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: Perhaps a little magic can stop teenage vaping

The latest effort to stop kids from vaping is an ad featuring a magician and Instagram phenom. Oh how things have changed.
7 years ago

Ross: It’s 10 items or less, and no racism in the grocery line

Georgia Rep. Erica Thomas took to Facebook to say how a man disrespected her at a grocery store. Now everyone is trying to figure out if it is racist.
7 years ago

Ross: What happens on an urban hike through Seattle

Dave Ross takes an urban hike through Seattle on a hot Sunday afternoon and recounts all the interactions, and scenes along the way.
7 years ago

Ross: The immigrant mothers at the border who chose life

President Trump wants to meet with Senator Chuck Schumer after his visit to the southern border. Here's how I think Schumer should frame the conversation.
7 years ago

Ross: President Trump says he tried to stop the chanting?

President Trump said he tried to stop that controversial chanting a one of his rallies. Let's look back at the sequence of events.
7 years ago

Ross: Where are the people who love America unconditionally?

Part of the reason America is so great is that when the president says "Why don't you leave?" you can just say, "No, and you can't make me."
7 years ago

Ross: Why we should be spending money on space travel

People often ask: "Why did we stop going to the moon?" I remember. It was expensive. But there are very good reasons to spend that money on going to space.
7 years ago

Ross: A creative fix for Seattle’s issues with crosswalks

Downtown Seattle continues to be clogged with traffic, and a lot of it is because of the eternal struggle at crosswalks between drivers and pedestrians. So, what if we changed the way they work altogether?
7 years ago

Ross: President Trump finds the perfect cast of ‘Socialists’

When President Trump made that offensive tweet about four congresswomen, he was doing what is does best -- casting a reality show.
7 years ago

Ross: Don’t let details get in the way of a good Trump tweet

President Trump fired off a tweet suggesting that four Democratic Congresswomen go back to the countries they are from. There's a few details he has missed.
7 years ago

Ross: No need for the census, it was there all along

President Trump is not getting his citizenship question on the census. There is another plan, because apparently this information has been available all along.
7 years ago

Ross: What Sir Kim Darroch should have really said about Trump

British Ambassador Kim Darroch should have learned from Trump, instead of criticizing him. When you are caught red-handed – deny it!
7 years ago

Ross: The ongoing struggle for civility across Twitter

Twitter has finally made a rule for hateful conduct. But there's a catch. For this to work, we need the kind of people who don't use Twitter to flag tweets.
7 years ago

Ross: One way for women soccer players to get equal pay right now

Almost as soon as the United States' team won the Women's World Cup this month, chants started for equal pay. Here's one idea.
7 years ago

Ross: Retiring sometimes requires playing prescription drug roulette

Listener Robert tells me about his extensive journey to find an affordable prescription drug option for his prostate cancer.
7 years ago

Ross: Facial recognition arriving soon at your airport

Airports could be the first place facial recognition is used on a wide scale in the United States, to help with check-ins. It's already being used in other countries.
7 years ago

Maybe tanks do make sense for July 4th

Today we celebrate the Declaration of Independence, but we have to acknowledge that it was far from perfect.
7 years ago

Ross: If we close the border facilities, where should they go?

What I don’t hear from any critics is their plan for what to do when far more migrants show up than there’s room for. Where do people go after shutting down border facilities?
7 years ago

Ross: Conservatives can now cut communists some slack

Even some of President Trump's critics admired his recent improvised meeting with Kim Jong Un. His dramatic step across the border into North Korea was covered like the moon landing.
7 years ago

Ross: A legally-rigged election system for Republicans and Democrats

The Supreme Court has ruled that political gerrymandering is none of its business, to the delight of Republicans and Democrats, especially around election time.
7 years ago

Ross: Kamala Harris could be right kind of ruthless for Democrats

The idea of forcing Trump to stand opposite a trained prosecutor like Kamala Harris could prove very tempting for Democrats in 2020.
7 years ago

Ross: Chilling image of immigrant father and child tells a necessary story

A startling image of an immigrant father and child has sparked a new facet of the immigration debate, and it's a discussion we need to be having.
7 years ago

Ross: We won’t have fewer robocalls until we have fewer suckers

The plague of robocalls won't end until people stop falling for what should be obvious schemes.
7 years ago

Ross: Let’s trademark all the swear words

The Supreme Court has decided that the First Amendment allows a company to trademark a scandalous company name, so let's go ahead and open those floodgates for every swear word.
7 years ago