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.

Obamacare: The final smackdown

The President was on the Tonight Show, and no surprise, he managed to get in a plug for the launch of Obamacare in 54 days.
13 years ago

It’s what’s for dinner

What do you get when you Google "hamburger?"
13 years ago

Baseball finally goes organic

Major league baseball is trying to show us that it's serious about Performance Enhancing Drugs; that it's serious about making Baseball pure again - so that maybe one day we'll get back to inducting players into the Hall of Fame who are still alive.
13 years ago

News read real slow: The Bob Filner edition

San Diego's City Council has voted to deny Mayor Bob Filner's request that the city cover his legal fees as he battles sexual harassment allegations from eight women.
13 years ago

Costco says it’s worth it to pay more than minimum wage

In the debate to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, who is right? According to the University of Minnesota almost 27 percent of fast-food employees require assistance to buy groceries, almost twice the rate of the general population.
13 years ago

The hotter the heat, the higher the crime

It's another consequence of climate change.
13 years ago

Brush your teeth or else

The Internet is full of videos to get kids to brush their teeth.
13 years ago

A 50 percent chance of doing the impossible

While everyone else is focused on Anthony Weiner and Edward Snowden, two members of Congress are quietly attempting to do the impossible.
13 years ago

520 bridge shows us how costly it can be to save money

The state has now revealed that fixing the holes in the first pontoons -- which is still underway -- will cost more than $81 million, and that's not the last of it.
13 years ago

Truth and Consequences

The judge in Bradley Manning's court martial has acquitted him of the charge of "aiding the enemy."
13 years ago

Ready for another shutdown?

It turns out that even with the big budget cuts that canceled the Blue Angels and furloughed thousands of federal employees, the United States has once again hit the debt ceiling. In fact, according to the President's chief economic adviser, Alan Krueger.
13 years ago

When eating too healthy becomes a problem

Are you ready for the latest potential eating disorder? Orthorexia.
13 years ago

What goes through their minds?

Anthony Weiner's campaign for Mayor of New York has turned out to be a tougher sell than he thought.
13 years ago

America’s scariest police chief

He's been called America's scariest police chief. And apparently it's not just the criminals he is scaring. Mark Kessler is the police chief and in fact the only police officer in Gilberton, PA, population 800. As a sworn officer he can possess fully automatic weapons, which he demonstrates on YouTube.
13 years ago

She says he got away with murder

Another juror from the George Zimmerman trial has spoken. She's Juror B-29, first name Maddy, a mother of 8 children, of Puerto Rican descent.
13 years ago

My health insurance premium will drop by HOW much?

Everybody's worried that the new health care law is going to create national sticker shock. On Wednesday, in his big speech in Illinois the president seemed to be saying, it certainly will - just not in the direction you expected.
13 years ago

He warned us

Anthony Weiner, former congressman, now candidate for Mayor of New York, warned us when he kicked off his campaign that more inappropriate sex chats might emerge…
13 years ago

Why Britain loves its royalty

So another fairy tale begins - Britain's royal infant enters a gilded fishbowl which his parents cannot protect him from, but must prepare him for.
13 years ago

No, we are NOT Trayvon

Over the weekend there were about 100 rallies around the country protesting the not guilty verdict for George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
13 years ago

The electricity will have to wait

Dave Ross talks to Robert Zornes about his newly purchased land on the Lewis and Clark Trail.
13 years ago

Families are finding themselves collateral damage of Obamacare

The President was selling Obamacare Thursday at the White House - dismissing Republican critics who say it's hurting working people. But I got yet another message from a listener who says that's exactly what's happened to her family.
13 years ago

A member of the Taliban explains why Malala was shot

When she was 15, Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head on her school bus because she had publicly criticized the Taliban practice of banning girls from attending school in Pakistan.
13 years ago

The monster on the cover

The headline says "How a popular Promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam, and became a monster."
13 years ago

Joe Biden’s shotgun-firing advice lands Vancouver man in court

A Vancouver, Washington resident and proud gun owner was in court Wednesday for following the advice of Joe Biden.
13 years ago