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On today's show:

Internationally acclaimed photographer and Detroit resident Kenny Karpov joins us to talk about his upcoming photo exhibit, "Despite It All, We Never Learn." T

he photos take you on a journey with Karpov on a refugee boat in the Mediterranean. It's quite the story, and the opening event is at M Contemporary Gallery in Ferndale. More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1422062574620647/

Also, Sven - a former print journalist - and Jer talk about the news that apparently three reporters and a photographer are going to be laid off at the Detroit Free Press, ahead of a corporate mega-merger that will see local journalists lose their jobs across the country.

This isn't the first - cuts have been going on for more than a decade - and it won't be the last. So what could stop the death spiral of major paper local news? We discuss and we'd love to hear your feedback about what you're looking for in local news.

Happy snowmageddon, Detroit! Hope you're all staying nice and warm. On today's episode, we dig out of the early and record-breaking November snowstorm and dig into a few of the things that aren't working around town. Specifically, we talk about:

• That WXYZ investigation into a Detroit landlord whom the city has forgiven more than $1 million in unpaid taxes, fees and other fines he owes. It was part of the land swap the city orchestrated to pave the way for the new Fiat Chrysler auto assembly plant on the city's east side. Now he's screwing over families buying homes on land contracts.
• The Ilitches are at it again in District Detroit. Thanks to the Detroit Greenways Coalition, we know that the Ilitch family wants the city to grant it an easement over Henry and Sproat streets, which both run right alongside the Little Caesars Arena. Good idea? Or The Best Idea?
• And there's a shortage of liquor, fueled by software glitches at one of the three companies the state authorizes to distribute booze to bars, restaurants and retail stores. Michigan's Prohibition-era booze laws strike again.

• Last but not least, sportswriter Fletcher Sharpe joins us to talk about the Detroit Pistons at 4-7 in the early going, plus three Detroit-area soccer teams not named Detroit City FC that are making moves.

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It might surprise you that the 2.1 square miles of Hamtramck is the densest, as far as residents per square mile, of any in the state.

With roots to before 1800, the city has seen a succession of immigrants. founded by French Canadian Commander Jean Francois Hamtramck, the township was settled by people from what we know today as the province of Quebec in Canada.

Since then, it's become a village of German farmers. And then, with Polish immigrants as the automobile industry rose in the first quarter of the twentieth century.

By 1922, Hamtramck had turned itself into a city to stop it from being annexed by the city of Detroit.

Today, it has a very diverse population, including those germans and poles… African American… and immigrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Yemen, and many more.

it's also very walkable, unlike most of metro Detroit.

There are corner bars and grocery stores. Churches and mosques. Hardware stores. Community festivals.

Walking the streets of Hamtramck, I see the physical cityscape of Detroit that my grandparents grew up in. One that I've only known through photo albums.

Blocks and blocks of duplexes and single-family homes, humming with activity. The delicious smells of a restaurant wafting through the air.

To keep that energy alive, the enclave, surrounded by Detroit and Highland Park, has found strength in diversity.

Their motto has been, literally, "a League of Nations."

And the city is growing, where most of Metro Detroit is either staying the same or shrinking.

So what's behind all of this?

After all, in Hamtramck, they don't have a demolition program like in Detroit. Because they don't need one. Their buildings are in demand. They're adding schools instead of closing them. How often on this show are we talking about closures? Even in the most affluent of districts?

Joining me for a very interesting conversation is City Clerk August Gitschlag and City Councilman Ian Perotta. A tie between the two? August tends bar at Whiskey in the Jar on Friday nights, and Ian owns Trixie's Bar.

That's the voice of Rob Paulsen.

Born in Detroit, raised in Michigan and now with a voice known to millions, the singer and actor is the kind of person that can light up a room with just a few words.

Whether it is as the voice of Pinky in Pinky and the brain, on the Animaniacs, or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, it's magic.

He has more than 250 animated voices and a thousand commercials under his belt.

Rob comes back from time to time, and we caught up with him at TEDx Detroit for a wide-ranging conversation about not just his career, but his life.

After all, there are many facets to the man.

Paulsen is an author with a moving book called "Voice Lessons" about his journey through stage three throat cancer and host of the podcast, "Talkin' Toons" on the Nerdist network.

That conversation, recorded in the Masonic Temple, is today's show.

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On today's show:

We cover four things to know around town in our headlines, then we chat with the artist behind Sareytales.

Sarey Ruden turns the creepy, scary, terrible and misogynistic messages she gets on a regular basis while online dating into art.

The pieces (some that you can view here) will stop you in your tracks and shines a light on the dark side of online dating.

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Despite a steady trickle of leaked recordings of him being horrible, Warren Mayor Jim Fouts was re-elected to a fourth term on Tuesday. On today's show, we talk about and what it says about Warren. Then, we highlight some other races from around the region and discuss what they say about those cities, from Ferndale to Flint and Eastpointe to Livonia.

Finally, we speak with Colleen Martin and Saharsh Hajela, two University of Michigan graduates who co-founded Shout. That's a brand-new, non-partisan mobile app aimed at making it easier for regular citizens to find and contact their elected representatives.

We ran into them in the Fountain Ballroom of the Masonic Temple at TEDxDetroit, where we recorded today's show.

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On today's show:

An old train depot in Holly from 1886 gets a big preservation grant

Two metro Detroit communities get top billing as places to retire

An annual festival in Oakland County will be back at least through 2024

H&M in downtown Detroit finally has an opening date

Dr. Paul Thomas from Plum Health Direct Primary Care comes on to talk about their new office in Detroit's Corktown

And a Detroit teacher is driving Uber to pay for sweaters for her students whose parents can't afford them

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Gregg Garrett, our guest today, shares that four million jobs are going to be eliminated through autonomous vehicles from the U.S. economy. On the flip side, $7.8 trillion of value will be created.

So how does not just our country, but our region that is the home of the automotive industry, deal with that?

Whether it's this or a litany of other stuff that's happening that we discuss, there's a train of change coming to Southeast Michigan.

Welcome to your Daily Detroit for Monday, November 4th, 2019.

Garrett He has made a career helping people and companies deal with disruption and be better leaders.

He's the Founder of CGS Advisors, a local firm that looks at how emerging connected technologies are disrupting industries and society — and helps people deal with it.

He's an author and the host of "You, me and your top three," a podcast focused on exploring leadership in the connected world.

We have a wide-ranging conversation that I hope you enjoy and learn something from.

We've made it to the weekend! On today's show:

We break down the proposed FCA/PSA Peugeot merger deal.

A lawsuit involving a popular brewery, Founders, has been settled out of court

The new Hotel Cambria is coming to Detroit in the old WWJ Building on West Lafayette

Ford and the UAW have a tentative deal, avoiding a strike but closing a plant

Sven and Jer chat about the details we now know on bike-sharing expanding to the suburbs

And the Oakland County suburb of Ferndale has a mayoral contest next week. Sven, a Ferndale resident, and former Oakland Press political reporter dives in.

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The big news this week in development in Detroit is the announcement of a new University of Michigan Innovation Center, bankrolled and supported by billionaires Stephen Ross and Dan Gilbert.

The $300 million building on a $750 million campus will transform a site that was originally planned to be a jail.

But that old jail project was a mess and became the infamous Fail Jail through mismanagement and cost overruns.

After visiting the unveiling, we take a look at the past - how we got here, back to 2011 - and then today, then the future of the site at Gratiot and I-375 in downtown Detroit.

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