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Pierce J. Flanigan III
Pierce John Flanigan III, president of his family's transportation infrastructure business who advised governors and mayors, died Wednesday of a brain hemorrhage in Chicago while on a business trip. The Harbor East resident was 66. Mr. Flanigan mixed a...Tags: Yale University, Frederick Douglass, Death and Dying, Classical Music, Government
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Dixon supports slots
Promising that revenue from slots machines would provide a "significant and permanent reduction" in city property taxes, Mayor Sheila Dixon and other local elected officials yesterday urged city residents to vote for a November ballot measure to expand...Tags: Local Authority, State Budgets, Referenda, Property Tax, Sheila Dixon
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Palin abused powers, Alaska ethics probe finds
From Sun news servicesGov. Sarah Palin abused the powers of her office by pressuring subordinates to get her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired, an investigation by the Alaska Legislature has concluded. A report on the bipartisan inquiry that was released yesterday...Tags: Sarah Palin, Ethics, Employees, Civil and Public Service, Government
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Daley sees fee hikes as budget fix
Chicago Tribune reporterThe price of parking downtown, taking a city ambulance and going to a ballgame or concert would increase under proposals the Daley administration floated Friday. Also on the table to fill a sizable budget hole: slapping the Denver boot on cars with two...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Property, Economic Policy, Chicago Transit Authority, Marketing
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U.S. Judge Aims For January Verdict In Campaign Finance Case
A federal judge said Friday that he expects to deliver a verdict in January on a constitutional challenge to sweeping campaign finance reforms adopted after scandal forced the resignation of Gov. John G. Rowland. U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill...Tags: Judges, Lobbying, Court Administration, National Government, Government
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Report: Palin abused power
Tribune NewspapersANCHORAGE — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP vice presidential nominee, violated ethics laws and abused her power as governor in pressing to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, an independent legislative investigation...Tags: Sarah Palin, Ethics, Gary Stevens, Employees, Government
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Leland Wong gets 5 years in 'pay to play' corruption scandal
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterA judge on Friday sentenced onetime Los Angeles city commissioner Leland Wong to five years in state prison, bringing an end to Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley's "pay to play" investigation of the administration of former Mayor James K. Hahn. Wong, the son of...Tags: Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Ethics, Troy Edwards, Government, Corruption
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Probe: Palin violated ethics laws and abused power
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Gov. Sarah Palin violated ethics laws and abused her power as governor in pressing to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, an independent legislative investigation found. In a report whose release was the subject...Tags: Sarah Palin, Ethics, Employees, Government, Executive Branch
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Bloomberg shrugs off opposition to term-limit extension
michael.frazier@newsday.comMayor Michael Bloomberg Friday shrugged off opposition to his initiative to have term limits extended in his favor. A variety of opponents to term-limit extensions have already begun filing complaints to the city's Conflict of Interest Board. Bloomberg...Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Ethics, Government, National Government, Values
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Landmark state pension reform bill signed into law
sandra.peddie@newsday.comA landmark pension reform bill that closes the loopholes allowing some public employees to collect six-figure salaries on top of six-figure pensions was signed into law Friday by Gov. David A. Paterson. Citing pension abuses that have been uncovered in a...Tags: Corporate Crime, Interior Policy, Wages and Pensions, Fraud, Pension and Welfare
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Obama fundraiser, convicted of fraud, spills beans
Associated Press WriterJailed political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be...Tags: Sarah Palin, Democratic National Conventions, The White House, Rod Blagojevich, National Government
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Report offers stinging finding on Palin role in Troopergate, possible fallout on Election Day
Associated Press WriterANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) _ The politically charged investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is over, and its conclusions are stinging. But the fallout, if any, might not come until Election Day. A legislative investigator found that Palin violated...Tags: Kim Elton, Sarah Palin, Ethics, Employees, Government
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