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Stateside for Monday, January 4, 2016

  • Debt payments for Detroit Public Schools are already the highest of any school district in the state, but things are going to get even more dire next month. Chad Livengoodtakes a look at the year ahead for DPS.
     
  • Mitch Albom joins us to discuss his latest book, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto.
     
  • A new report from the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation finds our state has a growing problem with what's called "uncoordinated prescription opioid use." CHRT's Marianne Udow-Phillips joins us to talk about the findings.
     
  • Since the early 1800s, 40% of Michigan's wetlands have vanished in favor of farming, housing and other development. Doug Corby tells us there areplenty of reasonsthat should be alarming.
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