"The Trump campaign had initially agreed that Trump would participate in an interview with The Detroit News. But after the newspaper began asking about the Michigan crime data ... the presidential candidate no longer had time for an interview."
TIL today: a contingent of those protesting
@GovWhitmer
's (and Michigan State Spartan alum) stay-at-home orders have taken to calling her the "Wolverine Queen."
Some personal/professional news thing: shortly after the new year I'll be starting a new job at
@crainsdetroit
where I'll be covering the world of tech and finance all around metro Detroit and probably beyond. Working at Crain's has long been a dream and I can't wait to start.
A new report names Detroit as the world's No. 1 "emerging ecosystem" for technology startups, beating out global powerhouses including Hong Kong and Brussels.
“For some context, McMorrow's one-day $150,000 fundraising haul is two-thirds of the nearly $220,000 in campaign cash that Theis has raised for her re-election campaign in the past three years.”
This is a Dearborn appreciation post. Best food, wonderful people, excellent housing stock, great community. Ignore the trash WSJ opinion piece that’s floating out there.
Amazing. Captured by a Facebook friend who I don't think is on Twitter. The corner of Ottawa and Fulton in downtown Grand Rapids, right outside Van Andel Arena
Two long-time Republican operatives in Michigan sound the alarm about some of the political antics being played around not recognizing Biden’s win in the state.
An "opulent" century-old mansion built for one of the Fisher brothers in Detroit's historic Boston-Edison neighborhood hit the market Thursday morning with an asking price of $2.45 million.
News this morning: Perrigo -- based in West Michigan -- has become the first ever U.S. pharma company to seek permission to sell a birth control pill over the counter in the United States.
Fascinating resource showing how car dependence has decimated many US downtowns. This is the ranking of downtowns by a score assessing land devoted to parking. Some of these downtowns aren't really downtowns so much as suburban office parks at this point.
Every journalist has a “shit, I wish I did that story.”
I’ve long wanted to do one on the spam PR industry and how it actually operates and makes money, or if it does?
Slate did a pretty good version of that story here.
Extremely metro Detroit gripe but the off-ramp from WB 696 onto 10Mile and you need to get over to turn onto Woodward has to be one of the worst road designs out there.
Is there anyone out there studying why it is that the lack of ability to get a haircut has become the rallying cry for shutdowns going too far? Like, sure, I'm way past my usual need for a haircut, but at the end of the day, who gives a shit?
Things I think we can stop pretending are still because of COVID & just acknowledge are saving entities money:
- closed drinking fountains/bathrooms at parks, gyms, etc.
- hotels not servicing your room every day
- restaurants/stores having scaled-back days/hours
My dad and sister are visiting Annapolis, MD today and I half-jokingly suggested that they drop off a 6 pack for the staff of the Capital Gazette. Apparently they just met someone from the city desk and gave them some Oberon.
#ActsOfJournalism
Calling for a ban on right-to-work laws is both 1) a signal to the left that you're with them, 2) politically safe (RTW gets slaughtered when it's put up to voters), and 3) not super threatening to business interests who don't think this would ever happen.
I just have to say that
@jonathanoosting
's reporting the last couple weeks has been invaluable for understanding the ins and outs of Michigan election law.
Seeing lots of time zone discourse. It is objectively true that being on the western edge of EST is the best and I will hear no argument. We’re like two weeks away from it still being daylight at 9pm. You simply can’t beat it
The most Michigan thing ever is hearing that there’s a free vaccine being offered at a fairly centralized location and the first thought you have is: “where will I park?”
Just going to add on to the pile-on that’s going on in the replies and quote tweets and say it’s absolutely not parody. A five minute read on the construction of I-375 would confirm that.
Michigan Secretary of State just announced that Meijer stores will now have kiosks for vehicle renewal, which given the misery associated with visiting branches, seems like a big step forward.
Jessica Lutz of Grand Rapids said she's supportive of impeachment and believes that issues like child immigrant detainment are more impeachable than the Ukraine scandal.
An underrated thing about Detroit is that when you're out and about and hungry and don't want something fried/unhealthy, you're never far away from a Greek salad.
At a recent closed-door meeting, Michigan Republican Party Chairwoman Kristina Karamo told a GOP group, "We're not going to just hand out our financial information so folks can go leak it to Craig Mauger."
Well, it's a good night to have one of these -->
BREAKING NEWS: Detroit-based TCF Bank being acquired by Columbus-based Huntington Bank. The combined bank will have dual HQs in Detroit and Columbus but be domiciled in Ohio. The TCF Center in DT Detroit will be renamed the Huntington Center, executives said Sunday night.
The class divide has never been so apparent in media. Many journalists grew up rich, went to $20k a year prep schools, are obsessed with fights over vocabulary, symbols, fringe boogeymen -- ignore crumbling public schools, unsafe streets, rampant poverty as secondary concerns.