Today on Stateside:
- Investigative reporter Lester Graham is ready to blow the whistle on this season's political ads.
- How about new businesses in Detroit? And we're not talking Cars or Shinola, but a vegan Coney Island.
- Morning in America to criminal three-strikes laws, we use analogies every day. But we hardly pay much attention to them.
- It's been sad trumpet sounds for University of Michigan football lately.
- Emergency managers are allowed to stay in power for 18 months under Michigan's emergency management law.
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