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On today's podcast: - We share details on what happened on Wyoming Street in Detroit that resulted in the death of Detroit officer Rasheen McClain. It's the 239th in the department's history. - UAW President Gary Jones resigns - General Motors is suing FCA - Shianne and Jer make a trip down to the new H&M in downtown Detroit and check it out. We talk with Ezinne Kwubiri and Patrick Shaner. Shianne has her thoughts. - And a yacht crashed into the GM Riverwalk.  Like the show? Tell a friend! We're on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-detroit-news-byte/id1220563942?mt=2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1Yhv8nSylVWxlZilRhi4X9 And, thanks to our Patreon members who make this possible: http://www.patreon.com/dailydetroit

On today's show: Our feature conversation is a deep dive into the proposed $250 million demolition bond that was denied by Detroit City Council this week. What was it? Why did it fail? And what's next? We chatted with Chase Cantrell from Building Community Value. The organization is on the ground providing tools to help Detroiters rebuild their city. You can find out more about them and sign up for their classes here: http://www.bcvdetroit.org/ Also around the region: A new scorecard is out for LGBTQ support in various cities around town from the Human Rights Campaign. Some scored well and some very much did not. There are layoffs in Taylor at a sugar refinery. A new road bridge opened in Canton Township, relieving a two and a half year detour. And, the Detroit Saturday Night building in downtown Detroit is coming down. So we get another 12 parking spaces on a surface parking lot. There are photos up on http://www.dailydetroit.com Like the show? Don't forget to tell a friend to subscribe free in Apple Podcast

On today's show for Tuesday, November 19, 2019: Two big stories. More mass transit may be moving ahead in Southeast Michigan - minus Macomb County. Shianne went to Royal Oak to learn more. And Greg Migliore of Autoblog joins me to talk about the brand new Mustang Mach-E from Ford. It's an answer to Tesla and was even revealed next door to Tesla property. Mach-E Ridealong: https://www.autoblog.com/2019/11/17/ford-mustang-mach-e-ride-along-video/ More Mach-E Coverage: https://www.autoblog.com/2019/11/18/ford-mustang-brand-family-of-vehicles/ Even more Mach-E, including 300 miles of range: https://www.autoblog.com/2019/11/17/2021-ford-mustang-mach-e-revealed-la-auto-show/ Like the show? Don't forget to tell a friend to subscribe free in Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-detroit/id1220563942 Or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1Yhv8nSylVWxlZilRhi4X9 Really like the show? Become a member on Patreon. http://www.patreon.com/dailydetroit

On today's show (yes, we're moving to mornings! Finally!) - A film focusing in part on a Detroit automaker, "Ford V. Ferrari," takes the top spot at the box office - Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is in Israel - Gas price update from AAA - Taxpayers are on the hook for free health care for Warren's elected officials for life. In depth here: https://www.macombdaily.com/news/local/new-perk-for-warren-elected-officials-free-health-insurance-for/article_c6cc821a-070a-11ea-babc-070b87802b9a.html - The UAW ratifies a new contracts with General Dynamics - Lyon Township has doubled in population recently. Some are trying to curb sprawl to the township 50 minutes from Detroit. In depth here: https://www.hometownlife.com/story/news/local/south-lyon/2019/11/14/lyon-township-considers-buying-property-development-rights-slow-growth/4181856002/ - CNN has named a Dearborn woman as a top 10 hero. You can vote for Najah Bazzy to win here: https://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/vote/10/ - A massive bond to pay for demol

Michigan is the Great Lakes State. Detroit is literally named the city of the strait - our river. And one of the most important assets we have, and resources to protect, is our water and our environment. So when I heard Tracie Baker at TEDxDetroit talk about the contaminant soup we live in, my ears perked up. they perked up double when the Assistant Professor at the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences as well as the department of Pharmacology said that those contaminants can even impact our DNA, changing the course of future generations. This is episode 378 of your Daily Detroit. Tracie was kind enough to stop by the north end studio and talk about her work at Wayne State with me and Sven Gustafson. it's an eye-opening conversation about contaminants, fatbergs. But also, there's hope as there are people are starting to do to take action.

On today's show: Internationally acclaimed photographer and Detroit resident Kenny Karpov joins us to talk about his upcoming photo exhibit, "Despite It All, We Never Learn." T he photos take you on a journey with Karpov on a refugee boat in the Mediterranean. It's quite the story, and the opening event is at M Contemporary Gallery in Ferndale. More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1422062574620647/ Also, Sven - a former print journalist - and Jer talk about the news that apparently three reporters and a photographer are going to be laid off at the Detroit Free Press, ahead of a corporate mega-merger that will see local journalists lose their jobs across the country. This isn't the first - cuts have been going on for more than a decade - and it won't be the last. So what could stop the death spiral of major paper local news? We discuss and we'd love to hear your feedback about what you're looking for in local news. 

