- Gov. Rick Snyder's proposed budget would set aside over $100 million for the Healthy Michigan plan. CHRT director Marianne Udow-Phillips tells us more about the state of Medicaid expansion in Michigan.
- Poet and writer Keith Taylor joins Stateside today to offer a quick list of recommendations for some good reading.
- Lake Carriers Association Vice President Glen Nekvasil discusses what effect this milder winter has had on shipping on the Great Lakes.
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Glen Nekvasil explains why ships are not plying the waters of the Great Lakes this winter.
- Kalamazoo Mayor Bobby Hopewell weighs in on the mass shooting that has thrust his city into the national spotlight.
- A recent report predicts that we should expect more bacterial blooms in Lake Erie. Hans Paerl is one of the authors of that report.
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Hans Paerl is Kenan Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He and a colleague recently presented findings on what to do about the formation of giant algae-blooms dominated by cyanobacteria.
