Daily Detroit

On today's show: The Lions got robbed on Monday Night Football, but also could have made some key plays and the after of the effects of the game have made it all the way up to ownership meetings. Is the team cursed?  Also, Detroit City FC has a big win in New York that puts them in the catbird seat for their season. Fletcher Sharpe - who nailed the score prediction of the game - joins us to break...

On this edition of your Daily Detroit, we're checking in on what's new in the historic and beautiful Woodbridge neighborhood. it's one of the city's older neighborhoods, with people moving in starting in the 1870s. It's named after William Woodbridge. he was the Governor of Michigan from 1840-1841 and much of the neighborhood sits on what used to be his farm. It's located near Grand River, Wayne S...

- There are more details on the mysterious disappearance of a Detriot house owned by a State Representative - The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit says it's received a $5 million matching gift as part of its $15 million Future Fund capital campaign.  - Project officials tell us that flooding and high water on the island park has delayed this fall's planned installation of the two-and-a-half-acre...

Detroit is a city with a lot of ideas worth spreading. The 11th TEDxDetroit conference looks to highlight those and gather local luminaries from a variety of fields, along with some pretty powerful and superstar guests including Nicole Curtis from HGTV's Rehab Addict and many others. To talk about the event on November 6, 2019 is Shawn Lee. He's the Director of Photography for the event and an ent...

Hey Friends! Here's what's happening around town. - An update on day 22 of the GM/UAW Strike - Lead has been found in the water in the suburbs of Birmingham and White Lake - The Detroit Pistons open a shiny new practice facility -  Another one of the food stalls inside the Fort Street Galley in downtown Detroit says it plans to close up shop - A new report says Detroit is one of the least green ci...

Starting a business is hard, and even more challenging in a city like Detroit. But there is help out there. Today's episode is your opportunity to hear from five different entrants to the Hatch Detroit contest. They're the winners of a public vote from the top 10. That annual event sponsored by Comerica bank grants $100,000 to a business to start their brick and mortar location somewhere in Detroi...

On today's show, we hit on the headlines of the day from the GM/UAW Strike to new restaurant openings, plus talk to Nieron Hales from Zingerman's Corman Farms about their innovative and affordable Tiny Weddings.  https://www.thetinywedding.com/

Jason Hall is a community advocate and bike enthusiast who you might know from those Apple TV ads awhile back showing off the famous group ride, Slow Roll. What you might not know is that after co-founding that event and non-profit, he's on to some new paths. One is RiDetroit, showing the beauty of Detroit through a variety of walking and bike tours. The other? The new Electric Avenue Bikes on Woo...

Southwest Detroit Restaurant Week is October 4-13, 2019 and it brings 24 restaurants to the table highlight food from a variety of Latin countries and regions. Monica Casarez and Juan Carlos Dueweke Perez stopped by the studio to talk about this exciting event.  More information here. In other news: We share information about the impending demolition of the Detroit Saturday Night building and ask...

Hello friends. Today we're covering StateBudgetPalooza, in which Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed all 16 budget bills sent at the 11th hour by Republicans, but only after making 147 line-item vetoes totaling nearly $1 billion, unleashing hilarity on the Great Lakes State. Is this any kind of way to do state budgeting? We discuss. Elsewhere, soccer correspondent  Fletcher Sharpe  joins us to run down t...

Man about town Devon O'Reilly joins us in the studio to talk about Detroit's openings and closings. One of the notable openings? Smith And Co. And closings include a circus-themed bar no one understood in Grand Circus Park.  

The Detroit Tigers have the worst record in Major League Baseball, and we're wistful of Tiger Stadium's last pitch 20 years ago Electric car startup Bollinger Motors releases a pair of new vehicles, and they don't use stamping so it's very boxy Oakland County guarantees county employees $15 an hour Detroit's North End breaks ground on a new mini golf course A makerspace in Ferndale is having a liv...

Lester Graham is a journalist at Michigan Radio , where he hosts "The Environment Report" and the news magazine "Stateside." Tammy Coxen is the host of Tammy's Tastings , a series of food and drink tastings, classes and experiences in Ann Arbor. The two friends been doing a segment on cocktails on Michigan Radio called "Cheers!" for more than three years. Now, they've got a new book based on that...

