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From: <a href="http://www.myjoyonline.com/archives/news/200704/3738.asp"><b>Ghana News Online</b></a>

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.

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 <a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070412/NEWS… article in today's Louisville <i>Courier-Journal</i></a>, 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. The conflict involves support for the another mayoral candidate (in the primary).

<b>'It doesn't serve the people to have an ethics commission responsible to the body of government it reviews. It's counterintuitive.'</b>

'Anonymous comment to <a href="http://eyeonmiami.blogspot.com/2007/03/hallelujah-ethics-commission-wan… Eye on Miami blog entry</a> about the desire of the Miami-Dade County Ethics Commission to strengthen its powers and responsibilities

Having politicians on the Queensbury, NY Ethics Board has created a mess.

Who should be in charge of writing and revising municipal ethics codes?

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

<h2>Gandhi smiles on anti-bribe scheme</h2>
<b>Ashling O'Connor, Mumbai
<a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21529310-2703,00.htm… Times</i></a>
10 April 2007</b>

<i>Below is an op-ed piece I wrote this week for the North Haven </i>Post<i> 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.