DETROIT – The next Summer Olympic games will be held in Paris, which has been the host for two previous Olympiads.
Let’s face it -- the last couple of games have been a challenge for a lot of Americans to embrace. The winter games two years ago were in Beijing, which just doesn’t capture the imagination as a Winter Olympics kind of place.
Two years before that, the last summer games were held in Tokyo -- and that was just as the pandemic was whirling its misery around the globe. It gave us strange, dystopic venues that seemed to answer the question “what is the sound of one hand clapping?” Well, can the Olympics bounce back in a city like Paris?
We spoke with NBC’s Mike Tirico, who made his way from Ann Arbor to Paris at the year mark.
Last week also marked six months since Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s State of the State address. How has she done in those six months on her list of priorities? You’ll find she’s checked a lot of the boxes, but your view has a lot to do with how you feel about the boxes themselves.
We began with the economy. The Fed raised interest rates this past week and some are still wondering if we’re going to continue to flirt with a recession. If you’re a regular viewer, you’ve been privy to the thinking of U-M economist Justin Wolfers, who so far has been right on the money.
You can watch the July 30, 2023, episode of Flashpoint in the video player above.