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City Ethics Blogs
... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia See the City Ethics Blogs here: Carla Miller Robert Wechsler Don ...
donmc - 2018-02-25 09:17
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Funding Ethics Commissions
... to section 207 of the model code, cutting the funding of ethics commissions is a popular way for politicians to prevent investigations ... of funding of an ethics commission that oversees local government officials. Click here to read the rest of this blog entry. ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Contracting: A Growing Ethics Problem in the Age of Privatization
Body: Contracting is one of the municipal ethics issues that is most often overlooked as an ethics issue. One reason is ... can occur. Contracting is especially serious today, when government has turned so many of its functions over to businesses and nonprofit ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Procurement Ethics Discussions in Jacksonville
Body: Jacksonville's ethics commission continues to explore interesting and valuable ideas, ... Procurement is one of the most important aspects of local government ethics, because it is the area where the greatest temptations ... important to use all positive means of improving a local government's ethics environment, because the negatives are usually what people ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Logical Fallacies I: The Ad Hominem Attack
... the most frequent form of unethical conduct in municipal government. They involve the conscious or unconscious attempt to falsely ... The use of logical fallacies violates the most basic rule of ethics: respecting the dignity of others, treating them as ends rather than as ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 2 comments
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Political Deal-Making, Election Time Complaints, and Overinclusive Language in Milton, GA
Body: Is political deal-making a government ethics violation? This is a tough area. Government ethics is about the conflict of personal and public interests. ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Starving Ethics Commissions of Resources - The Situation in Oklahoma
... Money is not only the root of much of the evil in government ethics, it is also the lifeblood of government ethics. Without money, ethics ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Ethics Commissions Need to Look at the Reasons Behind Gift Rules
Body: The Washington state Legislative Ethics Board has been discussing how many meals a state legislator should be ... fit on a pin, where do you stop? This is why many in the government ethics world (including me) believe that officials should not be ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
... Bennett L. Gershman, an expert on prosecutorial ethics, told the Times that, even though the D.A. withdrew from the matter ... processes, see the relevant section of my book Local Government Ethics Programs. There is another consideration here, which ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Misuse of a Local Office on a Regional Board
... One conflict that is difficult to deal with in an ethics code, but which comes up again and again, is the conflict situation that arises when a local government official sits on a regional board or holds another office that has a ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
