Daily Detroit

Today, Fletcher Sharpe talks all the things Detroit City FC. From the drubbing Le Rouge gave to New Amsterdam (and their goalie situation), to a 0-0 draw, we cover the on the field play.

Then we get into a piece in Sports Illustrated focusing on the club and giving it some national press.

There's also the new smoke jerseys and a community initiative to help raise up soccer in the Detroit Public Schools.

At the very end, by listener request, we talk about the mean streets of Bloomfield Hills. Or that's what one local brand was trying to sell you. Until they took all the products down.

You can follow Fletcher on Twitter @SaintFDW Thanks to our members on Patreon.

Today's conversation is with Anthony Adams, candidate for mayor of the city of Detroit.

He has a long career in public service, and we dive into the issues the city of Detroit faces and how he'd approach them.

Some of the topics we touch on include education, policing, flooding, transit, mobility, lowering (or maybe eliminating) Detroit's residential property tax, campaign finance, and universal basic income.

His website: https://anthonyadamsformayor.com/

Today's feature conversation is with sculptor Austen Brantley.

Website: https://www.austenbrantleysculpture.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/austenbrantley/

Also in the back few minutes, I share a couple quick things to know around town:

- Local officials are worried about the city's low (43.9%) vaccination rate and a November/.December COVID-19 surge in the region. So far, Metro Detroit has been relatively spared.

- The Starbucks at Woodward and Montcalm in the Fox Theater building quietly closed

The Detroit Grand Prix could be moving downtown. It's big news, as many Detroiters have had a mixed view of the race.

Many are supportive of the race as it's the Motor City, but also not too pleased about the impact to Belle Isle.

To look at the pros, the cons, the racing angles of taking the race back downtown after 32 years - Eric Trytko. He's got 30+ years of experience as a motorsports announcer, 20+ years covering motorsports and has raced cars and motorcycles himself.

We also talk about Motor Bella and how that went this year.

Today's show:

-Detroit City Councilman Andre Spivey pleads guilty as part of a widening corruption probe

- A Detroit Firefighters union official is alleged to have taken $220k in union funds

- Mom's Spaghetti is opening permanently in downtown Detroit

And our feature conversation is with Fletcher Sharpe.

We talk Detroit City FC's 1-0 win over the Force and preview upcoming games and against New Amsterdam and Maryland. Plus, his Lions thoughts and the Detroit Pistons are one of only two NBA teams that are fully vaccinated.

Our show is funded by our members: http://www.patreon.com/dailydetroit

As we run up to the November Detroit election, we're doing some candidate interviews.

One of them is M.L. Elrick. He's running for District 4 on Detroit's east side. We talk about his ideas around keeping flood waters out of basements, ethics, his plan to remove the perk of a city-provided car for council members, development, Detroit's bus problems, and more.

His website: https://ml4detroit.com/

Note: We will have an automated transcript up on our website this week.

To be clear, we are not offering endorsements. The point of these conversations is to leave our listeners more informed, however you decide to vote. What we do want to do is raise up policy ideas and solutions as our city and suburbs face a number of challenges and opportunities.

Information is in the episode if you're a candidate or represent one and would like to connect for a conversation.