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N4N is taking the day off, so expect limited blogging today . . . Last week, Brassband , writing at RI's Future, took note of a Politico list in which Rhode Island didn't place among the 35 most corrupt states. Yesterday, the NYT Week in Review...
Last week, Brassband made a post over at RI's Future, showing a Politico list of most-corrupt states from which Rhode Island was absent. Today, the NYT Week in Review digs a little deeper : Multimedia Graphic Number of Guilty Officials Graphic The...
Common Cause of RI has a successor to Christine Lopes : John Marion has been named the Executive Director of Common Cause RI. Common Cause RI is a non-partisan advocacy group which works for open, ethical and accountable government. Marion takes the helm...
Speaking of Blagojevich . . . Some RI officials have maintained our reputation for corruption is overstated and inflated by our small size. I looked at the issue, and the significance of prosecutors examining the private sector (something that hasn't...
Not for nothing, but Kent Willever had an interesting choice for a bit of office decoration when he took up the job as executive director of the Rhode Island Ethics Commission . As I wrote in 2002 : An illustration of Don Quixote seems like an appropriate...
Christine Lopes , who in 2006 succeeded Phil West as the executive director of Common Cause of Rhode Island , plans to leave her job in December to finish a master's degree in public administration at Suffolk University in Boston. Lopes says a search...
Seth Gitell has a tasty post up on his blog: Buddy Cianci analyzing the fall of Eliot Spitzer and diagnosing his future prospects. Of course, it's natural that Cianci's story makes political reporters (see here and here ) invoke F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gitell...
I can't put it any better than Dan Kennedy : This is why New York Post editors make the big bucks.
Bill Harsch, a two-time loser in his runs for AG against Patrick Lynch, has been appointed by Governor Carcieri to the state Ethics Commission. Deborah Cerullo, who matches Arlene Violet in having a religious (nun) and prosecutor background, has also...
While most everyone was focused yesterday afternoon on New Hampshire, the office of Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch released a statement about a proposal to counter public corruption. Although it seems a bit unusual for this kind of thing to drop shortly...
On Tuesday, Representative Ray Gallison (D-Bristol) settled with the state Ethics Commission over his failure -- for three years -- to disclose his employment with a legislatively financed nonprofit. This came not long after N4N reported that Spencer...
