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Play Bocce Ball With The Capuchin Brothers On Friday At Villa Penna

The Capuchin Ministries do a lot of good around metro Detroit between the work at the Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Children’s Program, and On the Rise Bakery. On Friday, January 26 Shelving, Inc. will be hosting the sixth annual Bocce with the Brothers benefit to raise money for the Capuchin Brothers. The benefit will be held at Villa Penna in Sterling Heights. The event will have a buffet dinner, unlimited bocce ball, live music and entertainment and silent auction. Speed painter Dave Santia wi...

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Detroit Teachers Working Second Jobs May Have To Begin Disclosing Them To District

Teachers and staff in Detroit’s main school district could soon have to tell their supervisors if they are supplementing their salaries with a side job. The school board’s policy committee last week approved a new policy that says the district “expects employees to disclose outside employment” and bars employees from working a second job while on any kind of leave. The policy, which will now go to the full school board for more review before the board makes a final decision, comes amid a wh...

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Your City 5: Things To Do In Detroit For The Weekend Of January 26-28

I have a feeling that downtown Detroit is going to be insane this weekend between the Auto Show, Winter Blast, and the final weekend of the Downtown Detroit Markets. But a good kind of insane. Go explore Detroit, friends. Lexus Velodrome Grand Opening Bike Races The time has come for the first bike races inside the Lexus Velodrome. The bike races will take place over Friday and Saturday night. Even if you aren’t a fan of cycling it will still be cool to check out the velodrome. I know...

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If Oakland And Macomb Counties Don't Want The Benefits Of Mass Transit, Forget'em

The ongoing saga of regional transit negotiations is like watching a friend tragically go after dating someone they really, really like – but the person that’s the target of their affection just isn’t interested. The reality is a four county transit solution isn’t politically workable here. We should accept that and like Indianapolis, an Amazon top 20 city, move on. One of the things that was surprising on our most recent Daily Detroit Happy Hour podcast was that Indianapolis was a top 20 ci...

Auto Supplier Flex-N-Gate Will Hire 400+ Employees, Focus On Detroit Residents

The largest investment by an auto supplier in the City of Detroit in over 20 years is well underway. Auto supplier Flex-N-Gate Detroit will soon be hiring over 400 employees. The positions will range from hourly workers to management. Flex-N-Gate owner Shad Khan has committed to hiring Detroit residents first. The company will be partnering with Detroit Works to help Detroiters get the training they need. Courses at Detroit Works are expected to start in February and will run through Dec...

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NEWS BYTE PODCAST: 400 Detroit Jobs, Burns Night, Antietam, The RenCen, And Detroit Rental Enforcement

Welcome to your Daily Detroit for Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018! On the show: * Enforcement of rental regulations is becoming more stringent in the city * 400 jobs are coming thanks to Flex’N’Gate * Three fun happenings: Boogie Fever reopens, Antietam closes, and the top of the RenCen gets a James Beard chef * Burns Night celebrating all things Scottish is happening at Urbanrest Brewery with Ackroyd’s Scottish Bakery: https://www.facebook.com/events/838131263040408/ * Don’t forget to c...

Burns Night Is A Scottish Party This Thursday You Won't Want To Miss

Want to celebrate being a Scot, or Scottish culture? Into some literary libations to honor Robert Burns, the Scottish poet and lyricist who is widely-regarded as the national poet of Scotland? Here’s the ticket you need this Thursday night. Every January 25, Scotland and Scots around the world come together to celebrate the life and works of the beloved “Rabbie” Burns, considered to be a pioneer of the Romantic movement (and also the author of “Auld Lang Syne”). Metro Detroit is no diff...

Michigan Science Center Makes It To Top 15 In The US2020 STEM Coalition Challenge

The Michigan Science Center has been named on of the finalists in the US2020 STEM Coalition Challenge. Judges for the competition looked at how each organization incorporated science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to underrepresented students. They were also evaluated on their potential impact, approach to partnership building, creative engagement strategies, and sustainability planning. There were 92 communities from across the United States participated in the competition in Oc...

Your Networking 5 For The Week Of January 23-29

There is no shortage of opportunities to meet new contacts around town this week. It is hopping with networking events. Have a great week! Retail Boot Camp Info Session Are you a retail entrepreneur but need help getting launched? TechTown has a Retail Boot Camp that is coming up and they will be hosting a Retail Boot Camp Info Session on Tuesday night. The program will not only help entrepreneurs by giving training but will provide access to start-up capital, affordable space and ong...

