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Kurt MetzgerData Driven Detroit Pleasant Ridge

If you're not growing, you're dying (ft. Kurt Metzger)

There’s a saying that when you stop growing, you start dying. Well, the bottom line is Michigan now has more deaths than births. Metro Detroit is not faring better. We knew this was coming for awhile, but leaders from neither major political party have been able to stop it. What does it mean? How did we get here? What could we all do? My guest, Kurt Metzger, will help us sort it out. He’s one of the foremost minds when it comes to data, our region, our state and putting it to use. He start...

commutingDetroit megaregion economics

Is Detroit, the mitten of Michigan and Toledo really one megaregion?

It’s an interesting thought experiment. For as much as people like to talk about whether you’re an actual Detroiter, or the folks who won’t travel below 8 Mile (or lately, 696 … yes, from experience, that’s a real and crazy thing), or the rise of Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor as economic centers, or Royal Oak’s marketing push as the downtown of Oakland County, at least economically, a new map that shows the borders many perceive between us are more in our heads than real things. Historical geog...