Ethics

Baltimore City ethics disclosures show disparity in reporting gifts

2012-05-21 05:07:00

While many governments are moving toward posting ethics disclosure forms, residents of Baltimore still have to travel to City Hall and to a sixth floor office to see the documents. To save you a trip, we're posting those forms from Mayor Stephanie...

Liberty's Lions roar into spotlight with five county titles

2012-05-19 21:40:47

Spring is often associated with a sense of rebirth and resurgence and in Carroll County, no sports program has seen that come to life like Liberty High School. Liberty's softball team, which won just one game in 2008, completed its resurgence with a...

Jones' homer in 15th gives Orioles 4-3 win over Royals

2012-05-16 23:40:00

Adam Jones stepped up the plate for his seventh at-bat Wednesday night with the voices of the hecklers around home plate ringing in his ears. With Kauffman Stadium emptied out from 15 innings of baseball, he could hear the Royals fans reminding him of his...

Evolution does not threaten morality

2012-05-16 10:30:00

Richard Weikart is correct that Dr. Ben Carson should not be opposed as a commencement speaker at Emory University, as Dr. Carson's accomplishments provide ample justification for this honor ("Evolution and morality," May 13). Mr. Weikart, however, is...

Setting boundaries in Frederick

2012-05-14 09:19:00

How far should a locally elected official have to go to avoid business dealings in his city or county? That question is being tested in Frederick County, where County Commissioner Kirby Delauter has chosen to ignore a county ethics commission's opinion...

Dyer hearings extended into June

2012-05-15 05:25:37

Administrative hearings on removing Allen Dyer from his seat on the Howard County Board of Education are now set to last to the end of June. At the Office of Administrative Hearings in Hunt Valley Monday, Administrative Law Judge Douglas Koteen set aside...

Police cancel TV show after station fails to turn in suspect

2012-05-11 15:34:42

For the past five years, news anchors at Baltimore's Fox affiliate have partnered with city police to hunt down fugitives. The segments, aired on the last Friday of every month, were more telethon than ride-along, with mug shots, a brief description of...

Robert B. Reich: Of bedrooms and boardrooms

2012-05-16 00:00:00

Some want the 2012 election to be about regulating America's bedrooms. But it really ought to be about regulating the nation's boardrooms. The bedroom regulators are on the move. Republicans don't want same-sex marriage. Mitt Romney says he's against it,...

Ben Carson and the evolution-morality debate

2012-05-13 05:00:00

Almost 500 Emory University faculty and students have expressed their dismay that their commencement speaker on Monday does not toe the ideological line when it comes to evolutionary biology. Yes — gasp — the renowned Johns Hopkins...

Council passes bill aimed at helping condo buyers

2012-05-07 19:12:00

The County Council Monday unanimously passed a bill that will prohibit a property owner from obtaining a county rental license if they are more than 30 days behind on their condominium association or homeowner association fees. "The key is that we want...

Balto. Co. councilman Huff took football tickets from developer

2012-05-08 15:29:00

Baltimore County Councilman Todd Huff says he accepted football tickets from a developer that were not reported on his annual financial disclosure form. The county's ethics law does not require elected officials to disclose whether they've accepted...

Baltimore County officials have ignored more than just ethics laws

2012-05-10 08:15:00

Now there are six councilmen known to have taken football game tickets from developers, along with Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz, who says the tickets he got were "for his wife" ("Councilman took football tickets from developer," May 9)....

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, flanked by Cynthia Canary and Sergio Acosta from The Ethics Reform Task Force, releases the first part of their recommendations for ethics reform.

2012-04-30 00:00:00

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel listens as members of his ethics reform task force released the first part of their recommendations.

2012-04-30 00:00:00

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, seen here last week, unveiled his ethics reform task force report today.

2012-04-26 00:00:00