Crain's Conversations

Crain's Detroit Business Managing Editor Michael Lee chats with Steve Courtney on WJR AM 760 about this week's top stories. Listen to the interview and read the stories.

Crain's Detroit Business Senior Editor Chad Livengood talks with Nolan Finley on 910AM Superstation about top stories in Crain's. Listen to the interview and read the stories.

Crain's Detroit Business Group Publisher Mary Kramer chats with Paul W. Smith on WJR AM 760 about stories from this week's issue.

Enbridge Energy CEO Al Monaco talked Friday with Crain's Senior Editor Chad Livengood about the Calgary company's Line 5 oil pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac and its proposed tunnel under the waterway to house the pipeline. Monaco was in Detroit on Friday and the interview was recorded at the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel.

Crain's Detroit Business Senior Editor Chad Livengood talks with Kelly Cobb and Andre Ash on 910AM Superstation about top stories in Crain's.

Crain's Detroit Business Managing Editor Michael Lee chats with Paul W. Smith on WJR AM 760 about stories from the latest issue. Listen to the interview and then read the stories.

Crain's Detroit Business Senior Reporter Chad Livengood talks with Kelly Cobb and Andre Ash on 910AM Superstation about top stories in Crain's latest issue.

Crain's Detroit Business Group Publisher Mary Kramer chats with Paul W. Smith on WJR AM 760 about stories from the latest issue. Listen to the interview and then read the stories.

Crain's Detroit Business Senior Reporter Chad Livengood spoke with WDET's Jake Neher on "Detroit Today" about what the new auto insurance reform law means for insurers, hospitals and medical providers, employers that provide their employees health insurance and the average motorist.

Crain's Detroit Business Senior Reporter Chad Livengood talks with Nolan Finley and Kelly Cobb on 910AM Superstation about top stories in Crain's latest issue.

Crain's Detroit Business Managing Editor Michael Lee chats with Paul W. Smith on WJR AM 760 about stories from the latest issue. Listen to the interview and then read the stories.

Carolyn Wilson, chief operating officer of Beaumont Health, discusses the potential impact of a new auto insurance fee schedule for the suburban Detroit hospital system under the no-fault insurance reform legislation Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law Thursday at the Mackinac Policy Conference.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wrapped up her first Mackinac Policy Conference as governor Friday morning by discussing with reporters the state budget and road funding talks with lawmakers, the impact of the auto insurance law she signed Thursday and Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 oil pipeline.

Crain’s Managing Editor Michael Lee interviews Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel on the ongoing debate about road funding in Michigan, how he’d change the funding model, what he thinks of the odds of a deal this year and Macomb County’s new tool to view the status of any road in the county.

Crain’s Senior Reporter Sherri Welch interviews Skillman Foundation CEO Tonya Allen at the Mackinac Policy Conference about early education and literacy issues in Detroit and statewide, as well as the development of a possible Wayne County millage for funding after-school programs.

Jared Fleisher, vice president of governmental affairs for Quicken Loans, speaks to Crain’s Senior Reporter Chad Livengood about the Detroit-based online mortgage company’s lobbying efforts in the passage of no-fault auto insurance reform and how Dan Gilbert’s family of companies will get involved in pushing for a resolution in Lansing on road funding.

Crain’s Detroit Business Senior Reporter Sherri Welch interviews Detroit Regional Partnership CEO Barry Matherly about the new metro Detroit economic development organization’s early job-attraction work at the Detroit Regional Chamber’s Mackinac Policy Conference.

Enbridge Energy officials Peter Holran and Ryan Duffy spoke with Crain’s Senior Reporter Chad Livengood on the engineering work the oil transportation company is putting into construction of a tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac to house its Line 5 oil pipeline and ongoing negotiations with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to get authority to build the $500 million tunnel.

Crain’s Senior Reporter Chad Livengood interviews Grand Rapids Community College President Bill Pink and The Education Trust-Midwest Executive Director Amber Arellano about the worsening educational performance crisis in Michigan’s K-12 schools.

Crain’s Senior Reporter Chad Livengood interviews Brian McKinney, co-owner of Gayanga Co., a Detroit-based minority-owned construction contractor that got its start in housing demolition work and recently pivoted to general contractor work.

Crain’s Senior Reporter Sherri Welch interviews W.K. Kellogg Foundation CEO La June Montgomery Tabron and Donna Murray-Brown, president and CEO of the Michigan Nonprofit Association, about the nonprofits leading a census outreach campaign in Michigan.

Crain’s Senior Reporter Chad Livengood interviews Dow Chemical CEO Jim Fitterling on the Midland-based company’s corporate sustainability efforts, its work on expanding recycling in select U.S. cities and his views on the need for more tax revenue to invest in Michigan’s roadways. He also discussed Dow Chemical’s recent post-merger split from DuPont and Corteva Agriscience.

Crain’s Senior Reporter Chad Livengood interviews newly minted Michigan State University President Samuel Stanley about his appointment as leader of the East Lansing school following the upheaval at MSU from the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal.

Crain’s Senior Reporter Chad Livengood talks to Consumers Energy Co. CEO Patti Poppe, chair of this year’s Mackinac Policy Conference, about the energy company’s work to reduce emissions.

Crain’s Senior Reporters Chad Livengood and Sherri Welch talk to Delta Dental CEO Goran Jurkovic and corporate communications director Margaret Trimer about the company’s $5 million donation toward construction of a playground at the planned west riverfront park in Detroit. Detroit Riverfront Conservancy board chairman Matt Cullen joined the discussion at the Mackinac Policy Conference.