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Old Coach Insignia Space At Top Of RenCen To Be Taken Over By James Beard Award Winning Chef Shawn McClain

An iconic space in Detroit restaurant history – the top of the Renaissance Center – is about to get a new chapter. James Beard Award winning chef Shawn McClain will be opening a restaurant in Detroit. This time in the Renaissance Center, home to the headquarters of General Motors. His restaurant will go in the former Coach Insignia space on the 71st and 72nd floors. The restaurant is expected to be open the fall of 2018. This is the first restaurant to be opened by McClain and the res...

Time To Dust Off Those Dancing Shoes Because Ferndale's Boogie Fever Is Coming Back

It looks like the owners of Ferndale’s Twisted Tavern want to turn back time and go back to the 70’s and 80’s dance club concept. People have missed the club so much that Boogie Fever Cafe and Disco will be reopening on the evening of Saturday, January 20. “After Boogie Fever closed its doors and we opened Twisted Tavern, people still talked about Boogie Fever,” said Mark McConnell, owner of Boogie Fever. “ The nightclub was open for 15 years and was a big part of people’s lives.” Most...

Elite Detroit High Schools Like Cass Tech & Renaissance Move Beyond Test Scores For Admittance

Detroit’s main school district is changing the way it decides which students gain entry to the city’s elite high schools. Students applying to Cass Technical High School, Renaissance High School and two other selective high schools will no longer be judged primarily on the results of a single exam. Instead, an admissions team comprised of teachers and staff from the schools, as well as administrators in the district’s central office, will use a score card that gives students points in variou...

Motor City Creations Brings Popular Faygo Candles & More To Monthly Pop-Up In New Hudson

New Hudson might not be the first place you think of for a pop-up shop, but hear me out. A local candle and sign business, Motor City Creations has started their own monthly pop up. I took the drive out to New Hudson in Oakland County to check out the new store. We first featured Motor City Creations in 2016 because we saw their Faygo candles and wax melts at the Detroit Bike Company. The candles are great. I gifted the Faygo wax melts to my siblings this year and everyone loved th...

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A Look In The Mirror: 5 Smart People On Detroit’s Amazon HQ2 Disappointment

Detroit’s failure to make the list of 20 finalists for Amazon’s $5 billion HQ2 project and its 50,000 jobs has been the talk of the town. Especially after the all-hands-on-deck effort to produce a joint Detroit-Windsor bid that had many people believing the Motor City, once considered strictly a longshot, had a serious chance. In our latest episode, we talk to five local experts from a variety of backgrounds for their perspectives on what the failure says about our region and where we go fr...

NEWS BYTE: School Funding Changes To Benefit Charters, Royal Oak City Buses, Belle Isle Draft Plans & Attracting Mobility Companies

Here’s your Daily Detroit News Byte for Friday, January 19. On the docket today: * The State of Michigan is on the verge of changing public school funding to benefit charters * Detroit didn’t get Amazon HQ2 (We have a full episode on the topic over on the Daily Detroit Happy Hour): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily-detroit-happy-hour/id1168444594?mt=2 * The city of Royal Oak is looking at their own bus system: http://www.dailydetroit.com/2018/01/18/survey-royal-oak-will-gau...

Survey In Royal Oak Will Gauge Interest In City-Operated Buses

Royal Oak plans to survey residents and organizations to gauge interest in funding a city-operated transit system to connect residents who aren’t served by SMART buses to downtown and other attractions. Proponents also hope such a system would ease chronic parking shortages. Talks are in an early stage to design a system that would complement but not eliminate SMART, the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation that operates buses outside of the city. A seven-member transit ta...

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Detroit Will Not Get Amazon HQ2, Gilbert And Duggan React

Detroit is not getting the Amazon HQ2 project. 238 proposals were submitted from across North America the company’s second headquarters in North America. The HQ2 project is a plan to invest over $5 billion and hire as many as 50,000 people in high-paying jobs. The company says that construction and ongoing operation of Amazon HQ2 is expected to create tens of thousands of additional jobs and tens of billions of dollars in additional investment in the surrounding community. Metro Detroit di...

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Your City 5: Things To Do In Detroit For The Weekend Of January 19-21

Greetings to all of you. We’ve made it through another week of winter! I say that deserves a drink. I know that the North American International Auto Show has pretty much taken over the airwaves here in metro Detroit. But you’re not going to find that on this weekends City 5. I know, I know we’re the Motor City and this stuff is important. However, there are some other great events happening this weekend. Have a great weekend everyone! On the Rocks Opening Reception, Lecture, and Pewa...

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