...Shelley Hughes (R-Palmer) fired her chief of staff Friday on the heels of a ruling from the state's Legislative Ethics Committee.Karen Sawyer had been the chief of staff for Hughes' predecessor, the late Carl Gatto."Karen was contrite...
A Legislative Ethics Committee panel has found a legislative staff member violated ethics rules when he moved too soon to challenge a sitting legislator.The...
...appeared Wednesday on the House floor. He said Rokeberg and Northwest Strategies should have contacted the Legislative Ethics Committee for permission before granting the videographers access. Timothy Inklebarger can be reached at timothy.inklebarger...
...lobbyist employers. Stevens told the Anchorage Daily News he disclosed his board membership with the Alaska Legislative Ethics Committee, but not with APOC. "My answer to that is, why don't you go out and look at all the other legislators...
...the old Alaska Psychiatric Institute. Hickerson wanted the commission to refer the matter immediately to the Legislative Ethics Committee, but she was outvoted 3 to 2. Commissioners voted instead to postpone any possible referral until their February...
Alaska's Legislative ethics committee works well for those legislators who want to keep on the right side of the ethical line, but shouldn't be relied on to stop...
...One critic blames a former attorney general with ties to powerful oil and gas interests; others say the legislative ethics committee failed to function because it doesn't have enough staff and authority. Others question the work of the Alaska...
...or others on state projects and lobbying state officials, they would have been required to report it to the Legislative Ethics Committee. Neither did. Nor did either report to the Ethics Committee that they'd been representing clients before...
...works long before the ethics scandals hit the state, said Joyce Anderson, administrator for the state's legislative ethics committee. Lawmakers also will be especially focused this session on a seemingly elusive natural-gas pipeline contract...
...and Roberta Highland of Homer, who listened to the meeting on teleconference, filed the complaints with the Legislative Ethics Committee. Kohring's meeting was to discuss a bill dealing with controversial matters of coal bed methane development...
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