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9 & 10 News April 29, 2021 Three months after his sudden resignation, the state heard from former Michigan Department of Health and Human Services director Robert Gordon for the first time. The original severance agreement between the state of Michigan and Gordon included a non-disclosure agreement with neither side allowed to talk about the reasons behind the resignation. As more questions arose and fewer answers were came out, pressure built. Then the public found out about a $155,000 severance payment. After that, both sides decided to do away with the nondisclosure agreement. This lead to...

9 & 10 News April 20, 2021 Now people have questions. When Governor Whitmer made this trip out-of-state to visit her ailing father, there were no specific rules against doing so. Her office had put out strong recommendations against out-of-state travel. Michigan Republicans are saying they have no issue with her making a trip to visit her ailing father but have an issue with her doing something she said Michiganders shouldn’t. “That’s the issue here today,” said Representative Steve Johnson of Wayland, “Is the gross hypocrisy that comes from this administration.” “I think we nee...

Surging Virus Has Michigan’s Democratic Governor at Loggerheads With Biden Noah Weiland and Mitch Smith © Cydni Elledge for The New York Times Medical staff preparing doses of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine last month at a clinic in Detroit. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has pleaded with the Biden administration for more vaccine. WASHINGTON — The Biden administration and Michigan’s Democratic governor are locked in an increasingly tense standoff over the state’s worst-in-the-nation coronavirus outbreak, with a top federal health official on Monday urging the governor to lo...