What to know and where to go in Metro Detroit
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What to know and where to go
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Plus an excellent latte, some news bites around town, and a ship.

On your Daily Detroit, we learned that owning a tank is apparently legal in Michigan. Should we get one?

Plus, Detroit's the City of the Year, Michigan Central has a new thing, and we open

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Plus 6 Stories Around Town (and Some House Music)

Justin Onwenu is a Detroit-born organizer, environmental justice advocate, and attorney who is now running for State Senate in Michigan's newly redrawn District 1, which stretches from neighborhoods on Detroit's west side through downtown and

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Today, we're taking you inside the Second Baptist Church of Detroit — the oldest historically Black church in Michigan, a former last stop on the Underground Railroad, and now a hub for human trafficking awareness and

Devon, Norris, and Jer tackle three topics live at the Detroit Policy Conference. First, we get into lunch spots we like and are disappointed by recently.

Then, there's a proposal to provide transit to all

The rundown:

02:07 - Michigan's population is growing, we discuss

05:13 - Amazon Fresh fizzles out in Metro Detroit, leaving a number of empty potential storefronts

09:11 - MOCAD is reopening in

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Detroit's Papers Push Together, Major I-94 Work Starts Soon, Happy Birthday Michigan 🎂 and more

Today's podcast conversation is in two parts.

First, we dig into USA Today (formerly Gannett) buying the Detroit News - just a month after a joint operating agreement ended between the two papers and bringing