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  • July 2008

    • Social Responsibility Costs Calif. Pension Funds Billions

      newser  |  BusinessWeek  |  Jul 15, 08 7:21 PM CDT

      Social Responsibility Costs Calif. Pension Funds Billions

      California's plan to put state pension funds in socially responsible investments means those funds are worth billions less than they would be if they'd been allowed to invest in tobacco companies and emerging markets, BusinessWeek reports. The initiative, launched in 2000, also pushed investment in California real estate—where the funds are on the hook for some big losses in a down market. More »

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      California  • ethics  • investing  • investment  • pension funds

  • June 2008

    • Big Pharma Sickens Universities

      newser  |  Chronicle of Higher Education  |  Jun 22, 08 6:07 PM CDT

      Big Pharma Sickens Universities

      Weak legislation allows professors to collect huge under-the-table payments from Big Pharma, and it’s time to fight back, Dan Greenberg writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education . Pharmaceutical companies pay professors to shill drugs and lend their names to industry research, and the only oversight is an honor-system mechanism requiring profs to report outside income to the university—not to a federal agency. More »

    • Ten House Races to Watch

      newser  |  Time  |  Jun 18, 08 2:36 PM CDT

      Ten House Races to Watch

      Time profiles the top 10 House races to watch this fall: Calif., 11th District: Dem Jerry McNerney bested an ethically questioned rep in 2006. He’ll get an incumbency boost this time, but opponent Dean Andal has plenty of money. Conn., 4th District: Chris Shays is one of the most liberal members of the GOP House, in power since 1987. Dem Jim Hines, a former Goldman VP, is counting on anti-war turnout. More »

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      election 2008  • gas prices  • House of Representatives  • ethics  • Tom DeLay

    • Writing About Your Kids? Set Some Limits

      newser  |  Slate  |  Jun 8, 08 10:00 AM CDT

      Writing About Your Kids? Set Some Limits

      Writers can throw themselves head-first into the nasty, permanent archive that is the Internet—but what of their kids? Emily Bazelon polled writers for Slate and found that while details may differ, the general policy is, the more privacy the better. "The blog medium has a certain kind of immediacy, and a reciprocal surrendering of privacy, that we don't want in our lives forever,” says one writing dad. More »

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      children  • journalism  • ethics  • online privacy  • journalistic ethics  • personal privacy

  • April 2008

    • McCain Helped Donor Developer Win Contracts

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 22, 08 11:55 AM CDT

      McCain Helped Donor Developer Win Contracts

      John McCain has repeatedly done favors a wealthy Arizona real estate developer who is a major donor, sponsoring legislation that swapped public land for his land and stepping in to speed a lucrative land deal with the Pentagon that netted him $20 million in a quick flip. The relationship with Donald Diamond could “pose a test” for Mac, the New York Times posits in an expose, since the candidate’s reputation is staked on renouncing political favoritism. More »

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      John McCain  • Senate  • ethics  • political donors  • political favoritism

    • Merck Used Ghostwriters to Draft Rosy Vioxx Studies

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 15, 08 7:51 PM CDT

      Merck Used Ghostwriters to Draft Rosy Vioxx Studies

      Merck used its own ghostwriters to draft articles minimizing risks of its drug Vioxx, then found medical researchers to lend their names to the research, the Wall Street Journal reports. Merck, which pulled the painkiller from shelves four years ago over heart-attack risks, rejects the claims as "misleading." They appear in tomorrow's edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association . More »

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      ethics  • pharmaceutical companies  • Merck  • Vioxx  • medical studies  • JAMA

  • March 2008

    • Fidelity Pays $8M in SEC Gift Scandal

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Mar 5, 08 10:20 PM CST

      Fidelity Pays $8M in SEC Gift Scandal

      Investment guru Peter Lynch and Fidelity Investment settled SEC charges brought against them alleging that Lynch used Fidelity traders to procure tickets to high-profile concerts and sporting events. Lynch, vice chairman of Fidelity's parent company, agreed to pay $15,948 for the tickets, plus $4,183 in interest. Fidelity will pay $8 million for nine other charges, reports the Wall Street Journal . More »

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      Wall Street  • SEC  • ethics  • investment bankers  • gifts  • probe  • Fidelity

    • Bush Aide Resigns Over Plagiarism

      newser  |  Indianapolis Star  |  Mar 1, 08 2:21 PM CST

      Bush Aide Resigns Over Plagiarism

      A White House aide who helped establish President Bush’s faith-based community initiative resigned yesterday after admitting he plagiarized portions of columns he submitted to an Indiana newspaper, the Indianaopolis Star reports. The News-Sentinel of Fort Wayne found that 20 columns by Tim Goeglein, who had served in the White House Office of Public Liaison since 2001, had portions lifted from other sources.     More »

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      George W. Bush  • White House  • newspaper  • ethics  • resignation  • apology  • plagiarism

  • February 2008

    • Broadcaster Rebuts McCain Lobbying Denial

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Feb 23, 08 10:05 AM CST

      Broadcaster Rebuts McCain Lobbying Denial

      John McCain's campaign has flatly denied that the senator met with a broadcaster or his lobbyist before writing to the FCC on his behalf in 1999. But Bud Paxson remembers the meeting; he says VIcki Iseman set it up, and may have attended, too. "Was Vicki there? Probably," Paxson tells the Washington Post . And he specificially remembers asking McCain to write the letter. More »

