The Center Square - Michigan
The Center Square bills itself as covering statehouse and statewide news in different states throughout the country with a "taxpayer sensibility" and focus on "state- and local-level government and economic reporting." The Center Square was one of five media companies reported on as part of a look at Michigan-based news outlets with purportedly partisan roots. It was founded in 2019 as a project of the Franklin News Foundation; President Chris Krug has said publication is "nonpartisan".
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(The Center Square) – Gov. Tom Wolf said his resistance to signing a bill that requires access to public records during emergencies isn’t a rebuke of government transparency – it’s about protecting residents’ personal information, critical infrastructure and corporate trade secrets.
Lyndsay Kensinger, Wolf’s spokesperson, said the governor will veto House Bill 2463 later this week over concerns that it would compel public agencies to disclose sensitive information – ranging from private citizens’ health records to confidential emergency plans to terrorist attack prevention and response, among other protected information – currently exempt from the state’s Right to Know Law (RTKL).