Daily Detroit News Byte

Welcome to your Tuesday edition of Daily Detroit, where we deliver two pieces of big news: 1. Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson says he has stage four pancreatic cancer and won't seek an eighth term in 2020. 2. DTE Energy says it expects to sign a deal with the city to swap a decommissioned power plant on the east riverfront so it can be used to store Jeeps built at a new factory being pursued by parent Fiat Chrysler. [Freep] Why is this sad, you ask? This is the important line. FCA said it needs DTE's Conners Creek land for storage of vehicles for the Jeep plant to be built at Mack and St. Jean. - Detroit Free Press n my opinion, this somehow feels quintessentially Detroit, a repeat of what we've always done: surrender to the automobile. Weren't we supposed to be trying to reclaim our riverfront? And wasn't DTE Energy crowing about redeveloping that parcel? (Why yes. Yes, they were.) In other news, measles cases are on the rise in Oakland County after being traced to a man who visited the area fro