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LUPICA: Albany gang-leader Sheldon Silver finally...
THIS COMES from one of the great William Kennedy’s books, “O, Albany. ” Kennedy was writing about the old Sheridan Avenue Gang, but could just as easily have been writing about the Shelly Silver Gang...
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2013/05/19 13:27
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Assemblyman Lopez stepping down at end of session
State Assemblyman Vito Lopez announced Friday he intends to resign at the end of this year's legislative session on June 20th. The decision comes just days after a special prosecutor cleared the...
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Vito Lopez Sheldon Silver ALBANY New York City Council Joint Commission on Public Ethics
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2013/05/19 04:06
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Scoppe: Ethics reform: At a crossroads | Cindi Sc...
Columbia, SC — A YEAR AFTER political scandals launched a cluster of competing study panels and catapulted ethics reform to the top of the 2012 campaign agenda, the Legislature has reached a critical...
House Senate State Ethics Commission Senate Ethics Committee Judiciary Committee
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2013/05/19 03:07
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Garbage giants are major political donors in SC
The country’s two largest waste companies have given at least $108,000 in campaign contributions to S.C. legislators and candidates for governor during the past four years, according to financial...
Read more at The State, The State
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SC State House for sale: ‘We need to stop the rev...
COLUMBIA, SC — Two of the highest-ranking members of the S.C. Legislature during the past decade are easy to spot at the State House this spring, shaking hands and smiling from the lobby of the grand...
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2013/05/18 04:15
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The enablers’ enabler
For those who still wonder how Albany works, here’s a short scorecard. Not long after a State Ethics Commission released a report on the serial sexual harassment by Vito Lopez, it became clear he...
Vito Lopez Andrew Cuomo Shelly Silver
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2013/05/17 20:54
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Senate bill for drug test on elected officials, p...
Friday, May 17, 2013 - 2:32pm AUSTIN, TX (KVEO NEWS CENTER 23) — Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr. Senate Bill 612, which would require state elected officials to submit to drug testing, passed the Senate...
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2013/05/17 11:27
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Democrats criticize SC Gov Haley for state plane ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Democrats accused Gov. Nikki Haley on Thursday of misusing the state's planes by taking her campaign-paid videographer with her on flights around South Carolina, while her spokesman...
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Minnesota one of 26 states with failing grades on...
While much criticism has been lobbed at the federal system for failing to adequately identify who is spending money to influence campaigns, 35 states — including Minnesota — have independent spending...
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Disclosure better than ‘trust me’
Government is a trust. That is why it’s discouraging to see the results of a recent Pew Research Center poll, in which 73 percent of respondents said they trust the government in Washington, D.C.,...
Washington D.C. Pew Research Center Walkersville federal government Maryland General Assembly
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Mount Airy reluctantly agrees to revise ethics la...
Facing tougher state-mandated regulations, Mount Airy officials are reluctantly revising the town’s laws that govern conflicts of interest and financial disclosure. To comply with state ethics law,...
General Assembly Local government Dick Swanson Walkersville FREDERICK
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2013/05/16 00:26
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JCOPE releases report on Vito Lopez
While a special prosecutor found Assemblyman Vito Lopez committed no crime, a report from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics says he violated the public officers law through years of sexual...
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2013/05/15 20:23
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NY Assembly speaker defends harassment settlement
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says confidential settlements of sexual harassment complaints by young female staff against a legislative colleague were intended to...
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2013/05/15 13:01
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Ethics Commission: Black Creek super owes $3,400
A Black Creek Township supervisor violated state ethics law for accepting and approving compensation from the township above what he actually worked and not disclosing income on financial statements...
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2013/05/15 09:09
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Quaboag's mailings raise hackles
SOUTHBRIDGE — Two state lawmakers have asked the State Ethics Commission to look into Quaboag Regional School District�s �questionable recruitment of select students from one public school district to...
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Statehouse beat: Free lunches a growing trend
Eldridge was making a point about the hypocrisy of legislators declaring "there is no such thing as a free lunch," when in fact, they had enjoyed free lunches for the entirety of the session. As the...
House Senate Wellington Judiciary Committee House of Delegates
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2013/05/12 13:43
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We're getting closer to meaningful ethics reform
Slowly but surely, we're getting closer to substantive ethics law reform, and it's due in no small part to the people who are keeping tabs on what lawmakers are up to and crying foul when they don't...
Senate House Ethics Commission The Associated Press Judiciary Committee
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2013/05/12 10:30
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Shanahan says law firm doesn't handle issues at l...
Department of Public Safety Secretary Kieran Shanahan says his law firm hasn’t represented clients who have issues before the General Assembly since he took office in January. The Shanahan Law Group’s...
Kieran Shanahan George Foreman Pat McCrory General Assembly Department of Public Safety
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2013/05/12 08:39
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Fuse of pension bomb lit in 1992
Promising to save taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, Dunmore council approved a lucrative pension incentive for police officers under a 1993-94 collective bargaining agreement. The plan,...
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2013/05/12 04:06
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News Views
A proposal to fund an expansion of South Carolina’s full-day 4-year-old kindergarten is making headway in the state Senate and could be approved this year. This would be a positive step for South...
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