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Crain's Conversations

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Crain’s Detroit Business reporters and editors discuss the latest news and interview the people who are making things happen in metro Detroit.
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Episodes

Enbridge Energy CEO Al Monaco talks Line 5 pipeline, Straits of Mackinac tunnel project

Enbridge Energy CEO Al Monaco talked Friday with Crain's Senior Editor Chad Livengood about the Calgary company's Line 5 oil pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac and its proposed tunnel under the waterway to house the pipeline. Monaco was in Detroit on Friday and the interview was recorded at the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel.

Jun 22, 201923 minEp. 149

Mackinac conversations: Beaumont Health COO Carolyn Wilson

Carolyn Wilson, chief operating officer of Beaumont Health, discusses the potential impact of a new auto insurance fee schedule for the suburban Detroit hospital system under the no-fault insurance reform legislation Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law Thursday at the Mackinac Policy Conference.

Jun 01, 201910 minEp. 141

Mackinac conversations: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wrapup

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wrapped up her first Mackinac Policy Conference as governor Friday morning by discussing with reporters the state budget and road funding talks with lawmakers, the impact of the auto insurance law she signed Thursday and Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 oil pipeline.

Jun 01, 20198 minEp. 140

Mackinac conversations: Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel on roads

Crain’s Managing Editor Michael Lee interviews Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel on the ongoing debate about road funding in Michigan, how he’d change the funding model, what he thinks of the odds of a deal this year and Macomb County’s new tool to view the status of any road in the county.

Jun 01, 201913 minEp. 139

Mackinac conversations: Skillman Foundation CEO Tonya Allen

Crain’s Senior Reporter Sherri Welch interviews Skillman Foundation CEO Tonya Allen at the Mackinac Policy Conference about early education and literacy issues in Detroit and statewide, as well as the development of a possible Wayne County millage for funding after-school programs.

Jun 01, 201921 minEp. 138

Mackinac conversations: Dan Gilbert's team takes on no-fault reform, roads fix

Jared Fleisher, vice president of governmental affairs for Quicken Loans, speaks to Crain’s Senior Reporter Chad Livengood about the Detroit-based online mortgage company’s lobbying efforts in the passage of no-fault auto insurance reform and how Dan Gilbert’s family of companies will get involved in pushing for a resolution in Lansing on road funding.

May 30, 201913 minEp. 137

Mackinac conversations: Enbridge execs on Line 5 work, controversy

Enbridge Energy officials Peter Holran and Ryan Duffy spoke with Crain’s Senior Reporter Chad Livengood on the engineering work the oil transportation company is putting into construction of a tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac to house its Line 5 oil pipeline and ongoing negotiations with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to get authority to build the $500 million tunnel.

May 30, 201913 minEp. 135

Mackinac conversations: Nonprofits lead census outreach campaign

Crain’s Senior Reporter Sherri Welch interviews W.K. Kellogg Foundation CEO La June Montgomery Tabron and Donna Murray-Brown, president and CEO of the Michigan Nonprofit Association, about the nonprofits leading a census outreach campaign in Michigan.

May 29, 201911 minEp. 132

Mackinac conversations: Dow Chemical CEO on sustainability, post-merger split

Crain’s Senior Reporter Chad Livengood interviews Dow Chemical CEO Jim Fitterling on the Midland-based company’s corporate sustainability efforts, its work on expanding recycling in select U.S. cities and his views on the need for more tax revenue to invest in Michigan’s roadways. He also discussed Dow Chemical’s recent post-merger split from DuPont and Corteva Agriscience.

May 29, 201916 minEp. 131

Mackinac conversations: New Michigan State University president

Crain’s Senior Reporter Chad Livengood interviews newly minted Michigan State University President Samuel Stanley about his appointment as leader of the East Lansing school following the upheaval at MSU from the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal.

May 29, 201910 minEp. 130

Mackinac conversations: Delta Dental donates $5 million to Detroit riverfront park

Crain’s Senior Reporters Chad Livengood and Sherri Welch talk to Delta Dental CEO Goran Jurkovic and corporate communications director Margaret Trimer about the company’s $5 million donation toward construction of a playground at the planned west riverfront park in Detroit. Detroit Riverfront Conservancy board chairman Matt Cullen joined the discussion at the Mackinac Policy Conference.

May 29, 201915 minEp. 128

Mackinac conversations: Whitmer on Line 5, insurance reform, fixing roads

Crain’s Senior Reporter Chad Livengood interviewed Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer about the future of Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 oil pipeline, the auto insurance reform package she plans to sign this week and her ongoing effort to get the Legislature to appropriate an extra $2.5 billion annually toward fixing Michigan’s roads.

May 29, 201913 minEp. 127

Mackinac conversations: Dana Nessel on shutting down Line 5, Flint water crisis

Crain’s Senior Reporter Chad Livengood talks to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel at the Mackinac Policy Conference about the future of Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 oil pipeline and her ongoing efforts to settle civil litigation against the state stemming from the Flint water crisis.

May 29, 201916 minEp. 126
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