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Dec 4, 2024 | 
ciodive.com | Mike Baker
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Editor’s note: The following is a guest post from Mike Baker, chief information and technology officer at PGIM. Technical debt is the silent killer of opportunity. For many business leaders, outdated technology can be easy to ignore while products are launched, deals are made and business continues as usual. After all, the IT department works wonders, right?
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Mike Baker
1 hour agoThe Trump Economy Begins: 4 Money Moves Boomers Should Make Before Inauguration DayEconomic shifts are on the horizon, affecting taxes, healthcare and housing as the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump approaches.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Mike Baker |Mike Baker
BOISE, Idaho — In the aftermath of the 2020 election, as supporters of Donald Trump scoured the nation for any malfeasance that might explain his defeat, the county clerk’s office in Boise, Idaho, was inundated with queries. Voters wanted to know who had built the county’s voting machines. What software were they using? Did any parts came from China? Were the machines vulnerable to hacking?
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
kansas.com | Mike Baker |Kellen Browning
In a book and in his campaign for the U.S. Senate in Montana, Tim Sheehy has talked about a bullet lodged in his forearm -- an injury he says he sustained as a Navy SEAL during a firefight in Afghanistan. The bullet wound stands at the center of a story of bravery and honor that has added to his credibility among voters in Montana, where Sheehy appears to be on the verge of ousting a longtime incumbent, Sen. Jon Tester, and perhaps flipping the Senate to Republican control.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Mike Baker |Mike Baker
GREAT FALLS, Mont. — For much of his life, Randy Gray knew his hometown in northern Montana, Great Falls, as a stronghold for Democrats. On the banks of the cascading Missouri River, a local smelter purified the copper wire that electrified America, produced by union laborers who were reliable Democrats. So too were the Catholics, committed to issues of social justice, who had followed early missionaries to the area.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
spokesman.com | Heather Knight |Mike Baker |Amanda Holpuch |John Yoon
An enormous wildfire in Northern California has destroyed buildings, left at least two people injured and prompted evacuation orders for thousands of people as it raged in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. As of early Friday, the fire had burned more than 164,000 acres, making it the state’s largest fire this year. The blaze, known as the Park fire, was burning near Chico, north of Sacramento.
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Mar 2, 2024 | 
cornwalllive.com | Mike Baker
Youths are riding stolen motorcycles are using them in antisocial and illegal ways. Or so claims one person writing into our sister print title the West Briton. In a letter to the newspaper, they write that while police say they take these issues seriously, they lack the manpower to deal effectively with the problem. So they have proposed a solution of their own.
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
seattletimes.com | Mike Baker |Mike Baker
MOUNT ASHLAND, Ore. — With gusts of wind howling around Mount Ashland’s vacant ski lodge this week, Andrew Gast watched from a window as a brief snowfall dusted the landscape. It was not nearly enough. The ski area’s parking lot remained largely empty. On the slopes, manzanita bushes and blades of grass were poking through patches of what little snow had landed. Even the 7,533-foot summit — the highest point in the Siskiyou Mountains along the Oregon-California border — still had bare spots.
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Aug 11, 2023 | 
sanjuandailystar.com | Jill Cowan |Mike Baker |Mitch Smith
People waiting for departing flights at Kahului Airport on the Hawaiian island of Maui, where at least three wildfires have been raging, in Kahului on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. By Jill Cowan, Mike Baker and Mitch SmithOfficials were meeting to assess the damage and death toll Thursday morning on the devastated Hawaiian island of Maui, as tourists continued a grim exodus by bus and car to the airport and evacuation shelters.
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Apr 3, 2023 | 
belvyland.arcdigital.media | Mike Baker |Berny Belvedere
It is a testament to how collectively enraging we found the police response to the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde to be that, when the Nashville police department released body-cam footage last week of their officers neutralizing a school shooter with heroic decisiveness, all many of us could think about was Uvalde. On May 24, 2022, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and massacred 21 human beings—19 of them children.
