Current State #150 | September 3, 2013

WKAR Public Media | By Current State

Published September 3, 2013 at 12:26 PM EDT

Today on Current State: MSU professor on the conflict in Syria; Detroit’s Water Renaissance series; Right to Work after first Labor Day; Al Jazeera America launches Detroit bureau; and the HopCat bar in East Lansing.

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