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April 28, 2007

Louisiana Ethics Reforms

This article is sourced from: http://www.laethics1.com/Package/ReformPackage.asp

A growing, statewide coalition of organizations has contributed to the development of this initiative and is supporting the following reform package in the 2007 session of the Legislature:

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April 22, 2007

Let's strip corruption of dignity - Prof Mensah-Bonsu

From: Ghana News Online

Professor Henrietta Mensah-Bonsu of the University of Ghana says corruption can only be eliminated if people face up to it and strip it of "the dignity conferred on it with fond names" for the society to see it for what it is.

She expressed regret that people approve of petty official corruption and have even coined fond names for such acts.

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April 18, 2007

Memphis: At the Top of the Bottom

Memphis has been the scene of some serious corruption in the last few years. And for years before that, as well, although they say that in the old days the corruption was institutionalized, so that there were rules about how you could and could not take advantage of your office. In round numbers, in the last six years, 66 officials, employees, and contractors have been found guilty of various sorts of government-related crimes. In a city of only 650,000 people, that puts Memphis in the per-capita lead. With scandals like this, can effective ethics laws be far behind?
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Ethics Codes & Reform April 15, 2007

Spelling It Out

Many areas of ethics have little overlap with municipal ethics. But one rather specialized area that I came across has some interesting applications: the ethics of casting love spells. According to an article in about.com, 'the standard position among Pagans is that you should never do spells to make a particular person love you.' With municipal politicians, this should apply also to spells to make everyone love you.
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April 12, 2007

Case Study of the Day

According to an article in today's Louisville Courier-Journal, there is a dispute in Jeffersonville, Kentucky that is worth taking a look at. The mayor has accused the city board of ethics' attorney of having a conflict of interest and is urging that he be fired.
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Ethics Commissions & Administration April 11, 2007

Politicians on Ethics Commissions

Having politicians on the Queensbury, NY Ethics Board has created a mess.
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Ethics Codes & Reform April 11, 2007

Who's in Charge? - An Introduction to Writing and Revising An Ethics Code

Who should be in charge of writing and revising municipal ethics codes? Generally, ethics codes are the work of a mayor or a council, or sometimes they both jockey for the position of being seen as more ethical (this is especially true when a council member is considering a run for mayor). Sometimes they're the work of the city attorney, who in any event often does the drafting for his or her boss, who may be the council, the mayor, or the city manager.
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April 10, 2007

Attacking the "Business as usual" in Indian Government Corruption...

An excellent idea for a grass-roots campaign to get some control of corrupt government employees in India.

Gandhi smiles on anti-bribe scheme

Ashling O'Connor, Mumbai The Times 10 April 2007 IN the secret language of corruption in India, an official expecting a bribe will ask for Mahatma Gandhi to "smile" at him. The revered leader of the independence movement is on all denominations of rupee notes. With rampant dishonesty ingrained in the bureaucratic culture, an anti-corru
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April 9, 2007

Budgetary Hijinks

Below is an op-ed piece I wrote this week for the North Haven Post about the unethical conduct involved in my town's budget process. Nothing was done illegally or in violation of the town's mediocre ethics code.
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Local Government Practice April 9, 2007

Circled Wagons: Loyalty and Municipal Ethics

I was inspired to take a different point of view of municipal ethics while reading Charles Taylor's review of Jonathan Lear's new book, Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation in the latest issue of the New York Review of Books. Please bear with me as I describe the book before I say why it is relevant to municipal ethics. The book looks at cultures that have been devastated by having their way of life destroyed.
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