Happy snowmageddon, Detroit! Hope you're all staying nice and warm. On today's episode, we dig out of the early and record-breaking November snowstorm and dig into a few of the things that aren't working around town. Specifically, we talk about: That WXYZ investigation into a Detroit landlord whom the city has forgiven more than $1 million in unpaid taxes, fees and other fines he owes. It was part of the land swap the city orchestrated to pave the way for the new Fiat Chrysler auto assembly plant on the city's east side. Now he's screwing over families buying homes on land contracts. The Ilitches are at it again in District Detroit. Thanks to the Detroit Greenways Coalition, we know that the Ilitch family wants the city to grant it an easement over Henry and Sproat streets, which both run right alongside the Little Caesars Arena. Good idea? Or The Best Idea? And there's a shortage of liquor, fueled by software glitches at one of the three companies the state authorizes to distribute booze to bars, restauran

It might surprise you that the 2.1 square miles of Hamtramck is the densest, as far as residents per square mile, of any in the state. With roots to before 1800, the city has seen a succession of immigrants. founded by French Canadian Commander Jean Francois Hamtramck, the township was settled by people from what we know today as the province of Quebec in Canada. Since then, it's become a village of German farmers. And then, with Polish immigrants as the automobile industry rose in the first quarter of the twentieth century. By 1922, Hamtramck had turned itself into a city to stop it from being annexed by the city of Detroit. Today, it has a very diverse population, including those germans and poles… African American… and immigrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Yemen, and many more. it's also very walkable, unlike most of metro Detroit. There are corner bars and grocery stores. Churches and mosques. Hardware stores. Community festivals. Walking the streets of Hamtramck, I see the physical cityscape of Detroit t

That's the voice of Rob Paulsen. Born in Detroit, raised in Michigan and now with a voice known to millions, the singer and actor is the kind of person that can light up a room with just a few words. Whether it is as the voice of Pinky in Pinky and the brain, on the Animaniacs, or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, it's magic. He has more than 250 animated voices and a thousand commercials under his belt. Rob comes back from time to time, and we caught up with him at TEDx Detroit for a wide-ranging conversation about not just his career, but his life. After all, there are many facets to the man. Paulsen is an author with a moving book called "Voice Lessons" about his journey through stage three throat cancer and host of the podcast, "Talkin' Toons" on the Nerdist network. That conversation, recorded in the Masonic Temple, is today's show. Like what we're doing? Leave a review or tell a friend on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-detroit-news-byte/id1220563942?mt=2 Also, our Patreon: h

On today's show: We cover four things to know around town in our headlines, then we chat with the artist behind Sareytales. Sarey Ruden turns the creepy, scary, terrible and misogynistic messages she gets on a regular basis while online dating into art. The pieces (some that you can view here) will stop you in your tracks and shines a light on the dark side of online dating. Like what we're doing? Don't forget to share the Daily Detroit podcast! It's the best way to push Detroit's conversation forward.  Really like what we're doing? Support us on Patreon. Community-supported media can stay fiercely independent. http://www.patreon.com/dailydetroit  

Despite a steady trickle of leaked recordings of him being horrible, Warren Mayor Jim Fouts was re-elected to a fourth term on Tuesday. On today's show, we talk about and what it says about Warren. Then, we highlight some other races from around the region and discuss what they say about those cities, from Ferndale to Flint and Eastpointe to Livonia. Finally, we speak with Colleen Martin and Saharsh Hajela, two University of Michigan graduates who co-founded Shout. That's a brand-new, non-partisan mobile app aimed at making it easier for regular citizens to find and contact their elected representatives. We ran into them in the Fountain Ballroom of the Masonic Temple at TEDxDetroit, where we recorded today's show. Thanks for listening to Daily Detroit. If you like what you're hearing, tell a friend about us, leave us a review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or support us by becoming a Patreon member.

On today's show: An old train depot in Holly from 1886 gets a big preservation grant Two metro Detroit communities get top billing as places to retire An annual festival in Oakland County will be back at least through 2024 H&M in downtown Detroit finally has an opening date Dr. Paul Thomas from Plum Health Direct Primary Care comes on to talk about their new office in Detroit's Corktown And a Detroit teacher is driving Uber to pay for sweaters for her students whose parents can't afford them  Like the show? Tell a friend or leave a review on Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-detroit/id1220563942 Love the show? Consider becoming a Patreon member. http://www.patreon.com/dailydetroit  

Gregg Garrett, our guest today, shares that four million jobs are going to be eliminated through autonomous vehicles from the U.S. economy. On the flip side, $7.8 trillion of value will be created. So how does not just our country, but our region that is the home of the automotive industry, deal with that? Whether it's this or a litany of other stuff that's happening that we discuss, there's a train of change coming to Southeast Michigan. Welcome to your Daily Detroit for Monday, November 4th, 2019. Garrett He has made a career helping people and companies deal with disruption and be better leaders. He's the Founder of CGS Advisors, a local firm that looks at how emerging connected technologies are disrupting industries and society — and helps people deal with it. He's an author and the host of "You, me and your top three," a podcast focused on exploring leadership in the connected world. We have a wide-ranging conversation that I hope you enjoy and learn something from. 

