Daily Detroit

It's Friday funday at the podcast and we run down stories around town as well as our favorite donuts.

01:11 - Devon and Jer share their drinks and their vaccine side-effect experiences

05:27 - Downtown Detroit bars and restaurants are real slow compared to before the pandemic. Will that increase as more people get vaccinated and go out?

06:33 - Local election season is heating up across the region. We talk about it for a bit, including quickly the slew of mayoral candidates. There will be more on all that in future shows.

08:56 - Local furniture maker Floyd raises $15 million in a series B round

11:56 - The metro Detroit real estate market is very hot, with people buying nearly half-million dollar houses without inspections and more. Here's the MLive article we discuss: https://www.mlive.com/news/2021/04/unprecedented-housing-market-leaves-realtors-stunned-never-seen-anything-like-this.html

15:07 - The "Big Salad," a local salad chain, is expanding in Michigan. We discuss. https://www.restaurantnews.com/michigans-the-big-salad-expanding-with-3-new-restaurants-042121/

17:38 - Donut talk. Of course, we pay homage to Dutch Girl; but what other good options are in the region? We discuss the newish Yellow Light on Jefferson in Detroit; the retro Donutville in Dearborn; and Donut Cutter in Berkley.

Which donuts reign supreme? We'd love to hear from you. [email protected] or leave a message with our Speakpipe. https://www.speakpipe.com/DailyDetroit

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Could we lower the city of Detroit's property tax rates - they are among the highest in the nation - while not gutting services?

This would be a benefit for long-time Detroit residents who face very high property tax burdens and might be a longer term fix than the one-time forgiveness provided through a charitable program from Dan Gilbert's foundation.

Also, it could stimulate more individual investment to make the city make more fiscal sense and help attract back the middle class, which Detroit has mostly lost. It's also something that wouldn't go first to billionaire and millionaire developers that live outside the city, but residents who live in their homes.

To talk about this idea is Stephen J.K. Walters. He's the author of a piece in City Journal, "Detroit's Black Wealth Tax: To help close the racial wealth gap, slash Detroit's confiscatory property tax rate."

Also, a bit of housekeeping. The Detroit City Council and mayoral races are heating up. A number of incumbents, including Andre Spivey, Raquel Castenda-Lopez, Brenda Jones and Gabe Leland aren't running, setting the table for the most change in city government in years. If you have questions you'd like asked of candidates or are a candidate running for office, email us - [email protected]

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Today's show is focused on Detroit City FC and the sport in general.

First, Fletcher Sharpe runs down a pair of games last week as DCFC kicks off their season.

Then we discuss the Super League briefing which leads into another topic - NISA. And how Detroit City FC really needs NISA to work, and what NISA could do to step up their game.

Triage tents are going up at local hospitals. Beaumont reports that their facilities across the region are 90 to 95% occupied, and rising. The volume of patients there is higher than last fall.

There are a number of individual hospitals that are over capacity. They're overwhelmed with unvaccinated adults who are on the verge of dying.

Plus, the Johnson and Johnson vaccine was paused for review. So what does that mean? And what's next?

To help sort this unfolding crisis out and make us smarter, Dr. Paul Thomas from Plum Health Direct Primary Care joins us.

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Plum Health Direct Primary Care: http://www.plumhealthdpc.com

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For our feature conversation, Potato chip expert, author and journalist Karen Dybis joins us to talk about the passing of the prince of chips. You might know him as Better Made CEO, Salvatore "Sam" Cipriano.

But first, some news.

00:29 - Coronavirus update, including stunningly high case positivity rates across the region and in the city of Detroit.

02:25 - Facial recognition technology used to identify suspects in Detroit is in the news again, this time as the ACLU is suing on behalf of a wrongly arrested man.

05:12 - Detroit's casino revenues are rebounding

06:07 - Lithia Motors has closed on the acquisition of the Suburban Collection.

06:58 - Our feature conversation with Karen Dybis on the passing of Salvatore "Sam" Cipriano. Karen is in our opinion Detroit's foremost potato chip historian and author of "Better Made in Michigan: The Salty Story of Detroit's Best Chip"

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Better-Made-Michigan-Detroits-American/dp/162619985X/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=karen+dybis&qid=1618447372&sr=8-4

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Today, Fletcher Sharpe is in the co-pilot seat.

00:18 - Fan favorite forward Max Todd returns to Detroit City FC.

00:44 - U of M's Mike Smith said he's going pro. What are his prospects?

03:55 - Why isn't Pistons Legend Ben Wallace a Hall Of Famer yet? More: https://theathletic.com/2511074/2021/04/12/ben-wallace-qa-on-hall-of-fame-isaiah-stewart-state-of-the-pistons/

09:50 - Tigers talk: Akil Baddoo, Miguel Cabrera

16:00 - Fletcher partakes in Ramadan and has good wishes for people

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Today's show is in two parts. News in the front, and a feature conversation in the back.

Albert Kahn and his brothers left an immense architectural and design legacy for Detroit and the world.

To help connect fans of Albert Kahn's work and tell the Kahn story, the Albert Kahn Legacy Foundation was started. Pfannes joins us to talk about it.

Plus:

00:49 - A COVID-19 update as the CDC says the way to stop this current spike is to shut the state back down. It's putting two allies - Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and President Joe Biden's administration - at odds. Whitmer doesn't seem to want to shut back down.

04:24 - Ford will have a third major brand. Bronco retail stores are coming. Tweet with link to the story and pictures: https://twitter.com/mikemartinez_an/status/1381215717056516097?s=12

05:32 - Feature conversation with Heidi Pfannes on the Albert Kahn Legacy Foundation. More: http://albertkahnlegacy.org/

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