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Dave Ross

In this Jan. 14, 2013, file photo, General Motors Senior Vice President Mary Barra is seen during p...
Owen Murphy

Another female CEO is good for business

We have a story that's not only good news for working women, but also good news for investors.
13 years ago
In this March 18, 1980, file photo, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker listens to a questi...
Dave Ross

The Volcker Rule

You remember the financial crisis. That's the thing that made a lot of nest eggs and a lot of jobs disappear.
13 years ago
The TSA agent told Phyllis May that her sock monkey’s toy gun, pictured in the holster above,...
Owen Murphy

Redmond woman has sock monkey’s gun confiscated by TSA

A local woman on a flight home from St. Louis had a gun replica confiscated from her luggage last week.
13 years ago
The current budget negotiations are going well enough, that Congress may finally pass a comprehensi...
Dave Ross

What – no crisis?

It's a little gift from our Representatives in Washington. It appears we are not going to have another budget crisis.
13 years ago
Google apparently has acquired a company with robots that can unload trucks. What happens when it&#...
Dave Ross

Amazon’s drones better keep an eye out for Google’s robots

Amazon with its octocopter drones isn't the only company investigating ways to speed up deliveries.
13 years ago
In this Jan. 12, 2013 photo provided by the family, Doug Olson, right, and his son, Jon, stand toge...
Dave Ross

Has cancer just been cured?

Dr. June developed a way to re-engineer a patient's own white cells to target a specific cancer not just once, but forever.
13 years ago
Will the $15 minimum wage in SeaTac be a useful experiment. (AP Photo/file)...
Dave Ross

Are they marching toward prosperity or unemployment?

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.
13 years ago
Marshawn Lynch has inspired Dave Ross to write and sing a parody song. (AP)...

You’re a mean one, Marshawn Lynch

Dave Ross' musical tribute to Marshawn Lynch.
13 years ago
As frustrating as everything has been for the President, it’s even more frustrating for Repub...
Dave Ross

A lame duck already? No, worse than that

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.
13 years ago
As they’ve learned in Detroit, despite this idea that a pension is a guarantee, it turns out ...
Dave Ross

Can retirement money just vanish?

It was the latest humiliation for the city of Detroit.
13 years ago
Who was that guy who told me about Drew Brees being way more experienced than Russell Wilson? Oh ye...
Dave Ross

Pundits who doubted Seahawks sounded like Karl Rove on Election Night

After the Seahawks dominant 34 to 7 win over the Saints, many of you did what I did.
13 years ago
This undated image provided by Amazon.com shows the so-called Prime Air unmanned aircraft project t...
Dave Ross

It’s become the biggest news since the T-shirt cannon

On Sunday Amazon founder Jeff Bezos unveiled his octocopter delivery drones on CBS's 60 Minutes.
13 years ago
Supporters of the $15 minimum wage want to take march their cause from SeaTac, where Prop 1 passed ...
MyNorthwest.com

Supporters marching $15 minimum wage to Seattle

While the $15 minimum wage measure still faces a recount, the Minimum Wage campaign isn't wasting any time.
13 years ago
On Sunday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York was on Meet the Press lamenting that the Affordable C...
Dave Ross

Which party gets to invoke God?

Often, you'll hear a politician claim to be acting according to what God wants. But God appears to be all over the place on the issues.
13 years ago
What I think is shocking though, is how quickly overeating takes hold of the human body – as ...
Dave Ross

Energy Surplus alert

It's been this week's most e-mailed New York Times story because everyone faces it: the Holiday Energy Surplus.
13 years ago
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Dave Ross

Admit it: You DREAD wrapping gifts

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.
13 years ago
Pope Francis kisses a child as he arrives on his pope-mobile for his weekly general audience in St....
Dave Ross

Is the Pope capitalist?

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.
13 years ago
Dave Ross thinks once people manage to hack their way through the website, many of them are finding...
Dave Ross

A backlash to the backlash

I'm starting to see more news stories documenting a strange phenomenon - positive Obamacare anecdotes.
13 years ago
Voters in prosperous Switzerland delivered their verdict on a proposal to limit the pay of companie...
Dave Ross

CEOs get a reprieve

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.
13 years ago
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives for closed-door nuclear talks at the United Nations office...
Dave Ross

Who do you trust?

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.
13 years ago
The New York Times reports that two psychology professors at the University of Texas instructed the...
Dave Ross

Close your books, and boot up your laptops

Students have been complaining high-stakes testing for years. But what about small-stakes testing?
13 years ago
In this Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, women burst into tears outside Parkland Hospital upon hea...
Dave Ross

It was the crying

I avoid trying to reflect on this day. But there's no avoiding it this year.
13 years ago
The New York Times reports that Capitol Hill employees – and I’m quoting here – &...
Dave Ross

Guess whose website is working!?

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.
13 years ago
Howard G. Buffett has written a book about his work called “40 Chances” – based o...
Dave Ross

What do you do when your dad is a billionaire?

In the case of Howard G. Buffett, whose dad is Warren Buffett, you become a farmer.
13 years ago

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