Municipalities' ethics boards often can't investigate mayors because mayors appointed their members. Niles is trying a new tack, an elected ethics board, but it have only advisory powers, like most appointed ethics boards.
Niles village trustee and ethics board candidates line up at the village clerk's window in village hall Monday, Dec. 12 to be the first to file petitions to run in the Tuesday, April 4 municipal election. (Tom Robb/Journal photo) As of Monday, Dec. 19, the last day for candidates to file petitions to appear on