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10 Apr 2023, 6:33 pm by Jim Sedor
Reform Measures Won’t Stop It” by Stewart Yerton for Honolulu Civil Beat New Jersey: “Advocates See Few Upsides to Recent Pay-to-Play Overhaul” by Nikita Biryukov for New Jersey Monitor Pennsylvania: “The Philadelphia Board of Ethics Is Accusing Mayoral Candidate Jeff Brown of Illegally Coordinating with a Super PAC” by Chris Brennan, Sean Collins Walsh, Anna Orsco (Philadelphia Inquirer) for MSN Elections… [read post]
24 Mar 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal As Chatbots Spread, Conservatives Dream About a Right-Wing Response DNyuz – Stuart Thompson, Tiffany Hsu, and Steven Lee Myers (New York Times) | Published: 3/20/2023 Artificial intelligence has become another front in the political and cultural wars in the U.S. and other countries. [read post]
17 Mar 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Hawaii – Hawaii’s New Deputy Economy Chief Has a Powerful Business Partner in The Senate Honolulu Civil Beat – Blaze Lovell | Published: 3/15/2023 The busin [read post]
24 Feb 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Arizona – Arizona’s Top Prosecutor Concealed Records Debunking Election Fraud Claims MSN – Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Isaac Stanley-Becker (Washington Post) | Published: 2/22/2023 An investigation found virtually all claims of error and malfeasance in Maricopa County, Arizona, in the 2020 election were unfounded, according to documents. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
California – Calls Intensify for Anaheim’s City Leaders to Keep Promises to Root Out Corruption Voice of OC – Spencer Custodio and Hosam Elattar | Published: 2/9/2023 Resident watchdogs, activists, community leaders, and the Orange County Democratic Party are all pushing back on Anaheim City Council members, calling on them to stay the course on a contracted corruption investigation into City Hall instead of paring down efforts stemming from a scandal that… [read post]
Honolulu’s city and county government run a public paratransit known as The Handi-Van service for people with disabilities who cannot use the fixed route bus service. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 1:36 am by Jim Sedor
A Corruption Case Spins Out of Control with a Judge’s Last-Minute Change of Heart Los Angeles Times – Richard Winton | Published: 1/13/2023 For more than a decade, tax consultant Ramin Salari fought charges that he had bribed former Los Angeles County Assessor John Noguez in a “pay-for-play” conspiracy. [read post]
11 Jan 2023, 6:58 am by Jim Sedor
Campaign Finance Hawaii: “Proposal Would Increase Public Funding for Hawaii Campaigns” by Dan Nakaso (Honolulu Star-Advertiser) for Yahoo News Oklahoma: “After Dark Money Flooded Elections, Oklahoma GOP Chair Wants Changes to Help Political Parties” by Carmen Forman for Tulsa World Washington: “Seattle Ethics Committee Restricts Collection of Democracy Vouchers” by Guy Oron for Real Change Elections New York: “Rensselaer County’s… [read post]
23 Dec 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal An ‘Imperial Supreme Court’ Asserts Its Power, Alarming Scholars Yahoo News – Adam Liptak (New York Times) | Published: 12/19/2022 The conventional critique of the U.S. [read post]
19 Dec 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
County Official” by Michael Finnegan (Los Angeles Times) for MSN Hawaii: “Honolulu Teacher Violated Ethics by Accepting $16,600 From School Volunteer” by Viola Gaskell for Honolulu Civil Beat Oregon: “Oregon Agencies Scrutinize Controversial Fiber-Optic Deal in Morrow County” by Mike Rogoway (Portland Oregonian) for MSN Washington DC: “Rudy Giuliani Likely Committed Misconduct Over 2020 Election, DC Bar Panel Finds” by Zoe… [read post]
15 Dec 2022, 8:04 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Advocates Seek Federal Investigation of Multistate Effort to Copy Voting Software MSN – Emma Brown, Aaron Davis, and Jon Swaine (Washington Post) | Published: 12/12/2022 An effort by supporters of former President Trump to copy sensitive voting software in multiple states after the 2020 election deserves attention from the federal government, including a criminal investigation and assessment of the risk posed to election security, according to election-security… [read post]
15 Dec 2022, 5:04 am by Ezra Rosser
Using interviews with 75 randomly sampled households living in public housing in Honolulu County, we link contemporary research on gatekeeping with decades of work on how housing policy drives residential outcomes for marginalized groups. [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Democrats Ramp Up Investigation of Kushner Family Business Dealings MSN – Michael Kranish (Washington Post) | Published: 12/7/2022 Democrats on a pair of congressional committees launched a new effort to obtain information about whether Jared Kushner’s actions on U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf region as a senior White House adviser were influenced by the bailout of a property owned by his family business. [read post]
18 Nov 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Conservative Group Pressing States to Adopt Laws Protecting Companies from ‘Political Boycotts’: Report Yahoo News – Jared Gans (The Hill) | Published: 11/11/2022 A conservative group is planning to push state lawmakers across the country to adopt legislation to shield American companies from “political boycotts. [read post]
14 Nov 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
” by Richard Winton and Meg James (Los Angeles Times) for MSN Hawaii: “County Ethics Watchdogs Need More Money to Do the Job Right, State Panel Says” by Blaze Lovell for Honolulu Civil Beat Maryland: “Carroll County Commissioners Approve Updated Ethics Rules on Financial Disclosures and Gifts” by Sherry Greenfield (Baltimore Sun) for MSN Lobbying National: “U.S. [read post]
11 Nov 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Democrats Buck Midterm History to Win Control of 4 States Yahoo News – David Lieb (Associated Press) | Published: 11/9/2022 Defying historic midterm trends, Democrats wrested control of state legislative chambers away from Republicans in Michigan and Minnesota while also gaining full control of state Capitols in Maryland and Massachusetts. [read post]
7 Nov 2022, 7:44 pm by Howard Bashman
“Hawaii Struggles To Revise Gun Laws After Supreme Court Decision; Honolulu is the only county in the state that hasn’t yet finalized new concealed-carry gun rules, leading to a backlog in permit applications”: James Gonser of Honolulu Civil Beat has this report. [read post]