One Detroit contributor and Detroit News Editorial Page Editor Nolan Finley talks with Sandy Baruah, Pres. and CEO of the Detroit Regional Chamber, about the 2 biggest challenges local businesses are facing as they reopen and reengage with their customers as well as what business leaders are saying they need from state and federal policymakers. Finley and Baruah also discuss what the 2021 Mackinac Policy Conference will look like this year.
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News From Around Detroit
- Detroiters react to potential for first Black female presidentby Christine Ferretti, Bryce Huffman and Juniper Favenyesi (Bryce Huffman, Author at BridgeDetroit)
Vice President Kamala Harris has already garnered support from several prominent Democrats in Detroit after Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race.
- College leader’s legacy: A new generation of Detroit artistsby Bryce Huffman (Bryce Huffman, Author at BridgeDetroit)
Mikel Bresee, creator of the Community Arts Partnership program at the College for Creative Studies, reflects on two decades of community development through the arts. Bresee retired on June 28.
- BridgeDetroit 2024 conversation series starts with voting accessby Bryce Huffman (Bryce Huffman, Author at BridgeDetroit)
BridgeDetroit is launching its 2024 'Community Conversation' series June 18 with a talk on voter education and access. Our free monthly events will continue through September.
- A conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning author Jonathan Eigby Orlando Bailey and Christine Ferretti (Orlando Bailey, Author at BridgeDetroit)
The 669-page book uncovers never-before-seen papers, interviews and archives as well as King’s humanity.
- BridgeDetroit Engagement Director Orlando Bailey to head up Outlier Mediaby Orlando Bailey (Orlando Bailey, Author at BridgeDetroit)
It’s been a distinct privilege to serve at an organization that honors residents with a listening ear and action, Orlando writes.
National Headlines
- Firefighting pilot killed in tanker plane crash in Oregon as Western wildfires spread
Communities in the U.S. West and Canada were under siege from raging wildfires on Friday, and a pilot was found dead in a crashed tanker plane that disappeared in eastern Oregon while fighting one of the many fires spreading across several Western states.
- Why French authorities fear Russia may attempt to disrupt Paris Olympics
Just hours before the Olympic opening ceremony, saboteurs launched a coordinated arson attack on French train lines. It stranded nearly a million travelers and sparked even more concerns about potential threats to the games which are being protected by unprecedented security. Nick Schifrin discussed more with Javed Ali.
- News Wrap: Netanyahu meets with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
In our news wrap Friday, Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago residence, Canada, Australia and New Zealand called on Israel to end the war in Gaza immediately, health officials recalled some Boar's Head brand liverwurst and other deli products amid a probe into a listeria outbreak and a Canadian soccer coach was suspended amid a spying scandal involving drones.