
Foundation for Ethics in Public Service, Inc. hosting reception in Raleigh on Thursday, Nov. 17 Chair of NCSU Dept...

R Frank Timberlake
This is commendable, but the first reform needs to be of the State Ethics Commission. Last November when the commission took public comment for several months and held a public hearing in Raleigh. While there was a public openness lobbyist...Jane something...who was obviously there to kiss up to the board...there was... only one...that's right...one citizen in the state who gave the do-nothing-but-paperwork commission a loud earful! Me. The Ethics Commission did not put Meg Scott Phipps away, the legislator from the mountains or former legislator Thomas Wright. They didn't reprimand Jim Black. And they probably worship a small statue of Mike Easley. Instead they bury good honest NON-PAID citizens who serve on boards with useless paperwork and countless forms. Want to start abolishing worthless inept if not corrupt bodies...I've got a really good hint for you!Read More

http://www.franklincenterhq.org/2009/11/05/censorship-in-chicago-prosecutors-demand-students-grades-for-investigation-into-wrongful-conviction/ Not only is this an example of censorship, but we believe it is a case of intimidation by the powers that be towards these students that conducted strong...

Pedro Camp I We will be sure to read your blog regularly!

Keith Caughran lets hope the transparency and accountability extends not only all levels of American government, but to all those 'free market' ideologues and corrupt corrporations who have become dependent for their survival on the US and NC taxpayers!

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7096056 “More people go to prison every year because of a violation of honest services law than bribery and extortion combined,” former FBI agent Frank Perry explained.

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From WRAL’s live blog: http://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/blogpost/6314090/ 11:05 a.m. – Leake moves to find that the Easley campaign solicited $9,000 from donors for the Democratic Party that would be earmarked for the campaign. That would mean the party would have to forfeit the money. No...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33546194/ns/politics-washington_post/ The Foundation asks, what kind of “ethics” is this? This is just another example of government trying to police itself. Were it not for the media, no one would know. Ho...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/29/MNV11ACMVR.DTL&tsp=1 California Penal Code Section 632 prohibits the recording of private telephone conversations without consent, and the state is one of 12 states that require notification of all parties prior to taping...












