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Month (and 2013) in Review: December's biggest news stories

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The last few weeks have been eventful ones at the State Capitol.  Legislators strongly considered measures involving education and phone service, among others.  They passed measures involving abortion insurance, medical marijuana and others.M-Live reporter Jonathan Oosting, Susan Demas of the “Inside Michigan Politics” newsletter and Zach Gorchow of Gongwer News joined Current State to review the month's biggest stories.

They began by talking about the disagreement between legislative Republicans and Secretary of State Ruth Johnson on identifying donors to issues advertisements.

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