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.

As I-522 trails, why Warren Buffett’s son is singing GMO’s praises

GMO labeling looks like it's headed for defeat, which surprised me. I thought there would be a much more lopsided YES vote in King County from people who demand to know every last detail about the food they eat.
13 years ago

Brock Huard: Richie Incognito is a bad guy and it’s coming to light

Miami Dolphins guard Richie Incognito is featured in the team's fan code of conduct video.
13 years ago

A steep price for some positive coverage

Tony Grigsby, one of the TSA agents who survived Friday's attack at LAX, made a statement yesterday afternoons in front of his home.
13 years ago

Controversial SnoreStop billboard campaign coming to Northwest

A company called SnoreStop, which sells nasal sprays, oral sprays and pills aimed at preventing customers from snoring -- needed a way to get attention. So it launched a campaign to send the message that when you stop a man from snoring, it keeps marriages together. And it decided to choose actual couples whose relationships showed some diversity.
13 years ago

How secure do we want to be?

The FBI is asking for any pictures or video taken around the time of Friday's shooting at LAX - because nothing quite like this has happened at a U.S. airport before.
13 years ago

A CEO pleads with Congress

It was a meeting called the Select USA 2013 Investment summit - an event run by the commerce department to encourage foreign investors to invest in the United States.
13 years ago

Google’s white elephant

The mysterious Google Barge parked at San Francisco's Treasure Island, now has its own Twitter feed. No way to know if it's legit, but on Halloween, it tweeted, "Despite the rumors floating around, I'm not a haunted house and I'm not handing out Kit Kats tonight. Keep away."
13 years ago

The sky is falling

There were so many quotable moments at Wednesday's hearing on the Healthcare.gov non-rollout.
13 years ago

Is it time to de-sex Halloween?

Halloween is no longer the innocent door to door costume parade a lot of us remember.
13 years ago

Are we really turning off the bugs?

European officials, especially German officials, are very angry with us for tapping into their phones.
13 years ago

Computers behaving badly

Now it's Spain complaining that the U.S. is tapping private phone calls. 60 million phone calls in Spain allegedly tracked by the NSA last December. Add that to the French calls we monitored, and the German Chancellor's cell phone, and suddenly President Obama isn't the benign leader Europe once loved.
13 years ago

Is the NSA eavesdropping on Angela Merkel?

White House spokesman Jay Carney has been very clear. The United State is not, nor will it eavesdrop on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's private cell phone conversations with leaders of other countries.
13 years ago

When the roles were reversed

Today we see Republicans outraged over the problems Americans are having signing up for a health care program they voted against.
13 years ago

The tale of two websites

Congress is determined to find out why the new Obamacare website is so bad that even the attempts to fix it seemed to make it worse.
13 years ago

What to do about that sluggish economy

The latest employment numbers basically stink - but don't blame the shutdown, says business analyst Jill Schlesinger.
13 years ago

Obamacare or ironicare?

On Monday, President Barack Obama admitted the Healthcare.gov website is slow and glitchy.
13 years ago

At Mercer Island I-90 tolling meeting, not all opposed to raising revenue for 520 bridge

More than a hundred people came to Mercer Island High School last night to let the state know that Island businesses and schools would be threatened by any plan to toll I-90. Despite not being a fan of the toll, several residents offered up their own alternative ideas on how to raise tax revenue for the 520 bridge.
13 years ago

Not since Moses

There are three new tablets being unveiled Tuesday by the silicon gods - from Apple, Nokia, and Microsoft - they join the tablets from Amazon, Google, Samsung and Dell.
13 years ago

What do we want?

We Americans are constantly being told by politicians what we want - especially when it comes to health care reform.
13 years ago

Another reason to sleep

Of course - there are many reasons to sleep. It's warm and cozy, it doesn't involve working, many times there's a really attractive friend within reach. But this has to be the most persuasive reason yet.
13 years ago

The enemy within

Before we put our national crisis back into the national crisis freezer - to keep it fresh for next January - it's worth looking at what we've learned.
13 years ago

Congress put on quite a show

Tea Party members got the Speaker of the House to accept one of their key demands for reopening the government: requiring Congress and their staff to give up the employer contribution to their health care plans.
13 years ago

It’s always been legal to opt-out of Obamacare

This whole shutdown was about people who felt forced into Obamacare. And yet, there has always been an exemption for anyone who wants it.
13 years ago

Tear down this barricade

Another day closer to who knows what - and still no grand bargain. Not even a teensy weensy bargain.
13 years ago