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Letters to the editor: Obesity, scandals, and McCartney
I am a retired physical-education teacher who worked with students from kindergarten through eighth grade. A majority of my students could not do one pull-up. I tried to be creative and make exercising fun, for which I had a fair amount of success. I am...Tags: Weight, Government, Internal Revenue Service, Freedom of the Press, Terrorism
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IRS foul-up shows how bad laws breed good scandals
Much to my surprise, I find myself sympathizing with the Internal Revenue Service. Tenderness toward that agency isn't my default position. I'm a British expat living in the United States, with retirement savings locked up in Britain and other cross-...
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Congress, Social Issues, U.S. Elections, Social Services
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The Fifth — and First — Amendments
"If you refuse to answer, you will leave us no choice but to ask for a special counsel or the appointment of a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of this. I hope that's not the approach of the IRS going forward, because there will be hell to pay."...
Tags: White House, Prosecution, Tea Party Movement, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Congress
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Local enterprise zones at risk
Staff WriterGov. Jerry Brown is once again pushing to do away with enterprise zones and their tax break benefits, a move that the local enterprise zone manager says would severely hinder the Valley’s capacity to entice businesses. And while Imperial Valley...Tags: Politics, Government, Credit and Debt, Executive Branch, Jerry Brown
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FACTBOX-Who knew what when in the IRS 'Tea Party' scandal
ReutersMay 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has been under intense scrutiny since May 10, when the tax-collection agency acknowledged that workers had used partisan criteria to intensely scrutinize conservative groups' applications for tax-exempt...Tags: White House, Internal Revenue Service, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Congress, Employees
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Under fire from loyalists, White House admits 'potholes' in handling IRS scandal
Reuters* "Been some legitimate criticisms" * Shifting story puts White House under glare * Appearance of clumsiness By Steve Holland WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - Facing criticism from Democratic loyalists, the White House acknowledged on Wednesday that...Tags: White House, Government, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, DC, Xi Jinping
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WRAPUP 3-IRS officials thwart lawmakers' quest for answers on IRS scandal
Reuters* IRS official says she did nothing wrong, refuses to answer questions * Few answers, many questions at third hearing in less than a week * Republicans say officials should have revealed targeting sooner (Recasts with end of hearing) By Kim Dixon...Tags: White House, U.S. Congress, Internal Revenue Service, Tea Party Movement, Parties and Movements
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IRS officials aren't cooperating in probes at top or bottom
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Internal Revenue Service officials are not fully cooperating with efforts to learn who is responsible for targeting conservative groups, lawmakers learned Wednesday during the third and most tense, dramatic hearing on the scandal. First, the...Tags: Government, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Congress, Parties and Movements, Washington, DC
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IRS officials thwart lawmakers' quest for answers on IRS scandal
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three congressional hearings during the past week have allowed lawmakers to vent their anger at the U.S. tax agency for its targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny, but the sessions have yielded few answers about who was...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Criminals, Lawyers, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
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LETTER: IRS Flap Much Ado About Nothing
The current IRS scandal is a textbook example of the oldest political trick in the book. The Inspector General's report states that tea party organizations constitute fewer than one-third of the applications for tax-exempt status that were flagged as...Tags: Politics, Internal Revenue Service, Tea Party Movement
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City spending board approves another property tax break
Baltimore's spending board voted Wednesday to approve another property tax break for city homeowners, part of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's plan to cut property taxes by 22 percent over 10 years. The tax credit approved by the Board of Estimates would...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Economy, Business and Finance, Edward L. Reisinger III, Politics, Credit and Debt
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Key IRS official refuses to testify
WASHINGTON — In a contentious climax Wednesday to a series of congressional hearings, Lois Lerner, a key IRS manager, invoked her right to not testify about the agency's targeting of conservative groups, igniting howls from Republicans and...
Tags: Prosecution, White House, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Congress, Tea Party Movement
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