Kalamazoo has a 14% capital ratio and 39% of its assets in cash and securities.
Hypothetically any artwork could be beamed into every apartment from Brooklyn to Kalamazoo.
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Last year I was in Michigan at Kalamazoo and had just a wonderful time.
In 2003 after Pfizer acquired Pharmacia, it shut down a large lab in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
No one knows this better than the teachers at the Croyden Avenue School in Kalamazoo, Mich.
The couple are former teachers for the Kalamazoo public schools who are now billionaire philanthropists.
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Michigan's Kalamazoo River is polluted by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), highly toxic chemicals banned in the 1970s.
In a twist on a higher-education mystery, anonymous donors once again have bestowed riches on Kalamazoo, Mich.
Now, recently, an article from your local paper, the Kalamazoo Gazette -- (applause) -- was brought to my attention.
They acted fast, hoping to recruit chemists in Kalamazoo before they left town.
Locals say the Stryker and Upjohn fortunes remain heavily and secretly influential in Kalamazoo philanthropy.
Accountant Janet Copeland and her husband, Peter, a retired corporate attorney, bought the 1949 Eric Brown House in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Instead, it turned to an outfit in Michigan--Kalexsyn, which stands for "Kalamazoo Experts in Synthesis" (these guys are scientists, not poets).
Here in Kalamazoo, we have two farmers markets that accept food stamps.
We know how they have helped inspire an entire generation of young people here in Kalamazoo to imagine a different future for themselves.
"Options are at a very reasonable price right now, " says Charles Zhang, managing partner of investment advisory firm Zhang Financial in Kalamazoo, Mich.
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The departure stands to be a costly one for Mr. MacMillan, whose exit is being treated as a "termination without cause" by Kalamazoo, Mich.
Earlier this year Justin Kurtz, a college student in Kalamazoo, Mich.
James MacPhee is the president of the Independent Community Bankers of America, as well as chief executive of tiny Kalamazoo County State Bank in Schoolcraft, Mich.
Local residents suspect Stryker board member Ronda Stryker and her husband, Bill Johnston, owner of the Radisson hotel in Kalamazoo, are among the Promise donors.
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Not all these communities are the same -- we've got everything from Kalamazoo to Harlem to small communities in Arkansas that focus mostly on farm loans.
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That thought that crossed my mind as I prepared my keynote address for Catalyst 2013, sponsored by the economic development group, Southwest Michigan First held last month in Kalamazoo.
The announcement comes about six years after anonymous donors gained national attention for creating Kalamazoo Promise, an organization that covers tuition costs at state colleges and universities for graduates of Kalamazoo public high schools.
Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Writers Lisa Song, Elizabeth McGowan and David Hasemyer were recognized for a project that began with an investigation into a million-gallon spill of Canadian tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan in 2010.
Enbridge and the Environmental Protection Agency estimated the pipeline discharged more than 840, 000 gallons of oil into Talmadge Creek, which feeds into the Kalamazoo River, which in turn flows from near the city of Battle Creek into Lake Michigan.
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