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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.

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...

Daniel Howes says Michigan State University's chaotic search for a new football coach demonstrates two things: the Spartans are willing to s...

This week, Howes says Iowa's Democratic caucus debacle is an opportunity — for Michigan to become a go-first state in presidential politics....

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...

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...

This week, Daniel Howes says the winding down of President Donald Trump's parallel trade wars signals that an election year is here. Despite...

This week, Daniel Howes says the birthplace of the modern American labor movement is facing a reckoning. Thank a growing cadre of United Aut...

This week, Daniel Howes says President Donald Trump chose Michigan to counter the House impeachment vote because the state is shaping up to...

This week, Daniel Howes says surreal juxtaposition of Democrats moving ahead with impeachment of President Donald Trump and even as reach ag...

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...

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...

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...

This week, Daniel Howes says the United Auto Workers strike against General Motors Co. netted members a healthy set of economics – on pay an...

This week, Howes says the strange United Auto Workers strike against General Motors Co. is getting stranger in the wake of a tentative agree...

This week, Daniel Howes says the United Auto Workers’ fight with General Motors Co. is a battle over dollars and cents pitting radically dif...

This week, Daniel Howes says the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump will freeze Detroit’s automotive agenda in Washington. From...

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...

This week, Daniel Howes says Detroit’s top two automakers – facing a potential circus surrounding national contract talks with the United Au...

This week, Daniel Howes says the federal corruption probe into the United Auto Workers and its joint training centers is heating up just as...

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...

This week, Howes says this may be a progressive moment for the Democratic Party aiming to oust President Trump from the White House, but the...

This week, Howes says, the Democrats vying to replace President Donald Trump might want to get a little savvier about the real economic issu...

They’re waiting for the end at Lordstown, the giant auto plant General Motors says it no longer needs. And for the closure of the Vindicator...

This week, Howes says that not since the dark days of bankruptcy a decade ago are contract talks between the United Auto Workers and Detroit...

This week, Daniel Howes says global automakers face a “profit desert” in coming years as spending for the Auto 2.0 spaces of mobility, auton...

This week, Daniel Howes says that Not since two Detroit automakers emerged from bankruptcy a decade ago has the hometown industry faced as m...

This week, Daniel Howes says the year-end closure of Marygrove College after 92 years in Detroit doesn’t mean the end of education on its Go...

This week, Daniel Howes says parochial French politicking effectively killed Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV’s proposed merger with Renault SA...

This week, Daniel Howes says public education in Michigan is facing a crisis every bit as threatening to its future as the bankruptcies of D...

This week, Howes says Detroit’s first new auto plant in nearly 30 years is a go, but not without the usual complaining about process and unt...

Escalating trade tensions between the United States and China may be slowing auto sales there, but they’re also exposing the vulnerabilities...

This week, Daniel Howes says the “goods news” of General Motors Co. finding a potential buyer for its Lordstown Assembly Plant in northeast...

This week, Daniel Howes says bipartisan opposition to the rewrite of the North American Free Trade Agreement is forcing President Donald Tru...

This week, Daniel Howes says the Ilitch family’s billion-dollar investment in its District Detroit, anchored by Little Caesars Arena, is bei...

This week, Daniel Howes says signs are growing that Ford Motor Co. is no longer the Rodney Dangerfield of the auto industry – the company th...

This week, Daniel Howes says President Donald Trump’s whipsawing on trade and tariffs is exhausting the very people it’s intended to help. T...

This week, Daniel Howes says federal authorities investigating alleged corruption inside the United Auto Workers are asking some of the same...

This week, Daniel Howes says Detroit’s automakers are using investment decisions in a union contract year to politick President Donald Trump...

This week, Daniel Howes says Gretchen Whitmer’s budget address helped answer whether Michigan business still has a friend in the governor’s...

This week, Daniel Howes says Fiat Chrysler’s plans to invest $4.5 billion and create 6,500 tax-paying jobs to build a new Jeep plant in Detr...

This week, Daniel Howes says Detroit’s auto industry has lost the best friend in Washington it probably ever had. Congressman John Dingell s...