We've made it to the weekend! On today's show: We break down the proposed FCA/PSA Peugeot merger deal. A lawsuit involving a popular brewery, Founders, has been settled out of court The new Hotel Cambria is coming to Detroit in the old WWJ Building on West Lafayette Ford and the UAW have a tentative deal, avoiding a strike but closing a plant Sven and Jer chat about the details we now know on bike-sharing expanding to the suburbs And the Oakland County suburb of Ferndale has a mayoral contest next week. Sven, a Ferndale resident, and former Oakland Press political reporter dives in. Thanks for listening to the show. Like what we're doing? Become a member. http://www.patreon.com/dailydetroit

The big news this week in development in Detroit is the announcement of a new University of Michigan Innovation Center, bankrolled and supported by billionaires Stephen Ross and Dan Gilbert. The $300 million building on a $750 million campus will transform a site that was originally planned to be a jail. But that old jail project was a mess and became the infamous Fail Jail through mismanagement and cost overruns. After visiting the unveiling, we take a look at the past - how we got here, back to 2011 - and then today, then the future of the site at Gratiot and I-375 in downtown Detroit.  Like what we're doing? There are three awesome ways to help. 1) Tell a friend about Daily Detroit! 2) Write a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-detroit/id1220563942 3) And if you can, support us on on Patreon. Members allow us to do in-depth work like this: http://www.patreon.com.com/dailydetroit  

On today's show: Turns out the demolishing a theater might not be a requirement to get financing for a redevelopment project that has preservationists up in arms. Nancy Schlicting steps down from the Michigan State University board. Sven breaks it down and talks about putting wins on the field or court over everything else. Some Wayne State University board members aren't happy with a pledge for all high school grads in Detroit to get college and how the plan was rolled out. They're calling for the resignation of the president. There's a Listeria outbreak with some Michigan Apples.  An update and design tweak to the upcoming Oudolf Garden on Belle Isle. Warren wrestles with the question of medical marijuana. What's happening to the KMART site across from the new Amazon center in Warren? And Clawson's school district is at a crossroads with declining revenue and enrollment.

Lead in our drinking water has been in the news, with quite a few suburban communities learning they have levels of lead that require action. To help explain what's actually happening, our guest on the show is Elin Betanzo. In August of 2015, Elin played a critical role in uncovering the Flint Water Crisis by encouraging Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a Flint pediatrician, to conduct a study that discovered elevated lead levels in children living in Flint, Michigan. Elin continues to work on lead and drinking water policy at federal, state, and local levels. She's also the founder of Safe Water Engineering LLC, a small consulting firm working to improve access to safe drinking water through engineering and policy consulting. Plus 5 Things To Know Around Detroit: - The longest-serving African American Congressman, John Conyers, has died.  - A new poll puts Rashida Tlaib at the front of the pack in her Detroit congressional district. - Uber Eats unveils a new delivery drone at the Forbes Under 30 summit in Detroit. -

In this episode of the Daily Detroit podcast, we're talking about the raging inferno of controversy that has engulfed Founders Brewing Company in Detroit. We quickly run down the latest developments following a racial discrimination lawsuit - and then we're going to play a new game on the podcast we're calling "Waaaaaaaiitttt a minute." Inspired by Lovett or Leave It's "OK Stop," where a news clip plays with commentary and comedy, we annotate an interview one of the founders of Founders gave to WJR, one of Detroit's AM radio stations. So why is the conversation cringeworthy? Well, there are a few reasons and you'll have to listen to the show. Here's a quote from David Engbers, referring to Founders, that stands out: Paul W. Smith: "600 employees, 22 years for Founders. How many other racial discrimination suits have you had against Founders in your 22 years." Engbers: "Zero." Smith: "Interesting. Zero." Engbers: "I always thought we were the poster child for diversity and inclusion." When someone starts from

On today's show, a piece on Vice focusing on Warren, their mayor and his survival despite scandal has been making national rounds. We have the journalist who wrote it, Trevor Bach, on to talk about it. https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/d3ak5j/james-fouts-mayor-macomb-county-michigan-racist-tape-scandal Also: - The theater portion of the historic United Artist Theatre is in danger of being demolished as part of a $56 million apartment project. More on Historic Detroit and Crain's. https://www.facebook.com/HistoricDetroit/photos/a.189073331159430/3310916022308463/?type=3&theater https://www.crainsdetroit.com/real-estate/united-artists-building-developer-seeks-tax-abatements-plans-tear-down-theater - Governor Gretchen Whitmer wants to set Michigan's own overtime pay floor - Popeye's is bringing their Chicken Sandwich back - One of the last KMART stores in Michigan and the last in Macomb County is closing... additional info here: https://www.macombdaily.com/news/local/macomb-county-s-last-remaining-kmart-

On today's show: - A big pledge from Wayne State to give free tuition to Detroit high school graduates - The largest periodic table in the world  - Lead in the water concerns spread to Dearborn Heights - The Detroit Historic Museum is going to start charging, add Thursday hours - A local language learning company, Mango Languages, is working to help save an almost-lost Native American language - Orchestra Hall turns 100 years old