This is your Daily Detroit recorded on August 31, 2018.

- The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, was scheduled to be laid to rest Friday. A little piece of news out of the funeral is that Chene Park is to be renamed in her honor.

- Fellow hometown music star Eminem has dropped a new 13-track album at an unexpected time, titled “Kamikaze.” In it, he takes no prisoners with verbal shots at Charlamagne Tha God, Harvey Weinstein; Tyler, the Creator; Lil Pump; Machine Gun Kelly and Donald Trump.

- Ford Motor Company is planning to get rid of most of its cars for the American market in favor of more trucks, crossovers and SUVs. But the automaker on Friday said it’s canceling one of the only remaining cars it did plan to offer due to costs associated with President Trump’s trade war.

- Headaches for drivers due to road projects in Michigan could go on longer, thanks to a dispute between road construction companies and one union.

- Wayne State University is welcoming its largest full-time freshman class in its 150-year history this year. Enrollment jumped 15 percent to just under 3,000 freshmen.

- A recount of the SMART bus millage vote in Macomb County is over.

- A new coworking space has opened up shop in Ferndale. It’s called PatchWork Collective, and it occupies a storefront on Woodward Avenue in a space formerly occupied by the InkAddict tattoo parlor.

- Last night on the rooftop of the Madison Building, Toma Detroit, the aspiring tequila and mezcal bar and restaurant, won this years Comerica Hatch Detroit Contest.

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