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.

Ross: Without confidence in elections, we might as well embrace monarchy

With our democracy continuing to face challenges, we might as well do what some of the founders always wanted to do: Set up a monarchy.
6 years ago

Ross: In 2020, grandpa became a TV star

Like most people, I won’t miss 2020, but I will remember it as the year I became a TV star. A small one – about 4 inches high – but a star just the same.
6 years ago

Ross: A new approach for those who don’t want government help

We have this one-size-fits-all approach that assumes everybody who might need government help actually wants it, but maybe they don’t.
6 years ago

Ross: Banner claims ‘masks don’t work,’ but what is working?

There was plenty of time to read the banner over the freeway because it slowed traffic down, but what I couldn’t figure out was who it would be directed at.
6 years ago

Ross: A ‘little-known act’ should not be used to subvert an election

Excluding votes would be known as a coup by everyone – except the politicians trying to pull it off, who see it as simply following a "little-known act."
6 years ago

Ross: Could the thrift stores please reopen?

The kids ask, why do you keep that old stuff? But you know why – it’s because we love you. Also because so many thrift stores are closed.
6 years ago

Ross: A poem about 2020’s ‘War on Christmas’ (or lack thereof)

What happened to the annual "War on Christmas" in 2020? Dave Ross pens a holiday poem looking to provide an answer to that question.
6 years ago

Ross: Breaking the unholy cycle of holiday treats

We eat a lot of treats in normal times. In abnormal times, with stress-baking, it’s out of control. We're helpless. Unless we stop making them so delicious!
6 years ago

Ross: No more excuses, it’s time to finish wrapping those Christmas presents

No pressure, but you need to finish wrapping your gifts – and I don’t want to hear any excuses, because there is no shortage of online help.
6 years ago

Ross: Remind yourself who helped tank our economy for the next election

Download this commentary and save it in your calendar for the next major election, to remind yourself about who wanted to cripple the Federal Reserve during an economic emergency.
6 years ago

Ross: Doctorate degree doesn’t mean you can do heart surgery

Some people are really bothered by hearing Joe Biden refer to his wife as "doctor" Jill Biden. KIRO Radio's Dave Ross clears up the confusion.
6 years ago

Ross: Lock up the fraudsters, or disbar the attorneys

The Trump campaign should pay Nevada to conduct a thorough investigation, find those 130,000 fraudsters, and lock them up. Unless it was all a fabrication.
6 years ago

Ross: As one last try, Congressman urges objection of all electoral votes

The electoral college voted, and even Mitch McConnell accepted the results. But for Biden to become President, the full Congress must ratify those results.
6 years ago

Ross: A Christmas passion play on both sides of the aisle

The logic of the Save Trump movement is now: We have passion, we can fill the streets, therefore Trump must win. But that’s also the logic of the Left.
6 years ago

Ross: It’s V-Day in America as COVID-19 vaccine arrives

The vaccine is here. For nine months we have hunkered down waiting for this day. It is V-Day in America. Sleeves up, needles out. Liberation is at hand.
6 years ago

Ross: Pro-Trump lawyer suppressing his own voters in Senate runoff

Did I just hear a pro-Trump lawyer tell the pro-Trump Newsmax audience NOT to vote in the Senate runoff? Is he really trying to suppress his own voters?
6 years ago

Ross: The gift everybody’s getting this year

Listen closely. Hear that? It just arrived in the mail. It’s not a gift. It is the packing material that protected the gift.
6 years ago

Ross: After health care workers, who gets the vaccine next?

The vaccine has made its debut and soon we'll have to decide who lines up first. Hospital workers and old people get priority, but then it gets murky.
6 years ago

Ross: Reflecting on eight months working from home

Dear Diary: Today marks 8 full months since I was in the office. I think it’s taking its toll. My isolation beard has now reached six inches.
6 years ago

Ross: Throwing out election results does not protect the right to vote

A judge in Pennsylvania dismissed Trump's lawsuit arguing that election results should be tossed because voters were treated differently in each county.
6 years ago

Ross: Trump legal team continues to fail at producing proof of voter fraud

A press conference held by Rudy Giuliani was the latest instance of President Trump's legal team failing to produce any actual evidence of voter fraud.
6 years ago

Ross: What will Trump’s White House departure actually look like?

The president will soon be leaving the White House. The only real question among many Republicans is what that departure might look like.
6 years ago

Ross: A creative solution to fix America’s election anxiety

Elections are supposed to be the ultimate reflection of the will of the people, and yet I think we can all agree that they're creating far too much anxiety.
6 years ago

Ross: A bad day for a local Georgia county election director

A ballot mishap in Georgia yields a bad day for the local director of elections, but a good day for Trump, who picked up 775 new votes.
6 years ago