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On today's show: - Findings of an Inspector General report don't look good for Mayor Mike Duggan and Chief of Staff Alexis Wiley  - Founders Brewing is finding itself at the center of controversy again, making national news with absurd testimony. Now, businesses are starting to stop carrying the popular Michigan-made brew over the issue. - And Fletcher Sharpe joins us to wrap up the Detroit City FC season and look forward to the Detroit Pistons. He'll be joining us weekly throughout the Pistons season.

On today's show: - Sven helps us understand the UAW/GM Tentative Agreement nearly 50,000 striking GM workers are reviewing - It looks like by 2024 I-375 in downtown Detroit will become a boulevard. It's the focus of our most recent piece on Detroit Public Television's One Detroit, and we break down our thoughts. Here's the DPTV piece: http://www.dailydetroit.com/2019/10/18/i-375-in-detroit-planned-to-become-a-boulevard-by-2024/ - The streetscape project on Detroit's Avenue of Fashion - Livernois - has suffered delays and now won't be completed until the spring. What does that mean? Here's an interesting piece in Bridge Magazine: https://www.bridgemi.com/detroit/can-detroit-businesses-survive-citys-push-walkable-neighborhoods - 7,000 pounds of apples were stolen up in Linden. A caper that is rotten to the core (sorry couldn't help the pun). - And Shianne talks about the winner of the Hatch Detroit contest. A book store and podcast/sound studio is coming to Detroit's far east side near the Grosse Pointe border.

On today's show:  - Detroit City FC are NPSL Members Cup champions - One of Detroit's larger employers, Strategic Staffing Solutions, to move to the Fisher Building - Ford is rolling out a charging network for their electric cars - The UAW plans to take a tentative strike deal to members - Rafi and Nina is a restaurant in Atlanta that serves Detroit-style pizza. How does it stack up? Take a listen! Also, we'll have pictures up on http://www.dailydetroit.com Like the show? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or tell a friend. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-detroit/id1220563942 Love the show and happen to have a few extra bucks? Support independent media made in Detroit on Patreon and become a member. http://www.patreon.com/dailydetroit  

Joining me on the podcast is chief New York Times television critic James Poniewozik. The Monroe, Michigan-born author has a new book out, "Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America." So if you haven't figured out by now, I'm a total media geek. Over the last two decades, I've seen upfront the power that media has, for better or for worse. I'm fascinated by the decisions made, the incentives all the players have, and the impact that media has to change a community - whether it's a city like Detroit, the nation, or the world. This book caught my eye because it's kind of a look behind the curtain involving our media landscape and our current president, who became nationally known by using the power of television and the media. So since James — a University of Michigan grad — is coming through town this month as part of the Fall Metro Detroit Book & Author Luncheon this October 21, 2019 at Burton Manor in Livonia, I thought it'd be a good time to talk with him. And if you want

On today's show: The Lions got robbed on Monday Night Football, but also could have made some key plays and the after of the effects of the game have made it all the way up to ownership meetings. Is the team cursed?  Also, Detroit City FC has a big win in New York that puts them in the catbird seat for their season. Fletcher Sharpe - who nailed the score prediction of the game - joins us to break it all down and set the path ahead. 

On this edition of your Daily Detroit, we're checking in on what's new in the historic and beautiful Woodbridge neighborhood. it's one of the city's older neighborhoods, with people moving in starting in the 1870s. It's named after William Woodbridge. he was the Governor of Michigan from 1840-1841 and much of the neighborhood sits on what used to be his farm. It's located near Grand River, Wayne State University, Midtown and is a great position to benefit from Detroit's resurgence. It contains some of the best examples of turn of early 1900s homes in the city and an eclectic mix of dedicated residents. In recent years it's gotten new restaurants and is dealing with the impacts, both good and bad, of skyrocketing property values. To talk about it, our guest is Angie Gaabo, the Executive Director of Woodbridge Neighborhood Development.

