Today on Stateside:
- How communities are bracing for the effects of climate change without using the actual phrase.
- Michigan counties prepare for the upcoming winter, even as they struggle with the huge hole last winter put in their budgets.
- We explore the core issues in the race for governor.
- Upper Peninsula writer John Smolens tells his story.
- A grape expert talks about the effect of last year's brutal winter on the wine grape harvest.
- We hear from a Michigan crossword puzzle-maker whose puzzle was selected to be in the New York Times this past Friday.
* Listen to the full show above.