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Ethics code controversial in Providence, RI
... ethics code was based on recommendations from a seven-member task force that he formed after he took office in the wake of the corruption ... Originally posted online at: http://www.projo.com/metro/content/projo_20060519_pethic19.21f67f36.html Story Topics: ...
donmc - 2008-04-16 19:22 - 0 comments
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Hiding Conflicts Until the Last Second
... The Education Department's 'top lawyer' came to the rescue. 'I can't stress to you enough how typical this is of people coming into city ... Robert Wechsler Director of Research-Retired, City Ethics Robert Wechsler's blog Story Topics: ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment
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The Chick-fil-A Controversy Is Really a Government Ethics Issue
... If you read the newspapers and blogs, the big issues in the Chicago Chick-fil-A controversy are free speech and government boycotts. But ... of ethics reforms, after the city's special ethics task force files its second report. Related blog posts: Council Fiefdoms ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment
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Chicago's Mayor Replaces Entire Ethics Board
... and his allies. This doesn't appear to be the case in Chicago, where today Mayor Emmanuel replaced ethics board members whose terms ... even ignored the member recommendations of the Ethics Reform Task Force chair). If the board makes a responsible decision to find the mayor ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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First Round of Chicago Ethics Reforms
... based on a response from Steve Berlin, executive director of Chicago's ethics board. I had made the silly assumption that the underlined ... in response to the first report of the city's special ethics task force (see my blog post on this report ). In that blog post, I noted ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Civil Grand Jury Report on the San Francisco Ethics Commission
... the agency that finds violations (the Sunshine Agency Task Force) to be dependent on another non-judicial, non-legislative agency to ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Local Government Sunshine Reform
... , in February, the Alameda city council created a sunshine task force of five people to go out into the public and create a list of issues the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Municipal Bid Rigging Nationwide and Ethics Day in Chicago
... going on, or were some of them in on it? Stay tuned. Ethics Day in Chicago According to an article in the Chicago Tribune , last ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Chicago: Legislative IG and Mayoral Travel
Body: Chicago's Legislative IG The battle continues in Chicago over government ethics authority and funding. According to the cover letter to the legislative inspector general's semi-annual report dated August 22, 2014 (attached; see below), the IG's office has ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Is the Camel's Back Truly Broken, or Just More Mayor-Council-Feds Politics in Chicago?
Body: Last week, according to an article in the Chicago Tribune , Chicago Mayor Richard Daley responded to the conviction ... the IG and/or the compliance director. The advantage of the second solution would be to more closely integrate what can otherwise be ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
