This year’s Detroit Policy Conference takes place March 1 at MotorCity Casino Hotel, and the agenda is all about civility and putting aside our differences to help move Detroit forward.

On this episode of

Our guest on the Happy Hour this week could be considered Detroit cultural royalty, if there is such a thing.

Around the Daily Detroit office, we often joke that the shirts that say “Detroit

Here’s what we’re covering today on your Daily Detroit News Byte.

• Prison food will no longer be privatized in the state of Michigan
• MoGo, Detroit’s bike share, gets some

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

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

Board games are making a big comeback, and they’re making a comeback here in Metro Detroit. Especially during the winter season, games with friends at a bar might just be the ticket to

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

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Storytelling has become pretty popular in the past few years, and one of the big storytelling podcasts is coming to Ferndale in November.

Kevin Allison will be bringing his show RISK! Live to the Magic

This edition of the Daily Detroit Happy Hour is very timely as Sven Gustafson is talking to veteran reporter Dave Battagello of the Windsor Star about the bridge projects to Canada, the border crossing, and

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