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WSB Sports Director Tony Schiavone says the announcement last week that Major League Baseball is ready for a "vast expansion" of video reviews in 2014 has signaled the beginning of the end of umpires as we know them.
Congress keeps up pressure on IRS
There will be more hearings this week in the Congress on the IRS targeting of more conservative political groups, as Republicans try to zero in on who signed off on the effort as the GOP presses the Obama Administration for answers. These hearings come after Friday's first Congressional review of ...
Johnson's steals Busch brothers' show with All-Star win
2013 Sprint All-Star Race Capsule.
What about Joey?
WSB Sports Director Tony Schiavone says even though the outfield on the big league level in Atlanta is loaded with talent, switching hitting Joey Terdoslavich, playing in Gwinnett, is making his case at getting a shot.
Lawmakers spar with outgoing IRS chief
Two days after being pushed out of his job as Acting IRS chief, Steven Miller told a House committee that no politics were involved in the IRS targeting of more conservative political groups seeking tax exempt status, as he sparred with Republican lawmakers in the first hearing on the tax ...
Good Governing Starts with Smart Budgeting
"A simple and proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong," former President Jimmy Carter during his nomination acceptance speech in July 1976. A local, state or federal government budget is much more than pages and ...
IRS shakeup continues as questions grow
As President Obama chose a new acting director of the Internal Revenue Service, a top agency official with links to IRS targeting of more conservative political groups suddenly decided to retire, as Republicans in Congress accused the IRS of carrying out a political vendetta against Tea Party groups. "Somebody made ...
Atlanta Living with Joel Larsgaard
I had Joel Larsgaard, who is one of Clark Howard's producers , on the show 5/18/13 to talk about what you could do around Atlanta for very little or totally free.
Acting IRS chief forced out as outcry grows
With more evidence surfacing that the Internal Revenue Service had targeted more conservative groups applying for tax exempt status, President Obama announced the acting head of the IRS had offered his resignation, as Republicans in the Congress said even more changes are needed at the tax agency. "I will not ...
IRS report details targeting of conservative groups
As the U.S. Attorney General ordered a criminal probe into how the IRS targeted more conservative groups, a newly released report detailed how one unit at the tax agency created a "Be On the Lookout" list for tea party type groups applying for tax exempt status. The Inspector General that ...
AP letter to Attorney General on phone records
After being notified last week that the Justice Department had secretly seized two months of records from work, cell and home phones of various Associated Press reporters, the AP sent a stern letter on Monday to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, demanding that the information be destroyed and not used ...
Obama on IRS, Benghazi
President Obama on Monday used a joint news conference with the British Prime Minister at the White House to express his opposition to the targeting of any political groups by the Internal Revenue Service and to push back hard against Republicans in Congress who are investigating the Benghazi attacks. Here ...
Congress boils over on IRS
There may be no bigger political target and punching bag than the Internal Revenue Service, and that is obvious on this Monday, as Republicans express outrage over reports that the IRS had targeted more conservative political groups for review of their tax-exempt status applications, and even a few Democrats joined ...
Don't fault Kyle Busch for going for the win
Kyle Busch is getting plenty of flack for taking out Kasey Kahne, as they raced for the lead - but the critics need to quiet down.
IRS blasted for review of conservative groups
Just the mere mention of wrongdoing by the Internal Revenue Service always has a different ring about it in Washington, D.C., and last Friday's revelation that the IRS had apologized for wrongly targeting more conservative groups grew steadily over the weekend, as new reports indicated groups that focused on the ...
Haunted or not? Many baseball players say "yes"
WSB Sports Director Tony Schiavone says the Radisson Lackawanna Hotel in Scranton, Pa. has scared the daylights out of many minor league ballplayers through the years. Fact or fiction?
Tourist Trolley or Folly?
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul," Irish author, playwirght and economist George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), in "Everybody's Political What's What" in 1944. My experiences with trolleys and street cars are limited to visits to New Orleans and San Francisco. Scenic, ...
Federal court defends judicial conference at Georgia resort
Even as automatic budget cuts force various federal agencies to cut spending, a group of federal judges from the Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit went ahead with their 2013 Judicial Conference last week, spending several days - and maybe several hundred thousand dollars - at a golf resort and spa in Savannah, ...
Atlanta Living 5/4
Danzig was on my show and gave new restaurants to try.
The fine print of immigration reform legislation
As work begins in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on immigration reform legislation, Senators have laid out 300 amenmdents to what is now an 867 page bill, covering everything from immigration issues involving same-sex spouses to plans that prevent anyone in the U.S. illegally from becoming a U.S. citizen. Supporters ...
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