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More Articles from Ethics Information: MORE RESOURCES: Site: Yahoo! News Search Results for ethics Ethics Thicket for Convention Parties Crimps Events (New York Times) Corporations and party planners are scrambling to comply with sweeping new ethics rules that ban free meals and concerts. NYT: Ethics worries dampen convention fun (MSNBC) Republican and Democratic convention party planners are scrambling to comply with new sweeping ethics rules that prohibit lobbyists from paying for gifts for members of Congress and their staffs. Corporations and convention party planners are scrambling to comply with sweeping ethics rules in the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 that prohibit lobbyists from paying for gifts, ... Ethics complaint dismissed against Pahrump board member (Las Vegas Sun) CARSON CITY ? Pahrump Town Board member Laurayne Murray has been cleared of any ethics violations related to a private meeting at which her firefighter husband was present to discuss a personnel matter. Ethics Commisson panel to look at Gibbons tax break (Las Vegas Review-Journal) Ethics Commisson members Tim Cashman of Las Vegas and Erik Beyer of Reno were named today as the two-member panel who will determine if Gov. Jim Gibbons used his position to pressure an Elko County official to give him a tax break. Council aide fined in ethics case (Boston Globe) The Boston City Council's assistant research director has been fined $1,000 for trying to use his ties to the council to get a valet parking company to pay for a long scratch on his car, the State Ethics Commission said yesterday. 56 nominations made to replenish La. Ethics Board (WWL-TV, Channel 4 New Orleans) NEW ORLEANS -- Fifty-six people were nominated Tuesday to replace nine state Ethics Board members who resigned in June. A panel of independent college presidents met at LoyolaUniversity in New Orleans Tuesday to formally nominate the candidates for the nine empty slots on the 11-member board. Gibbons ethics complaint rests with two-person panel (Las Vegas Sun) CARSON CITY ? A Las Vegas Democrat and a Reno Republican will decide whether the state Ethics Commission hears the complaint that Gov. Jim Gibbons misused his political power to get a $5,000 tax break on land in Elko County. Ethics panel to probe alleged Carcieri nepotism (The Woonsocket Call) PROVIDENCE ? The controversy over Governor Carcieri?s niece-in-law is going to be investigated by the Rhode Island Ethics Commission. Clement questions ethics behind safe injection sites (CTV Winnipeg) The association representing Canada's doctors rapped Health Minister Tony Clement on Monday after he questioned the ethics of physicians who support the use of supervised injection sites for drug addicts. Okla. Ethics Commission employees get raises (KVII 7 Amarillo) Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at 12:01 p.m. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- State Ethics Commission employees are receiving 30 percent pay raises. Site: ethics - Google News Ethics Commission debates complaint against RI gov - Boston Globe
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