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1. A Dream Machine

   ... the city administration. Or so I thought until I learned about Vernon, California. Vernon is “an exclusively industrial city,” ... the entire city of Los Angeles.” You don't have to worry about NIMBYites when you don't have any backyards. Vernon got a lot of ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

2. Government Employees and the Class Exception to Conflicts of Interest

   Body:  Yesterday, the California Supreme Court published its...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

3. Being Wrong II (Summer Reading)

   ... she arrives at late in her book, a conclusion about what should be done in an organization to prevent mistakes: [W]e can ... authority whose lecture I attended four years ago and wrote about in a blog post . There I focused on the value of apology. But Schulz ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

4. Post-Employment Role Models

   ... needed are role models. Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica wrote about two possible role models in his New York Times column on Thursday. One is ... only to those with the same feelings. Government ethics is about more than feelings. These two officials also had both very high ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

5. The Conflicts in Upcoming Venice (FL) Council Vote on Settlement of Suit Against Its Members

   ... Body:  Update below Recently, I wrote a bit about the odd Venice, FL ethics program, which puts the city manager completely ... the most divisive issue in town. After supposedly running up about a million dollars in legal fees, and having computer experts dig up ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

6. Is "Ethics" the Best Word for Conflicts of Interest?

   ... what appears in government ethics codes. When people think about ethics, they think about right and wrong, about moral obligations, about being honest and upright, ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

7. Louisville's Middling Ethics Reforms

   ... the council spent two years working on, or fighting about, the city's ethics reforms. The city started out with a decent although ... (I don't know the numbers, but the council was talking about substantially larger penalties than the ethics commission can place ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

8. Council Earmarks Create a Serious Conflict of Interest Situation

   ... regarding the New York City Council. I recently wrote about the transparency aspect of the Council’s hidden earmarks. But even if ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

9. Winter Reading: Rick Hasen's "Lobbying, Rent-Seeking, and the Constitution"

   ... a good complement to the Teachout essay I recently wrote about . Besides its valuable look at the idea that lobbying should be ... or petition rights. That is, no matter what one's views are about First Amendment lobbying rights, raising funds from others and quickly ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

10. Louisiana Legislators Sue Ethics Board - Including Dialogue with One of the Legislators

    ... no one should be put in the position, for example, of voting about one's father's livelihood. Why is it always assumed that the only problem ... ' voting to protect your father's interest ' not voting about them? Why is it always assumed that officials put their self-interest ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2007-03-29 08:24 - 5 comments

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