Magic Bullets: Big Ideas and Big Projects (4 Part Series)
Series: Changing Gears: Remaking the Manufacturing Belt
From: Changing Gears
Length: 00:15:59
Part 1 – History
History is full of the search for ‘magic bullets’ … those quick tickets to jobs and economic prosperity. Cities across our region have put great hopes and resources into magic bullets. Some have soared; many have backfired. Our Changing Gears project explores the economic transformation of the industrial Midwest. This week, we’re bringing you stories of magic bullets, past and present. Our Michigan reporter Kate Davidson starts with this look back. (4:33)
(*ANCHORS -- story ends at 3:46 with standard out cue, music posts to run under live funding credit, or fade out.)
Tag/Funding credit: Changing Gears is a public media collaboration of WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio, and ideastream Cleveland. Support comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Part 2 - Batteries
This week, our Changing Gears team is taking a look at Magic Bullets - the big ideas that we've been told will transform the Midwest. And today, we hear about advanced batteries. They're powering electric cars. They could help with the energy grid. But will they charge up the Midwest economy? Dustin Dwyer has the story. (3:35)
Tag/Funding credit: Changing Gears is a public media collaboration of WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio, and ideastream Cleveland. Support comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Part 3 –Healthcare
Detroit is the latest metro area vying to become a medical destination. The hope is that its hospital systems can draw patients from outside its region, helping the local economy. In short, Detroit wants to be more like Cleveland. But as Dan Bobkoff of our Changing Gears team reports, Cleveland could be tough to copy. (3:44)
Tag/Funding credit: Changing Gears is a public media collaboration of WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio, and ideastream Cleveland. Support comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Part 4 – Small businesses
Can small businesses really grow enough to help the overall economy? Our Changing Gears team has been looking at magic bullets – the big ideas that can solve our economic crisis. Today, in the final installment of our series, Changing Gears Niala Boodhoo takes a look behind something you hear a lot of talk about – helping our small businesses. (4:06)
Tag/Funding credit: Changing Gears is a public media collaboration of WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio, and ideastream Cleveland. Support comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Part 1 – History
History is full of the search for ‘magic bullets’ … those quick tickets to jobs and economic prosperity. Cities across our region have put great hopes and resources into magic bullets. Some have soared; many have backfired. Our Changing Gears project explores the economic transformation of the industrial Midwest. This week, we’re bringing you stories of magic bullets, past and present. Our Michigan reporter Kate Davidson starts with this look back. (4:33)
(*ANCHORS -- story ends at 3:46 with standard out cue, music posts to run under live funding credit, or fade out.)
Tag/Funding credit: Changing Gears is a public media collaboration of WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio, and ideastream Cleveland. Support comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Part 2 - Batteries
This week, our Changing Gears team is taking a look at Magic Bullets - the big ideas that we've been told will transform the Midwest. And today, we hear about advanced batteries. They're powering electric cars. They could help with the energy grid. But will they charge up the Midwest economy? Dustin Dwyer has the story. (3:35)
Tag/Funding credit: Changing Gears is a public media collaboration of WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio, and ideastream Cleveland. Support comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Part 3 –Healthcare
Detroit is the latest metro area vying to become a medical destination. The hope is that its hospital systems can draw patients from outside its region, helping the local economy. In short, Detroit wants to be more like Cleveland. But as Dan Bobkoff of our Changing Gears team reports, Cleveland could be tough to copy. (3:44)
Tag/Funding credit: Changing Gears is a public media collaboration of WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio, and ideastream Cleveland. Support comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Part 4 – Small businesses
Can small businesses really grow enough to help the overall economy? Our Changing Gears team has been looking at magic bullets – the big ideas that can solve our economic crisis. Today, in the final installment of our series, Changing Gears Niala Boodhoo takes a look behind something you hear a lot of talk about – helping our small businesses. (4:06)
Tag/Funding credit: Changing Gears is a public media collaboration of WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio, and ideastream Cleveland. Support comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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