bit too far, but admittedly I don't have anything on what the above group, the Good Luck Joes, went through after they won a contest and got to create a promo for Fox Sports Detroit.

MLive.com Do you agree that Michiganders must change their way of thinking that the economy can one day return to what it was?
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Amid the economic turbulence of these time, there persists the view among some people that somehow, some way, things will return to the way they were years ago. Yet if Michigan is to find prosperity again, people in the state must accept the past as the past and that the auto industry will never ag...

Sarah Palin on why she started her 'Going Rogue' book tour in Michigan: 'Grand Rapids is a microcosm
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The former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate ended the first stop on her national book tour by stepping out of Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Woodland Mall with her youngest child, Trig, in her arms, helping him wave to a camera-toting crowd giving her one last cheer.

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Lucy Vigmustad said the wind that swept through the Woodland Mall parking lot was the the toughest part as she huddled with friends overnight -- but it's worth it for a few fleeting moments with her hero, Sarah Palin.

MLive.com Michigan's young people: To stay or not to stay? Some pledge allegiance to the Mitten http://bit.ly/1x8Bby

MLive.com With video of the winning set. USA! USA! USA!
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Tim Conrad threw paper. He threw rock. But he never threw scissors.That final-round strategy was enough for the Taylor native to win his first Rock Paper Scissors World Championship, defeating ...

RNC Chairman Michael Steele: GM's $1.2 billion loss 'further proof that President Obama's economic e
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"Sadly, GM has not only failed to turn a profit since the president poured $50 billion of the taxpayers’ dollars into GM’s bankruptcy restructuring, but it has actually lost $1.2 billion,” Steele said.























