ethics
- The hiring of Cain, which was reported Friday, feels like an act of desperation, a move made in reaction to sinking ratings rather than one done as part of a larger vision.
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With the Friday application deadline looming for candidates to replace John R. Leopold as Anne Arundel County executive, it remains unclear who will seek the position and how that may affect whether Democrats on the Republican-dominated County Council will have deciding votes in selecting his successor. - After postponing the vote from its Jan. 29 meeting, the Aberdeen City Council voted unanimously Monday to approve legislation updating the town's Ethics Ordinance.
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- The House of Delegates' reprimand of Del. Tony McConkey reaffirms the principle that lawmakers should serve the public interest, not their own.
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- Four local ladies who are members of the Baltimore Ravens Cheerleading team sat down for interviews in the days leading up to Sunday's big game, and here's what they had to say
- Aberdeen city manager Doug Miller said he wanted to give the city's elected officials more room to be involved in community activities than what state-mandated ethics regulations allow.
- Even if Mr. Leopold's behavior isn't illegal, it is unbecoming of the Anne Arundel County executive.
- On speed cameras, city ethics board accomplishes nothing — which is why it should be abolished
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- Before befriending Billy Cundiff, former Navy fullback Eric Kettani painted a scene from last year's AFC title game and gave it to Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
- Aberdeen will soon be just the second jurisdiction on the East Coast to install special pipe-bursting equipment to line its sanitary sewers, Public Works Director Matt Lapinsky said Monday.
- Kennedy's book, cited more often than read, offers lessons to today's leaders, if they are willing to listen.
- We wonder what is happening to our society. We face violence in our schools and road rage on our highways. Our telephones become a means of disturbing our dinner hours with computerized calls. Doors are slammed, friendly greetings are ignored and insulting gestures are made
- Might a private equity firm's decision to divest from gun manufacturing signal a new concern for ethics? Bah, humbug!
- Cal Thomas says the West could learn from a thriving Asian nation's work ethic
- The Baltimore's ethics board's call for more transparency in the mayor's use of free tickets to the city's arena and sports stadiums is welcome, but Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's proposed policy includes a glaring loophole.
- The Aberdeen Ethics Commission is discussing a possible legal settlement with Mayor Mike Bennett over his appeal of the remaining ethics violation the board charged him with in 2011.
- Baltimore ethics board 1st Mariner Arena free tickets Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
- Elected officials in Maryland must wait up to one year as a "cooling off" period after leaving office before they can lobby their colleagues. Not so for paid staff who can jump from public sector jobs to the world of influence peddling with nary a weekend break — an inconsistency that some in the state believe should be remedied.
- Walter M. Stefanowicz, a retired homebuilder who developed sections of Timonium, Catonsville and White Marsh, died of cardiac arrest while recuperating from knee surgery Nov. 17 at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla. The former Cockeysville and Federal Hill resident was 74.
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- Harford reactions mixed to Black Friday early openings
- The list of things conservatives should not be proud about is long
- Board of Legislative Reference and Baltimore City Ethics Board are not the same
- Board of Legislative Reference has not met in years
- What makes a great workplace? A bit of Old Fezziwig. That's a reference to one of the characters from Dickens' novella, A Christmas Carol — the corpulent, jolly man who ran the London business where Ebenezer Scrooge apprenticed. Fezziwig threw the original office party, and he invited everyone to celebrate the holiday.
- Mitt Romney's comments about President Barack Obama's 'gifts' to minority voters encompass what's wrong with the party.
- Dr. Moreland Perkins, a philosophy professor who had taught at the University of Maryland, College Park and was also former mayor of Riverdale Park, died Nov. 7 of pneumonia at St. Joseph Medical Center.
- Proposed new ethics rules would end the practice of keeping secret unethical conduct by Annapolis city officials.
- Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Wednesday the City Council should take the lead on evaluating the performance of the city's ethics director — not an oversight board on which she sits that hasn't met in years.
- The financial disclosure forms filled out by about 1,900 city employees will be entered into an online searchable database, the city's new Chief Information Officer told the city's ethics board Tuesday.
- Avery Aisenstark, the chief adviser to Baltimore's Board of Ethics, insists he did nothing wrong in performing outside legal work on behalf of two developers. But the board needs to hold a formal inquiry on the matter.
- Failure of Baltimore's ethics board to meet should be cause for removal
- Baltimore's ethics adviser and supervisory board are both missing in action
- A seven-member oversight panel, called the Board of Legislative Reference, is in charge of hiring and firing the city's ethics director, according to the city charter. But the board it has not met in years — likely not since 1993, according to interviews with current and former city officials.
- Dr. Bertram Wyatt-Brown, an acclaimed and influential professor of American history who wrote widely on Southern history and culture and whose book on honor in the antebellum South was a 1983 Pulitzer Prize finalist, died Monday of pulmonary fibrosis at Roland Park Place. He was 80.
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- Colonial Players' second offering of its 64th season is Sharr White's 2009 award-winning play "Sunlight." This enduring all-volunteer company's bold choice of a topical drama examining recent controversial issues is laudable, although its timing, when many people are experiencing presidential election overload, seems awkward.
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- The Bel Air Board of Town Commissioners passed an amended ethics ordinance that removes members of legislatively appointed committees from the law's requirements and also exempts certain officials from filing financial disclosures. The commissioners also reminded residents that piling up leaves in street gutters can lead to flooding and hazardous driving conditions, as was seen with last week's Storm Sandy and could be seen if a nor'easter blows through the area later this week as forecast.
