The latest subject of our Hoops Q&A series is Washington's Isaiah Thomas, who was the Pac-10's Freshman of the Year in 2008-09 after averaging 15.5 points per game. Thomas, a pint-sized (5-foot-8) guard who got his first name after his father, a Lakers fan, lost a bet on the 1989 Lakers-Pistons NBA Finals, is the leader of a Huskies team that's considered a co-favorite (along with Cal) to finish atop the Pac-10 this season. The following is an edited transcript of our conversation:
Dear Annie: As I understand it, President Obama's economic stimulus package contains incentives for hospitals and medical offices to get all their old paper medical records computerized, which is supposed to produce huge cost savings in the health-care system (and I think it's pretty obvious that it would do so). This caught my attention a few weeks ago when the stimulus package was first unveiled, since I have some experience in the health-care field and several IT certifications, but I haven't heard any mention of it lately. Do you think that, assuming it gets through Congress, this plan to wire the medical world could create many IT jobs? -Tacoma Techie for Hire
A soldier has been charged by the military with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 16-year-old girl who was found unconscious last month at an Army barracks at Fort Lewis, Washington, authorities said Tuesday.
Rain-swollen rivers have inundated highways and farms, towns and parks in western Washington, shutting down traffic on a 20-mile stretch of heavily traveled Interstate 5 between Seattle and Oregon and threatening the federal roadway north of Seattle.
You'll have to forgive Jeffrey Saut if he savors 2008 a little longer than the rest of us.
If you are an urban woman of a certain age, chances are you've spent at least one afternoon in line at a sample sale. They are the end-of-season fashionista free-for-alls where designers try to clear their inventories with deep discounts. Sample sales are the way you get a Marc Jacobs handbag cheap, or perhaps a pair of Sergio Rossi pumps.
The latest crash tests by the insurance industry raise safety questions about small pickups
Baseball's biggest stars are in New York for Tuesday's All-Star game, as the sport says goodbye to one of its most famous landmarks.
The military cannot automatically discharge people because they're gay, a federal appeals court ruled in the case of a decorated flight nurse who sued the Air Force over her dismissal
This week's Diamond Digits focuses on Jayson Werth going off, Alfonso Soriano going yard, and Jeremy Reed going back to Seattle.
The latest subject of our Hoops Q&A series is Washington's Isaiah Thomas, who was the Pac-10's Freshman of the Year in 2008-09 after averaging 15.5 points per game. Thomas, a pint-sized (5-foot-8) guard who got his first name after his father, a Lakers fan, lost a bet on the 1989 Lakers-Pistons NBA Finals, is the leader of a Huskies team that's considered a co-favorite (along with Cal) to finish atop the Pac-10 this season. The following is an edited transcript of our conversation:
Dear Annie: As I understand it, President Obama's economic stimulus package contains incentives for hospitals and medical offices to get all their old paper medical records computerized, which is supposed to produce huge cost savings in the health-care system (and I think it's pretty obvious that it would do so). This caught my attention a few weeks ago when the stimulus package was first unveiled, since I have some experience in the health-care field and several IT certifications, but I haven't heard any mention of it lately. Do you think that, assuming it gets through Congress, this plan to wire the medical world could create many IT jobs? -Tacoma Techie for Hire
A soldier has been charged by the military with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 16-year-old girl who was found unconscious last month at an Army barracks at Fort Lewis, Washington, authorities said Tuesday.
Rain-swollen rivers have inundated highways and farms, towns and parks in western Washington, shutting down traffic on a 20-mile stretch of heavily traveled Interstate 5 between Seattle and Oregon and threatening the federal roadway north of Seattle.
You'll have to forgive Jeffrey Saut if he savors 2008 a little longer than the rest of us.
If you are an urban woman of a certain age, chances are you've spent at least one afternoon in line at a sample sale. They are the end-of-season fashionista free-for-alls where designers try to clear their inventories with deep discounts. Sample sales are the way you get a Marc Jacobs handbag cheap, or perhaps a pair of Sergio Rossi pumps.
The latest crash tests by the insurance industry raise safety questions about small pickups
Baseball's biggest stars are in New York for Tuesday's All-Star game, as the sport says goodbye to one of its most famous landmarks.
