Detroit Financial Options, The Business of Medical Marijuana, City Growth and the African World Festival - Link to Audio
Lou Schimmel, former emergency financial manager in Hamtramck, talks with us about the possibility of Detroit in receivership. Receivership is a state of insolvency prior to liquidation, and bankruptcy. During receivership, receivers may attempt to undertake turnaround management or decide that the company must go into liquidation. (Bnet )
Should Detroit keep tearing unsightly buildings down? Jeff Wattrick talks to us about his Model D article that questions the demolition of Detroit's buildings.
Southwest Detroit hosted a first-of-its-kind expo last weekend. Organizers billed the event as an opportunity to educate the public about what they consider to be one of Michigan’s biggest growth industries: medical marijuana. WDET’s Sarah Cwiek was at Michigan’s first annual Medical Marijuana Expo …hear her report.
Federal officials are touring a prison today in Standish MI that might be used to house Guantanamo detainees. Detroit News Reporter Karen Bouffard speaks to us about the scene and her article .
Did you think it was all gloom? Polite Correction: There are successful businesses that are making money and hiring workers. In the second installment of a series we’re calling “Here to Stay”…WDET reporter Noah Ovshinsky explores one of those businesses where the secret is in the sauce…literally.
Auto Analyst Jim Hall talks with us about batteries…the subject of many hopeful discussions around the city.
Foreclosures have significantly decreased due in part to a freeze by State officials. State Senator Hansen Clark speaks with Quinn about implications of the new statistic.
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Techno artists who once spun records in Detroit basements, abandoned warehouses and after hours clubs are now considered royalty on the Electronic dance club circuit in Japan and Europe. As part of our occasional series, Feet in Two Worlds, Martina Guzman reports on a sound influenced by automobile assembly lines and the city that now has a Spanish accent.
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Mi Estillo is a publication looking to represent the changing faces of young, professional Latinos in the Metro Detroit area. Editor Jose Rodriguez will be in the studio to talk with us about it. Also, Sree Sreenivasan is the Dean of Student Affairs at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and a national expert on fresh media. Hear her talk with Quinn about Mi Estillo.
To conclude the show, Njia Kai from The African World Festival will talk with us about the festival's 27th year!