A
very lengthy article in yesterday's News Journal looks at the
history of relations between Delaware legislators and Christopher
Tigani, formerly the top executive with Delaware's top liquor
distributor. The article provides an instructive look at corporate and personal
influence.
The story is summed up in a former state senator's...
Mayor Rahm Emanuel continues to make small government ethics improvements
in Chicago. Yesterday, according
to a city press release, the council passed five ethics
reforms, all but one of them involving lobbyists. The principal
reform is the creation of a searchable online lobbyist registration
and reporting system. This will...
It's nice when something you write about in a blog shows up on the
front page of the New York Times the following day. Yesterday, in a
post called "Privatization
and Transparency," I discussed new types of privatization involving
nonprofits, which raise new sorts of problems. One type of nonprofit
operates government-funded facilities or
programs, such as schools. These nonprofits are...
Last August, I wrote a
blog post about the mayor of Tulsa accepting free legal services
from an attorney who represented Tulsa in certain matters, that is,
from a city contractor. The matter involved the council possibly filing
charges against the mayor for allegedly lying about a federal police
grant.
Due to poor language in the ethics code, and some poor interpretation, what is a fairly...
On December 6, according to an
article on the Chicago Talks website, Chicago mayoral candidate
Rahm Emanuel promised that he would make many ethics reforms to “change
the culture” of corruption and cronyism at City Hall.