- There are more details on the mysterious disappearance of a Detriot house owned by a State Representative - The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit says it's received a $5 million matching gift as part of its $15 million Future Fund capital campaign.  - Project officials tell us that flooding and high water on the island park has delayed this fall's planned installation of the two-and-a-half-acre garden by world-renowned landscape architect Piet Oudolf - Want free pizza? Sicily's is your ticket on October 22 - And, buy one get one free burgers at BurgerIM - The Allen Park Digital Cinema Closes - And Fletcher Sharpe checks in on what promises to be Detroit City FC's most important game of the season 

Detroit is a city with a lot of ideas worth spreading. The 11th TEDxDetroit conference looks to highlight those and gather local luminaries from a variety of fields, along with some pretty powerful and superstar guests including Nicole Curtis from HGTV's Rehab Addict and many others. To talk about the event on November 6, 2019 is Shawn Lee. He's the Director of Photography for the event and an entrepreneur himself. If you're interested in learning more about the event or attending, you can go here. 

Hey Friends! Here's what's happening around town. - An update on day 22 of the GM/UAW Strike - Lead has been found in the water in the suburbs of Birmingham and White Lake - The Detroit Pistons open a shiny new practice facility - Another one of the food stalls inside the Fort Street Galley in downtown Detroit says it plans to close up shop - A new report says Detroit is one of the least green cities in America - Jeff Daniels is going to play controversial former FBI director James Comey on screen - I-275 has a major project coming - And I-96/M-39 is getting an emergency repair because there are holes in the bridge - You can support women experiencing homelessness at Canine To Five in Detroit or Ferndale If you value what we're doing, consider joining us as a member. http://www.patreon.com/dailydetroit  

Starting a business is hard, and even more challenging in a city like Detroit. But there is help out there. Today's episode is your opportunity to hear from five different entrants to the Hatch Detroit contest. They're the winners of a public vote from the top 10. That annual event sponsored by Comerica bank grants $100,000 to a business to start their brick and mortar location somewhere in Detroit, Hamtramck or Highland Park.  The finalists are Brix Wine & Charcuterie, The French Cow, Ilera Apothecary, 27th Letter Books, and Street Beet. We're going to talk to each of the five would-be grantees and executive director Vittoria Katanski. And after listening to the show, if you want to vote for your favorite, you can do so here.

On today's show, we hit on the headlines of the day from the GM/UAW Strike to new restaurant openings, plus talk to Nieron Hales from Zingerman's Corman Farms about their innovative and affordable Tiny Weddings. https://www.thetinywedding.com/

Jason Hall is a community advocate and bike enthusiast who you might know from those Apple TV ads awhile back showing off the famous group ride, Slow Roll. What you might not know is that after co-founding that event and non-profit, he's on to some new paths. One is RiDetroit, showing the beauty of Detroit through a variety of walking and bike tours. The other? The new Electric Avenue Bikes on Woodward. They specialize in E-bikes. That technology gives you an extra boost when you pedal, opening up a bunch of new options on two wheels. And it's my opinion that Detroit is a city that is best experienced by bike. So join me for my conversation with Jason.

Southwest Detroit Restaurant Week is October 4-13, 2019 and it brings 24 restaurants to the table highlight food from a variety of Latin countries and regions. Monica Casarez and Juan Carlos Dueweke Perez stopped by the studio to talk about this exciting event. More information here. In other news: We share information about the impending demolition of the Detroit Saturday Night building and ask if yet more surface parking lots is the right thing to do in a downtown Detroit that has already devoted 40 percent of its space to parking And in news you'll either be very excited for, or very not, there's a hard seltzer event coming to Royal Oak in December.

Hello friends. Today we're covering StateBudgetPalooza, in which Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed all 16 budget bills sent at the 11th hour by Republicans, but only after making 147 line-item vetoes totaling nearly $1 billion, unleashing hilarity on the Great Lakes State. Is this any kind of way to do state budgeting? We discuss. Elsewhere, soccer correspondent Fletcher Sharpe joins us to run down the big news that Detroit City FC will launch a women's team in 2020 to compete in the United Women's Soccer, the second-tier pro league. Also: Auburn Hills police are looking for two people who allegedly broke into a shack and loaded an adult video onto a digital billboard on I-75 over the weekend. Someone on our Facebook page called it the "best crime of 2019" A house owned by a nonprofit run by state Rep. Sherry Gay-Dagnogo, D-Detroit, was inexplicably and mysteriously demolished. And chef Max Hardy may be closing his River Bistro in northwest Detroit, but he's added a second night to his Jamaican Reggae Dinner pop-

Man about town Devon O'Reilly joins us in the studio to talk about Detroit's openings and closings. One of the notable openings? Smith And Co. And closings include a circus-themed bar no one understood in Grand Circus Park.  

