Petroleum Lobby Joins Newsweek To Host Climate Change Conference
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Lobbyist Allegedly Involved With Mike Duvall Speaks Out
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
The lobbyist at the center of former California Assemblyman Mike Duvall's alleged sexual exploits is speaking out for the first time, according to the...
Lobbyist De-Registrations On The Rise
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
Lobbyists this year terminated their registrations with the federal government in unusually high numbers, according to a study by the Center for Respo...
Intense Pharmaceutical Lobbying Prompts Inquiry
HuffingtonPost.com | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
A lobbying war between two pharmaceutical companies vying to market a generic blood-thinner has prompted an inquiry by Sen. Chuck Grassley and Senate ...
What Catholics Want in Healthcare Reform
Jon O'Brien | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
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American Catholics can picture themselves as patients, and want to be able to get birth control and condoms at their doctor. They also think they can speak for themselves.
The San Francisco Bay Bridge And an Ethics Revolution
Leslie Griffith | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media
Amazingly, the only thing I learned from the media coverage of the Bay Bridge accident was that Caltrans and reporters get along swimmingly. It's time journalists ask some real questions.
HuffPost's Congressional Ethics Clock: How Long Will Rangel, Ensign Probes Take?
Huffington Post | Marcus Baram | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
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In the wake of the scandal involving disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, congressional leaders vowed two years ago to get tough on ethics violations. Th...
Reconsidering Favoritism In College Admissions
The Atlantic | James Warren | Posted 10.18.2009 | Chicago
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Indeed, the whole business of admissions is touchy and what can pass for scandal in modern media has surrounded the University of Illinois in recent m...
What Should Charlie Do?
Jim Lichtman | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
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Would you side with those who favor Rangel stepping down (or being removed) from his committee assignments until the ethics investigation is completed? Or should he stay put until found guilty?
Hard Questions In Hard Times
Jim Selman | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living
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Eldering, as a way of thinking about mid-life leadership, is based on the notion 'wisdom in action.' Our vision is for the Boomer generation to take responsibility for our society and our world and "clean up the mess" before we die.
FTC to Social Media Marketers and Bloggers: Y'all Play Fair Now!
Andy Sernovitz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media
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"I'm a free-speaking blogger" doesn't give you a free pass from consumer protection laws. If you get compensation, you're a business now. You don't get a free pass just because it's social media.
Sunlight Foundation Takes Another Look At Lobbyist Bundlers
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
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The Sunlight Foundation released a video on Thursday highlighting its investigation of lobbyist bundlers with OpenSecrets.org. The investigation, whi...
Mike Coffman's Technical Violation
Eric Brody | Posted 09.25.2009 | Denver
Ambiguous wording in the decision of Colorado's Independent Ethics Commission will come in for close scrutiny following an official complaint Mike Coffman lodged with the state supreme court.
How Would You Decide? -- Keeping Me Honest
Jim Lichtman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living
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I do not want to create the false impression that compassion was the sole criteria parole commissioners faced during former Manson Family member Susan Atkins' 2009 hearing.
Ethical Explosion Over Scotland
Gloria Duffy | Posted 09.23.2009 | World
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The Scots made a moral tradeoff in the wrong direction by releasing the Lockerbie bomber. Here are just a few of the flaws in the thinking behind this decision.
The Ethics of Insight
Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
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Distraction is the redirection of attention from the social, economic, political, and climate emergencies that afflict us locally and globally.
Keep Ethics Commission Business in the Sunshine
Luis Toro | Posted 09.16.2009 | Denver
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Why is the Ethics Commission so concerned about having to operate in the public eye that it is considering going to the legislature to ask for a special exemption from the sunshine laws?
Dying To Work: Human Trafficking and the Construction Industry
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 09.15.2009 | Business
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What good is building a zero energy, carbon neutral complex if unethical labor practices are jeopardizing the lives of those who build this architectural wonder?
Tom Ricks And The Military's New Philosophical Embeds
Columbia Journalism Review | Tara McKelvey | Posted 09.13.2009 | Media
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Thomas E. Ricks has a photograph of a general--Ulysses S. Grant, looking haggard and defeated in Cold Harbor, Virginia--on the wall of his office. His...
Personal Responsibility: In Education? Yes! In Health Care? No!
Deane Waldman | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
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When President Obama gave his speech on health care, he spoke as though the phrase personal responsibility did not exist.
Homeland Security Nominee Failed To Report Lobbying Background
Jenna Staul | Posted 09.15.2009 | Business
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A nominee for a high-level position in the Department of Homeland Security has come under fire for her failure to disclose past work as a lobbyist. T...
How Do Great Companies Make Sure People Are Living the Values?
Jon Younger | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
How do you want to be known by your employees, your customers and investors, and the communities in which you operate?
How Would You Decide? -- Part II
Jim Lichtman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
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I asked readers to imagine sitting on the California parole board to decide whether to grant convicted murderer Susan Atkins "compassionate release" based on her terminally ill condition.
Isn't Adequate Healthcare a Moral Issue?
Byron Williams | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home
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Why don't we see the same fervor -- particularly emanating from the churches that seek to block gay marriage -- transferred, at least temporarily, to the 47 million Americans who must go without health care?
How Would You Decide?
Jim Lichtman | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
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Isn't it up to God to forgive the truly horrible, like members of the Manson Family? Should we forgive all mass-murderers? Must we go that far?
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