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Best of #StateReads: Ex-Parks Official Had Criminal Past
This week’s extraordinary journalism about state government, tagged to #StateReads on Twitter. more
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Report: New Jersey First in Anti-Corruption Measures
TODAY'S TAKE: Long plagued by scandal, New Jersey's state government has the nation's most comprehensive and rigidly enforced anti-corruption laws, a 50-state investigation has found. In most states transparency and government accountability are said to be lacking. more
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Blagojevich's Sentence Could Set New Mark
TODAY'S TAKE: Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich this week will appear before a federal judge who will determine the length of his prison sentence. How Blagojevich acts could determine whether he will get the long sentence prosecutors have asked for.more -
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South Carolina Governor Faces Scrutiny Over Trips
TODAY'S TAKE: South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a Tea Party-backed conservative who has urged fiscal restraint, is fending off criticism over expensive trips she has recently taken, including a taxpayer-funded economic development journey to Paris and Munich.more -
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Judge Won't End Alabama Bingo Trial
TODAY'S TAKE: A federal judge on Thursday (July 28) declined to drop charges against state legislators and other members of Alabama's political establishment in a corruption trial that has gripped the state for weeks.more -
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Scandals, Social Issues Headline 2009 Governors Races
In the first statewide elections since the Great Recession was declared, economic issues are competing with ethics and social issues for voters' attention in New Jersey and Virginia - the only gubernatorial contests this year.more -
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Ill. Senate Removes Blagojevich
For the first time in two decades - and only the second time in 80 years - a state legislature kicked a governor out of office Thursday, as the Illinois Senate concluded impeachment proceedings against Rod Blagojevich (D) with a 59-0 vote to remove him.more -
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Blagojevich Is at Least 14th Impeached Gov
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) on Friday (Jan. 9) became at least the 14th governor to be impeached, after the Illinois House voted 114-1 to give the Senate the chance to remove him. more
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Spitzer Stays -- For Now
Embarrassing sexual scandals have tripped up at least seven sitting governors before New York's Eliot Spitzer (D), but only one resigned from office over the impropriety.more -
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Fletcher Struggles to Overcome Hiring Probe
Kentucky's embattled governor touts his opposition to gambling and his conservative stances, but he trails a once-obscure former lieutenant governor by double digits.more -
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Colorado Rethinks $50 Gift Ban
Colorado is having second thoughts after changing its constitution last fall to forbid state employees from accepting gifts worth more than $50. State workers fear their children will have to turn down scholarships, and professors are told they can't accept academic prize money.more -
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For Texas Speaker, Suite Gets Sweeter
As the first Republican speaker of the Texas House of Representatives since Reconstruction, Tom Craddick has reshaped Lone Star State politics. Now, Craddick wants to leave a lasting mark on the Texas Capitol itself, with a controversial $500,000 project to deck out his own apartment there.more -
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Rundown of Statehouse Ethics Scandals
Investigations into political corruption and ethics violations roiled statehouses in 2005 and could cloud 2006 elections in several states.more -
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Wisconsin State Senator Faces 18 Felony Charges
Just weeks ago Wisconsin State Senator and former Milwaukee assistant prosecutor Brian Burke (D-Milwaukee) was the front-runner for state attorney general. Instead of prosecuting criminals Burke now faces 18 felony counts of misconduct in office and evidence tampering for allegedly using state resources and state employees for partisan campaigning and trying to cover up his crimes. more
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Mushrooming Scandal Overhangs Illinois Politics
Illinois is not just the land of Lincoln. It is a land where political corruption has long flourished, where those who don't get a statue sometimes get a jail cell. Few of the state's darkest political deeds eclipse the mushrooming political scandal that has overtaken and disgraced one of Illinois' longest-serving and best-known politicians. more
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New Hampshire Sees First Impeachment Since 1790
What began as an investigation into whether a New Hampshire judge tried to influence the state Supreme Court over his divorce appeal now threatens to end the career of the chief justice in the state's first Senate impeachment trial. Chief Justice David Brock will face an unprecedented trial starting Sept. 18 on charges he called a lower-court judge about a powerful state senator's case, let a Supreme Court colleague have a say in the handling of his own divorce, let disqualified justices participate in cases and lied to a House committee investigating the court. more
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New Hampshire High Court In Crisis, Removal Proceedings Loom
New Hampshire hasn't impeached a judge since 1790, but in a case unprecedented in U.S. judicial history, all but one of the five members of the State Supreme Court may now face removal proceedings because of questionable ethics practices. This extraordinary turn of events was set in motion by one justice's alleged efforts to fix his own divorce case. more
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Despite Ongoing Scandal, Utah Olympics Preparations Well On Way
Olympic boosters spread across Salt Lake City's Capitol Hill this week to replant trees uprooted in the August 11 tornado and attempt to lay a new foundation of goodwill toward the Games. Despite months of scandal and an ongoing Justice Department investigation, Olympic organizers are still confident they can deliver the "best games ever." more
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Watchdog Group Raps State Legislators on Ethics
When New Mexico Senate President Manny Aragon, long a foe of private prisons, took a job last June with the Wackenhut Corrections Corp., the owner of two prisons being built in his state, even fellow Democrats were disgusted. In Georgia, critics jeered when House Democratic Leader Larry Walker co-sponsored a bill protecting beer and wine wholesalers from out-of-state competition because his law firm represented one of the law's chief beneficiaries. Neither lawmaker broke any law. According to a stinging new report from the Center for Public Integrity, a non-partisan political watchdog group, conflict of interest rules covering the nation's 7,400 state legislators are riddled with loopholes "big enough to drive a truck through." more