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21 NE Ind. residents charged in welfare fraud scam
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Northeastern Indiana authorities have charged 21 people in a welfare fraud scam alleging that they illegally exploited welfare benefits to stock a Fort Wayne restaurant's pantry shelves. All 21 charged Friday are accused of...
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Lifestyle and Leisure, Trials, Politics, Restaurants
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Illinois pension troubles reduce talent pool, school officials say
Lake Forest High School District 115 Superintendent Michael Simeck said new restrictions on Illinois' pension program may render it more difficult to recruit out-of-state teachers and administrators. Simeck said a number of cost-reducing reforms that...
Tags: Elections, Illinois General Assembly, Lake Forest, Politics, Interior Policy
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JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon facing push to drop chairman title
NEW YORK — A major shareholder vote next week has Wall Street abuzz over the power and future of Jamie Dimon, leader of the country's biggest bank. As chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co., Dimon burnished his reputation by steering...
Tags: New York City, Annual and Special Corporate Meetings, Finance, Politics, Interior Policy
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Ron Kaye: It's time for Burbank to think twice
Here we go again — at the first sign of recovery from the worst recession since the Great Depression, government officials are gearing up to line their pockets with taxpayer money. The Burbank City Council took the lead last week by granting 100...
Tags: Government, Missing Persons, Politics, Civil and Public Service, Interior Policy
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Cullerton, Madigan square off with competing pension reform plans
— As Illinois lawmakers weigh a pair of competing pension reform plans this spring, a big factor they're considering is how much each approach would save the beleaguered state treasury. Illinois already spends more on government worker...
Tags: Donne E Trotter, Pat Quinn, Illinois Governor, Finance, Justice System
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Facing walkout, UC medical centers canceling elective surgeries
SACRAMENTO — Facing a possible two-day strike next week by patient care and technical workers, the five large University of California medical centers are starting to cancel elective surgeries that had been scheduled as soon as Monday, officials...
Tags: AFSCME, Strikes, Medical Procedures and Tests, Career and Workplace, Politics
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Jerry Brown urges UC to stress graduating students in 4 years
SACRAMENTO — The graduation rates of UC students came under more scrutiny Wednesday as Gov. Jerry Brown urged administrators and faculty to prod more undergraduates to earn a degree in four years, not six. Brown recently proposed giving UC and Cal...
Tags: Strikes, Teaching and Learning, Regional Authority, Politics, Executive Branch
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Letters: A perfect storm in politics
Re "501(c)(4)s are the real IRS scandal," Column, May 15 Michael Hiltzik is right. The IRS should put every tax-exempt 501(c)(4) organization under a microscope. Vague tax rules, the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision and the absurd cost of...Tags: Elections, Politics, Taxation, Interior Policy, Internal Revenue Service
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IRS problem started with vague tax exemption rules
WASHINGTON — In spring 2010, agents in the Cincinnati office of the Internal Revenue Service, which handles applications for tax-exempt status, faced a surge of filings by new advocacy groups, with little guidance on how to treat them. Their...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Services and Shopping, Justice System, U.S. Congress, Politics
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Connecticut Has Strong April Job Growth
The Hartford CourantConnecticut's employers hired briskly in April, as both private companies and government employers added positions, for a combined total of 6,300 new jobs. The report released Thursday by the state Department of Labor was encouraging, said economist...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Politics, Interior Policy, Connecticut Labor Markets, East Hartford
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IRS is ham-handed, but ...
Your personal feelings about the tea party shouldn't matter one bit when looking at the current Internal Revenue Service brouhaha. The whole thing smells rotten. It was ham-handed treatment by the IRS. And President Obama did the only thing he could...Tags: Tea Party Movement, George W. Bush, Politics, Palm Beach Gardens, Taxation
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Obama the latest in line of US presidents to face suggestions of political bias in IRS actions
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service controversy dogging President Barack Obama is hardly the first time a White House and the tax agency have been accused of political meddling and bias. Nor is it the first time that political and...Tags: Parties and Movements, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Finance, Politics
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