HeyJaredShifting Gears with Phoebe Wall Howard
Original news reporting, analysis and features by award-winning journalist Phoebe Wall Howard. Topics range from auto industry and politics to sailing and spotlight profiles with a Detroit perspective.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 11
- Latest publication
- Sep 27, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 20, 2026
Latest issues
Karma bites Michigan on the ass (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Okoboji, Iowa — Turns out I arrived in northwest Iowa just in time to see a local kid stun the multi-billion dollar University of Michigan football program with a shocking loss. Fact is, I love nothing — nothing — more than payback after something unfair has occurred. It’s how we know the stars are in alignment. And karma is real. The gods served up a little payback to the Wolverines in Ann Arbor on Saturday, Sept. 26, during the final 2 seconds of the game against the University of Iowa Ha
Jared Goff was a Pony before he was a (Detroit) Lion (opens the original)
Read excerpt
MJ Bardell walked into Maria’s Downtown Cafe in Port Huron, Michigan, wearing a football jersey — Honolulu blue with #16 in silver and “GOFF” on the back. His dad Brad Bardell wore one too. They don’t just love the Detroit Lions quarterback, they respect what he represents.“When it comes to who is out there leading the Lions, who always performs his best and always wants to make the team better? Jared Goff. I think he’s made it known that good things can happen out of rejection,” said MJ Bardell
Shocking backroom deal spotlighted in America’s Cup film (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Sailboat racers are coming off the water. They’re snapping up advance tickets to see a documentary film about the “Holy Grail of big boat racing” with breathtaking video footage and new interviews about one of the most controversial, competitive, shocking and heartbreaking sailing battles in history.“Mighty Mary” is an action-packed 98-minute time capsule by director Mary Mazzio.It’s the story of the first all-female team to compete against men in an international sporting event that skeptics di
White House whiplash: Stunned Ford execs learn of harsh Sean Duffy letter through media (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Ford is reeling. The political press corps is struggling to find answers. And corporate executives are watching as a company just praised for its business practices by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick is the focus of scathing international attention without warning — after U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy “blasts” Ford Motor Co. for its “embrace of Chinese technology and manufacturing due to national security concerns.”In a letter rele
Fired GM engineer alleges job review method is illegal, sues (opens the original)
Read excerpt
A senior engineer who spent 27 years at General Motors with promotions — but fired in January — is suing the company amid allegations that a recently adopted employee evaluation program is designed to eliminate older salaried workers.Tuan Le, 58, of Ortonville, Michigan, is the third GM employee represented by Michael Pitt of Royal Oak to file a legal claim that the company’s so-called “forced ranking” evaluation system (also known as “stacked ranking”) requires managers to meet job-elimination
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.