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: Virus is back, but now we have a chance to rewrite the ending

What I think we should all consider as we prepare to repeat the lockdown experience of last spring is that the anger didn’t work.
6 years ago

Ross: What will it take for virus, election results to be real for us?

Do any of us trust anything? Maybe I spend too much time on Twitter, but I sense a lack of trust even in the real people I talk to.
6 years ago

Ross: Post-election headlines don’t sound like the America we know and love

Taken together, the headlines we've been seeing in the wake of the 2020 presidential election don’t sound like the America we know.
6 years ago

Ross: Texas lawsuit against Obamacare seems a little snowflakey

Did Texas really prove that Obamacare does injury to its state in a lawsuit before the Supreme Court? KIRO Radio's Dave Ross doesn't think so.
6 years ago

Ross: Go ahead and throw every lawyer in the country at election lawsuits

When it comes to Trump's election lawsuits, I say sue away. Throw every lawyer in the country at this and let's prove how frivolous this process is.
6 years ago

Ross: Researcher has idea for how Biden should deal with COVID crisis

Job one for the President-Elect will be to crack down on the virus. If you’re wondering what kind of magic might actually do something, this researcher has a plan and it’s not about the vaccine.
6 years ago

Ross: Disturbing to see Trump trying to end the election game at halftime

Trump's Thursday speech inspired an idea -- it would be a new rule for the NFL, where if a team is ahead in the first half, the game can end early.
6 years ago

Ross: No need for interference, Americans are trying to suppress their own votes

Why should our enemies go to the trouble of interfering with our election, when we have our own people demanding we "stop the count"?
6 years ago

Ross: A modest proposal for fixing how we tally votes after Election Day

All the votes are technically in, but the counting process has turned into one giant tease -- here's what we can do to fix that.
6 years ago

Ross: Take a deep breath on Election Day

KIRO Radio's Dave Ross says the important thing now is to breathe deeply and make our system work, because some people are all too ready to impose their own system if it doesn’t.
6 years ago

Ross: Our future depends on couples dating across political lines

The most discouraging story of the past week was a New York Times article that found politics has become a deal-breaker on dating sites.
6 years ago

Ross: Falling backwards is the easy part of the stupid ritual

Just a reminder to turn the clocks back this weekend for what one headline called "one of the world’s stupidest rituals." At least we get the extra hour.
6 years ago

Ross: Perhaps we could learn to control ourselves on social media

We want social media companies to protect us, and yet here’s a senator – in the name of free speech – wanting to stop Twitter from controlling its content.
6 years ago

Ross: The wonderfulness of voting whether by mail or in person

I know election interference happens, but the other part of the story is that for many millions of us, voting is going pretty well.
6 years ago

Ross: No extension for you, Wisconsin

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that for a ballot to be counted in Wisconsin it must be received by 8 p.m. on Election Day.
6 years ago

Ross: Tough questions for both candidates on ’60 Minutes’

The president cut his "60 Minutes" interview short because he didn’t like how he was treated. But if "60 Minutes" was in the tank for Joe, they have a funny way of showing it.
6 years ago

Ross: Even-handed enforcement gets results

The final presidential debate had the exact same rules as the previous debate, except this time, the debate commission enforced the rules.
6 years ago

Ross: Do not base your vote on some strange email

I treat a last-minute political email as an attempted vote-jacking – a thief trying to snatch my ballot. And I defend myself by open-carrying my delete key.
6 years ago

Ross: We can rise above the fatigue and exhaustion

All of us are sick and tired -- of COVID, of social media, of politics -- but a little courtesy on each side and nobody’s mic need be cut off.
6 years ago

Ross: Not one hacked computer was smart enough to alert its owners

The Justice Department has charged six Russian military intelligence officers with a series of cyberattacks two years ago, all unbeknownst to the hackees.
6 years ago

Ross: The street demonstrations every American supports

They stand in the streets. Quietly. They socially distance, and they look like they’re waiting. Because they are. These are Americans lining up to vote.
6 years ago

Ross: Trump town hall like cross-examination of a hostile witness

President Trump’s town hall on NBC yielded some startling admissions under the tough questioning of moderator Savannah Guthrie.
6 years ago

Ross: Holding out on COVID relief bill isn’t helping those in need

People who are forced to move or are lining up at a food bank are probably not in the mood to hear the many excellent reasons why they have no money.
6 years ago

Ross: Judge Barrett says ‘originalists don’t always agree’

The president wants a Supreme Court that will overturn Roe v. Wade and Obamacare, but in Judge Barrett’s testimony, I didn’t hear her pledge to do that.
6 years ago