Another argument to support good journalism--if belated journalism. A couple of days ago the Free Press reported that a board, funded with millions of tax dollars and tasked with 'truck safety education', was an arm of Michigan Trucking Association, the lobbyist for the trucking industry. itself. Talk about the fox guarding the henhouse! Today the funding is reported to have been halted.

"The board, which is normally a rubber stamp for state contracts and grants that are already in the pipeline, took the unusual action after the Free Press reported Monday that the Michigan Center for Truck Safety, a nonprofit agency housed inside the offices of the trucking association, had received about $8 million in such grants since 2012, funded by truck registration fees.

"The Free Press reported that the center uses some of the grant money to pay the trucking association tens of thousands of dollars in rent and other expenses, and that a monitoring report in 2013 found that the center had received reimbursement from the state for close to $300,000 in impermissible expenses over a two-year period."
https://freep-mi.newsmemory.com/?pub...a60695_1341082