New Year for IRS Brings Hope and Scrutiny in 2014
The editorial argues that 2014 will test new IRS commissioner John Koskinen amid ongoing fallout from the agency’s targeting scandal. It notes the IRS role in implementing Obamacare, questions about readiness to manage subsidies and the individual mandate, and reports of vendors owing back taxes, underscoring calls for accountability and reform.
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Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Congress
Associated Press
Barack Obama
John Koskinen
Tax Collection Agency
Koskinen
Inspector General
J. Russell George Ring Hollow
Lauren French
Politico
Washington
Obenshain in Senate good for GOP cited defeat
The speaker argues Mark Obenshain would better serve Virginians by keeping Republican control in the legislature rather than becoming Attorney General. They discuss Obenshain’s proposed miscarriage reporting bill, its broad aims, a withdrawal after recognizing overreach, and reject claims of a “savage war on women.”
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Shapiro
Mark Obenshain
Rockingham County
Virginia
Obenshain
White House
War on religion debated by secular humanists and Pope Francis
Gene Bigelon, Front Royal, argues there is no war on religion in the United States and condemns wealth inequality as the nation's core issue. He contrasts secular humanism with natural law and cites Pope Francis on macroeconomic justice while urging common ground and Christian-humanist values.
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McAniff
Vatican
Pope Francis
Mr. McAniff
Gene Bigelon
Front Royal
Frank Wolf’s ties to Frederick and Clark counties center stage
Analysis notes that a Warren Sentinel piece concentrates on Wolf’s relationship with Frederick and Clark counties while omitting his links to Warren Page Shenandoah and Avtex cleanup funding. It cites district realignments after 1990 and 2000 censuses and suggests future successors may come from Fairfax or Loudoun.
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Warren Sentinel
Frank Wolf
Winchester Star
Front Royal
Sentinel
Zrank
Page
Shenande
Warren
Frederic and
Clark
Wolf
Frederick
Frederick County
Shenandoah
Avtex
Jay Farruggia
EPA
Army Corps of Engineers
10Th District
Virginia
Dulles
CIA
Fairfax
Loudoun
Land transfers in Warren County and nearby districts
Warren County Habitat for Humanity transfers Lot 5 Block P Marlow's Subdivision Happy Creek Magisterial District to Katherine Butler for 153000. Shaheen Law Firrre Cto Independence Realty LLC Parcel C N River NBagisterial District transfers for 165000. Steven Thorpe transfers undivided interest in North Fork Resort Association to Manuel Stanley as a gift. Virginia Housing Development transfers Lots 3 6 and Block 1 Massanutten Heights Subdivision to TCB Properties LLC for 59000.
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Warren County
Habitat For Humanity
Katherine Butler
Marlow
Happy Creek
Shaheen Law Firrre
Cto
Independence Realty LLC
N River
Steven Thorpe
Mhanuel Stanley
North Fork Resort Association
Virginia Housing Development
TCB Properties LLC
Massanutten Heights
Real estate transfers in Woodland Park and Blue Ridge Subdivisions
October transfers include Josepine Najla Silek to Denton Griest for Lots 77 and 78 Woodland Park Subdivision valued at 225000 in Happy Creek Magisterial District. United Bank to Judith A. Quinn for Lot 7 Lands of the Blue Ridge Subdivision at 25000. Timothy Shoemaker to Lisa Grace Martin for Lot V-12 Apple Mountain Lake at 181000.
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Josepine Najla Silek
Denton Griest
Woodland Park Subdivision
Happy Creek
United Bank
Judith A. Quinn
Blue Ridge
Timothy Shoemaker
Lisa Grace Martin
Apple Mountain Lake
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Editorial
Randy Arrington
Kevin Seabrooke
Seabrooke
TheWarrenSentinel
Kip Ritenour
Kipsports
Linda York
Linda
Todd Allen
Star Traylor
Cindi Banach
Strayler
Pagenewspaper
Wendy Hamilton
Wendy
N. Royal Ave
Kseabrooke
Senate
Jan V. Sickel
Morgan D. Snyder
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