Newspaper wins again in dispute over school records May 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Traverse City school district must release a document that carried complaints about a superintendent who lasted less than three months and was paid $180,000, the Michigan Court of Appeals said. The court, 3-0, affirmed a decision by a local judge in a dispute between the district and the Traverse City Record-Eagle. The district declined to release a document to the newspaper in 2019, saying it was exempt from a public records request because it was attached to minutes from a closed session of the school board. That position “makes no sense,” appeals court Judge Christopher Murray said during arguments last week, the Record-Eagle reported.