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...
Detroit
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...
January 12, 2018
History in photos: Ferndale is 100 years old
When I first set out to write about Ferndale’s 100th birthday as a municipality, I had anticipated having to use...
January 7, 2018
PODCAST: Clearing the smoke from Michigan’s fast-changing medical marijuana industry
There have been a lot of changes recently in Michigan’s nearly decade-old medical marijuana industry. The Legislature passed new laws...
January 5, 2018
Q&A: Ferndale Radio is on the air, looking for content and funding
If you’ve been surfing the airwaves (remember those?) around downtown Ferndale lately, you may have noticed a new non-commercial college-style...
December 27, 2017
PODCAST: Construction chief Todd Sachse talks Detroit development, past, present and future
As the founder and CEO of Sachse Construction, Todd Sachse has been involved in many of Detroit’s biggest development projects...
December 18, 2017
PHOTOS: Ferndale’s 89-year-old William Howard Taft School is no more
I took this photo a couple weeks ago, before the snow flew, of the remains of William Howard Taft School...
December 12, 2017
8-Wood Blog stars in new Daily Detroit video about redeveloping I-375
After writing about the state’s proposal to redevelop I-375 in Detroit as a surface-level boulevard, I partnered with my podcast...
December 5, 2017
MDOT down to 2 alternatives to replace I-375 in Detroit
Interstate 375’s days are numbered. The mile-long freeway, which destroyed an historic African American neighborhood in Detroit 50 years ago...
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