The Week That Was on Deadline Detroit

The Week That Was: MSU and U-M Seem to Match Scandals.

Allan Lengel / Deadline Detroit

Host Saeed Khan talks with guests Detroit Free Press investigative columnist M.L. Elrick; attorneys Bill Seikaly, Steve Fishman, and Joel Sklar; labor and community activist Barb Ingalls; veteran journalist Nancy Derringer; and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel.

They discuss:

They discuss:

  • The firing of University of Michigan coach Sherrone Moore and scandals at Michigan State University. 
  • Whether media mega-mergers may depend on President Trump’s whims
  • A Democrat’s win in the Miami mayoral election — and whether it’s a big deal
  • Australia banning social media for those under 16 (with Attorney Fishman, who owns a flip phone, weighing in)
  • Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick asking a judge to relieve him of restitution payments
  • A Hamtramck city clerk suing city officials, claiming retaliation for reporting election misconduct
  • Schmuck of the Week