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...before the Zoning Board and Licensing Board to express his views and opinions. This has a real potential for influencing the outcome of an administrative agency decision. If not in actuality, at the very least, the appearance of impropriety is present in the subtle influence that a person holding public office can have on board members, particularly since board members are appointed by the City Manager, who in turn is hired by members of the City Council...
...quoted remarks of Michael Turk, let it be noted initially that he and I disagree on just about everything. What I find most disturbing in his remarks is his determination to replace fact with fiction when he said, "It's very disquieting to see instances of public officials providing favors, particularly financial ones." Does he know something I don't? Often times, people predicate of others activities similar in nature to activities in which the speaker or writer is a participant. Is this what underlies and rests at the root of Mr. Turk's statement that "...questions of appearance...
...late Adlai Stevenson who said that public opinion is the sovereign of us all. I have always believed that the press has an enormous responsibility in helping to form a sound public opinion rooted in truth and fact and not in conjecture, innuendo and/or rumor. The writer of this article did little to form such public opinion. That was due in part to his being duped by double-speak by some and in part to the paucity of his individual investigative initiative, which went no deeper than to quote The Boston Phoenix. Such limitation suggests a less than maximal presence...
...public figures, all eight autobiographers present an equally intractable set of questions about their public, as opposed to private, identieis which Leibowitz seems reluctant to answer. The book should--and does not--acknowledge the relevance of the writers' public status in disguising the personal "revelations" of style...
...insurance salesman-turned best-selling author swore he got all his information from magazines and public sources, but many defense experts were not convinced...