In February, I wrote seven
blog posts applying some of the concepts and practices of
nonviolence to the field of government ethics. This is effectively
an eighth post. This time the inspiration is not a book, but the
latest issue of the journal New Routes, entitled "Peace
Without Borders: Regional Peacebuilding in...
Canadian mayors don't appear to be having a good time of it lately,
ethicswise. Montreal's
mayor resigned, Toronto's
mayor was dismissed by a judge, and now it looks like the
conflict situations of Winnipeg's mayor will be his downfall if
he runs for a fourth term, according to...
Annapolis is an unusual little city in many ways. It may only have 40,000
residents, but it's the state capital, the county seat, the home of
the U.S. Naval Academy, and equidistant, and not far, from Baltimore
and Washington, D.C. With respect to government ethics, the county
for which it is the county seat, Anne Arundel County, has a relatively good
ethics program, complete with an executive director, which is
very...
On November 29, Florida State University’s LeRoy Collins
Institute and the new good government group Integrity Florida
released a report
entitled "Florida Counties Bridge the Ethics Policy Gap",
whichanalyzes the results of a survey of government
ethics programs and reforms in 45 of Florida’s 67 counties.
Between the American Thanksgiving holiday and throwing out my back so that I
couldn't sit at my computer, I missed one of the most fascinating
stories of the year: a judicial
dismissal of Toronto's mayor for a conflict of interest violation.
The conflict situation was minor, but the way the mayor handled it
and the way Toronto's ethics...