Editorial Advisory Board: Currie’s ethics hearing should be open to the public 

Posted: 6:00 pm Thu, January 12, 2012
By Editorial Advisory Board

There are times when doors to the usually secret hearings of the General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics should be flung wide open. The case of state Sen. Ulysses S. Currie, which the committee is expected to hear soon, is one of them. After a month-and-a-half trial in federal court last fall, a jury found ...