Electronic filing has been a goal of the State Ethics Commission for seven years. We are very pleased to see it becoming a reality.

The lieutenant governor is historically late with his. He seems to use up his grace period on just about all of his filings.

The maximum in any one election cycle from a party through all of its committees is $50,000 for a statewide race.

Because every exchange is always a relationship, to get the most while giving the least is unjust, unethical, antisocial, abusive, perhaps 'evil.' Yet predatory commerce ("the free market" as it is euphemistically called) operates regularly on the principle of 'get the most and pay the least.

I do tend to gravitate toward what guiding light we have. . . . If I read something that's got those ethics in it, then I go towards it. We live in such a corporate world where everyone is passing the buck, it seems to me. Therefore I like stories where the individual takes responsibility for BEING the individual, and not just for himself, but for his comrades, his society and ultimately for his country. Ultimately, we can all learn a lesson from that and not be browbeaten by the corporate world which is taking over.

Did I violate journalistic ethics by not disclosing it? I don't know. You tell me.