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Crain's Detroit Business - Buildings built for newspapers, furriers and carriage companies are getting new life in downtown Flint, while entrepreneurship is flourishing.

Bill Shea - Overproduction in the 1980s and '90s filled a sports card bubble that eventually burst, but a small number of card shops have found a way to remain and thrive.

Bill Shea - Overproduction in the 1980s and '90s filled a sports card bubble that eventually burst, but a small number of card shops have found a way to remain and thrive.

Jay Greene - DTE and Consumers Energy plan to eliminate coal for generating electricity by 2040, but they have different paths. DTE plans on using more natural gas and nuclear; Consumers will do it with more renewable energy sources. Will plans change based on market forces?

Dustin Walsh - Smaller auto businesses have fewer options to pass through the higher materials costs; many turning to legal help, looking for cracks in contract agreements with customers and suppliers, while others are possibly seeking less ethical means of avoiding import penalties.

Kirk Pinho - Firm says it is still moving forward with rehabbing Eddystone, spared from demolition in a compromise agreement with the city that allowed Olympia to implode the former Hotel Park Avenue nearby in 2015.

Chad Livengood -

Rachelle Damico
Special to Crain's Detroit Business - The president and CEO of The Children's Center is in the trenches with her team.

Tom Henderson - What would happen if everyone in Flint came up with a business idea? A nonprofit called 100K Ideas is designed to find out.

Tom Henderson - Downtown Flint is busy with economic development projects, including the renovation of several iconic but long-abandoned buildings.

Tom Henderson - Tim Goodrich was a pastor who answered a second calling: to become an artisan boot and shoe maker.

Tom Henderson - Flint influencers compare Kiara Tyler, 25, to fashion super-successes like the founder of Nike and Vera Wang.

Tom Henderson - The historic Flint Journal building and printing plant are twin symbols of the city's rebirth.

Chad Livengood - The Coleman A. Young Municipal Center is getting a makeover along Larned Street to improve the flow of employees and residents entering the city-county building.

Chad Livengood - Ann Arbor businessman Shri Thanedar won just 17.7 percent of the vote in the Aug. 8 Democratic primary for governor. He spent at least $53.58 per vote.

Sherri Welch - Detroit Regional Chamber is getting ready to roll out talent retention and attraction website that will serve as template for other regions of the state.

Chad Livengood - The Coleman A. Young Municipal Center is getting a new glass-house security entrance along Larned Street to improve the flow of employees and citizens entering the city-county building.

Chad Livengood - Until Gretchen Whitmer's primary election victory party last Tuesday night, there's perhaps not been a Democratic political event in the past eight years where Democrats spoke so highly of outgoing Republican Gov. Rick Snyder.

L. Brooks Patterson is warning business and suburban officials that a new regional economic partnership will be an economic grab to benefit only Detroit. That's misguided and myopic.

Keith Crain - Last week was just a skirmish. The real battle begins now.

Other Voices - Mark Stapleton - Virtually everybody agrees that the Soo Locks are vital to the nation's security.

Other Voices - Paul Vandevert - Ford Motor Co.'s Transit Connect strategy is a useful case study that shows how business can avoid becoming collateral damage to aggressive, hurtful trade policy.

Crain's Detroit Business - The Southfield-based automotive seating and electrical-distribution system company spent $29 million on the facility, which began limited production in July.