Dave Ross
The clash between homosexuality and religion isn’t over
The firing of Mark Zmuda at Eastside Catholic is just the latest of a number of similar firings at Catholic schools around the country: teachers losing their jobs for taking advantage legalized gay marriage.13 years ago
Dave Ross
Resolution time
We have come to the time of year when we erect a psychological wall, hiding the imperfections of the previous year from view - so we can look ahead at the New Year as an untouched canvas upon which we can paint a new and vastly improved version of ourselves.13 years ago
Dave Ross
They call it WEE power
I can imagine just such a conversation a few years from now - with the latest breakthrough in battery technology: Experimental batteries that use microbes to generate electricity. Microbes that feed on something all of us produce in varying levels of abundance.13 years ago
Dave Ross
Health exchange – a failure or not?
The first Obamacare sign-up deadline has passed and here in Washington, through Dec. 23, just over 65,000 people have successfully enrolled in the non-Medicaid health plans, which is about half of what the goal was for that category.13 years ago
Dave Ross
A Christmas message from Edward Snowden?
If the President and the Queen can send a Christmas message, why not Edward Snowden - the man who outed the NSA's online snooping operation.13 years ago
When ‘Happy Holidays’ aren’t
There are people who dread Christmas because of all the enforced happiness.13 years ago
Dave Ross
Welcome to church, whoever you are!
I know that this may sound more like the Festivus tradition of the Airing of the Grievances than Christmas. But if you want proof that this War on Christmas is made up, just try to get a seat at Midnight Mass at my church.13 years ago
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Travel specialist offers tips to manage holiday air travel bumps
More than 45 million people are expected to fly nationwide this holiday season. Travel expert Steve Danishek has some advice should you hit any trouble.13 years ago
Dave Ross
Would Boeing execs be willing to take a dose of their own medicine?
Aerospace reporter Dominic Gates pointed out in The Seattle Times Sunday that everything Boeing has demanded of states that want the 777X already exist in Everett: the subcontractors, land for expansion, tax breaks, a streamlined permit process, and a trained, solid work force.13 years ago
Dave Ross
Saving Christmas
The annual news stories about the War on Christmas are presumably intended to protect the true meaning of Christmas. However, if you look on-line, the debate about Christmas is getting bigger than Christmas itself.13 years ago
A reality show star gets a little too real
Duck Dynasty is the hit reality show that follows the quirky but lovable Robertson family of West Monroe, Louisiana, who've made a fortune selling hand-made duck calls.13 years ago
Dave Ross
Machinists need a visit from the ghost of Christmas future
Last week I said the Machinists should tell us their plan B. And Wednesday, at a demonstration outside the Machinists union hall in Everett, executive board member Lester Mullen made his case.13 years ago
Dave Ross
We are drowning in good news
For listeners always e-mailing "Why don't you report some good news once in a while" how about this.13 years ago
Dave Ross
Seattle City Council hears unique proposal when couple gets engaged at meeting
Brett Horvath and Berit Anderson have been dating for four years - and as young people do these days, Brett wanted to make his proposal special.13 years ago
Dave Ross
The Boeing Machinists have a point
One of the main gripes of the Boeing machinists who voted "no" on Boeing's offer to keep the 777X work in the Puget Sound, is that at the same time the company is ending the traditional retirement plan, it's also making enough money for a big stock buyback - and is increasing the shareholder dividend by 50 percent.13 years ago
Dave Ross
Trolling the NSA
Critics of the National Security Agency will tell you that there's no proof that the NSA's surveillance of phone records has stopped even one terrorist attack.13 years ago
Almost Orwellian
Sunday on 60 minutes, National Security Agency director Keith Alexander described the NSA's surveillance program - and made it sound reasonable.13 years ago
Dave Ross
Dreaming of a white Santa
Megyn Kelly is defending last week's comment on Fox News that Santa is white. She points out it was merely her tongue-in-cheek response to a tongue-in-cheek op-ed written by an African American who was lamenting that very fact - that in America, anyway.13 years ago
Dave Ross
What was the secret?
This week, the House easily approved that budget deal between Democrat Patty Murray and Republican Paul Ryan -- which did leave out some big programs, but it was the first budget agreement since 2009.13 years ago
Could the neighbors have prevented Newtown?
In the since the Sandy Hook Massacre, Daily News reporter Matt Lysiak actually lived in Newtown Connecticut writing a book about whether this tragedy could have been prevented.13 years ago
Dave Ross
It looks like a temper tantrum
This, of course, plays right into the hands of people who've argued unions are out of touch with economic reality - because it sure looks that way from the outside.13 years ago
Dave Ross
How a bill becomes … a cow
Peter Schweizer, who runs the Government Accountability Institute, is out with another book about how Congress really works. This one is called "Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets," not that what the members are doing is illegal - because Congress has seen to that.13 years ago
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