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This is your Daily Detroit News Byte recorded on July 10, 2018.
- Right under the deadline for finishing the show, we got word that the Detroit City Council has unanimously voted for a new Cass-Henry…
And we're back from the summer holiday week... and right into a rumble among Royal Oak restaurants in regard to parking and the future of the city. We also dive into some recent closings (Fist of Cur…
This is your show for July 2nd, 2018.
Our feature guests:
Alan Mallach is the author of "The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America." He joins Sven to talk about Detroit's nascent and …
Wendell Brown, a Detroiter who went to King High School, loved football so much that he ended up going to China to teach the sport. Now he's in jail over a controversial incident. #FreeWendellBrown
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This is your Daily Detroit News Byte for June 27, 2018.
- Some say Detroit's comeback isn't making it into the neighborhoods. So we went to the Fitzgerald neighborhood in Detroit today to check on a …
- Detroit is about to becoming the first urban core in America with independent, self-driving commercial vehicles on public streets
- A Country Fresh dairy plant in the Detroit suburb of Livonia is c…
This is your show for June 25, 2018:
- The Detroit Department of Transportation plans a series of public meetings to share details and gather feedback about changes it plans to make to DDOT bus servi…
June 21, 2018: There’s been a lot of talk about rising housing prices in downtown Detroit, but prices are rising in many areas of the state — especially southeastern Michigan.
- Detroit’s Third Man R…
On our June 20, 2018 show:
Hot on the heels of the big celebration for Michigan Central Station, Moroun-controlled entities are pushing for President Donald J. Trump to stop the Gordie Howe Internati…
Today's Daily Detroit News Byte is all about the most visible sign of Detroit's turnaround in the years, the fact that Michigan Central Station is coming back to life thanks to Ford Motor Company.
On…
This is your Daily Detroit News Byte for June 18, 2018.
- More details have been coming out over the weekend around Ford buying Michigan Central Station in Corktown.
- The seating supplier Adient say…
Our stories for June 14, 2018:
A SUPERIOR ENDING: If you want an Octopus for your next Red Wings game, you’re going to have to find another place for next season. Word is that Superior Fish Company o…
This is your Daily Detroit News Byte for Jun 13, 2018.
- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is accusing Oakland County of pushing discriminatory housing policies in how it divvies u…
Our stories....
- Some of the things that many families would take for granted in another city just aren’t a thing in Detroit - even basics like a school bus. To help fix this, 10 of Detroit’s publi…
It's a real thing. Ford Motor Company has bought Michigan Central Station in Corktown.
Long a symbol of Detroit's decline, we're going to find out soon - June 19, in fact - what exactly the property …
- Members of Detroit City Council will debate a new proposal to regulate medical marijuana businesses in the city.
- The Republican-controlled state House and Senate have adopted a citizen petition t…
- A New DMC Sports Medicine Institute To Open Next To Little Caesars Arena
- Detroit To Get Another Movie Theater, This One With 9 Screens
- Pay Gap Between Men And Women In Metro Detroit Among Worst…
Our stories: Marijuana will be on the ballot in Michigan.
Metro Detroit has the highest percentage of underwater mortgages in the country, says Zillow.
Wells Fargo is pulling out of the Midwest and s…
This is your News Byte Podcast for June 4th, 2018.
-Historic Albert Kahn Building bought
-MGM Grand Detroit Is One Of The Most Valuable Pieces Of Land In America
-Caesars Windsor Will Reopen Thursday
…From the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island at the Mackinac Policy Conference, this is your News Byte Podcast for May 31st, 2018.
-Employers band together for transit
-The one-time Purple Gang hangout, …