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Detroit City FC beat Atlanta United 2 3-1 over the weekend. Fletcher has the highlights and something he's watching for.

As the team embraces a much-needed bye week, we answer your listener questions about the club this year.

• What position would an upgrade best help the men's team for the 2nd half?
• If Fletcher Sharpe was GM, do you have any specific players you'd want us to go get?
• How are we going to hold on to Trevor James, Rhys, and some of the other top players in the off-season?
• Devin Amoo-Mensah has been a very quiet MVP for this team. Who has surprised you on the team so far this year?
• With such a small bench, where do we end up in the standings if we make no signings?
• The last MLS question will we answer for a long time, though a few asked a version, and we're keeping it to just one question: We're doing great in USL, why aren't we pushing harder for MLS? (Go talk to long timers / SG for the important culture stuff, but there's a lot of soccer reasons, too)
• What is keeping the attendance at the women's game so much lower than the men's? What can the team do to improve women's matches attendance?

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We talk about a ton of things around Metro Detroit:

• Devon tried Brazen Bagels; Jer talks up Cafe 1923
• Jer previewed the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit in a historic building
• The Detroit People Mover is reopening with limited stations. Should there be fewer? And what about the future of the elevated rail loop, considering $100m will need to be spent soon?
• Unemployment is low, but investors are tightening their belts and businesses are taking a hit. We talk about how to navigate, and how Detroit's startup community might be impacted
• A place in Capitol Park is now offering a $175 price fixed menu, no subs, drinks extra. We discuss.
• The Wienermobile is in Farmington this weekend, we have details if you want to check it out.

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Ferndale Pride is June 4, 2022. Their Executive Director Julia Music joins us to talk about everything ahead for an even that'll be bigger and better than ever in Downtown Ferndale.

The event is one of the biggest spaces for celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community in Metro Detroit.

Also, be sure to check out our Daily Detroit booth at the event and say hi!

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A judge has interceded in the debate on Auburn Hills leaving SMART for their own service, keeping them in service for now. But an election is looming; and there's an underlying issue with transit in metro Detroit. IT's population density and distance, as the sprawled region in many places is below the 3,000 people per square mile some studies say is needed to support regular bus service. This applies to other services, too. We discuss.

3,000 per square mile supports bus service: https://kinder.rice.edu/2018/11/13/excerpt-many-cities-have-transit-how-many-have-good-transit

(I didn't mention on the show, but I think I'm going to make a map of the actual population densities around here. It'll be surprising, I think).

Plus, the St. Joan of Arc fair isn't bringing back rides, as the dollars don't make sense for the fundraiser. There are others following suit. Is this a trend, with increasing costs making the juice not worth the squeeze?

The Crash Detroit street band festival is done. We share some memories, and hope some more things pop up.

And, local chain pizza joints will soon be carrying "Pepsi-roni," made by infusing the pepperoni with sugar free Pepsi Zero. Yay or nay?

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The Michigan Science Center is bringing some great icons of pop culture and science fiction to Detroit's midtown for an exhibit, POPnology, you won't want to miss.

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Detroit City FC is proving to the entire USL Championship they're here to stay, and a new rating from USL Tactics puts them at a 91% chance of making the playoffs.

https://twitter.com/USLTactics/status/1526148070186143744/photo/3

We go over the win against Loudoun 4-2. Plus, we look ahead to a Wednesday road match against The Miami FC and then back home on Saturday against Atlanta United 2.

Then Fletcher shares thoughts on the passing of the Pistons legend Bob Lanier.

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What to know and where to go in Metro Detroit. Show notes to come.

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The reality is there's a lot of inequity in our American system.

It's been there since our founding. Sure, improvements have been made, but we're nowhere near there yet. And you can see it in our region, too.

Short of a massive federal program to truly begin to level out the metaphorical playing field on a number of levels for African Americans and other groups, to help get wealth into communities, start businesses, and more — the work has to be done where it can.

One of those areas is with access to loans. Nimaj Driscoll - a Detroit Native with CDC Small Business Finance, a nonprofit that's more flexible than a bank - joins me today to talk about a new program that doesn't involve traditional credit scoring to get Black entrepreneurs access to what they need to compete.

And they're already at work in the community. More: https://cdcloans.com/activate-detroit/

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Long time listeners might remember the words split property taxes.

The idea being - the city of Detroit's tax burden is only second only to New York City.

But, I don't know if you've looked around. We don't have the household incomes, the commerce, or the number of people to support that.

We were closer to that many decades ago. But no more.

So the idea is to change the code to make it so land speculators and others would get punished, and those who are taking care of and improving their land get rewarded.

Now that the city of Detroit has a better handle of its finances and we're not immediately after bankruptcy, maybe it's time for the city leaders to look to the future.

What could we do different to truly become more resident-friendly and more competitive for businesses of all sizes? What if we could change the system so there were fewer foreclosures and more people stay in their homes?

When we talked about this last, it was more theoretical.

Now, there's a new report by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and commissioned by some local big hitters in Invest Detroit and the Kresge Foundation.

That, if you're paying attention, is major local interest in the topic.

Nick Allen, an author of the report, joins us to discuss it.

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From buildings built from the top down in Greekton; to park work on Detroit's west riverfront; to different kinds of housing, Detroit has a number of big projects underway.

To talk about some of the key ones and get you up to speed, Robin Runyan from Urbanize is in the studio.

More: https://detroit.urbanize.city/

Robin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobinRunyan8

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