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Here is the agenda for Tuesday's meeting of our ethics board. We welcome your comments on the topics below or anything else.
We also have discussed adding a couple of community members to the board. We'd want them to be people with some background in ethical decision-making such as a priest...
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A couple of readers questioned our headline on Thursday's story about the indicted four's hearing. Every twist and turn of this saga invites scrutiny, of course.
The question -- "Could charges be dropped?" -- is meant to be neutral. We're not trying to say the charges should be...
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Out of state on vacation, I followed Thursday's news via our Web site and couldn't be more impressed with the work everyone did.
I was able to keep up with what happened inside the courtroom almost as soon as the events unfolded. I saw the video of Michael Ratcliff leaving the courthouse right...
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The Advocate's ethics board had a special meeting after being alerted by a state investigator that we would receive a subpoena for the computer records of someone who posted what could be considered a threat against Victoria District Attorney Stephen Tyler.
As Friday's story notes, we agreed...
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Our "Law and Disorder" coverage appears far from over, but we received some positive reinforcement regarding our 2007 coverage during this weekend's Texas Press Association annual convention.
I'm pleased to announce the Advocate won eight awards during the convention and made a...
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Two or three weeks ago, Scott Hanson hung up on me after I became exasperated by his criticism that the Advocate wasn't digging hard enough into Victoria District Attorney Stephen Tyler. We're doing all we can, I told Hanson, also known as Sailor on our discussion forums.
Then Thursday night,...
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