Wayne State board dysfunction makes case for reform
This week, Howes says the governance of Wayne State University is so screwed up that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the state's bi-partisan legis...
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Daniel Howes is columnist and associate business editor of The Detroit News. This podcast is a posting of his radio show, airing weekly on Saturday on Michigan Public Radio and here.
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Howes says meddling shapes MSU coaching search
Daniel Howes says Michigan State University's chaotic search for a new football coach demonstrates two things: the Spartans are willing to s...
Iowa's caucus flub should be Michigan's gain
This week, Howes says Iowa's Democratic caucus debacle is an opportunity — for Michigan to become a go-first state in presidential politics....
Whitmer's 'Plan B' undercuts her deal-making cred
This week, Daniel Howes says Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a former state Senate minority leader, is not living up to her widely touted knack for w...
Tesla's revenge jolts Detroit Three
Howes says the Silicon Valley automaker, Tesla Inc., is getting its revenge. In one day last week, the company got approval to sell its elec...
Arrival of election year deep sixes trade wars
This week, Daniel Howes says the winding down of President Donald Trump's parallel trade wars signals that an election year is here. Despite...
UAW is hurtling toward a reckoning of its own making
This week, Daniel Howes says the birthplace of the modern American labor movement is facing a reckoning. Thank a growing cadre of United Aut...
Michigan is shaping up to be the whole ballgame for 2020
This week, Daniel Howes says President Donald Trump chose Michigan to counter the House impeachment vote because the state is shaping up to...
Howes says there are no coincidences in politics, business
This week, Daniel Howes says surreal juxtaposition of Democrats moving ahead with impeachment of President Donald Trump and even as reach ag...
Howes says new UAW boss has leverage -- if he'll use it
This week, Daniel Howes say the new president of the United Auto Workers, Rory Gamble, has leverage to drive reform within -- and if he falt...
On Michigan's Big Three universities' dysfunction
This week, Daniel Howes says the antics coming from the boardrooms of the state’s Big Three universities will not change until the way Michi...
Howes on transnational FCA-PSA deal
This week, Daniel Howes says the new name for the merger of Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot of France should be United Nations Motors. Rarely has...
Howes on what the General Motors strike ignored
This week, Daniel Howes says the United Auto Workers strike against General Motors Co. netted members a healthy set of economics – on pay an...
The UAW strike of General Motors gets stranger, just won't end
This week, Howes says the strange United Auto Workers strike against General Motors Co. is getting stranger in the wake of a tentative agree...
Howes on UAW-GM strike’s roots
This week, Daniel Howes says the United Auto Workers’ fight with General Motors Co. is a battle over dollars and cents pitting radically dif...
Howes on autos agenda, presidential impeachment
This week, Daniel Howes says the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump will freeze Detroit’s automotive agenda in Washington. From...
Howes on the UAW scandal and strike
This week, Daniel Howes says that as United Auto Workers members strike General Motors Co., the union’s rank-and-file and its legion of reti...
Daniel Howes on ‘America’s’ automaker
This week, Daniel Howes says Detroit’s top two automakers – facing a potential circus surrounding national contract talks with the United Au...
Howes on feds' probe, UAW corruption
This week, Daniel Howes says the federal corruption probe into the United Auto Workers and its joint training centers is heating up just as...
Southeast Michigan’s auto towns are cool again
This week, Daniel Howes says there’s growing evidence that southeast Michigan’s auto towns are cool again. Credit the politics of the day, s...