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New EV charging corridor, License plate readers, plus 6 stories around Detroit

00:22 - A freighter has run aground at Belle Isle as we recorded this 02:33 - A new electric vehicle charging corridor is going in from Quebec to Kalmazoo 14:45 - Speaking of Quebec, they have a new kind of traffic light that changes color depening on if you're following the speed limit 18:15 Detroit wants to roll out 100 more license plate readers 24:51 What could be done to fix up Comerica Park? The bones are good but we discuss some ideas and would love to hear yours 32:49 Events around...

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WATCH: Detroit Police Pull Over Velomobile And Get Schooled On How Michigan's Vehicle Code Actually Works

Have you ever been pulled over while on a bicycle? Well, this Velomobile is a type of bicycle, and that’s what happened to Doug Grosjean. See, the Dearborn resident uses his human-powered Velomobile to commute to work, sometimes down Evergreen. He’s hard to miss if you’ve been to biking events and it’s not like he’s not a known quantity with being included in an HOUR Magazine profile and all.  What is a Velomobile? Imagine a bike or tricycle (human-powered, no engine) with an aerodynamic s...

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Detroit Police Chief Craig Issues Coney Challenge To Green Bay PD

There’s a lot of anticipation building for Sunday’s game between the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers, and when there’s a rivalry with something on the line (playoffs, in the case of the Lions), often stakes get raised, especially among friends. It turns out both Detroit’s police chief James Craig and Green Bay’s Andrew Smith worked together at the 77th Street Division in South Central Los Angeles back in the 1990s. Craig, flanked by other officers and American Coney Island owner Grac...

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Detroit Police Department officers to receive 4% pay increase in tentative agreement

On Monday, Mayor Mike Duggan and Police Chief James Craig announced that tentative collective bargaining agreements were reached with three unions representing the city’s 2,224 sworn police officers, providing a 4% raise to all sworn officers. The starting pay rate for officers will also get a boost from $31,700 to $36,000. “We’re increasing the salary of starting officers so we can attract more quality recruits and increasing wages overall so that we can keep those quality officers,” said C...

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Detroit Cops To Wear Body Cameras Starting In Early 2016

The trend of police wearing body cameras has finally made its way to Detroit. The news comes by way of a news conference with Mayor Mike Duggan and Police Chief James Craig on Tuesday, WXYZ reports. The move comes at a time when tension in the national conversation regarding police violence continues to rise, and it seems that each day another video surfaces highlighting police brutality. The Detroit system will actually be one of the more sophisticated systems in the country. Officers will...

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Detroit Police Have Questions About Shepard Fairey Tagging Detroit Buildings

Detroit police have begun an investigation of artist Shepard Fairey for the various signature tags that have appeared plastered around the city on at least four public buildings this past weekend. Fairey, originally known for his “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” (…OBEY…) sticker campaign and later the Barack Obama “Hope” poster in 2008, was invited to Detroit by the Dan Gilbert and Bedrock team to develop a mural on the side of the Compuware Building downtown. Completed on Friday, the mural has r...

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Batman and Superman are Great, But Detroit Has Its Own Superheroes That Need Your Help

Batman and Superman have been seen around Detroit many times over the past year, thanks to magic of movie making. The film, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, stars Ben Affleck as Batman and Henry Cavill as Superman and you can often catch the stars around Detroit. Both stars have said terrific things about the city and the can-do spirit of its people. That can-do spirit shows up in Detroit’s own superheroes, the city’s first responders. As Christopher Reeve, who also starred as Superman in...