Current State #54 | March 28, 2013

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Published March 28, 2013 at 5:05 PM EDT

Today on Current State: mother-daughter duo discuss their political involvement; winning Detroit Tigers' influence in 1968; Stations of the Cross reenactment in Lansing; and flutist Sir James Galway.

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