June 8, 2018
LISTEN: An interview with Highland Park school board president Alexis Ramsey
While we were in Highland Park recording our Daily Detroit Happy Hour podcast episode with Mama Shu of Avalon Village,...
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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...
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...
September 12, 2017
Amazon should be a wake-up call to metro Detroit to think bigger
Editor’s note: This post was co-written by yours truly but originally appeared on Daily Detroit. All the Mayor’s horses and...
August 1, 2017
PODCAST: Inside plans for a new entrepreneurism-focused charter school in Detroit
Drew Schantz is one of those 20-something-year-olds who make you feel like a total slacker. We caught up with him...
May 19, 2016
Gleaming new football field rising from Detroit’s decimated urban prairie
Chene Street is one of those places you can go in Detroit if you ever need a reality check and...
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