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The Axe Files with David Axelrod

Mayor Mike Duggan

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

CNN

News

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

From darkened streetlights and abandoned homes to pervasive graffiti and long waits for emergency services, Mayor Mike Duggan inherited a Detroit rife with problems, but also potential. Since he took office in 2014, Mayor Duggan has helmed a turnaround for the city, overseeing rising standards of living and significant economic growth. Mayor Duggan joined David at the newly re-opened Michigan Central to talk about the revitalization of Detroit, how Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer would fare as a presidential candidate, and the deeply felt ramifications of the Israel-Gaza war in his home state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. And now from the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago and CNN audio,

0:41.4

the Axxwiles. your host, David Axelrod.

0:46.2

I did a lot of work in Detroit in the 1990s at a time when the town had bottomed out and

0:51.9

was just beginning to show some signs of life.

0:54.8

I returned last week for the reopening of a civic landmark, the Michigan Central Station,

0:59.4

which has now been restored and reborn as an incubator for tech startups.

1:04.0

What I found was a city that is very much on the comeback.

1:08.0

A driving force behind all that is Mayor Mike Duggan,

1:11.0

who for 10 years has been the city's indefatigable leader, booster, and

1:14.8

idea machine.

1:15.8

I sat down with Mayor Duggan to talk about his story and Detroit's. waits. It's great to be back in town and it's an extraordinary experience, honestly, and we'll talk

1:35.2

more about that later.

1:37.4

I also appreciate, I know you were probably partying late into the night last night you you guys inaugurated the new

1:46.4

Central Michigan State Station or the old Central Michigan station and we'll talk more about that too but just explain briefly what that is.

1:55.6

Yeah well last night started with Diana Ross and finished with M&M.

1:59.4

So in Detroit that's about as big as it gets. But the train station was for my parents generation

2:08.6

and my grandparents generation. I grew up in Detroit. It was the gateway to Detroit. In the first half of the last century, everybody

2:17.7

came here. The freeways weren't a very well built out. Air travel wasn't nearly as prevalent as it was and so everybody

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