The Dallas Morning News reported in a City Hall Blog story Sunday that the Dallas City Council may attend this week’s Ethics, Trust & Transparency conference en masse. “File this under ‘can’t hurt’,” says reporter Rudolph Bush in the story. Bush also plans to attend. The story also quotes Rita Kirk, director of SMU’s Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Responsibility, as calling the council’s decision “a bold statement about our community’s commitment to ethics.” You can read the entire story at: http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/10/dallas-council-to-attend-ethic.html The Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility will host the Ethics, Trust & Transparency conference on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 in the Jim Collins Conference Center on Southern Methodist University’s Dallas campus. Registration to attend the conference is open to the public. For more information and to register online, click here or copy and paste this URL in your web browser. http://www.smu.edu/Provost/Ethics/NewsRoom/Events/EthicsTrustTransparency.aspx The entire conference will be video streamed on the Maguire Center’s website at http://www.smu.edu/Provost/Ethics.aspx beginning at 8:20 am Wednesday, November 2, 2011. ###