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LANSING — The Michigan Legislature, where majority Republicans have blasted Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over severance payments to top officials, on Tuesday disclosed more than $600,000 worth of separation agreements or legal settlements over the past decade.The bulk of the payouts, …
The disclosure from the Michigan legislature follows intense criticism of the governor for two high-end payments to former public employees who left the job.
Republican state lawmakers had blasted Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for her own severance deals with state agency directors.
Open records reform has the votes. It has momentum following an outcry over Gov. Whitmer’s secret payments to top aides. But the Senate majority leader has blocked similar legislation before.
LANSING — Michigan Rep. Bradley Slagh believes state agencies could take additional steps to improve transparency, following the awarding of a contract for health services in the state's correction system. Crain's Detroit Business Journal reported the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget (DTMB) awarded a $590 million contract to Grand Prairie Health Services for health care services for prisoners in the Michigan Department of Corrections system. Grand Prairie, which is based in Texas, will replace Tennessee-based Corizon Health, who previously held the contract. But ...