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Book ‘Killing Women’ inspires Michigan Parole Bills
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Michigan parole boards may soon have more power thanks to lawmakers. A new bill, just passed by the Senate, will give victims and families of a Michigan serial killer some relief.
Business & Economy
Despite Setbacks, Michigan Tourism Remains Pure
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Elections & Politics
Boy governor, new state faced grown-up politics
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By ERIC FREEDMAN
Capital News Service
LANSING – Politics is a tough business in today’s era of massive campaign spending, instantaneous electronic sliming, dirty tricks, deceptive advertising, bribes and voting fraud. But it also was a dirty, corrosive business in the earliest days of Michigan’s statehood, according to a new biography of its first governor, Stevens T. Mason. When it came to politics, the American frontier was no Eden and politicians were no angels. The Virginia-born Mason moved to Detroit and became secretary of the Michigan Territory when President Andrew Jackson, a fellow Democrat, appointed him at age 19 – too young to vote. He replaced his father in the patronage post.
Andrea Ragan
Buying Michigan means better business
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