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      John McCain  • FCC  • ethics  • lobbying  • Vicki Iseman  • Paxson Communications

    • McCain Support Comes From All Corners

      newser  |  Politico  |  Feb 22, 08 2:03 PM CST

      McCain Support Comes From All Corners

      One day after the New York Times reported on John McCain's "close bond" with Vicki Iseman, reaction is still developing, and not necessarily along ideological lines. Observers of the observers offer their impressions. Popular liberal bloggers, "breaking with partisan patterns, are expressing discomfort," Ben Smith of Politico writes, adding, ""The defense of McCain from the left reflects well on the blogs' objectivity.” More »

    • McCain Denies Lobbyist Scandal, Attacks Times

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Feb 21, 08 7:26 AM CST

      McCain Denies Lobbyist Scandal, Attacks Times

      John McCain’s camp came out swinging at the New York Times last night, calling a “hit and run smear campaign” a report alleging that the senator had been involved in an improper and possibly romantic relationship with lobbyist Vicki Iseman eight years ago. “The New York Times is playing the National Enquirer ,” one adviser told ABC News, calling the story “gossip.” More »

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      John McCain  • election 2008  • McCain 2008  • ethics  • telecom industry  • lobbyists  • Vicki Iseman  • Election 2000

    • McCain Ties to Female Lobbyist Questioned

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Feb 20, 08 9:13 PM CST

      McCain Ties to Female Lobbyist Questioned

      In his last run for the presidency, John McCain developed a close relationship with a female lobbyist that worried his advisers so much they intervened with both McCain and the woman to keep them apart, the New York Times reports. The paper cites the incident in a lengthy look at McCain's track record on his signature issue of ethics and finds that the candidate is sometimes prone to embarrassing conflicts of interest. More »

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      John McCain  • ethics  • Vicki Iseman  • Washington lobbyists

  • December 2007

    • Dems Finish Frustrating Year in DC

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Dec 20, 07 5:45 PM CST

      Dems Finish Frustrating Year in DC

      Democrats are leaving Washington with a decidedly unsatisfactory taste in their mouths after their first year back in charge of Congress in more than a decade, the LA Times reports. Though they can count successes with the energy bill, the minimum wage, and ethics reforms, they failed to put a timetable on the Iraqi war and conceded on a raft of domestic issues. More »

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      Nancy Pelosi  • energy  • Harry Reid  • ethics  • S CHIP

    • Docs on Ethics: Do as I Say, Not as I Do

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Dec 4, 07 10:26 AM CST

      Docs on Ethics: Do as I Say, Not as I Do

      Doctors often don't practice what they preach, reports a groundbreaking new study. Ethical standards under scrutiny in a survey of 1,600 physicians were almost universally supported but were often overlooked, researchers say. For example, 96% of respondents said doctors should report colleagues' incompetence or impairment, but 45% said they didn't always turn in offenders, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      health care  • doctor  • ethics  • study  • medical treatment

  • November 2007

    • Huckabee Foes Put Spotlight on Ethics

      newser  |  Politico  |  Nov 23, 07 4:14 AM CST

      Huckabee Foes Put Spotlight on Ethics

      As former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee moves to the front of the Republican field, rivals have been digging up ethics complaints from his time in office, reports Politico . Critics of Huckabee, who now trails only Mitt Romney in Iowa, have uncovered a host of  complaints against him involving his management of campaign cash and destruction of computer files before leaving office, among other issues . More »

    • One Who Just Won't Love Huck

      newser  |  Salon  |  Nov 13, 07 7:38 PM CST

      One Who Just Won't Love Huck

      GOP longshot Mike Huckabee has a national rep for being funny and lovable, but one newspaper editor’s got a bone to pick. The Huckabee that governed Arkansas opposed the arts and evolution, pillaged government coffers, and destroyed all hard drives when he left office, writes Max Brantley in Salon . He was five times sanctioned by the Ethics Commission—and dodged nine complaints. More »

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      Mike Huckabee  • campaign finance  • ethics  • Taco Bell  • babysitter

    • Product Safety Honchos Get Free Ride

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Nov 2, 07 4:00 PM CDT

      Product Safety Honchos Get Free Ride

      Leaders of the US agency that regulates product safety have accepted free trips from reps of the industries they oversee, a move critics call a flagrant breach of ethics, the Washington Post reports. Consumer Product Safety Commission chief Nancy Nord and predecessor Hal Stratton have taken 30 trips since 2002, with trade associations, manufacturers, and lobbying groups picking up the $60,000 tab. More »

  • October 2007

    • Twins Split by 'Science' Reunite

      newser  |  CBS  |  Oct 1, 07 2:29 PM CDT

      Twins Split by 'Science' Reunite

      Three decades into a bizarre nature-versus-nurture experiment, Elyse Schein abruptly discovered she and a twin sister had been separated at birth and adopted into separate homes—all in the name of science. They eventually found each other in 2004, and now talked with CBS about their new memoir, Identical Strangers.   More »

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      science  • ethics  • twins  • science experiment  • nature vs. nurture

  • September 2007

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