Managing Conflicts of Interest: A Primer for Nonprofit Boards, Second Edition, by Daniel L. Kurtz and Sarah E. Paul, reviews state and federal laws and ethical concepts affecting board members. The ...

MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to produce. We rely on donations from our readers to fund our independent journalism. On Tuesday, the editors of many leading medical journals ...

Effectively managing conflicts has become even more important for nonprofit organizations. Under state law it has historically been necessary for directors and officers to address conflict issues to ...

Not all elected county officials or department heads will fill out personal financial statements after McLennan County commissioners Tuesday voted to instead use conflict-of-interest forms.

Government activity is often characterized by terms not fully understood by the public. One example is “conflict of interest.” For local governments, this is defined by a single paragraph of North ...

A new website launched quietly last month by the State Ethics Commission allows users to look up state officials' potential conflicts of interest. A new website launched quietly last month by the ...

When Gov. Tina Kotek’s staff convene for policy meetings about one of the governor’s top three priorities—behavioral health—those staff members have signed documents agreeing to state policies, and ...

On June 5, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted Regulation Best Interest (“Regulation Best Interest” or “Reg BI”), which establishes a new standard of conduct under the ...

The SEC’s new Form CRS, the ultra concise disclosure document that requires advisors to lay out their obligations to clients in “plain English,” may be a bigger compliance lift than some firms realize ...

Townsend Fire Chief Gary Shepherd and water department superintendent David Vigeant were cited for violations of state ...