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# PODCAST: Tigers TV Broadcasters Out, Belle Isle Aquarium Grant, Solar-Powered Bus Stop & Your News
- URL: https://www.dailydetroit.com/podcast-tigers-tv-broadcasters-out-belle-isle-aquarium-grant-solar-powered-bus-stop-your-news/
- Published: 2018-10-10T17:22:44.000Z
- Updated: 2018-10-10T17:22:44.000Z
- Author: Sven Gustafson
- Tags: #wordpress, #Import 2024-02-25 18:12

In today’s episode of your Daily Detroit podcast:

- Federal law enforcement officials rounded up more than 120 missing children in Michigan as part of a giant sweep for sex trafficking victims.
- The Detroit Tigers will have a new team calling games from the broadcast booth next season. Unsurprisingly, Fox Sports Detroit opted not to renew the contracts of Mario Impemba and Rod Allen after long-simmering tensions between the longtime broadcasters simmered over last month in Chicago. Here’s a link to [Lynn Henning’s Detroit News story](https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2018/10/09/mario-impemba-and-rod-allen-wont-back-tigers-tv-booth/1583978002/?ref=dailydetroit.com) about what is believed to have happened.
- The historic Belle Isle Aquarium gets a $1.7 million grant, adding to a string of recent good news for the island park.
- Ferndale gets a solar-powered, modern bus stop for the SMART FAST bus on Woodward near Nine Mile Road.
- There are two new events coming to the Detroit Free Press/Chemical Bank Marathon race weekend, which runs Oct. 19-21\. [More information and registration is here](https://www.freepmarathon.com/?ref=dailydetroit.com). Online registration runs through Oct. 15.
- Jer delivers an impassioned public service announcement about political ads on TV. Here’s where to [find a sample ballot from your neck of the woods](https://webapps.sos.state.mi.us/MVIC/selectpublicballot.aspx?ref=dailydetroit.com) to review your choices ahead of the Nov. 6 election.
- Jack White sang the Polish version of “Happy Birthday” to his 88-year-old mom at a gig in Warsaw.
- We talk about some changes Berkley, Oak Park and Huntington Woods are working on to liven up a moribund industrial strip of 11 Mile Road.
- And remember that luxury development along the riverfront we told you about yesterday? Well here are some of the early conceptual renderings for it. It doesn’t look like Q-Bert at all, as it turns out.

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