Folio Weekly – rock and a harden place

Date posted: 2008-11-04 From: http://www.folioweekly.com/folioblog/?p=723 At a special meeting held Friday, the Jacksonville Ethics Commission responded to a challenge to the city’s ethics code by reminding one of the city’s most powerful lobbyists and land use...

Ethics Camp – Christian Science Monitor

from the June 26, 2006 edition – http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0626/p02s01-usgn.html Boot camp for city officials teaches ‘a culture of ethics’ At a seminar in California, municipal leaders learn how to stay on the straight and narrow in times of...

DENVER, CO

Brief History of Denver in Politics Denver entered the political arena fairly quickly to its founding in 1858, and incorporation in 1861. The city was named the state capital of Colorado upon its entering the Union in 1876, as state leaders saw Denver, which was the...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

As the official name implies, the City and County San Francisco is a consolidated city-county, being simultaneously a charter city and charter county with a consolidated government, a status it has had since 1856. It is the only such consolidation in California and...