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Robert Wechsler
A couple of weeks ago, in a City and State column, veteran NYC reporter Wayne Barrett hit the nail on the head regarding the responsibility for failures to deal responsibly with conflicts of interest, specifically with respect to the conviction of former state assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat:
Summer Reading: Eula Biss's "On Immunity"
Eula Biss's excellent book On Immunity (Graywolf Press, 2014) is not about legislative immunity, but about immunity to diseases. And yet there is a great deal of food for thought in it about municipal ethics.
The first parallel can be seen in the "mun" in both "immunity" and "municipal." It comes from the same Latin word "munus," which means service or duty. Who knew that...
"City of Hope," A Great Local Government Ethics Film
I was fortunate today to see an American film focused almost entirely on local government ethics. Although it is an excellent film, it has not been included in City Ethics' (but not my) Top Ten Ethics Films list or in any of the comments suggesting additions. The film is City of Hope (1991), written and directed by the great John Sayles,...
Spring Reading: Corruption in America I
This is the first of four blog posts in which I will look at Zephyr Teachout's excellent new book, Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United (Harvard Univ. Press), from a government ethics viewpoint. ...
MO Municipal Ticket Fixing Systems
More from St. Louis County municipalities. According to an article in Sunday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch, several of these municipalities — with the connivance of municipal court judges, local prosecutors, police officers, and lawyers — use the state's point system for traffic tickets to get more money for...
The Administrative-Criminal Enforcement Fiefdom in Ferguson, MO
The word "fiefdom" does not appear in the U.S. Justice Department's March 4 report on Ferguson, MO's police department, but that is what the report describes. What is unusual about the fiefdom is that it is controlled by the council, not by an executive or attorney. It is far from a classic fiefdom, which is why Ferguson has once again...
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The Conflicts of Local Government Employees Running for or Holding Elective Office
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The Conflicts of Teachers on School Boards
The Ethics of Teacher Tenure
Barriers to Civic Engagement -- a TED Talk from Dave Meslin
Larry Lessig's 7 minute plenary speech at the #UNRIG conference in New Orleans
Charleston Post Courier Article
A new way to influence elections without transparency
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City Ethics' Director of Research Announces Retirement
Appearance Is All We Have
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Efforts to Influence Through the News Media as Lobbying
Gifts of Sexual Relations