March 22, 2018
Detroit’s mayor wants to use Michigan State Fairgrounds site to lure employers
The city of Detroit may buy most of the idled former Michigan State Fairgrounds site, where Mayor Mike Duggan wants...
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March 13, 2018
Crews tear down trees, fence at Detroit’s Palmer Park Golf Course
Visitors to Detroit’s Palmer Park may have noticed a rather extreme makeover on Pontchartrain Boulevard, the winding park drive, along...
March 8, 2018
Ferndale’s getting a new Peruvian restaurant called Culantro
A new Peruvian eatery called Culantro is getting set to open on Woodward Avenue in Ferndale. I spotted the bold,...
February 27, 2018
Regional MoGo bike sharing could expand to Ferndale, 5 other suburbs
UPDATE: MoGo has also received a $35,000 grant from the Better Bike Share Partnership to work with the cities of...
February 22, 2018
PODCAST: How Indianapolis funded transit, became an Amazon finalist
If you listened to our recent episode on Amazon’s snub of Detroit (and you totally should), you’ll recall that several...
February 13, 2018
LISTEN: Melody Baetens discusses Paczki Bombs, Detroit restaurants and roll-and-roll
Melody Baetens is a woman of many hats. By day, she covers entertainment and restaurants for The Detroit News. By...
February 10, 2018
Brooks Patterson’s comments on regional transit put the nails in the coffin for 2018
Some things just refuse to die. Like the longstanding divide between city and suburbs that has for so long characterized...
February 1, 2018
LISTEN: Will a new regional transit proposal make the ballot in 2018 in Detroit?
Last night we attended the annual meeting of the advocacy group Transit Riders United, where the fate of the Regional...
January 24, 2018
PODCAST: Detroit missed out on Amazon HQ2. What does that tell us?
I last wrote here about why it’s perfectly OK that Amazon didn’t pick the Detroit-Windsor bid for its list of...
January 18, 2018
Why it’s perfectly OK that Detroit lost out on the Amazon HQ2 bid
And in the end, Detroit will not get Amazon’s HQ2. No $5 billion investment, no 50,000 new jobs. We didn’t...
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