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Kelley Root on WJR: What to do with Detroit’s vacant schools | Vaccine drive hits diminishing returns | Small Business Spotlight | The Pontch returns

Small Business Spotlight podcast: Staying ahead of the game in a pandemic

Michael Lee on WJR: Jumpstart for District Detroit? | Fast 50 | History of Beaumont, Spectrum | Pistons' new courtside bar

Kelley Root on WJR: New home for small business news | Home Point mortgage keeps low profile | Detroit Public Theatre expands

Michael Lee on WJR: The outdoor economy | RV boom hits some roadblocks | No-fault's knock-on effects

Michael Lee on WJR: The outdoor economy | RV boom hits some roadblocks | No-fault's knock-on effects

Kelley Root on WJR: Child care conundrum | Investors compete with homebuyers | How independent businesses hang on

Small Business Spotlight podcast: How to stay alive in a changing industry

Michael Lee on WJR: Weighing Beaumont-Spectrum deal | Surprise millions for nonprofits | The market for blood

Michael Lee talks with Guy Gordon on WJR AM 760 about stories from this week's edition of Crain's Detroit Business.

Kelley Root on WJR: Giving Guide | Metro Detroit CEOs' pay | High-end rentals squeezed | Family doctors dig in on vaccines

Michael Lee on WJR: Requiring vaccine in health care | Health Care Heroes | Convention business returns | May Mobility drives forward

Kelley Root on WJR: Getting to know Health Care Heroes | Grand Prix makes return | AirBnb-type rentals under scrutiny

Will Detroit be ready as it approaches 'pension cliff'?

Crain's Detroit Business reporter Annalise Frank and Senior Editor Chad Livengood talk with WDET's Stephen Henderson about whether Detroit is ready to resume paying its full pensions in two years.

Kelley Root on WJR: Back to the office | Detroit faces pension payments cliff | Changes at Crain's

Small Business Spotlight podcast: The rewards and challenges of gig work

Michael Lee on WJR: Luxury home market booming | Prices soar in seller's market | Wall Street cool to local mortgage giants

Michael Lee on WJR: Short-staffed restaurants | Hospitals marketing themselves alongside vaccinations | 20 in their 20s

Kelley Root on WJR: ‘Bullwhip' effect hits supply chains | Residential real estate outlook

Small Business Spotlight podcast: Ackroyd's Scottish Bakery owner on succession planning

Kelley Root on WJR: Rocket CEO Farner's $52 million payday | Fallout from hot real estate market | Oakland Hills shoots for U.S. Open | ER docs manage 'chaos'

Michael Lee on WJR: StockX, OneStream score | Hospitals confront different wave | How the food economy has changed

Crain's Managing Editor Michael Lee discusses stories from the April 12 issue of Crain's with Guy Gordon on WJR 760 AM.

Kelley Root on WJR: Office space post-COVID | Black-owned businesses and access to capital | Most influential women sought

Michael Lee on WJR: Forum: Increased teacher turnover and its impact | Vaccine incentives | Amazon Fresh coming to metro Detroit?

Q&A with MSU’s Katharine Strunk: Teacher retention starts with compensation, school leadership

Katharine Strunk, an education policy professor at Michigan State University, speaks with Crain's Senior Editor Chad Livengood about how low-performing schools in the Michigan Department of Education's Partnership Districts have struggled to turnaround because of high rates of teacher turnover — and what can be done to rectify the problem.

Bosch's Charlie Ackerman on shifting from a workplace culture of 'presence' at the office to 'performance' working remotely

Before the pandemic, Bosch North America Senior Vice President of Human Resources Charlie Ackerman's team was busy building a ground-up apprenticeship program to grow talent within the industrial automation and automotive mobility tech supplier's ranks. For the past year, Ackerman's work has shifted toward a new reality: The majority of the company's 3,000 employees in Farmington Hills and Plymouth don't want to come back to the office five days a week after a year of working remotely during the...

Kelley Root on WJR: Vaccine rollout revs up | New Black business group | Hot housing market

Crain's Detroit Business Executive Editor Kelley Root and WJR's Paul W. Smith discuss the top stories from this week's issue of Crain's.

Michael Lee on WJR: How will communities spend $4.4B windfall? | Detroit's priciest condo | New app delivers Crain's news

Kelley Root on WJR: COVID-19 one year later | UWM's Rocket attack | Deals surge for small and middle-market companies

Michael Lee on WJR: Back to the office? | Texas power disaster: Lessons for Michigan | Carrying on legacy of Eric Means

Crain's Detroit Business Managing Editor Michael Lee talks with Guy Gordon on WJR about stories from the March 1 issue of Crain's.

Kelley Root on WJR: Biggest Deals 2020 | Small Business Spotlight: Young entrepreneurs

Crain's Executive Editor Kelley Root talks with WJR's Paul W. Smith about the week's top stories.

Crain's Forum: Access to care remains a big hurdle in Michigan's mental health system

Crain's Senior Editor Chad Livengood talks with Kevin Fischer, executive director of the Michigan chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and NAMI board Vice President Emily Kieliszewski about issues about accessing care in Michigan's patchwork mental health system. Read more about mental health policy issues in this month's edition of Crain's Forum at crainsdetroit.com/crains-forum.