Daily Detroit News Byte

Here's your Daily Detroit podcast for September 4, 2018. - On our show last week before the Labor Day weekend we told you about a lockout dispute affecting members of a labor union that represents road and bridge construction workers. Now, that lockout has put a freeze on dozens of road construction projects across Michigan. - Students started the first day of classes today in the Detroit Public Schools Community District with water coolers and bottled water in lieu of drinking fountains. - One of the city's "must see" pieces of street art has come down, along with the abandoned and badly blighted building it was on. "The African Amalgamation of Ubiquity" was painted in 1985 by Curtis Lewis on an old bank building at 9980 Gratiot, just west of the Better Made Potato Chip Plant. It was the former home of the neighborhood nonprofit "Operation Get Down," which moved across the street to a new location some time ago. - Anti-semitic flyers were found taped to a church door on Sunday morning. - Campbell Soup plans