Today on Stateside:
*A nonpartisan, non-profit group called the Citizens Alliance for Prisons and Public Spending is offering strategies for cutting the prison population by 10,000 inmates.
*Are leaders in Wayne doing what's needed to meet its financial crisis?
*Michigan writer Barbara Stark-Nemon talks about her debut novel Even in Darkness.
*The wage gap between men and women: how wide is it in Michigan?