KIRO Newsradio Legend

Dave Ross

Dave Ross spent 47 years as a host at KIRO Newsradio 97.3 FM before departing in December 2024. Dave won the national Edward R. Murrow Award for writing five times since he started at KIRO Newsradio in 1978. Dave left an indelible legacy at KIRO Newsradio that won't soon be forgotten.

So who has your credit card information this time?

The December data breach at Target, could end up affecting as many as 110 million people, and Target CEO Greg Steinhafel told CNBC he knows exactly where it happened.
13 years ago

A conservative Republican pushing a higher minimum wage?

There's another ultra-rich person also pushing for a higher minimum wage.
13 years ago

Just when you thought TV had been perfected

Now that we all have gorgeous high definition flat screen TVs, I go to CNN and there's a report from the Consumer electronics show, with a new kind of television.
13 years ago

If he was ‘Czar Inslee’ he would have handled Boeing differently

We know that politicians are ambitious but Governor Jay Inslee dropped a bombshell at the end of Thursday's legislative preview in Olympia.
13 years ago

Even Richard Nixon’s aides knew better than to sabotage traffic

Republican Governor Chris Christie has apologized to the people of Fort Lee, NJ, now that a series of e-mails seems to show his aides deliberately sabotaged traffic on the local on-ramp to the George Washington Bridge last fall to punish the Mayor for not supporting his campaign.
13 years ago

When ‘the worst woman on Earth’ joins OKCupid

Ladies, have you ever wondered if there is any dating profile that men would not respond to?
13 years ago

Is Oklahoma ready for this?

In 2012, the Oklahoma State legislature authorized a ten commandments monument at the state capitol in Oklahoma City.
13 years ago

UW research finds ‘baby talk’ benefits children’s vocabulary

Did you speak parentese to you kids when they were babies?
13 years ago

McCain calls Dennis Rodman an ‘idiot’ following comments on Lynnwood man imprisoned in North Korea

NBA star Dennis Rodman continues his trip in North Korea with a team of fellow former NBA players, including former Knicks player Charles Smith and former Sonics star Vin Baker, for an exhibition game on leader Kim Jong Un's birthday.
13 years ago

Would Jesus vote for unemployment benefits?

There are some people who argue that even if Congress can find the money - it's time to cut unemployment benefits.
13 years ago

Embracing the vortex

By now you know the Midwest has been in the grip of a polar vortex, a perturbation of the jet stream that's pinched off a huge bubble or arctic air, and sent it rolling through the Midwest as far south as Texas
13 years ago

Why Dennis Rodman isn’t helping Lynnwood man imprisoned in North Korea

Dennis Rodman arrived in North Korea on Monday with a team of fellow former NBA players, including former Knicks player Charles Smith and former Sonics star Vin Baker, for an exhibition game on leader Kim Jong Un's birthday, after saying he wants to show that North Korea isn't such a bad country.
13 years ago

Edison’s light bulbs do a slow fade

Let's go back for a moment to 2011. Under an energy conservation plan signed by President Bush, old filament bulbs were being phased out.
13 years ago

The Boeing Affair: It’s Complicated

Just as there was a divide between the local union and the national union, there was also a divide between Boeing Chicago and Boeing Puget Sound.
13 years ago

The evolution gap

Congressman Paul Broun represents Georgia's 10th Congressional district. He's a member of the Tea Party. And a little over a year ago at a Sportsman's banquet at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell, Georgia, he announced his conclusion that evolution is a lie.
13 years ago

Pardon Edward Snowden?

A New York Times editorial says NSA-leaker Edward Snowden has done America a service by disclosing the extent of our government's "curiosity" - and therefore deserves Presidential clemency.
13 years ago

Busting the slacker stereotype

The State of Colorado is legally selling marijuana by the eighth on an ounce.
13 years ago

Why are Americans so optimistic?

When you look objectively at the Big Picture, there is nothing to be that happy about.
13 years ago

What we learned

Here is what we learned in 2013.
13 years ago

The clash between homosexuality and religion isn’t over

The firing of Mark Zmuda at Eastside Catholic is just the latest of a number of similar firings at Catholic schools around the country: teachers losing their jobs for taking advantage legalized gay marriage.
13 years ago

Resolution time

We have come to the time of year when we erect a psychological wall, hiding the imperfections of the previous year from view - so we can look ahead at the New Year as an untouched canvas upon which we can paint a new and vastly improved version of ourselves.
13 years ago

Twas the night before the big game

A poem by Dave Ross and Owen Murphy.
13 years ago

They call it WEE power

I can imagine just such a conversation a few years from now - with the latest breakthrough in battery technology: Experimental batteries that use microbes to generate electricity. Microbes that feed on something all of us produce in varying levels of abundance.
13 years ago

Health exchange – a failure or not?

The first Obamacare sign-up deadline has passed and here in Washington, through Dec. 23, just over 65,000 people have successfully enrolled in the non-Medicaid health plans, which is about half of what the goal was for that category.
13 years ago