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Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard is running for Governor in 2010. He just announced his running mate as Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land. WDET’s Rob St. Mary tells us about Bouchard’s choice.
Despite the prices we have to pay for safety restraints like seatbelts, some of the workers who produce them are paid as little as $1.50 an hour. A fired Mexican auto worker has traveled 1600 miles from Reynosa, Mexico to present the case of himself and 600 other auto workers from his plant to TRW headquarters in Livonia. We’ll hear from Ernesto Lizcano through his translator Julio Guerrero.
The Michigan Chamber of Commerce held a conference yesterday that featured controversial talk show host Glenn Beck. Kelly Rossman-McKinney of The Rossman Group was at the conference. She'll tell us how it went.
The importance of re-organizing our metropolitan government is expressed in a report just released by the Institute on Race and Poverty . Reverend Kevin Turman of the 2nd Baptist Detroit and President of MOSES , Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength, specializes in finding ways to improve the structure of local government.
The poetry scene in Detroit brings us some of the most interesting people from around the US. One of those scenes, the Woodward Line Poetry Series hosts Marick Press author Derick Burleson. Burleson spent time in Rwanda and currently resides in Alaska. He’ll talk to us about the series and his new book, Never Night .
Our "Stories along Grand River” series now brings us to a little shop in the northwest Detroit neighborhood of Old Redford. Paul’s Barbershop is one of the area’s longest running businesses. And while the neighborhood around it may have changed in the past 45 years…Paul’s Barbershop is a place frozen in time. WDET’s Erica Hobbs has the story.