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What specifically are internal controls in a compliance program? Internal controls are not only the foundation of a company but are also the foundation of any effective anti-corruption...

Members of Carnethy Hill Running Club reached the summits of all 282 mountains in a single day.

. HARRISBURG — Among the most stressed-out folks in local government this week will be the former manager of the USA Field Hockey team, a congressman’s past chief of staff, and an ex-political science professor. They’ll all be running elections in Pennsylvania for the first time during Tuesday’s primaries — and they will do it under the microscope of a skeptical GOP electorate galvanized by Republicans in the state legislature. After what election directors described as a “nightmare...

After a ‘nightmare’ year led to massive job turnover among those who run Pennsylvanias elections, there are growing calls for standardized training to provide more support and guidance.

Spotlight PA Bob Morgan, the Luzerne County election director, talks about how to set up and use a voting machine during a recent training class. A new crop of election directors will be in place for Tuesdays primary, but with uneven — and in some cases, little — training. This article is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan reporting project covering local election integrity and voting access. This article is available for reprint under the terms of Votebeat’s republishing pol...

Education Next Jonathan Marks urges a recommitment to reason by Jonathan Marks As reviewed by J. Grant Addison In Let’s Be Reasonable, Jonathan Marks argues that higher education should rededicate itself to the project of liberal education. Taking his cue from John Locke, Marks describes the aim of liberal education as creating a certain type of person: that is, a reasonable one. “Reason,” as opposed to syllogism or simple debate, is both a habit of mind and a standard to hold while p...

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Taxpayers footed Pa.’s bill for election lawsuits. Costs went into the millions Updated 1:51 PM; Today 1:17 PM Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., looks on in the House Chamber after they reconvened for arguments over the objection of certifying Arizona’s Electoral College votes in November’s election, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Six weeks earlier, Kelly, an ally of President Trump, had filed a lawsuit that, had it been successful, would have canceled the legally cast vot...

Jonathan Marks The politics of higher education are changing. For decades the basic arrangement has had ascendant conservatives arrayed against it and liberals engaged in a defensive rearguard action. The rightwing onslaught was spearheaded by the likes of William F. Buckley, whose God and Man at Yale (1951) decried the secularization of an elite institution overrun by Keynesians and collectivists. The onslaught endured through the end of the twentieth century in the work of people like Allan ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance. Today, we have a quartet of Matt Kelly, Jonathan Marks, Jonathan Armstrong and Mike Volkov for a deep dive into plethora of topics related to Opening Day. We end with a veritable mélange of rants and shouts outs. Jonathan Armstrong takes us through the current state of the fight against the international scourge of modern slavery. Armstrong rants about the BBC’s non reporting on...