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# PODCAST: L. Brooks letter, Brenda Jones to Congress (maybe), SMART may recount and what to do this weekend in Detroit
- URL: https://www.dailydetroit.com/podcast-l-brooks-letter-brenda-jones-to-congress-maybe-smart-may-recount-and-what-to-do-this-weekend-in-detroit/
- Published: 2018-08-09T17:26:51.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-27T19:50:13.000Z
- Author: Jer Staes
- Tags: #wordpress, #Import 2024-02-25 18:12, #daily-detroit-staff

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 more than 150,000 votes cast – for the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation will probably be recounted after it’s certified.
- Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson has sent off a letter that is terse, blunt and not a fan of Detroit’s quote comeback that’s a quote “Righteous Cause”. The letter claims that Detroit CEOs and business leaders are organizing to build up Detroit at the suburbs expense. [We also have an op-ed](http://www.dailydetroit.com/2018/08/09/rebuilding-detroit/).
- It’s Thursday, so even though we’ll have a Friday show I wanted to go through our City 5 list of events happening this weekend around the city. This week we actually have a couple bonuses, and if you missed anything [the list is up on DailyDetroit.com on our City 5.](http://www.dailydetroit.com/2018/08/09/your-city-5-things-to-do-this-weekend-in-detroit-august-10-12/)