Matt Hall

Some Lansing lawmakers feel no urgency to make government more transparent.

Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall got Detroit Lions tickets on Nov. 2 through a Lansing lobbying firm — four days before vowing to kill bills to expand the state's open records law to legislators, Craig Mauger of the Detroit News reports.

Mauger writes:

Hall, R-Richland Township, and the lobbying firm that provided the tickets, Public Affairs Associates, declined to let The Detroit News review a check that Hall handed over to the firm or to provide details about how much he paid. Those pieces of information might be accessible if the Legislature expanded the Freedom of Information Act, known as FOIA, to cover lawmakers because the policy would allow the public to review text messages and emails exchan

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