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Crain's Detroit Business Executive Editor Kelley Root chats with Paul W. Smith on WJR AM 760 about stories from this week's issue.

Monique Becker and Elyse Wolf call each other "sisters since four."  They went to school together and live together. And in the last five years, the two have navigated the challenges of parlaying a lifelong friendship into a business partnership. It hasn't always been easy.  "The work never ends," says Becker. "It's really hard to have any types of boundaries." "We definitely have other friends wh...

Kerry Duggan and Jonathan Overpeck talk with Crain’s Executive Editor Kelley Root about UM’s new SEAS Sustainability Clinic in Detroit aimed at combating the effects of climate change, including residential flooding.

Trevor Lauer, president and COO of DTE Electric, speaks with Crain's Detroit Business Managing Editor Michael Lee about work to reduce power outages, warnings from some about power shortages this summer and the future of green energy technologies.

Crain's Detroit Business Executive Editor Kelley Root talks with Skillman Foundation President and CEO Angelique Power about the importance of engaging young people in philanthropy, her impressions of metro Detroit and her goals for the organization.

Bob Riney considered pursuing the permanent CEO job at Henry Ford Health. He tells Crain’s on our Mackinac Policy Conference podcast about why he didn’t.

Ric Devore, the new president of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, talks to Crain’s Managing Editor Michae Lee about jumping from finance to foundations – and succeeding a legend.

Peter Quigley, president and CEO of Troy-based Kelly Services, spoke with Crain’s Detroit Business reporter Kurt Nagl about the labor shortage, how long it will last and what long-term impact it will have on industries from manufacturing to health care. The exodus of nurses from the profession in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelming hospitals is symbolic of what the coronavirus crisis di...

Hayley Murphy, director and CEO of the Detroit Zoological Society and Detroit Zoo, spoke with Crain’s Detroit Business reporter Kurt Nagl at the Mackinac Policy Conference about adjusting to the role she took on a little more than six months ago. Murphy, the first female CEO of the zoo, said she has a lot on her plate as its new leader, including opening the Belle Isle Nature Center by early or mi...

Simon Whitelocke, president of ITC Michigan, talks with Crain’s Managing Editor Michael Lee about how the Novi-based electric transmission company hardens its grid against major weather events and the odds of electric demand outstripping supply this summer.

David Parent, managing principal for the Deloitte LLP’s Michigan practice, talks with Crain’s Managing Editor Michael Lee about the future of office work and his own company’s big downtown office move.

Quentin Messer, CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corp., chats with Crain's Detroit Business reporter Kurt Nagl about luring large investments to the state after losing a recently announced Stellantis EV battery plant to Indiana.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan talks about bringing jobs to Detroit, environmental issues at the new Stellantis plant on the city’s east side, and how his administration is making sure residents are benefitting from development.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel talks with Crain's Detroit Business reporter David Eggert at the 2022 Mackinac Policy Conference.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer talks with Crain's Detroit Business reporter David Eggert at the 2022 Mackinac Policy Conference.

Jeffrey Donofrio, president and CEO of Business Leaders for Michigan, talks with Crain's Detroit Business reporter David Eggert at the 2022 Mackinac Policy Conference.

Arn Tellem, vice chairman of the Detroit Pistons and chairman of the Mackinac Policy Conference, talks with Crain's Detroit Business reporter Kurt Nagl at the 2022 Mackinac Policy Conference.

Garrick Rochow, CEO of Consumers Energy, talks with Chad Livengood ahead of the 2022 Mackinac Policy Conference.

Sandy Pierce, senior vice president of Huntington Bank, talks with Chad Livengood ahead of the 2022 Mackinac Policy Conference.

Awenate Cobbina, CEO of Bedrock Manufacturing, talks with Chad Livengood ahead of the 2022 Mackinac Policy Conference.

Rainy Hamilton Jr., is captivated by trains — so much so that he has transformed the basement of his English Tudor home in Detroit's University District to make room for a massive model train setup. Trains are colorful, he says. They move people and goods. And they are always going somewhere. "I'm tempted to actually write a song or a poem in terms of what is the attraction to model railroading,"...