A month ago voters in the Seattle suburb of SeaTac, which basically encompasses Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, decided to force airport business to pay a minimum wage of $15.
This has been a terrible year for the President. His poll numbers are turning negative, health care reform is in confusion, plus there was the IRS targeting of the Tea Party, the waffling on Syria, being heckled during a speech by some guy in the human backdrop.
Yes, you may dread wrapping gifts. But too bad. There is no excuse for a poorly wrapped present. Because in the YouTube Age, there's a How-To video for everything.
Pope Francis has issued a 224 page Papal Exhortation - setting out his vision for the church. On CNN Vatican analyst John Allen pointed out a lot of it is familiar Catholic doctrine.
Swiss voters have rejected a ballot measure that would have required companies to limit executive salaries to no more than 12 times as much as their lowest paid workers.
Over the weekend Secretary of State John Kerry helped negotiate an agreement with Iran to start reining in its nuclear program. He says it's the first step toward ending, once and for all, Iran's ability to build a nuclear weapon that could threaten Israel. Which you'd think would make Israel's Prime Minister happy.
The federal health care website has become a punch line. It's eating away at the Presidents' poll numbers, it's embarrassed Democrats who bought into the promises, and worst of all, it's left millions of people feeling less secure, not more secure.