The military cannot automatically discharge people because they're gay, a federal appeals court ruled in the case of a decorated flight nurse who sued the Air Force over her dismissal
This week's Diamond Digits focuses on Jayson Werth going off, Alfonso Soriano going yard, and Jeremy Reed going back to Seattle.
Five McMansions were torched outside Seattle in what may have been eco-terrorism. But the locals aren't unhappy
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If you need travel directions, zip him an e-mail at askjoe@golf.com.
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A man accused of wounding six people in a shooting rampage at a Tacoma mall warned in cell-phone text messages that "the world" was going to feel "my anger" and "my pain," his ex-girlfriend said Monday.
A man accused of shooting six people at a Tacoma, Washington, shopping mall surrendered to police after a three-hour hostage standoff Sunday afternoon, authorities said.
How much money would you need to give everyone in the U.S. $1 million, and still have change left over?
CNN.com asked readers to share their thoughts about Hurricane Katrina. Here is a sampling from the responses, some of which have been edited:
The 2005 models of the Toyota Tacoma and the Dodge Dakota received the top safety ratings in both front and side crash tests, the government reported Wednesday, while the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra got the lowest ratings.
Scientists were flying over the crater of Mount St. Helens on Wednesday to locate the origins of a plume of ash and steam that spewed nearly seven miles high into the air Tuesday night.
Weather conditions improved Sunday as crews continued efforts to clean up an oil spill from a broken freighter off Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
The crew of a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter that crashed Wednesday off Alaska's Aleutian Islands is safe, authorities said Thursday.
We drove them all and drove 'em hard. Sedans, sports cars and sport utes. Coupes and crossovers. Minivans and pickups. With cars and trucks being unveiled at a record pace, we tested more than 40 a...
Traditional compact pickups are growing into mid-size models -- and they're also growing up, mimicking the comfy cabs and plush feel of the latest full-size trucks.
Retired Gen. John Shalikashvili, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and adviser to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, is responsive and "looking good," a friend said, after being hospitalized last weekend for a brain hemorrhage.
Retired Gen. John Shalikashvili, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and now an adviser to Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry, has been hospitalized in Washington state after a severe stroke, Pentagon officials said Monday.
I've recently come into a large sum of money -- about $350,000 -- and I'm wondering what's the best way for me to keep it growing so I can retire at, say, 50, rather than 65. What do you recommend?
Two men will share a $500,000 reward for providing information that led to the capture of convicted D.C.-area snipers Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad.
A National Guard soldier at Fort Lewis, Washington, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of trying to pass information about military capabilities to the al Qaeda terrorist organization, military officials said.
Whom can we blame for our nation's descent into gluttony? Pin at least some of it on brothers-in-law and business partners Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins. The two harbored a most innocent ambition in ...
Hail to thee, o drab, faceless bureaucrat!
The little engine that could . . . never had it so good. For three years straight, small stocks have been scoring big gains, returning an average of 27.2% annually, or 11.6 percentage points more p...
Growth or value. Value or growth. For investors who agonize over the merits of the two principal stock-picking strategies, some advice: Give it a rest. Instead, heed Berkshire Hathaway's latest ann...
Seeking a better bang for their buck, a growing number of U.S. pension fund managers, including those at GTE, IBM, and Sears Roebuck, are putting bigger chunks of the $2.7 trillion in assets they c...
You're right. Civic pride is something that we have in abundance here in the Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton area known as Lehigh Valley, Pa. But don't think it's because we wear the rose-colored glasse...
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More and more FORTUNE 500 companies are supporting the Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit group that helps endangered species by purchasing and protecting their habitats. For two years the Conservancy...
I was perplexed by your September article ''The Best Places to Live in America.'' You state that Seattle was ranked first because it scored 73 or higher in four of the nine categories on which citi...
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David Richards, 49, and his wife Lonnette, 43, are of an age when they should be battling healthy cases of mid-life crisis. Instead, they are afflicted with an even more modern malaise: the full-ne...
DAVID RICHARDS, 49, and his wife Lonnette, 43, are of an age when they should be battling healthy cases of mid-life crisis. Instead, they are afflicted with an even more modern malaise: the full-ne...
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