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With new revelations, outrage spreads about IRS targeting
WASHINGTON — Top career officials in the Internal Revenue Service withheld information from Congress for months about the tax agency's targeting of conservative organizations for extra scrutiny, according to documents released Monday as a...Tags: Politics, Government, U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Congress, Tea Party Movement
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Targeting tax-exempt groups
One of the great outrages of the Watergate scandal was President Nixon's use of the Internal Revenue Service to harass his political opponents. Yet some IRS officials appear to have forgotten what happens when tax law enforcers pick their targets based on...Tags: Justice System, Politics, Organizing for Action, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Congress
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Wendy Greuel's campaign coffers low
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel, after spending heavily on a TV advertising blitz that coincided with the start of early voting, entered the final stretch of the runoff campaign with roughly one-tenth the war chest of rival Eric Garcetti,...
Tags: Carmen Trutanich, Politics, Polls, Mother's Day, Voting
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Emanuel's approval slips, especially among black voters
Mayor Rahm Emanuel faces growing voter disenchantment, particularly among African-Americans, even as the overall number approving of his job performance holds steady at the halfway point of his first term, a new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows. The survey...
Tags: Richard M. Daley, Chicago Mayor, Polls, Politics, Barack Obama
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Raising cash for Democrats in New York, Obama bemoans he still hasn't broken through gridlock
Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — Huddling with A-list celebrities and top re-election donors, President Barack Obama bemoaned the partisan forces that have stymied compromise in Washington as he raised campaign cash for Democrats in New York. At a cozy suppertime...Tags: New York City, Gun Control, Politics, U.S. Congress, Tea Party Movement
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IRS targeted conservative groups, official says
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service improperly singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny of their applications for nonprofit status, a top agency official said Friday, setting off calls for investigations into an organization...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Congress, Tea Party Movement, White House, Pension and Welfare
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Area woman becomes United Way manager
Daily American Staff Writer"I love United Way," Lladel Lichty said. "It is such a quality organization. I'm amazed at what we do and how we're threaded throughout the community." Lichty has been working at United Way of the Laurel Highlands for just seven months, but she's already...Tags: Leukemia, AMC (tv network), United Way , Politics, American Cancer Society
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Newton: The mayoral money trap
There are good reasons for most of the city's campaign finance laws. Individual contribution limits are intended to keep a single donor from purchasing the support of a candidate. Public financing is intended to level the playing field between...
Tags: Politics, Values, Eric Garcetti, Elections, Religion and Belief
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USC steals 2 star brain researchers from UCLA
In a major case of academic poaching involving crosstown rivals, USC has lured away two prominent neuroscientists from UCLA with a promise to expand their internationally renowned lab that uses brain imaging techniques to study Alzheimer's disease,...
Tags: Rice University, European Union, Politics, Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology
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Douglas C. Lyons: State will go on break next year as politics trumps policy
Okay. State lawmakers obviously dropped the ball when it came to expanding health care by failing to take federal funding for Medicaid. Too close to Obamacare, a majority of Republicans in the Florida Legislature felt as they stood tall on partisan...Tags: Pam Bondi, Justice System, Politics, Government, Insurance
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Legislative Proposals Dim The Lights On Freedom Of Information
The Hartford CourantEvery year the lights go out a little more on the public's right to know about its government, and they're growing dimmer again in 2013. Legislation pending in the Connecticut General Assembly could further erode the state's Freedom of Information Law...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Freedom of Information Laws, Connecticut Economic Development, Government
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Northampton County judge election: Thousands raised amid uncertainty
The candidates for Northampton County judge have raised tens of thousands of dollars in preparation for next week's primary election, numbers that come amid uncertainty on whether a seat on the bench will actually become open. And the four hopefuls...Tags: Justice System, Primaries, Politics, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Easton (Northampton, Pennsylvania)
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