The United Auto Workers strike against GM over a lack of a new contract has dragged on into a second week. Meanwhile, the negotiations over the state budget are going down to the wire ahead of the start of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1, and the prospects of enacting a budget and avoiding a state government shutdown don't appear bright. The combination of those two storylines isn't good news for Mi...

The Motor City is a nickname for our town that is known the world over. After all, we put the world on wheels. But what if the same industry that gave us economic strength also, in a way, took away the vitality of the city? Detroiters for Parking Reform  says there is too much surface parking around greater Downtown Detroit. And our guest today is Francis Grunow. They point to statistics like 40%...

The now-defunct Axle Brewing said it hoped to find a like-minded brewer to take over their gleaming Livernois Tap when it announced it was ceasing operations in June, and it appears to have found one in Eastern Market Brewing Co., which announced it will take over the gleaming brewpub and eatery in Ferndale they're calling the Ferndale Project. According to the Freep , EMBC will rebrand the facili...

On today's show: Amazon is looking to build a new facility at the site of the old Silverdome. Also, Amazon is buying 100,000 electric delivery vans from local electric car startup Rivian. An adult club was shut down in Detroit. The city is getting a grant for self-driving vehicle testing. I-75 is going to be a special kind of mess this weekend. The Somerset Collection is opening a permanent spot i...

Nearly 50,000 UAW workers have gone on strike at General Motors, the first time the union has gone on strike in 12 years, after the last four-year agreement expired without an agreement over a new one. The strike also comes at a time that federal authorities are widening their investigation into embezzlement by top union leadership past and present, with nine people so far convicted of skimming me...

Today my guest is Chris Gethard. He's the host of the podcast Beautiful / Anonymous, which tells beautiful stories from anonymous people in a most interesting way. Each week Gethard opens the phone line to one anonymous callet — and he can't hang up first, no matter what — and he doesn't know where the conversation will go. Anything can and does happen, and a live show is coming to Hamtramck this...

It's almost the weekend! On the show today: Sven Gustafson breaks down what he's been able to track down up on Mackinac Island about the Grand Hotel's sale to a private equity firm, and talks about his experience working on the island Fletcher Sharpe joins us in studio to talk about Detroit City FC's epic win over Mexican first division Club Atlas, and previews this weekend's match against the Mil...

The nonprofit  Jefferson East Inc . has been working since the 1990s to redevelop Detroit's hard-bitten Jefferson-Chalmers neighborhood and business district, located on the far east end of Jefferson Avenue near the border with Grosse Pointe Park. Recently, the organization and its for-profit real estate development arm East Jefferson Development Corp., held a weeklong community workshop to solici...

On today's show, the first half is auto news and the back half a grab bag of other stuff: - A big investment round for Rivian (Sven's story on Autoblog here:  https://www.autoblog.com/2019/09/10/rivian-350-million-investment-cox-automotive/ - Why does Wall Street hate Ford? We discuss. - The Dodge Ram pickup gets a top safety rating - Rochester Mills brewery is bought by a California firm - Nathan...

Over on Marlborough and Kercheval is an old post office from the 1940s that you might consider an unlikely spot for a Detroit retail and maker success story. After all, it's a few blocks from Grosse Pointe and has a giant automotive plant between it and the hip West Village and Indian Village. But the duo behind Mutual Adoration, Wayne Maki and Clare Fox, are making the 10,000 square foot craft, c...

A jam-packed show for you today. Comedian, Actor and Impersonator Dave Coulier is returning to his roots and moving back to Metro Detroit.  More at Hour here. KMart is closing all but three of their Michigan stores,  as an era draws to a close for the once mighty retailer created in Detroit. A new salon called "Hair." is opening in the Fisher Building. We talk with lead stylist and owner Jenna Dru...

On today's show: Michigan became the first state to ban flavored e-cigarettes. There's a crackdown on drivers and pedestrians with the goal of lowering pedestrian deaths, with both the cities of Detroit and Warren ranking near the top of the list for fatalities. A $50 million proposed project to revamp the Motown Museum in Detroit took a step closer to becoming reality yesterday,  with a $4 millio...