Daily Detroit News Byte

It's a Friday edition of your Daily Detroit and Devon O'Reilly joins Jer to send us out to the holiday weekend. 00:20 First up, we talk about our cocktails of choice. Jer talks about what he dubs the "Sapphire Sun," meaning Faygo Arctic Sun and Bombay Sapphire gin. All that's needed is your local party store to pull this one off.  Devon's drinking an Americano with a touch of booze. The stories: 02:01 There's generally great news on the COVID-19 front, and unless there's major changes we're finally going to be pushing that coverage kinda to the back. The Detroit region is doing very well, with a test positivity rate below 5%. 05:10 Proposed changes to Detroit's charter will not be on the ballot thanks to a judge's ruling that without the Governor's signoff, it cannot appear. As a city resident, some of the ideas inside were compelling - but probably belong in the form of laws or ordinances instead of the charter itself. Also, it seemed a bunch of people forgot we as a city have $200m+ of annual pension paymen