It's worth a look at Philadelphia columnist Dave Davies' last column after twenty-five years on the job. It's something rarely seen in the local government ethics world: a hymn of praise to a local ethics commission, which he calls "a watchdog that isn't afraid to bite."

He ends his column on Philadelphia's Board of Ethics: "I say God bless the new ethics posse in town. If they keep this up, we may finally shed our 'corrupt and contented' tag."