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Dave Ross

Trump...
Dave Ross

Ross: President Trump says he tried to stop the chanting?

President Trump said he tried to stop that controversial chanting a one of his rallies. Let's look back at the sequence of events.
7 years ago
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MyNorthwest Staff

How the Seattle tourism industry is working to address homeless crisis

With millions of visitors, conversations around the visible homeless crisis are common and it's something the Seattle tourism industry is working on.
7 years ago
trump...
Dave Ross

Ross: Where are the people who love America unconditionally?

Part of the reason America is so great is that when the president says "Why don't you leave?" you can just say, "No, and you can't make me."
7 years ago
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Dave Ross

Ross: Why we should be spending money on space travel

People often ask: "Why did we stop going to the moon?" I remember. It was expensive. But there are very good reasons to spend that money on going to space.
7 years ago
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Dave Ross

Ross: A creative fix for Seattle’s issues with crosswalks

Downtown Seattle continues to be clogged with traffic, and a lot of it is because of the eternal struggle at crosswalks between drivers and pedestrians. So, what if we changed the way they work altogether?
7 years ago
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Dave Ross

Ross: President Trump finds the perfect cast of ‘Socialists’

When President Trump made that offensive tweet about four congresswomen, he was doing what is does best -- casting a reality show.
7 years ago
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Dave Ross

Ross: Don’t let details get in the way of a good Trump tweet

President Trump fired off a tweet suggesting that four Democratic Congresswomen go back to the countries they are from. There's a few details he has missed.
7 years ago
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Dave Ross

Ross: No need for the census, it was there all along

President Trump is not getting his citizenship question on the census. There is another plan, because apparently this information has been available all along.
7 years ago
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Dyer Oxley

Kroman: Why the Seattle Police Department is losing so many officers

The already small Seattle Police Department is losing officers at a significant pace. But one journalist says there is no one reason for this.
7 years ago
Darroch...
Dave Ross

Ross: What Sir Kim Darroch should have really said about Trump

British Ambassador Kim Darroch should have learned from Trump, instead of criticizing him. When you are caught red-handed – deny it!
7 years ago
Twitter...
Dave Ross

Ross: The ongoing struggle for civility across Twitter

Twitter has finally made a rule for hateful conduct. But there's a catch. For this to work, we need the kind of people who don't use Twitter to flag tweets.
7 years ago
Immigration border policy...
MyNorthwest Staff

Washington Rep. Kilmer: US border policies ‘entirely unacceptable’

Washington Congressman Derek Kilmer says the US currently has "entirely unacceptable" policies regarding immigrants and asylum seekers.
7 years ago
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MyNorthwest Staff

Pierce County becoming ‘darling’ of Puget Sound housing market

While the King County housing market continues to favor buyers well into the summer, it's our southern neighbor that's quickly become the place to live.
7 years ago
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Dave Ross

Ross: One way for women soccer players to get equal pay right now

Almost as soon as the United States' team won the Women's World Cup this month, chants started for equal pay. Here's one idea.
7 years ago
medicare for all...
Dyer Oxley

Kilmer: 2 Medicare for All questions Democrats need to answer

Washington Congressman Derek Kilmer discusses the issue of Medicare for All and two issues that Democrats need to address on the matter.
7 years ago
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Dave Ross

Ross: Retiring sometimes requires playing prescription drug roulette

Listener Robert tells me about his extensive journey to find an affordable prescription drug option for his prostate cancer.
7 years ago
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Dave Ross

Ross: Facial recognition arriving soon at your airport

Airports could be the first place facial recognition is used on a wide scale in the United States, to help with check-ins. It's already being used in other countries.
7 years ago
Dave Ross

Maybe tanks do make sense for July 4th

Today we celebrate the Declaration of Independence, but we have to acknowledge that it was far from perfect.
7 years ago
border...
Dave Ross

Ross: If we close the border facilities, where should they go?

What I don’t hear from any critics is their plan for what to do when far more migrants show up than there’s room for. Where do people go after shutting down border facilities?
7 years ago
trump...
Dave Ross

Ross: Conservatives can now cut communists some slack

Even some of President Trump's critics admired his recent improvised meeting with Kim Jong Un. His dramatic step across the border into North Korea was covered like the moon landing.
7 years ago
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Dave Ross

Ross: A legally-rigged election system for Republicans and Democrats

The Supreme Court has ruled that political gerrymandering is none of its business, to the delight of Republicans and Democrats, especially around election time.
7 years ago
Kamala Harris...
Dave Ross

Ross: Kamala Harris could be right kind of ruthless for Democrats

The idea of forcing Trump to stand opposite a trained prosecutor like Kamala Harris could prove very tempting for Democrats in 2020.
7 years ago
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Dave Ross

Ross: Chilling image of immigrant father and child tells a necessary story

A startling image of an immigrant father and child has sparked a new facet of the immigration debate, and it's a discussion we need to be having.
7 years ago
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Dave Ross

Ross: We won’t have fewer robocalls until we have fewer suckers

The plague of robocalls won't end until people stop falling for what should be obvious schemes.
7 years ago

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