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WestSouthwest June 8, 2015

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On WestSouthwest, Michigan's role in welcoming refugees and a look back at a plan to change downtown Kalamazoo. 

  

A year after protests over bringing undocumented children fleeing Central America to Michigan, Michigan Immigrant Rights Center Supervising Attorney Susan Reed discusses Michigan's role in welcoming those fleeing troubled countries. She also tells WMUK's Gordon Evans what the state could do better.

Kalamazoo historian Tom Dietz says downtown Kalamazoo could have looked very different if the Gruen plan had been fully implemented. He tells WMUK's Sehvilla Mann what happened. 

Gordon Evans became WMUK's Content Director in 2019 after more than 20 years as an anchor, host and reporter. A 1990 graduate of Michigan State, he began work at WMUK in 1996.
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