...details of the impeachment process, rather than on the workaday mechanisms intended to secure the amenability of public officers to the law. Specifically, conventional wisdom has it that - sheltering themselves behind the impeachment imbroglio...

...benchmarks from the Bundy Report. It establishes that an impropriety exists in a particular situation when: (1) a public officer owns more than one percent of the stock in a business; and (2) the stock in a business is valued at more than...

...Branch Ethics Act ( http://www.law.state.ak.us/ethics/ ). Among other things, this act prohibits a public officer from taking "official action in order to affect a matter in which the officer has a personal or financial interest...

...than the court." A bill introduced in the state House earlier this year addresses the issue. It would require a public officer to take or withhold official action through an e-mail system operated and maintained by the state. Smith's ruling...

...details of the impeachment process, rather than on the workaday mechanisms intended to secure the amenability of public officers to the law. Specifically, conventional wisdom has it that - sheltering themselves behind the impeachment imbroglio...

...contenders into the race," she said. Abramoff in January pleaded guilty to fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officers. Young reportedly used a skybox owned by Abramoff at the MCI Center in Washington for two fundraisers, which were...

...person for compensation regarding a matter that was under consideration by the administrative unit served by that public officer, and in which the officer participated personally and substantially through the exercise of official action." A...

...interest in a company is "of a type that is possessed generally by the public or a large class of persons to which the public officer belongs as a member of a profession, occupation, industry or region." The governor won't file a bill himself...

...He noted that a bill introduced in the state House earlier this year does address the issue. It would require a public officer to take or withhold official action through an e-mail system operated and maintained by the state. The practice...

...that "there is no substantial impropriety if ... a public officer's personal or financial interest in the matter is...the public or a large class of persons to which the public officer belongs." The governor obviously is one of many...