Daily Detroit

Today's rundown on a Friday, from the David Whitney Building across from Grand Circus Park:

- Longtime city activist, commentator and so much more Steve Hood has died. Go read a far better piece by s…

"Detroit in 50 Maps" is a new book out this November. Alex B. Hill is the author and our guest, talking about the ways to tell Detroit's story with maps and what we can learn.

Available for preorder …

Today's show covers three main topics:

00:42 - Fletcher Sharpe talks about Cal United and Detroit City FC's tie plus previews Saturday's game against SD 1904

02:32 - Jalen Green needs to sit down whe…

We have had a lot of bad weather lately in Metro Detroit. It's resulted in flooding, power outages, and wind damage.

So what to do? Brian Thomas and Justin Miller of Paul Davis restoration join Jer t…

Today: The city of Detroit's population is now 639,111 - a drop of 10.5% and far below what Census estimates had said.

800,000 in Metro Detroit without power and it will be days until it's restored.

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Show was delayed due to lack of power, but once we got the batteries plugged in, we were good to go.

Our stories:

410k Metro Detroit houses were out of power in a snap thanks to a harsh thunderstorm …

Today's show is mostly about developments around town.

- There are new plans for the State Fair Transit Center that would save the historic Dairy Cattle Building, but demolish all but the portico of …

For the first time in 16 months, Man about town Devon O'Reilly is in studio to help talk about some interesting stories around town and highlight things to check out this weekend.

Stories:

COVID numb…

Tuesday's primary election results in the city of Detroit turned some heads and created some interesting conversation on social media.

After all, Mayor Mike Duggan pulled in 72% of the vote; and the …

Antoine Bryant is Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan's pick as Director of the Planning and Development Department.

He stopped by the studio for a wide-ranging conversation on what he hopes to bring to the ta…

Although cases are lower than areas right now, the path isn't looking good. Soon we'll be in another COVID outbreak - along with hospitalizations - thanks to the Delta variant and a high percentage o…

Carl Levin has passed at the age of 87. Jer has thoughts from interviewing him and his memoir, "To the Heart of the Matter." Jer also penned this piece in March for Hour Detroit: https://www.hourdet…

We cover seven stories to know around town from rising COVID cases to new developments to things to go check out in the next few days.

- COVID cases are on the rise as the Delta variant spreads

- For…

Three stories:

1) Detroit City Council member Andre Spivey has been charged with conspiracy to commit bribery over an alleged $35,000 accepted between him and a staff member.

2) The Great Lakes Water…

What do you do to handle traffic before there were traffic signals everywhere? Build a tunnel to safely get people across the street, of course!

That's what Highland Park did in the 1920s and we tell…

On today's podcast, Fletcher Sharpe is in studio.

We talk about the COVID memo outlining punishments for teams that forfeit games to due to unvaccinated, COVID-positive players.

The Tigers have a sev…

Robert Courtney is our guest today as we talk about business and marketing tips for the world after COVID as the pandemic recedes.

More on Robert here: https://www.robertcourtneyandassociates.com/

Pl…

Today's feature conversation is about a proposed downtown Warren concept, that would transform land next to Warren's city hall into a hotel, 500 apartments, dining and restaurants.

To discuss it and …