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Dave Ross

Alan Krueger compared another government shutdown to “Sharknado.” (AP Photo/Syfy)...
Dave Ross

Ready for another shutdown?

It turns out that even with the big budget cuts that canceled the Blue Angels and furloughed thousands of federal employees, the United States has once again hit the debt ceiling. In fact, according to the President's chief economic adviser, Alan Krueger.
13 years ago
A new Harvard study has great news for those heading up in years. People are living longer with mor...
Jamie Skorheim

Study says 70 is the new 60

If getting senior perks starting at 65 wasn't enough, there's more good news for those heading to the big 7-0.
13 years ago
If vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, raw food or paleo diets get too strict, you can get so afraid wh...
Dave Ross

When eating too healthy becomes a problem

Are you ready for the latest potential eating disorder? Orthorexia.
13 years ago
New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, right, reacts to a question from Peg Brunda during ...
Dave Ross

What goes through their minds?

Anthony Weiner's campaign for Mayor of New York has turned out to be a tougher sell than he thought.
13 years ago
Mark Kessler surprises audience when he pulls out a machine gun during his apology video. (YouTube ...
Dave Ross

America’s scariest police chief

He's been called America's scariest police chief. And apparently it's not just the criminals he is scaring. Mark Kessler is the police chief and in fact the only police officer in Gilberton, PA, population 800. As a sworn officer he can possess fully automatic weapons, which he demonstrates on YouTube.
13 years ago
Juror B-29 had a lot of trouble with letting George Zimmerman off the hook. She told ABC’s Ro...
Dave Ross

She says he got away with murder

Another juror from the George Zimmerman trial has spoken. She's Juror B-29, first name Maddy, a mother of 8 children, of Puerto Rican descent.
13 years ago
On the plus side, as the president points out, “You’ll have the security of knowing tha...
Dave Ross

My health insurance premium will drop by HOW much?

Everybody's worried that the new health care law is going to create national sticker shock. On Wednesday, in his big speech in Illinois the president seemed to be saying, it certainly will - just not in the direction you expected.
13 years ago
Dave Ross says if shown a picture, he wouldn’t know the difference between a spotted owl (lef...
Jamie Skorheim

Government now killing owls to protect owls

Federal wildlife officials plan to dispatch armed bird specialists into forests of the Pacific Northwest starting this fall to shoot one species of owl to protect another that is threatened with extinction.
13 years ago
Maybe Anthony Weiner enticed this 22-year-old unknowingly. In the latest online sex chat, the anony...
Dave Ross

He warned us

Anthony Weiner, former congressman, now candidate for Mayor of New York, warned us when he kicked off his campaign that more inappropriate sex chats might emerge…
13 years ago
Tony Appleton, a town crier, announces the birth of the royal baby, outside St. Mary’s Hospit...
Dave Ross

Why Britain loves its royalty

So another fairy tale begins - Britain's royal infant enters a gilded fishbowl which his parents cannot protect him from, but must prepare him for.
13 years ago
The Seattle City Council is considering a plan to keep all revenues from school zone cameras in a s...
Josh Kerns

If school zone cams are really just for safety, then why not a separate fund for ticket revenues?

If school zone cameras are supposed to be solely for safety, then why does Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn want the money to stay in the general fund, where it can be spent on anything?
13 years ago
The point of WeAreTrayvonMartin.com seems to be that white people can understand and accept that th...
Dave Ross

No, we are NOT Trayvon

Over the weekend there were about 100 rallies around the country protesting the not guilty verdict for George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
13 years ago
Dave Ross

The electricity will have to wait

Dave Ross talks to Robert Zornes about his newly purchased land on the Lewis and Clark Trail.
13 years ago
Dave Ross

Families are finding themselves collateral damage of Obamacare

The President was selling Obamacare Thursday at the White House - dismissing Republican critics who say it's hurting working people. But I got yet another message from a listener who says that's exactly what's happened to her family.
13 years ago
Malala Yousafzai’s holds a copy of the United Nations charter presented to her by Secretary-G...
Dave Ross

A member of the Taliban explains why Malala was shot

When she was 15, Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head on her school bus because she had publicly criticized the Taliban practice of banning girls from attending school in Pakistan.
13 years ago
Rolling Stone doesn’t tell you how he “became” a monster – what mental proc...
Dave Ross

The monster on the cover

The headline says "How a popular Promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam, and became a monster."
13 years ago
The Vancouver man claimed he fired his gun because, “I did what Joe Biden told me to do. I we...
Dave Ross

Joe Biden’s shotgun-firing advice lands Vancouver man in court

A Vancouver, Washington resident and proud gun owner was in court Wednesday for following the advice of Joe Biden.
13 years ago
In this photo released on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 by the Mexican Navy, is Zetas drug cartel leader M...
Alyssa Kleven

Violent cartel kingpin’s arrest doesn’t mean drug war is over on Seattle streets

A prominent leader of one of Mexico's most infamous drug cartels has been arrested. But the war on drugs, along the border, and in the Northwest, is hardly over.
13 years ago
Jamie Skorheim

Man’s retirement property standing in way of $200 million project

Robert Zornes, an RV park owner in Forks, got a little more than he bargained for when he purchased a 100-acre riverfront property on the Columbia River where he dreamed of one day retiring with his wife.
13 years ago
Paris has 20,000 public rental bikes with stations every 400 yards. (AP Photo/File)...
Dave Ross

Why Seattle can’t be Paris when it comes to bike sharing

Bike sharing is coming to Seattle. You're going to see clusters of rental bikes parked in these big clamps that you open by swiping a credit card.
13 years ago
Dave Ross was cruising C-SPAN when he discovered his other side: Grover Norquist the radical immigr...
Dave Ross

Why Republicans will have to vote yes on immigration

If you follow politics at all, you know Grover Norquist. He's the anti-tax conservative who famously said he wanted to shrink government down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. "Raising taxes is what politicians do instead of reforming government."
13 years ago
As the pressure of the Redoubt Volcano builds, the quakes get smaller and happen in such rapid succ...
Dave Ross

UW scientist captures ‘scream’ of Alaskan volcano as it erupts

It sounds like a joke: what did the Volcano say just before it blew its top?
13 years ago
The northern lights are actually a signal of sever magnetic storms, but what happens when the storm...
Dave Ross

Solar storms have and will knock out major tech in the US

We've all seen the northern lights - we all know how beautiful they are - but they actually signal severe magnetic storms.
13 years ago
Florida State Attorney Angela Corey and Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda address the me...
Dave Ross

What happens when the victim lives?

George Zimmerman's not guilty verdict has social media networks spreading the story of another Florida self-defense case - last year's trial of Marissa Alexander.
13 years ago

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