ethics
- They have bickered over their backgrounds, their political allegiances and who is the bigger ¿insider.¿ Now, the two candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for Maryland¿s most competitive congressional contest this year are battling over who is the most -- and least -- transparent.
- Havre de Grace City Council approves of resolution that will require select city employees to fill out a gift disclosure form
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The Maryland Senate voted unanimously Friday to censure Sen. Ulysses Currie for numerous violations of ethics laws stemming from his failure to tell anyone that he was being paid by a grocery chain when he sought help for the company from state agencies. - Senator Currie disgraced the Senate, and in handling his case, the Senate disgraced itself.
- When Maryland's elected officials are found guilty of serious charges, they should lose everything
- Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young's ethical lapses raise major red flags; why don't city residents and their elected officials seem to care?
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- A Sun investigation into city elected officials' acceptance of tickets to sporting and cultural events suggests three ways in which Baltimore's ethics laws could be improved.
- Recent Maryland political scandals have inspired a flurry of legislation in the General Assembly this year seeking to clamp down on corrupt public officials.
- Council President says he paid back developers in cash for tickets to sporting events
- A special committee on ethics reform set up by Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller will propose legislation that would put the financial disclosure forms of legislators and top state officials online next year.
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- Prince George's County Sen. Ulysses S. Currie attended a closed-door meeting of the legislature's ethics committee Monday, making his first appearance before a panel expected to recommend whether he should be punished for failing to report income on financial disclosure forms.
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- Those who believe same-sex marriage in opposition to "Christian morals" misunderstand their faith
- Ethics panel meets in closed session; no word on Currie
- Religious groups that oppose birth control don't have a monopoly on morality
- Several medical systems in Maryland keep lists of vetted lawyers who will accept patient cases for lower fees, often with the expectation that the claims will be resolved quickly through a settlement.
- In the last few months, life has gotten a lot busier for Anne Arundel County Councilman Derek Fink.
- Ethics opinion says their cases as attorneys violate rules
- Augustus F. "Gus" Brown, principal in the law firm of Brown, Brown & Young, P.A., in Bel Air, was a featured professor recently in a combined University of Maryland Carey School of Law and University of Baltimore School of Law third-year law student Litigation Skills Program.
- Now in his eighth season as majority owner of the Ravens, Steve Bisciotti presides over one of the NFL's model organizations. But is he running out of time to win a championship with the current version of the team?
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- Ethical questions raised after mayor kicked Young out of city's skybox over Grand Prix dispute
- Coachspeak: Lake Clifton boys basketball's Herman "Tree" Harried
- Frustration with Baltimore County Council's pension-loving incumbents of the past is understandable but proposed term limits offer little benefit for future
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- Meet the Recruit: Terps tight end commitment P.J. Gallo
- GOP primary contender Rick Santorum's expedient moral relativism should play well in South Carolina
- A General Assembly committee charged with reviewing the behavior of Sen. Ulysses Currie met briefly Thursday morning behind closed doors in what was described as an organizational session.
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- Maryland General Assembly: Our view: Policing legislative conduct is a low-key issue but one of the Assembly's most important items of business
- Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller has named a special committee to review that state's ethics laws that apply to legislators and other state and local officials and make recommendations for reforms that could be voted on as early as this year.
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- Maryland legislators will have to decide what to do about Sen. Ulysses S. Currie's admitted ethical lapses that helped land him in federal court on bribery and extortion charges last year.
- Ex-judge Murphy to represent Currie in ethics proceedings
- The Baltimore County Council should be forced to explain why it removed some of the restrictions on conflicts of interest and acceptance of gifts that County Executive Kevin Kamenetz proposed.
- In a Q&A with The Baltimore Sun's Peter Schmuck, Maryland football coach Randy Edsall talks about his difficult first season and how the Terps will turn things around.
- New National Institutes of Health guidelines narrow the use of chimpanzees in medical research to the rare cases in which it is necessary to protect the public health
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- Baltimore County Council members on Monday unanimously passed wide-ranging ethics reform legislation, but not before scaling back parts of the measure.
- Baltimore County Council members plan to introduce a set of amendments tonight that would weaken parts of County Executive Kevin Kamenetz¿s ethics reform proposal.
- Institute of Medicine panel says few experiments on chimpanzees are scientifically necessary
