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Inside Michigan’s ‘secret’ elected bodies that doled out $32 million last year

Inside Michigan’s ‘secret’ elected bodies that doled out million last year

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The average voter has probably never heard of a conservation district.

Yet last year in Michigan, these little-known public bodies cumulatively spent more than $32 million.

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