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On The Craig Fahle Show and MiWeek: Thomas Sugrue and Detroit’s bright spots
Author of the definitive work about Detroit’s decline, “The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit,” Thomas Sugrue speaks with Craig Fahle. Sugrue will appear at the Detroit Regional Chamber’s Policy Conference Feb. 27. Hear a preview.
At the Conference, Sugrue spoke with our Detroit Journalism Cooperative partner DPTV and the MiWeek team:
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2014 Detroit Policy Conference: Bankruptcy…and beyond?
Sessions range from neighborhood revitalization to entrepreneurial strategies, from transit to economic diversification, from regionalism to small business success at the Detroit Regional Chamber’s 2014 Detroit Policy Conference held on Thursday, Feb. 27.
Next Chapter Detroit will be there and kick out updates all day long.
Meanwhile, Maggie DeSantis, executive director of Warren Conner Development Corp., gave audiences a preview of some of the discussions about neighborhoods when she dropped by The Craig Fahle Show on Feb. 26.
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State of the City: What will Duggan deliver?
In advance of his first State of the City speech tonight, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has received a lot of proverbial ink. Here are a few pieces worth checking out:
WDET brings a bit of history about the State of the City with Mayor Dave Bing’s 2011-2013 and Kwame Kilpatrick’s 2008 addresses available.
As part of their America 360 Series on Detroit, The Atlantic and The National Journal profile Duggan and present a Q-and-A with him. “Nothing came easy for Duggan in his quest to become Detroit’s first white mayor in some 40 years,” they write in their introduction.
On Feb. 25, Duggan received the “Newsmaker of the Year” award from Crain’s Detroit Business. In his lunchtime speech, he urged the business community audience to help stop scrap metal theft and produce their executives as volunteers for city program and services.
We’ll have reaction on The Craig Fahle Show Thursday.
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On The Craig Fahle Show: Case History … The 19th century suit cited in Detroit bankruptcy case
(WDET’s Craig Fahle spoke with Next Chapter Detroit’s Sandra Svoboda about the case on his show Feb. 20)
Attorney Caroline English today, representing Ambac Asssurance Corp., one of Detroit’s bond insurers, cited an 1888 case to bolster her argument that her client — and others — have a claim to funds raised through voter-approved measures.
That’s right, a 126-year-old case.
So during a break in the hearing, Next Chapter Detroit visited the library at the Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse and found the case.
Titled “Moses Taggart, Attorney General, v. The City of Detroit,” the case involved ensuring the city used the taxes levied to pay for a public market for that purpose. Kind of like what the bond insurers are arguing: that the city should pay off general obligation bonds with taxes collected for that purpose.
Judge Steven Rhodes is considering the arguments.
-By WDET’s Sandra Svoboda @WDETSandra and nextchapter@wdet.org
