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More to a candidate than campaign money or being a professional politician
Michael Dresser's recent article, "Brown to launch run for governor" (May 10), was very troubling. For example, an implication is made that the only credible candidates in the election are those who have big, fat finance accounts. In addition, Mr. Dresser...
Tags: Elections, Politics, Government, Executive Branch
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Choi and O'Farrell in contentious battle for council seat
Mitch O'Farrell is probably the only candidate running for Los Angeles City Council who can do a backward handspring, no problem. Before taking a job a decade ago as a field deputy in the office of Councilman Eric Garcetti, O'Farrell, 52, spent years as a...
Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Port of Los Angeles, Unions, Local Elections, Colleges and Universities
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The real IRS scandal
It's strange how "scandal" gets defined these days in Washington. At the moment, everyone is screaming about the "scandal" of the Internal Revenue Service scrutinizing conservative nonprofits before granting them tax-exempt status. Here are the...Tags: Parties and Movements, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Karl Rove
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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: Parties and Movements, Internal Revenue Service, Impeachment, U.S. Congress, White House
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Local Elections, Lawyers, Judges, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania)
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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: Internal Revenue Service, Richard Nixon, White House, Crime, Law and Justice, 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: Polls, Mike Feuer, Carmen Trutanich, Wendy Greuel, Elections
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Greuel has fraction of Garcetti's cash in race's last days, reports show
Wendy Greuel had roughly one-tenth of the cash on hand of her rival Eric Garcetti as she headed into the final two weeks of the mayoral election, according to new campaign finance reports. Greuel, the city’s controller, reported raising nearly...
Tags: Polls, Eric Garcetti, Wendy Greuel, Elections, Religion and Belief
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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: Parties and Movements, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Paul Ryan, Internal Revenue Service, White House
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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: United Way , American Cancer Society, AMC (tv network), Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Politics
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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: Elections, Eric Garcetti, Wendy Greuel, Local 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: National Institutes of Health, Colleges and Universities, European Union, Teachers, University of California, Los Angeles
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