3/18/21: One Detroit – COVID’s Impact / High Cost of Freeways / Great Lakes / Detroit potato chips

Mar 18, 2021

COVID’s Impact on Detroit One Year Later: One Detroit contributors Nolan Finley of the Detroit News and Stephen Henderson of American Black Journal talk about how COVID has impacted where the city is headed when it comes to the tax base, housing, office space, restaurants, and mass transit. Watch the full clip here>
The High Cost of Freeways: One Detroit’s Will Glover takes a look at what some call Detroit’s oldest monuments to racism—the I-75 and I-375 highways—and how their construction destroyed thriving Black communities, displaced thousands, and contributed to white flight from Detroit.
GLN: A New Administration and Investing in the Great Lakes: President Biden’s administration is bringing policy changes from immigration to stimulus checks and more.
In our Great Lakes Now report, there could be some changes when it comes to funding projects around the Great Lakes.
Motown, Po-Town: From DPTV documentary, “Detroit Remember When: Made in the Motor City,” we take a look at the history of Detroit potato chips. And, yes, it’s as delicious as it sounds.

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