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.

Has Google become evil?

The attack ads are back, but this time, instead of corporation attacking candidates, it's corporation against corporation.
14 years ago

Skin in the game

Tomorrow is the record Powerball drawing. And for the first time, I actually care. Because for the first time, I have joined the office pool.
14 years ago

Promises, Promises

The trouble with making promises is that eventually, you find yourself tempted to break them.
14 years ago

Doctors in revolt

Dr. Marty Makary recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal that every week medical errors kill enough people to fill four jumbo jets.
14 years ago

It’s all about the deal

Who says Americans aren't shopping? Recession or not, when Black Friday comes, we line up. Even when credit is so tight we're forced to save up first.
14 years ago

How much do you ACTUALLY eat?

How many calories is the average Thanksgiving meal? The New York Times Tara Parker-Pope looked into that because there's a figure from the Calorie Control Council which I find incredible -- that the average Thanksgiving meal can hit 4500 Calories. That includes 229 grams of fat.
14 years ago

Saving Hostess

So Hostess may not go bankrupt after all. The judge wants everyone to sit down and talk about it. That's good. It might save those 18,500 jobs. But there's really only one thing to discuss.
14 years ago

Dave Ross original song ‘I want my cupcakes back’

Ross and Burbank host Dave Ross says he doesn't care about the twinkies. But he is going to miss his cupcakes with a squiggle. Listen to his ode to his favorite Hostess' treat, that he calls "a work of art in brown and white."
14 years ago

Why must our schools always be compared with Finland?

In every education survey, Finland seems to come out on top. Finland. And I'll bet you're sick and tired of hearing how great Finland is. But I wanted to find out why.
14 years ago

Is it really about the cover up?

Was someone trying to cover up the details of the attack on our consulate in Benghazi on September 11?
14 years ago

Did the election change anything?

Well, re-election certainly made the president more confident -- he definitely likes his chances against the two senators who tried to beat up on his UN Ambassador, Susan Rice.
14 years ago

Why it’s important

The Petraeus story has started a big discussion about the conduct of American males. But the problem here isn't just another powerful man brought low by his libido.
14 years ago

Now another General

The Pentagon is now investigating General John Allen -- the man who took over for General David Petraeus in Afghanistan -- because of what are being called "inappropriate communications."
14 years ago

People have secrets

The story seems to be: Paula Broadwell, brilliant young woman, wants to do a thesis about a brilliant general -- David Petraeus. He likes to mentor students, he is intrigued. He asks her to join him for a run -- see if she can do a six minute mile.
14 years ago

Go ahead and inhale, just don’t hand it to a friend

On Tuesday Washington State, along with Colorado, didn't just decriminalize marijuana possession, it legalized it.
14 years ago

Too real for the toy chest?

The ads have started; Christmas is just around the corner -- and one new one toy in particular seems to have attracted special attention
14 years ago

Ready for another cliffhanger?

Midnight December 31st, tax rates jump back to the levels under Clinton, and the defense budget plummets.
14 years ago

Well that didn’t take as long as we thought

Election night certainly didn't go as some of our most beloved pundits predicted.
14 years ago

This is it – or is it?

Everyone hopes that the election will be settled on election day, but with provisional ballots being filled out in swing states, it could take a long time to find out who will be President.
14 years ago

Election eve poem

There's really nothing more to say we haven't heard before except that here it is - Election Eve. That magical night when the Great Ballot goes house to house turning undecided voters into little red people and little blue people.
14 years ago

Benghazi timeline

This week, US intelligence officials finally released a timeline for the September 11th attack on the consulate in Benghazi that left ambassador Stevens and three other Americans dead. The question has been: did someone give an order to stand down? Where was the cavalry?
14 years ago

Should the hurricane pictures affect your vote?

Is an undecided voter going to look at pictures of the president touring storm damage and say "I'm so moved by Marine One, he's got my vote?!"
14 years ago

The political storm surge

The Superstorm has started a raging on-line fight over whose side this helps - the big government types or the small government types.
14 years ago

When the going gets tough, the tough call FEMA

Even though the federal government remains deeply in debt, no one's questioning FEMA's generosity.
14 years ago