Aretha Franklin gravely ill, Ossian Sweet House update with Karen Dybis, plus your Detroit news

Here's our show on August 13, 2018.

- The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, is said to be "gravely ill." That's according to multiple reports and family friend Evrod Cassimy, a WDIV anchor and reporter.

- Legendary Detroit Tigers pitcher Jack Morris had his number 47 retired over the weekend.

- The historic David Stott tower in Capitol Park will soon reopen as luxury housing and office space. According to the Freep, asking prices for the apartments could set a new record for price-per-square-foot in downtown Detroit.

- Karen Dybis tells us what's happening to the historic Ossian Sweet House, and the story behind the important building.

- Sven was out of town last week, so we saved our discussion about the primary election and news of the week for when he came back from the woods. 

- A legal analysis by Detroit's Law Department says that City Council President Jones may be able to keep her local seat while serving for a time in the U.S. Congress.

- On the Detroit side of Mack between Outer Drive and Cadieux sits East English Village, a neighborhood built between the 1920s and 1950s. It's a neighborhood that doesn't always get much press attention. But maybe now it will.

- Sunoco stations across Detroit are being sued in Federal court. They're accused of selling Viagra without a prescription as an "all-natural" male enhancement pill.