The Week That Was on Deadline Detroit

Hosts Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone talk about all the pizza joints around town, and viewers weigh in. They also discuss news of local investors buying Buddy's Pizza from CapitalSpring, an equity firm that bought the chain in 2018. Some people think the quality of Buddy's has slipped since the equity firm bought the chain. Can the new owners bring Buddy's quality back? They also talk...

Hosts Vanessa Moss, Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone talk with Dr. Anil Kumar, a urologist, who is running as an independent for the 11th Congressional District in Oakland County. The seat is currently held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, who is running for the U.S. Senate. Kumar, a lifelong Democrat, explains why he’s running as an independent and discusses problems with the health care system...

Host Nancy Derringer talks with public relations specialist and former Detroit reporter Darci McConnell, pollster Ed Sarpolus, veteran attorneys Bill Seikaly, Steve Fishman and Joe Sklar; community and labor activist Barb Ingalls and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. Pollster Ed Sarpolus talks about Republican Perry Johnson gaining steam in the gubernatorial race and questions the momentum...

Host Saeed Khan talks with guests: veteran attorneys Steve Fishman and Bill Seikaly; community and labor activist Barb Ingalls; veteran journalist Nancy Derringer; and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. They discuss the terrorist attack at the West Bloomfield synagogue; Trump saying he wants to appoint the next Iranian leader — which host Saeed Khan suggests could be called “The Ayatollah A...

Hosts Vanessa Moss, Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone talk about the attack on the synagogue in West Bloomfield Township and security in other schools. They wonder more money isn't spent beefing up security at schools and paying teachers better salaries. 

Hosts Vanessa Moss, Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone talk about sex workers, the Iran war, the Epstein files and President Donald Trump's cult-like following.

Host Saeed Khan talks with guests, veteran lawyers, Steve Fishman, Bill Seikaly and Joel Sklar; labor and community activist Barb Ingalls, veteran journalist Nancy Derringer and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. They talk about: US and Israel attacking Iran and the Trump's ever-changing explanations for doing so; Khan, a Wayne State University professor, addresses question as to wheth...

Host Saeed Khan talks with guests: veteran attorneys Steve Fishman, Bill Seikaly and Joel Sklar; labor and community activist Barb Ingalls; veteran journalist Nancy Derringer; and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. They discuss: a recap of the State of the Union speech; Whitmer’s last State of the State address; a U.S. ambassador to Israel telling Tucker Carlson that Israel should take over...

Hosts Vanessa Moss, Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone talk about former Wayne County official Alicia Bradford and her husband, Larry Bradford, who face potential jail time after they pulled guns on a customer at a Farmington Hills gas station following a dispute that began over a 10-cent deposit fee being charged for a can of Mountain Dew. The panel discusses gun responsibility. They also talk with Way...

Hosts Vanessa Moss, Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone talk about Vanessa's bid for Wayne County Probate Court and all the work that goes into running; the Supreme Court votes against President Trump's tariffs; and the six Congress members, including Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin, who made a controversial  video about directing the military not to carry out illegal acts. Right or wrong? A D.C....

"The Week That Was'" podcast host Nancy Derringer talks with guests, Detroit Free Press investigative columnist M.L. Elrick, content creator Myron Watkins, attorney Joel Sklar, labor and community activist Barb Ingalls, and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. The group talks about a number of issues, including the controversy involving Wayne County Sheriff Raphael "Ray&qu...

Hosts Vanessa Moss and Jim Nardone talk with lifelong Detroiter Adam Hollier, who explains why he dropped out of the race for Michigan Secretary of State and is now running for a state Senate seat. He talks about the public service jobs he's held over the years. He says that since he left the Senate in 2023, there hasn’t been a Black man there.

Hosts Vanessa Moss and Jim Nardone talk about Detroit Black History Month and highlight some outstanding people, including Flint’s Claressa Shields, a world champion boxer, and former Detroit Tigers star Willie Horton. They also talk with special guests, viewers Mike Evans—who discusses immigration, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office questioning rulings by Detroit’s 36th District Court, and the...

Host Saeed Khan talks with guests veteran attorneys Steve Fishman, Bill Seikaly, and Joel Sklar; community and labor activist Barb Ingalls; veteran journalist Nancy Derringer; and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. They talk about: DOJ releases a large (and last) batch of Epstein files—50% remain unreleased; Trump calls on Republicans to nationalize elections and mentions Detroit by name; f...

Host Saeed Khan talks with guests, public relations specialist and Detroit Police Commissioner Beverly Watts, attorneys Steve Fishman, Bill Seikaly and Joel Sklar; labor and community activist Barb Ingalls, veteran journalist Nancy Derringer and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. They talk about: Federal agents kill another American in Minneapolis; Don Lemon and another reporter arrested by...

Hosts Vanessa Moss, Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone talk about whether Don Lemon went too far reporting on a protest inside a church; did the FBI go too far by arresting him instead of allowing him to turn himself in? Did Covid hurt the Democrats?

Hosts Vanessa Moss, Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone talk about ICE agents activity in Minneapolis and around the nation. Just doing their job or out control? Moss, an attorney, Lengel a reporter and Nardone, the retired police chief of Trenton, talk about the activities.

Host Saeed Khan talks with lawyers Bill Seikaly, Steve Fishman and Joel Sklar; community and labor activist Barb Ingalls; veteran journalist Nancy Derringer; and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. They talk about: Trump gets heckled at a Dearborn auto plant and speaks at the Detroit Economic Club; Trump considers military options to attack Iran; Trump launches a criminal probe of his own Fe...

Hosts Vanessa Moss, Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone talk about controversial Oakland County Probate Judge Kathleen Ryan, who made racist and homophobic remarks and has now stepped down from the bench. They also talk about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis and the Jan. 6 shooting of Ashli Babbitt at the U.S. Capitol.

Host Saeed Khan talks with feature writer and former Detroit News reporter Jim McFarlin; Mike Stone, aka "Stoney" of 97.1 The Ticket; attorneys Joel Sklar and Steve Fishman; labor and community activist Barb Ingalls; veteran journalist Nancy Derringer; and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. Fishman, a prominent Detroit criminal defense attorney who has defended Detroit cops in cou...

GOP gubernatorial candidate Mike Cox, the former state attorney general, says he gives Gov. Gretchen Whitmer a grade of D for her performance and took a shot at his Republican opponent, Congressman John James.  "I'll give her a D alright, and for this reason," Cox said of Whitmer during an appearance Wednesday night on the podcast/videocast, Detroit in Black and White. "We&apos...

Host Nancy Derringer talks with public relations specialist and former Detroit reporter Darci McConnell, attorney Joel Sklar, labor and community activist Barb Ingalls and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. They talk about: More Epstein files; Wall Street Journal reports Mar-a-lago staff sent on "house calls" that often ended in propositions; Marjorie Taylor Greene's change o...

Hosts Vanessa Moss, Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone talk about the health care field, the profits that sometimes motivate it and experiments in the past including the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.  

Hosts Adolph Mongo, Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone talk about the health benefits of swearing, the fan and the Pittsburgh Steeler player who got into a tiff, and Mayor Mike Duggan's chances of becoming Michigan's next governor. 

Host Saeed Khan talks with attorneys Steve Fishman and Bill Seikaly; community and labor activist Barb Ingalls; veteran journalist Nancy Derringer; and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. They discuss: whether the media is doing a good job covering the Epstein case; Trump appointing a special envoy to Greenland; loyalist Elise Stefanik not running for reelection to the House or for New York...