Politics and Policy
Focusing on solutions around local policy (and by extension,some politics) in Detroit, Southeast Michigan, and Michigan.
Detroit Future City CEO Anika Goss joins me to dig into a recent report on career-connected learning and the future of work for young Detroiters.
“Career-Connected Learning: Investing in Detroit’s Future Talent,
The wholesale water and sewage rates of the GLWA (Great Lakes Water Authority) will increase 5.8% on July 1, but that won't be anywhere near enough cash for what's needed.
There are three underlying issues we need to be honest about.
- The average age of failing water mains is 53 years old according to a national study. 50 years have passed since many mains were installed.
- We've built more stuff for the same amount of people. Think about everything in Metro Detroit that's been built since 1970. 696 did not exist. The Silverdome and the Palace have come and gone. Canton Township was still the sweet corn capital of Michigan with just 11,000 people, and is now nearly 9x the size. The combined population of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb County has dropped over the last 55+ years while much of the rest of the nation has grown.
| Year | Wayne | Oakland | Macomb | Tri-County Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 2,670,368 | 907,871 | 626,204 | 4,204,443 |
| 1980 | 2,337,843 | 1,011,793 | 694,600 | 4,044,236 |
| 1990 | 2,107,915 | 1,086,685 | 718,280 | 3,912,880 |
| 2000 | 2,058,765 | 1,196,585 | 790,701 | 4,046,051 |
| 2020 | 1,789,634 | 1,272,524 | 880,240 | 3,942,398 |
- It's $20 million a mile to replace what's needed.
“The question becomes, ‘Why don’t you just replace it all?’ At $20 million a mile, it’s more than $1.6 billion that we do not have budgeted." - GLWA CEO, Suzanne Coffey
I don't have all the answers. But I do know we're going to have to make some hard decisions. The bill for sprawl is coming due.
🔗 GLWA seeks more government aid as it urges readiness for main breaks - [Detroit News]
On today’s Daily Detroit, we start with why District Detroit still looks like a sea of parking lots instead of the neighborhoods we were promised — and why that matters for the city’s “front
On today’s Daily Detroit, we start the week with a conversation with State Senator — and Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful — Mallory McMorrow.
It’s the third in our series of Democratic Senate candidate interviews,
Today on Daily Detroit, we're back into our series of candidate discussions as Dr. Abdul El‑Sayed, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Michigan joins me.
We get into why he's getting
14 Things to know around Metro Detroit
Today's podcast conversation is in two parts.
First, we dig into USA Today (formerly Gannett) buying the Detroit News - just a month after a joint operating agreement ended between the two papers and bringing
Today's show is a trifecta where we get Norris, Devon, and Jer all in the studio at once talking local stuff.
Here's the rundown:
01:43 - Shout out to Northern Lights
02:35
On today’s Daily Detroit, our conversations is with Joanna Whaley, a Democrat running in the primary for State House District 2, covering Allen Park, Lincoln Park, Melvindale and Southgate.
Whaley is not a typical
Jer and Norris talk Detroit nightlife nostalgia and a viral TGI Fridays "club" promo, a wild DDOT discipline case, where auto trends are really heading in 2026, and Jer's feature in Hour Detroit on
On this episode, Glenn walks through the forces reshaping the industry — rapid technology shifts like automation, AI, and EVs, fierce global competition from places like China, and whiplash in trade and domestic policy that makes
State House Speaker Matt Hall’s move to cancel $645 million in already-approved state funding is the political equivalent of a rug pull, and it has real consequences for projects and people across Michigan.
In this pre-Thanksgiving Daily Detroit episode, host Jer Staes and co-host Norris Howard unpack a rare, candid conversation between Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and Rocket Companies founder Dan Gilbert about the future of
The Set List: 01:42 - Norris went to the new club, Ora - and the Detroit Free Press Marathon is this weekend. We also discuss the likely closure of One Mic Comedy Club.
12:24 - Has
Today's an action packed episode of your Daily Detroit, the best all local news and culture podcast in the world that is produced at latitude 42.365191996134264 and longitude -83.0729420582006.
Since we
One of the ways to address inequality is making sure you have the tools to do it.
In today's episode, we talk about a recent report that Detroit (and other cities) should consider a
Ranked Choice Voting — where voters can rank their candidates in order of preference - has been gaining steam in parts of the country.
But in Michigan? Though some local communities have voted to have it, the
It's been a little over a week since the Primary Election in Detroit. So, now that some of the dust has settled, what's next?
The excellent Sam Robinson joined us for a great
Jer and Devon are in on this beautiful Friday to talk all things Detroit, Metro Detroit and Michigan.
00:45 - Where have Devon and Jer been in sunny metro Detroit? We discuss the pPwer of