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All 22 employees of a four-crew wireless contracting firm in Bessemer, Alabama, are about to get a financial windfall so huge that they wake up each morning rereading a letter from Sotheby's to ensure it's…

02/12/2024

Today's advice: If you add someone as a friend and immediately start DMing them, you are probably a scammer (because that's what they do). So, don't do it!

06/19/2015

Architecture, adventure and creativity have done a lot for New York. There's more and more evidence of that mix moving to Detroit.

INTRO: The Herman-Kiefer Hospital complex will be saved. Detroit officials introduced two New York City developers to residents off the Lodge Freeway near the Boston-Edison neighborhood. Michigan Now’s Chris McCarus reports that some are breathing sighs of relief. And some still don’t trust the auth…

06/15/2015

Folks,

http://www.michigannow.org/2015/06/14/park-ave-hotel-to-landfill/

Olympia Development and city government are taxing Detroiters so suburbanites will be lured to spend money in the city for a few hours a month. Olympia, the city and the suburbanites all agree that this is the best way to help Detroiters.

Historic preservationists say that keeping old buildings will draw young people from outside the city who live here. Will they create jobs for Detroiters? Will there be another Larry Page or another Dan Gilbert among them?

Those chances go down each time another iconic building goes down.

Detroit is sending another building from the golden age of architecture to a landfill. Wednesday night, the Detroit Historic District Commission put a rubber stamp on City Council’s demolition of the Park Avenue Hotel. The Ilitch family of companies and the Duggan Administration used heavy pressure…

04/29/2015

Has the sun set on subdivisions built on forest and farm land? We took this shot in August of last year a couple miles south of M-59.

Suburban America has been declining since at least the 2008 housing and banking crisis, says an editor at Fortune Magazine. Leigh Gallagher was the keynote speaker today at the annual affordable housing conference put on by the Michigan State Housing Development Authority.

02/19/2015

Chance to make the man who walked 21 miles to Rochester every day the second Rosa Parks.

INTRO: Local media are still covering the man who walked 21 miles to work every day. A Ford dealer gave him a new car. Donations to him won’t improve mass transit in metro Detroit. It will take a million voters paying for a new system. This Tuesday at the church at Woodward and Eleven Mile, you can…

02/10/2015

Steve Tobocman says Detroit might still have better music. But otherwise we want to be Toronto.

INTRO: The dialogue about diversity in Michigan is often about getting white folks to do the right thing. Groups here and elsewhere around the rustbelt are saying it’s not just right it’s good… for your economy. Michigan Now’s Chris McCarus reports.

01/13/2015

See parts 1 and 2.

How did Highland Park, Michigan compete and win against Brooklyn, New York? It was the abandoned Highland Park high school. A company called Galapagos Art Space bought it. Michigan Now’s Chris McCarus reports that a proven formula for urban revitalization is coming to where it’s needed most.

12/18/2014

Legislature scared to raise taxes on its own. Will ask people to tax themselves.

INTRO: Governor Snyder appears to be in position to sign a law to fix the roads. It will also boost funding for public transit. But it will require a special election in May where voters raise the Michigan sales tax from 6 to 7%. Transit would get an extra $110 million a year. Michigan Now’s Chris M…