Daily Detroit

From the CityLab Detroit conference, this is your Daily Detroit podcast for October 29, 2018.

We have four major components of our show today:

First, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. He teased a new univer…

Your Detroit stories:

The Ilitch organization is talking about launching its own regional sports network (and we discuss other sportsy news, including soccer in Detroit). First reported here: https:/…

This is your Daily Detroit for October 24, 2018 from the Podcast Detroit studios at the Detroit Shipping Company.

If you’re anything like us, then you’re a huge fan of PBS, and you also love food. An…

Your Daily Detroit podcast sharing what to know and where to go in Detroit recorded on October 23, 2018:

• The ongoing strike by workers at the Westin Book Cadillac has prompted organizers of the City…

Here's your Daily Detroit podcast recorded in the Paris of the Midwest on Monday Oct. 22:

Two Detroit funeral homes are under investigation after police found the remains of fetuses and a dead infant…

Our feature interview today is with Amy Latawiec. She's the founder of a new body positive indoor cycling (or spin) studio on the east side of the city called Rebel Cycle Studio. More: https://www.fa…

Your stories for October 17, 2018:

- Detroit’s riverfront just took another major step forward. The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation is making a $50 million grant to redevelop West Riverfront Park.

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Big show for you today. Our feature interview is with Steve Gursten. He's an auto law attorney and breaks down the breakdown in Michigan's insurance system. After all, it's the most expensive in the …

As we hit the fall season, we thought it appropriate to check in with Michele Hodges about Detroit's beloved Belle Isle State Park. She heads the Belle Isle Conservancy, the non-profit devoted to sup…

Your show for October 11th, 2018: 

• Newly released surveillance video contradicts the claims of a white, former Detroit Fire Department lieutenant that he tripped and accidentally discharged a gunsh…

Your stories for October 10, 2018: 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 w…

This is your Daily Detroit podcast recorded on October 9, 2018.

Our guest for the show is Detroit City Councilman James Tate, to talk about the upcoming "Cash Flash" in Detroit's District 1.

Your Det…

On the Daily Detroit Podcast today:

- Flex N Gate opens on the east side of Detroit, hiring 50% Detroit residents into jobs. Looking for a job yourself? Here's a link to job training at Detroit At Wo…

Our feature interview is with Detroit artist Olayami Dabls about his new exhibit in the Fisher Building lobby that examines the Civil Rights era. Everard Findlay, the exhibit’s curator, also joins Sv…

- The rollout of Detroit’s new ConnecTen bus program has hit some bumps in the road. Signage held up with masking tape, confused riders, and the state of the State Fair Transit Center signage was a m…

Your stories:

- A battle is intensifying between Mayor Mike Duggan, Attorney General Bill Schuette and lawyers representing automobile accident victims.

- In a national story that impacts many people…

Your stories:

- President Trump is celebrating a deal over a revised North American trade deal with Canada and Mexico as returning the U.S. to a “manufacturing powerhouse.”

- Monday was the first day…

- The weeks-long lockout of unionize road-construction workers and a group of contractors has come to a temporary end, meaning long-stalled road projects should finally recommence.

- The school year …

Detroit stories: Word comes today that the iconic Cadillac brand will again make the Detroit area its home after nearly four years in Manhattan.

- Every single large-scale apartment development built…

On the show: For our feature interview, U of M Ross School of Business Professor Emeritus Marina Whitman joins Sven Gustafson to talk about how tariffs will impact the auto industry and Michigan.

You…