What To Know And Where To Go In Southeast Michigan
Here's your Daily Detroit podcast for August 28, 2018. - You can say goodbye to the familiar Green and Yellow stripes on Detroit buses. In a parking lot on Gratiot outside of Mike’s Fresh Market, the city of Detroit today unveiled new buses, new services… and a new brand for the Detroit Department of Transportation. We talk to Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. - The …
This is your Daily Detroit for August 20, 2018. Your Detroit news: - Detroiter Garlin Gilchrist the second has been picked to be the running mate for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer. Sven and Jer discuss. - There has been some confusion around the funeral arrangements for the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, who died last week at the age of 76. So here’s …
This is your Daily Detroit News Byte for August 9, 2018. A bit shorter show today because of vacations. Will she or won’t she? That’s the question facing Detroit city council president Brenda Jones who has the chance to be a U.S. Congressperson for a couple months. Bus service in Macomb County may not be out of the woods yet. The narrow 23 vote victory - out of …
The Detroit region already squandered the latest, best opportunity to invest in our region and sharpen our economic competitiveness, thanks to the intransigence of Oakland and Macomb Counties in stonewalling the latest Regional Transit Authority plan. The refusal of Oakland and Macomb representatives to simply approve putting the proposal before voters this year means we’ll …
On today’s show, we dive into yesterday’s late-breaking news about Detroit City Council’s vote to establish the new Cass-Henry Historic District in the shadow of Little Caesars Arena. The district includes two buildings owned by the Ilitch family that they’ve proposed to demolish as part of the District Detroit project. We speak with Eric Kehoe, president of the board of …
On today’s show: In Michigan, drug overdoses kill more people than traffic and gun deaths combined. Nearly 2,700 people died from overdoses in 2017, and more than 1,900 of those deaths were because of opioids. But there’s a new coalition that’s been put together fund treating this problem. Michigan is beating Ohio.. this time for …
