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Dave Ross

Rain drops gather on a rose near a teddy bear on a makeshift memorial in the Sandy Hook village of ...
Dave Ross

Are we fed up yet?

Is the massacre in Connecticut going to be the watershed that breaks the deadlock on gun control?
14 years ago
Along the West Coast there is now a debate over whether to build a string of ports to ship immense ...
Dave Ross

Here come the coal trains

Along the West Coast there is now a debate over whether to build a string of ports to ship immense amounts of coal to Asia.
14 years ago
Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III passes the ball during the first half of an NFL ...
Dave Ross

Is he black enough?

The Redskins' Robert Griffin III, or RG3 as he's known, is an outstanding rookie quarterback -- and he was asked Wednesday what does it mean to be a black quarterback in the NFL.
14 years ago
Dave Ross’ question is whether this female superiority can really survive politics. (AP Photo...
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Double check your bungee cord America, it looks like we’re going over

The President is off to Hawaii, with no resolution to the fiscal cliff talks in sight.
14 years ago
A protester walks past Michigan State Police at the State Capitol in Lansing, Mich., Tuesday, Dec. ...
Dave Ross

Blowback

Right-To-Work states are states where even if your workplace is unionized, you're not forced to join the union.
14 years ago
Spokesmen for both Obama and Boehner said the two men agreed to not release details of the conversa...
Dave Ross

What they’re really talking about

Here's the CEO of General Electric, Jeff Immelt, demanding an end to the fiscal cliff tiff: "We need to get this resolved. Now."
14 years ago
Alex Alben, an intellectual property lawyer in Seattle, worries about digital news replacing analog...
Dave Ross

Do you trust that digital device?

Alex Alben is an intellectual property lawyer in Seattle, he's testified before Congress on Internet piracy, and is certainly no Luddite. But in his book Analog Days, he worries about digital news replacing analog news.
14 years ago

It’s all fun and games until the feds crack down

The New York Times reports the Justice Departing is debating what to do about states like Washington and Colorado that legalize pot.
14 years ago
Dave Ross say even though it’s now legal to possess pot in Washington, law abiding citizens l...
Dave Ross

Seattle gets even mellower

It's now legal to possess pot in Washington. But will law abiding citizens really feel free to light up since it's still illegal to buy or sell the stuff?
14 years ago
Even FDR backed increased tax rates for the rich, and Dave Ross says that wasn’t the disaster...
Dave Ross

A little pep talk

Republicans need a little pep talk. Because it looks like they're going to lose the argument on tax rates for rich people.
14 years ago
Go ahead and jump! An increasing number of lawmakers and economists say the Van Halen song is a goo...
Dave Ross

Nothing to fear! Go ahead and jump…off the fiscal cliff

Still no fiscal cliff deal, but Republicans have put some real tax revenue on the table. And we are now seeing some economists questioning how scared we should really be about what might happen at midnight on December 31st.
14 years ago
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Let’s take a break from the fiscal cliff to talk about the end of the world

It's an object called NIBIRU.
14 years ago
“They’re trying to get my face out as much as possible so that they can use it,” ...
Dave Ross

Why not give the company to the company

In 2010, Bob Moore, founder of Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods in Milwaukee Oregon, decided that instead of selling his company when he retired, he'd give it to his employees.
14 years ago
Then, right before the climax, a plot twist, in which the villain, in this case Grover Norquist, br...
Dave Ross

Let’s see how the fiscal cliff talks are going

We have the President's spokesman drawing a line in the sand.
14 years ago
Dave Ross

Has Google become evil?

The attack ads are back, but this time, instead of corporation attacking candidates, it's corporation against corporation.
14 years ago

Police brutality or standard procedure?

I spent yesterday listening carefully to the whole 28 minutes.
14 years ago
Joseph Malloy III, left, and John Dodds, right, with the Philadelphia Unemployment Project demonstr...

Not the home mortgage deduction

Now we're hearing that the home mortgage deduction is on the table in the fiscal cliff negotiations. And that's scary to a lot of us because we thought they were only talking about cutting loopholes.
14 years ago
Dave Ross is hoping one of these Powerball tickets holds the winning numbers to the $500 million ja...
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Skin in the game

Tomorrow is the record Powerball drawing. And for the first time, I actually care. Because for the first time, I have joined the office pool.
14 years ago
Several members of Congress who promised not to raise taxes are now talking about since it turns ou...
Dave Ross

Promises, Promises

The trouble with making promises is that eventually, you find yourself tempted to break them.
14 years ago
Dr. Marty Makary recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal that every week medical errors kill enou...
Dave Ross

Doctors in revolt

Dr. Marty Makary recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal that every week medical errors kill enough people to fill four jumbo jets.
14 years ago
Consumers line ouside the Abercrombie & Fitch clothing store, as consumers line on the early mo...
Dave Ross

It’s all about the deal

Who says Americans aren't shopping? Recession or not, when Black Friday comes, we line up. Even when credit is so tight we're forced to save up first.
14 years ago
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How much do you ACTUALLY eat?

How many calories is the average Thanksgiving meal? The New York Times Tara Parker-Pope looked into that because there's a figure from the Calorie Control Council which I find incredible -- that the average Thanksgiving meal can hit 4500 Calories. That includes 229 grams of fat.
14 years ago
After coming under fire for supposedly threatening to fire people over the costs of Obamacare, the ...

Papa John says it isn’t so

The CEO of Papa John's Pizza says he never threatened to cut employees because of Obamacare.
14 years ago
Hostess may not go bankrupt after all. The judge wants everyone to sit down and talk about it. (AP ...
Dave Ross

Saving Hostess

So Hostess may not go bankrupt after all. The judge wants everyone to sit down and talk about it. That's good. It might save those 18,500 jobs. But there's really only one thing to discuss.
14 years ago

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