Daily Detroit

Welcome to your Daily Detroit for January 8, 2018.

Our main topics today:

A Detroit City Councilmember is under scrutiny for ethics

Detroit's crime rate seems to be for the most part down

Detroit's a top travel destination

Michigan's population is up, but not growing as fast as the rest of the country

Metro Detroit is getting a new FAST transit service to make bus service better in the region

Deep Dive: There's a new garden coming to Belle Isle from famed designer Piet Oudolf. He's worked on the High Line in New York City, Millenium Park in Chicago, and various gardens in Europe. We talked to Oudolf about his plans and have our writer's reaction.

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Welcome to your Daily Detroit News Byte for December 26, 2017.

When we first put together a few episodes of this Daily Detroit show, we thought of it as an experiment. Would people listen? Is there a need? And overwhelmingly, there is.

So, we're going for it. This is now going to be a regular platform for us, four times a week. It will be one of the key parts of our storytelling in 2018.

After all, podcasting is a great medium to reach people in a personal way. So thanks to everyone who subscribed since our last show.

Downtown's construction boom is continuing to roll with the new Little Caesars Headquarters

For The Love of Sugar opens in Midtown: http://www.dailydetroit.com/2017/12/19/brush-park-just-got-bit-sweeter-thanks-love-sugar/

Eh, who needs that Third Street bridge anyway?

Winter Market extended: http://www.dailydetroit.com/2017/12/22/downtown-detroit-holiday-market-extended-january-28-turn-spring-market/

No electricity for Christmas? They're trying to fix that in Puerto Rico, and Detroiters from DTE Energy are part of the fix

Also - a wide-ranging discussion on the best diners in Metro Detroit on the heels of the closure of the Nip 'N Tuck in Berkley. http://www.dailydetroit.com/2017/12/21/hello-goodbye-berkleys-beloved-beckys-nip-n-tuck-diner/

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Welcome to your Daily Detroit News Byte for October 23, 2017! Our headlines today:

• The University of Michigan has connected Detroit to Ann Arbor with a bus line that's now open to the public
• Michigan-located restaurants win awards for locally sourced food
• Detroit company gets investment on Shark Tank
• UFO Factory looks to lift back off and get on path to re-opening
• Two zip codes (and one in Metro Detroit) are among the top ten most desirable in the country
• A discussion on Detroit Blows, the new Blow Dry salon in Detroit and Detroit retail

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Thanks to Sven Gustafson for guest hosting along with Jer and Shianne.

Your news byte for October 20, 2017.

• Detroit's bike share sees promising early results
• A Michigan company is a tech unicorn
• Eminem's 8 Mile Movie will be back in theatres
• Two openings this weekend
• A groundbreaking of a park in Detroit
• An interview with the owners of the new Ready Player One bar and arcade

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Welcome to your Daily Detroit News Byte!

Our headlines:

• 200 New jobs in Detroit
• Which Detroit suburb is one of the best cities in America to live in?
• The Kresge Foundation Grants $450,000 To Increase College Graduation
• A new book that promises to be good on Belle Isle is looking for help for photographers
• Detroit leaders are submitting their bid for the new Amazon HQ2 this week

Our interview:

Amy Oprean of "Let's Just Say." It's a storytelling event this Thursday at Go! Comedy in Ferndale and should be a fun time.

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There's a guy looking to build more connections between Detroit and Toledo than the Mudhens and the Tigers baseball teams. That guy is Mark Pannell, and his event series is called "DETxTOL."

Both places are experiencing a refocus on place-based entrepreneurship. That means starting businesses that benefit and serve a geographic place and also provide jobs in that place.

The goal is open dialogue and create connections between the two cities that are an hour and a half apart but share some of the same challenge, especially when it comes to starting a business and entrepreneurship.

We chatted about the free event and what the goals are and why should you should come October 17.

Here's the panel:

Alicia Wagner - Co-Owner, Fowl and Fodder (http://fowlandfodder.com/) Dante Williams - Founder, Cutz Lounge (http://cutzlounge.us/) Prakash Karamchandani - Co-Founder, Balance Pan-Asian Grille (http://balancegrille.com/) Joanna Dueweke - Program Manager, ProsperUS Detroit (http://prosperusdetroit.org/) Moderated by Mark Pannell - Executive Strategist, The C.J. Anderson Co. (http://cjandersonco.com/)

DETxTOL Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/det-x-tol-place-based-entrepreneurship-tickets-38009831429?aff=efbeventtix

I know that a discussion about a discussion can be kind of meta, but the Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan put together a very interesting series of conversations across the region about youth.

"On The Table" is a project bringing 400 conversations together, over meals, across the seven county Detroit area.

We attended three of them. Shianne at Noble Elementary/Middle, Jer at Bamboo Detroit, and Sven at the Detroit Boxing Gym.

So we initially were going to do a short roundup with some of the Daily team - Jer, Shianne and Sven - but it turned into a half-hour wide-ranging discussion of issues facing the city and youth, and some of the real challenges that are out there.

Apologies since is longer than our usual episode, but we hope you enjoy it.

One of the threads in the story of a new, $27 million development on the riverfront that will see the Stone Soap building getting new life is that Shakespeare in Detroit, a theatre company born out of Detroit's neighborhoods, is getting a new performance space.

Jer caught up with Sam White, the founder and creative director, to have a chat about what it's going to look like and what this will mean to the theater company that's gotten national attention is and is beloved locally.

For more on Shakespeare in Detroit: https://www.shakespeareindetroit.com/

Story coming on Daily Detroit about the development:

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The HuffPost, formerly known as the Huffington Post, was in Campus Martius in Detroit capturing stories from Detroiters as part of their Listen To America Tour.

They're visiting 25 cities across the heartland of the country to get a beat on what people actually care about. It's an interesting experiment in outreach.

So we talked Editor to Editor, with Jer having a conversation with Jo Confino. At HuffPost, Confino is Editor of Impact & Innovation and Editorial Director of their solutions journalism project, What's Working.

We get into the challenges of solutions journalism - how it's harder than chasing down the crime stories of the day, and it's not always about positive stories. Also, breaking down the mental barriers that some journalists have.

Apologies ahead of time for a little wind noise. We recorded on location for this one.

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A link to HuffPost's What's Working: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/whats-working

After getting a lot of feedback, we're trying a little something different where we focus on on story or theme per show, and then do more shows.

Today we talked with Devon O'Reilly from the Detroit Regional Chamber about coworking in Detroit, why it works with the interest by businesses in Detroit, and specifically an event coming up on October 5th all about it.

Event link, if you're interested: https://portal.detroitchamber.com/Events/EventPassthrough.aspx?guid=%7BC107367A-9E82-E711-8100-C4346BDCF111%7D