Look, this has been a busy, long week. Lots of things happening. Serious conversations. Big issues. But today’s podcast is not that. No, it’s the weekend so we kicked back, cracked open some Casamara Club and talked to Jason LaValla. What is...
“If you open up a building next to a Dan Gilbert development that’s a good thing. There’s more people on the sidewalk, more crowd, more buzz, more Instagram pictures — If you open up a development next to an Ilitch development...
The big beer news in town was that Atwater Brewery sold to a subsidiary of Molson Coors, Tenth and Blake. But why? And what’s next? To take a look behind the deal, I talk with Atwater owner Mark Rieth. That conversation is at 7 minutes in. I...
On today’s episode, we wrap up 2019 auto sales with Michelle Krebs, executive analyst at Autotrader. The industry finished the year above 17 million cars and trucks for the fifth straight year, the first time it’s ever gone that long...
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...
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...
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...
Nearly 50,000 UAW workers have gone on strike at General Motors, the first time the union has gone on strike in 12 years, after the last four-year agreement expired without an agreement over a new one. The strike also comes at a time that federal...
Ford’s Dearborn campus may be best known today for the so-called Glass House headquarters building or the “Salt and Pepper Shaker” office towers visible from the Southfield Freeway. But the automaker has ambitious plans to redevelop its Research...
According to Bureau of Labor Statistics information shared by the city, 230,655 city residents are employed. The last time Detroit hit that number was 2009. The city pins the success on improved workforce training programs such as Detroit At Work, a...
The nonprofit Jefferson East Inc. has been working since the 1990s to redevelop Detroit’s hard-bitten Jefferson-Chalmers neighborhood and business district, located on the far east end of Jefferson Avenue near the border with Grosse Pointe...
A jam-packed show for you today. Comedian, Actor and Impersonator Dave Coulier is returning to his roots and moving back to Metro Detroit. More at Hour here. KMart is closing all but three of their Michigan stores, as an era draws to a close for the...
Large projects like the new Fiat Chrysler America plant on Detroit’s east side that are part of Detroit’s comeback – and a lot of economic development in Michigan – almost always come with incentives given by the city and the...
L. Brooks Patterson, who died Saturday at age 80 at his home in Independence Township, was one of the Detroit area’s most consequential and controversial figures in local politics. To some, he represents the ascendancy of an economic...
Happy Friday. On today’s show, Jer speaks with Detroit muralist Sheefy McFly — he’s the one who was arrested while doing a city-commissioned mural on a Detroit viaduct. He’s got a new mural that will be unveiled this weekend...
