A group of gun-violence victims - including a victim of the Jewish Federation shooting in Seattle - have sent a letter to State Senate leaders, saying they were disrespected at a committee hearing 12 days ago.
Did you watch that Olympic snowboarding competition? You wonder how is that stuff even possible. And it turns out the reason is because athletes brains are little different than ours.
Unemployed Americans who were hoping to keep getting their checks are just about out of luck. The U.S. Senate came up one vote short of ending the Republican filibuster over unemployment benefits.
The Seahawks' Super Bowl win is even sweeter for 65 lucky people who shopped at Harkness Furniture in Tacoma over the weekend. A pre-Super Bowl promotion means customers are getting their money's worth.
There's one in every neighborhood: The person who is super-prompt about filing his tax return. His W-2 forms arrived last week, and he's already got his return signed and in the envelope ready to go.
A couple of days ago, we learned that Colorado's governor had issued a proclamation, renaming mountains in that state after Denver Broncos players and declaring this Sunday as Denver Broncos Mania Day.
It probably shocked some people, but there was the Speaker of the House clapping during Tuesday's State of the Union Address when the President gave a shout-out to a business that's raised its minimum wage.
If you watched the President's speech and the response, you heard passionate references to America's entrepreneurial spirit. As Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers said in the Republican response, politicians see America as a place where, "no challenge is to great and no dream too big."
Tonight, in the State of the Union address, the President will announce that state of the Union is strong. He does it every year; I suppose to reassure us that this little experiment in nationhood is working.
If you've ever driven I-5 to Portland you're familiar with the old Columbia River Bridge. Even thought it's considered to be in good shape - it's a bottleneck.
Every Olympics generates stories about how the venues won't be finished, or are over budget, or how there's not enough snow, or there's too much snow. But the publicity cloud hanging over Sochi has to be the gloomiest ever.
The world's rich and powerful are gathering this week for the annual World Economic forum at Davos, Switzerland, where they discuss important stuff, like reducing poverty.
Set to the tune of of "Beauty and the Beast," Dave Ross produces another original song in tribute to the Seattle Seahawks and their Beast, Marshawn Lynch.
The only two cities in America where pot is legal are going to meet in the Super Bowl. And there's another storyline too - Peyton Manning, soon to be 38, versus Russell Wilson, who just turned 25. The old guard versus the new guard. The legend vs the upstart. The 6' 5" veteran versus the 5' 11" starry-eyed kid.