Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Friday, February 08, 2019

With David White as mayor we'll have ethical standards from the get go -- not Jeff Gahan's pay-to-play cesspool on the down low.

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During the coming weeks, as the Jeff Gahan Money Machine Data Base Project gathers steam, there'll be much discussion in this space abou...
Thursday, October 04, 2018

Selective ethics violations: Dickety Dickety Dock, hypocrisy stills the clock.

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When you see an advertisement like this one in the News and Tribune , does it occur to you that when the mayor's face and name are si...
Thursday, August 30, 2018

ASCE on kickbacks: "Spiro Agnew: Ethics Case Study No. 3," or when is group-think not the right think?

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This pleasant suited engineer explains Spiro Agnew's insatiable taste for "5% Gravy," a practice that persists in New Gahan...
Wednesday, March 01, 2017

Who's afraid of Machiavelli? Watch this documentary and find out.

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Niccolò Machiavelli is only peripherally the subject of this informative documentary. Rather, it's largely about that famous book he ...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

That's LA, not NA: "City Hall candidates are saying no to real estate developer donations."

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Streetsblog referred to an article in the Washington Post , and I retweeted it. Just imagine living in a place where a local politi...
Saturday, October 29, 2016

Keith Henderson wants to be the hanging judge, though "former prosecutor" sounds better to us.

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Lest we forget ... Matt Oakley's assessment of the prosecutor's ethical breakdown doesn't stop with Keith Henderson. Gra...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

The Baylor for Mayor meme, October 17: Openness and transparency.

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From April 27, 2015: ON THE AVENUES MONDAY SPECIAL: Et tu, Greg Phipps? Or: Anger and the electoral variability of transparency.
Monday, March 09, 2015

The art of redistributive campaign finance: 1st class passengers in the Gravy Train kick the juice right back to Jeff Gahan.

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Cartoon credit is in the cartoon. You likely won't see either mainstream party or their candidates address it but a politician rece...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Compare and contrast: Coverage of last night's county council meeting.

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Two newspapers, reporters and stories, and very different central points. At the Courier-Journal , the bulk of Grace Schneider's article...
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Monday, August 06, 2012

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable on his cycle.

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As we contemplate the construction of a billion-dollar monorail leading from the vicinity of Bicentennial Park, up the escarpment to CM CeeS...
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Thursday, December 09, 2010

"Say NO to Bridge Tolls calls for 'Tolling' Authority to comply with Beshear's ethics order before December 16th vote approving tolls."

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(Submitted press release) 12/9/2010 Say NO to Bridge Tolls calls for “Tolling” Authority to comply with Beshear's ethics order before D...