Spitzer acted unilaterally yesterday and raised the standards of conduct for New York government employees. He has done the following: * Banned Adminstration Officials from accepting corporate gifts, speaking fees, or seeking public office while working for the Governor. * Prohibition on Government employees from lobbying the agencies they worked for, for…
Spitzer acted unilaterally yesterday and raised the standards of conduct for New York government employees. He has done the following: * Banned Adminstration Officials from accepting corporate gifts, speaking fees, or seeking public office while working for the Governor. * Prohibition on Government employees from lobbying the agencies they worked for, for…
I try to listen to a few radio shows on a daily basis. Radio Open Source [http://www.radioopensource.org/](ROS) out of UMass Lowell [http://www.uml.edu], the Brian Lehrer Show [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/] from WNYC, and (sometimes) the Leonard Lopate Show [http://www.wnyc.…
I try to listen to a few radio shows on a daily basis. Radio Open Source [http://www.radioopensource.org/](ROS) out of UMass Lowell [http://www.uml.edu], the Brian Lehrer Show [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/] from WNYC, and (sometimes) the Leonard Lopate Show [http://www.wnyc.…
A federal appeals court has ordered the immediate end of affirmation action in the admissions policies of Michigan’s publicly funded PSE institutions. This is to take effect for the current admissions cycle. The PSE institutions had argued, and reached an agreement with the State Attorney General, that they could…
This time, it is the University Administration that is getting the flak. The Administration decided to remove the crosses from the University Coat of Arms and replace them with books. Canwest’s canada.com has the coverage. [http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=6fcfa473-5b62-4ac6-98b2-f70e7e233d61&k=67842]…
Over at a soapbox of twigs [http://soapboxoftwigs.ca/], there is a post today [http://soapboxoftwigs.ca/2006/12/30/marketplace-iga-wed-donate-to-the-food-bank-but/] about IGA’s customer loyality program and their shameful attempts to guilt people into joining it. As part of the post, the author compares to Simon Fraser in philosophy…
A very interesting angle on the story. I thought this was making a statement:…