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ANALYSIS-In any scandal, lying to Congress is tough to prove
Reuters(Repeats from earlier May 23 for wider distribution) By Joan Biskupic and Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, D.C., May 23 (Reuters) - When embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner was called before a congressional committee Wednesday, she declared...Tags: Dick Cheney, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Prosecution, Lewis Libby, U.S. Congress
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RPT-Los Angeles' new mayor: hipster, Rhodes Scholar, budget fixer?
Reuters(Repeats with no changes to story) By Sharon Bernstein and Tim Reid LOS ANGELES, May 22 (Reuters) - A Rhodes Scholar and urban planning wonk in a city that generally prefers its politicians to be less eclectic, Los Angeles mayor-elect Eric Garcetti will...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Elections, Music, Health Insurance Cost, Eric Garcetti
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Analysis: In any scandal, lying to Congress is tough to prove
ReutersWASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) - When embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner was called before a congressional committee Wednesday, she declared that she had done nothing wrong - but said she did not intend to testify. Her defiance only...Tags: Dick Cheney, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Lewis Libby, Prosecution, U.S. Congress
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Eric Garcetti faces tough tests when he takes office as mayor
In the campaign for mayor, Eric Garcetti spoke grandly about a city with plentiful summer jobs for low-income teens, a tunnel under the traffic-clogged Sepulveda Pass and even an end to homelessness. But a day after winning office, the mayor-elect faced...
Tags: Los Angeles International Airport, Elections, Budgets and Budgeting, Paul Koretz, Career and Workplace
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Council to consider mayor's proposed pension changes
With the city retirement system short hundreds of millions of dollars in unfunded liabilities, officials say they are likely to begin requiring municipal employees to contribute to their pensions. "Pretty much everyone is in agreement that it's fair,"...
Tags: Mary Pat Clarke, Carl Stokes, William Donald Schaefer, Public Employees, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Sri Lanka opposition says government threatened to sack strikers
ReutersCOLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's opposition parties and trade unions accused the government on Tuesday of threatening state employees with the sack if they took part in planned street protests against a sharp rise in electricity prices. Only a few hundred...Tags: Colombo (Sri Lanka), Unions, Employees, Sri Lanka, Career and Workplace
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EDITORIAL: DOD furloughs: A tough hit for the region
Las Cruces Sun-News, N.M.Months of waiting in limbo came to an end last week as U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced that planned furloughs for defense employees as a result of the sequestration bill passed by Congress will begin in July. The good news for the 6,500...Tags: Employees, Human Interest, Chuck Hagel, Career and Workplace, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Payroll meltdown keeps costing California
SACRAMENTO -- California officials are still cleaning up the mess after halting an expensive and troubled overhaul of the payroll system for public employees earlier this year. Roughly two dozen workers are responsible for sifting through the rubble...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Jerry Brown, Employees, Career and Workplace, Politics
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Factbox: Four key questions in the unfolding IRS scandal
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional and Justice Department investigators are examining the Internal Revenue Service over its inappropriate scrutiny of conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. President Barack Obama, seeking to contain the...Tags: Washington, DC, U.S. House of Representatives, Jay Carney, Eric Holder, Taxation
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PRESS DIGEST - Ireland - May 21
ReutersThese are some of the leading stories in Ireland's newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and cannot vouch for their accuracy: THE IRISH TIMES - Apple has used a complex web of offshore entities, including two Irish...Tags: Politics, Republic of Ireland, Government
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Aegis takes top honors for public service reporting, photo and video coverage
A series of articles and editorials written by members of The Aegis staff about the alarming rise in traffic deaths in Harford County last year - and how law enforcement rushed to address the situation - has been named the best public service journalism...Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Maryland Terrapins, High School Sports, Newspapers
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FACTBOX-U.S. Treasury acts to avoid hitting debt limit
ReutersMay 20 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Monday said the Obama administration was suspending investments in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, a government employee pension fund, to help the nation keep paying its bills now...Tags: Investments, Employees, Career and Workplace, G7, U.S. Congress
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