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How We Analyze Decisions: Two Questions and Five Lenses

Every important City decision changes people’s lives for better or worse. Decision-makers with that kind of power have a responsibility to do everything they can to make sure their decisions do the greatest good and the least harm. It is critically important that cities give the ethics questions that are part of every important City … Read more

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The Ethics of the Replacement Ethics Code

PTN looks at City decisions through an ethics and public trust lens. In this post, we want to show you what we see when we ask: Applied to the proposed replacement Ethics Code, these questions lead to clear concerns. What the City Has Done: The Facts On July 11, 2023, the City Council approved a … Read more