The Detroit Tigers have the worst record in Major League Baseball, and we're wistful of Tiger Stadium's last pitch 20 years ago Electric car startup Bollinger Motors releases a pair of new vehicles, and they don't use stamping so it's very boxy Oakland County guarantees county employees $15 an hour Detroit's North End breaks ground on a new mini golf course A makerspace in Ferndale is having a livestream fundraiser this weekend and has a pedal pub with sewing machines and soldering irons. Find out more at http://www.i3detroit.org Fletcher Sharpe talks all things Detroit City FC A new T-Shirt is getting Twitter talking, and no, Michigan doesn't have a budget deal yet.

Lester Graham is a journalist at Michigan Radio, where he hosts "The Environment Report" and the news magazine "Stateside." Tammy Coxen is the host of Tammy's Tastings, a series of food and drink tastings, classes and experiences in Ann Arbor. The two friends been doing a segment on cocktails on Michigan Radio called "Cheers!" for more than three years. Now, they've got a new book based on that series. It's called "Cheers to Michigan: A Celebration of Cocktail Culture and Craft Distillers." As Graham and Coxen explain in today's episode, the book is part recipes, a little how-to and a lot of Michigan history stirred in the shaker. It covers everything from Detroit's outsize role in bootlegging during Prohibition to the city's invention of three famous cocktails, and the current boom in craft cocktails and craft distilleries. So belly up and have a listen. 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 supp

The United Auto Workers strike against GM over a lack of a new contract has dragged on into a second week. Meanwhile, the negotiations over the state budget are going down to the wire ahead of the start of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1, and the prospects of enacting a budget and avoiding a state government shutdown don't appear bright. The combination of those two storylines isn't good news for Michigan's economy. On today's show, we hear from Charles Ballard, an economics professor at Michigan State University who has written extensively about the state's economy. Ballard says the economics of a prolonged GM strike, coupled with a state government shutdown, would particularly hurt the Lansing region, which has a GM plant and is the state capitol. And it could definitely push Michigan back into recession for the first time in a decade. And Michigan's economy hasn't been doing all that great to begin with, Ballard says, with a major slowdown in the number of jobs created since 2017, and any economic gains most

The Motor City is a nickname for our town that is known the world over. After all, we put the world on wheels. But what if the same industry that gave us economic strength also, in a way, took away the vitality of the city? Detroiters for Parking Reform says there is too much surface parking around greater Downtown Detroit. And our guest today is Francis Grunow. They point to statistics like 40% of Downtown Detroit is devoted to storing cars. And they say in today's world, that hurts Detroit's resurgence. We'll get into that with Grunow and talk about lessons learned from being a key part of a Neighborhood Adivsory Council in the shadows of Little Caesars Arena. After all, the District Detroit held a lot of promise. But most of it is unfulfilled. And then we share a couple things you should know around town.

The now-defunct Axle Brewing said it hoped to find a like-minded brewer to take over their gleaming Livernois Tap when it announced it was ceasing operations in June, and it appears to have found one in Eastern Market Brewing Co., which announced it will take over the gleaming brewpub and eatery in Ferndale they're calling the Ferndale Project. According to the Freep, EMBC will rebrand the facility, which will allow them to triple — yes, TRIPLE — their brewing capacity. Also on today's episode, we talk about Devin Myers, the guy from that viral guilty-of-being-black video of being questioned by police officers from Royal Oak after a white woman said he was suspicious. He faces charges from an unrelated incident allegedly fleeing the po-po. [Daily Tribune] We also talk about what's going on with the project to convert I-375 in Detroit from an urban freeway to a surface boulevard with bike lanes, and one other little ditty about perseverence in Detroit. BONUS AUDIO: If you listen all the way to the end, I pu