Crusader for common sense

Dave Ross

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao perform in one of the most anticipated boxing matches in re...
Dave Ross

A victim of its own hype

Online critics are unhappy with the boxing match they paid $100 to watch on TV. Was it worth the price?
11 years ago
A new study indicates that students pay more attention when standing during class. (AP)...
Dave Ross

How to get kids to pay attention in class

Want your student to stop fidgeting and pay attention in class. Make them stand.
11 years ago
Toya Graham was caught on camera forcing her son off the street after he was throwing rocks at poli...
Dave Ross

The kid who was dragged home speaks out

Michael Singleton, the young man dragged out of the Baltimore riot Monday by his angry mom, is now telling his side of the story.
11 years ago
Toya Graham was caught on camera forcibly taking her son out of a Baltimore riot. (screengrab from ...
Dave Ross

The parents take over

Parents come out to fight back against rioting and looting in Baltimore.
11 years ago
James Holmes is on trial for opening fire in a Colorado movie theater in 2012, killing 12 people....
Dave Ross

This is what can happen when no one is looking

James Holmes was sending out warning signals right under our noses. He warned a psychiatrist, his ex-girlfriend, and a fellow grad student that he was over the edge.
11 years ago
Professor Alan Abramowitz has co-authored a new study which finds that the cultural divide between ...
Dave Ross

The last taboo

Time to rebel against America's political divide, which is wider now than it has been in the last century.
11 years ago
A U.S. Marshal is caught on video smashing the cell phone of Beatriz Paez. (Youtube screengrab)...
Dave Ross

What are your rights when filming the police?

A U.S. Marshal smashed the cell phone of an Los Angeles woman who was filming law enforcement.
11 years ago
Dave Ross says we need individual wake-up calls for every neighborhood. (AP)...
Dave Ross

Every neighborhood needs its own wake-up call

Neighbors in Everett were annoyed by the naval base's louder national anthem. I like the idea of neighborhood buglers. It reminds you of summer camp.
11 years ago
A doctor whose study is published in the “British Journal of Sports Medicine” says the ...
Dave Ross

Doctor finds what may be the secret to good health

There's a new diet study that actually confirms what we've been hearing lately.
11 years ago
Hillary Clinton holds a round table discussion with employees at Whitney Brothers furniture factory...
Dave Ross

Questions for Hillary Clinton … without answers

Hillary Clinton stopped by a New Hampshire furniture factory and talked around the issue of retirement security.
11 years ago
Charging documents tell a story of Somalian parents who typically have no idea what their sons are ...
Dave Ross

It’s better to be locked up, than lying dead on a battlefield

Six Minnesota men have been charged with providing support for a terrorist organization by making plans to join the fighters in Syria.
11 years ago
The FBI is officially acknowledging mistakes made in hair analysis over decades. (AP)...
Dave Ross

A reminder that gullibility can cut both ways

This story is a reminder that gullibility can cut both ways. And that sometimes the technicality we're talking about is something called innocence.
11 years ago
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It’s been called ‘the biggest open question in TV history’

For a writer like David Chase, any contrived Hollywood closure is like Ipecac. He avoids it at any cost. And I get that because that's how life is.
11 years ago
A member of a bomb squad checks a small helicopter after Doug Hughes landed on the West Lawn of the...
Dave Ross

An alien landing craft spotted at U.S. Capitol

A 61-year-old mailman from Ruskin, Fla. managed to land his a one-man gyrocopter on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
11 years ago
Dan Price, wealth tax billionaires...
Dave Ross

Is this man killing capitalism or saving it?

Supporters say $15 minimum wage is long overdue; opponents say it'll kill capitalism as we know it. And then there's CEO Dan Price.
11 years ago
Two children were picked up by police after their dad left them to play alone at a public playgroun...
Dave Ross

Free-range parents worried by strangers trying to protect their children

For free-range parents, there is something much scarier than the predators who want to kidnap their kids; and that's the strangers trying to protect them.
11 years ago
Dave Ross says he’s not sure what he would do if he was sitting in his proper seat on an airp...
Dave Ross

Religious beliefs prompt seat change

I'm not sure what I would do if I was sitting in my proper seat on an airplane and someone asked me to move because of my sex. But apparently such things do happen.
12 years ago
A travel company is running a contest to rescue the Danish birthrate, which is the lowest in 27 yea...
Dave Ross

Do it for Denmark

"Can sex save Denmark's future," asks a promotional video from a Danish Travel company. It's running a contest to rescue the Danish birthrate, which is the lowest in 27 years.
12 years ago
The reviews of the Apple Watch are in. Dave Ross reviews the reviews. (AP)...
Dave Ross

Reviewing the Apple Watch reviews

The reviews of the Apple Watch are in. So Dave Ross reviews the reviews.
12 years ago
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Dave Ross

Let’s do a little battery experiment

Why would a Stanford researcher want to drill a hole through a battery he just invented?
12 years ago
This aerial photo taken Friday shows the Porcupine Creek Golf Club bordering the desert in Rancho M...
Dave Ross

Droughts and growing population leading to drastic drinking water measures

With the Southwest becoming home to more people and less water, reused sewage water is becoming closer and closer to a reality.
12 years ago
California Governor Jerry Brown ordered a mandatory 25 percent cutback in water use by cities and t...
Dave Ross

Dave Ross: Here’s how to stay happy during a drought

Here's How to stop worrying and love the California drought.
12 years ago
Dave Ross says a law that was intended to allow businesses in Indiana to invoke religion as a defen...
Dave Ross

Indiana channels its inner San Francisco

When Governor Mike Pence of Indiana signed the state's religious freedom bill last week, the idea was to protect businesses like Memories Pizza in the little town of Walkerton.
12 years ago
McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook said a motivated work force leads to better customer service...
Dave Ross

Why is McDonald’s raising its wages?

McDonald's is the latest to announce a wage increase for employees in the 1,5400 outlets that it operates. That affects about 90,000 employees and means Seattle workers will make $12 an hour. But why?
12 years ago

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