Summary from article entitled "Deciding Factors: How to Make Up Your Mind", from the WASHINGTON POST, 10/28/03 C-9 by Judy Colbert: Ms. Colbert sites an example of how a person made an employment decision by consulting a personal coach. "Not everyone has the finances or the desire to hire a personal coach, but almost everyone [...]
Summary of article, BUSINESS 2.0, 11/03, page 60, "Teaching the Wrong Lesson" by Jeffrey Pfeffer commentary in grayed out sections. Mr. Pfeffer describes several incidents of student cheating and the amount of time spent in trying to uncover such activities by several teachers in an MBA program at one of the top business school [...]
Summary of WASHINGTON POST, "The District Must Redefine Its Morality", metro section, 8/10/03 by Courtland Milloy: Mr. Milloy sites many examples stating that the ethical decisions of the DC government "is not good, to put it mildly". Schools fail to follow court orders, government workers taking bribes for fixing tickets, the president of a [...]
Summary of WASHINGTON POST, "Teachers, Cheating Pupils Rely on Web", B-1, 11/27/03 Linda Perlstein grayed out section represents commentary : Ms. Perlstein cites how Amy Malone has met with a great deal of plagiarism in her 7 years of teaching English but never has she seen the 2 students (not friends) cite the same [...]
Note from Auditors Inc.: This article is actually one of the last in the series that follows. We place it first (and later repeat it) so that you can get a feel for what is to come. By Benjamin Price, News-Leader When law enforcement confirmed that Julie Mixon stole more than $1 million from the [...]
By Benjamin Price, News-Leader Results of an investigation into more than $1 million stolen from the Nassau County Clerk of Court's office are expected to be released at a press conference within two weeks. Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigator Dominick Pape was scheduled to conduct the conference this afternoon at the FDLE's Jacksonville [...]
By Benjamin Price, News-Leader A longtime Nassau County employee confessed to years of embezzling money from the county a week before she took her own life April 29. Julie Mixon, a finance supervisor in the clerk of court's office, told state investigators she used some of the more than $1 million she stole to [...]
By Benjamin Price, News-Leader In a calm, matter-of-fact confession, former Nassau County Clerk of Courts employee Julie Mixon said she embezzled funds from the office for almost a decade simply by placing cash in her purse. What started as a theft of about $5,000 - to help out a friend, she said - eventually [...]
By Benjamin Price, News-Leader Relief and anger. That's how Nassau County Clerk of Court John Crawford described the mood at his office following last week's revelation that former employee Julie Mixon embezzled more than $1 million over 10 years. Her confession - made in a law enforcement interview April 22, seven days before Mixon [...]
By Steve Nicklas -- STEVE'S MARKETPLACE Local residents just got a million or so reasons why Nassau County has to take hold of its finances. Every dollar stolen from residents in the scandal involving a former county finance supervisor should serve a million notices and reminders. But once again, county officials are seemingly unresponsive [...]