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NCPE in the News: 2008-2009

Auto Body Shop Bill's Backer Denies Conflict (Sun)

With Ethics Commission Challenged, Lawmakers Move to Police themselves (Sun)

Chancellor Rogers Enlists Campus Help in Budget Plea (Sun)

Click here to view the Saturday, January 10th, 2009, Town Hall Meeting.

"Taxpayers Give Money: LVCVA Gers Award" (Las Vegas Review Journal)

"Casa Rosa's Days Numbered" (Las Vegas Review Journal)

"Court Hopeful Says Consultant Pitched Deal" (Las Vegas Review Journal)

"Given $50,000 He Decides to Run" (Las Vegas Sun)

Acting President Julie Tousa on Jon Ralston's "Face to Face: Ethics Complaint"

Meet the Acting President of NCPE, Julie Tousa

"New Watchdog of Public Ethics Continues Enforcing Vital Unwritten Law" (Las Vegas Review Journal)

"Partying Away As Taxpayers Pay and Pay" (Las Vegas Sun)

Ethics Legislation 2007

NCPE at the 2007 Nevada State Legislature: Summary and Details

"Article 6 Commission" to study and recommend improvements in the Nevada judiciary
See Dr. Craig Walton's summary of May Meeting

NCPE statement about the danger of big donors contributing to Supreme Court justice election campaigns.

Judicial Ethics & the Complaint Processes

Craig Walton's letter, to the Las Vegas Business Journal in favor of the new plan for judicial selection

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News NCPE at NV Legislature Reports and Archives

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How Nevadans can get in to the Ethics Legislation Process

Read Legislative Committee's 11 Proposals for 2007
Dr. Walton was interviewed about them on KNPR's "State of Nevada" , Friday, January 5, 2007 at 10:30 (repeat during the evening broadcast).

Testimonies to the 2007 Legislature Submitted by NCPE

Media Coverage of the 2007Legislative Session, with response

Apr. 08, 2007 - Las Vegas Review-Journal
Legislators face Friday the 13th cutoff
One-fourth of measures introduced in 2005 didn't survive deadline
By BRENDAN RILEY


Apr. 14, 2007 - Las Vegas Review-Journal
Make it or break it time here
Friday the 13th deadline unlucky for some pet legislative projects
By SEAN WHALEY AND ED VOGEL

Letter to the RJ, dated April 14. It is not published (and won't be). ......When some bills at the Legislature died and others lived, there were also ethics bills in both categories. 

March 21, 2007 KNPR's State of Nevada Mitch Fox hosts Ethics in Public Life

» L. Patrick Hearn, ED, NV Commission on Ethics
» Ross Miller, NV Secretary of State
» Jim Spinello, Lobbyist
» Dina Titus, [D] State Senate Minority Leader
» Prof Craig Walton, President, NV Center for Public Ethics
...on efforts to raise ethical standards in our public life

Read about the January 6, 2007 Town Hall Meeting and associated press coverage..

January 09, 2007 Las Vegas Sun
FLASHPOINT for Jan 9, 2007
By Jon Ralston

Jan. 09, 2007 Las Vegas Review-Journal
JOHN L. SMITH: Watch for the massacre when dream of ethics reforms hits Legislature

December 11, 2006, Las Vegas Review-Journal - JANE ANN MORRISON: Don't expect ethics laws to shed any light on lobbyists, legislators

Feb. 11, 2007 Las Vegas Review-Journal
THE 2007 LEGISLATURE: A state of conflict
Lawmakers often vote to benefit their interests
By ERIN NEFF

In June 2006, NCPE received a Legislative Survey (published by Nevada’s Legislative Counsel Bureau (LCB). To see what we sent forward to the LCB, look here.

A response was also forwarded from and individual member. Read that survey here.

In March 2005, NCPE testified about Nevada's disclosure laws. Here's a related November 2005 article from the Las Vegas Sun: Nevada's campaign laws fail in report

Click the link to download/open the full article in word format.

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