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Radio Made in Michigan

Current State #44 | March 14, 2013

WKAR Public Media | By Current State

Published March 14, 2013 at 6:08 PM EDT

Today on Current State: An update on Detroit's emergency manager situation; Lansing Financial Health Team unveils report; a local priest in Rome on the conclave and new pope; Congressman Gary Peters on his political future; The Festival of Listening for international poetry; Japan two years after Fukushima; and violinist Anne Sophie Mutter.

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