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.

We’re talkin’ 30 years people

I bring up tax reform again to remind us all that it’s been 30 years since Congress passed a tax reform plan this big.
9 years ago

Let’s just beta test the tax reform plan before it passes

While the rest of you have been living normal lives, I’ve been listening to the House Ways and Means Committee tax reform debate.
9 years ago

I get the sense there’s a clock ticking

For a man who famously does not want to say what might happen next, President Trump dropped a pretty strong hint as to what we could expect.
9 years ago

Are you sure you’re in the middle class?

Congress has started debating how much tax you’ll be paying next year. Let’s eavesdrop and see how it’s going.
9 years ago

What we learned from terrible shooting in Texas

We did learn something from Sunday's terrible shooting in a small Texas town: a good guy with a gun can stop a massacre from getting worse.
9 years ago

Sabotaging Democracy?

Most people seem to accept that the Russian government has been trying to sabotage democracy by manipulating us into hating each other, which is why Congress held three hearings last week to bludgeon Facebook, Google, and Twitter into doing something about it.
9 years ago

Good luck understanding all the numbers

The Republicans came out first with their tax reform numbers. Then along come the Democrats with metaphor du jour. KIRO Radio's Dave Ross explains.
9 years ago

Why not just troll the Internet trolls?

During this week‘s hearings into those Russian-funded social media ads, Facebook’s lawyer seemed thoroughly apologetic.
9 years ago

The two words that change everything

The attack in New York that killed eight people was very quickly diagnosed by a number of commentators because of two words.
9 years ago

Paul Manafort and his pot of gold

The charging documents against Paul Manafort have us all wondering whether this will ultimately lead to the president himself.
9 years ago

Solving homelessness, poverty, health care costs all at once

How do you solve homelessness, poverty, and the spiraling costs of healthcare in the United States with just one solution?
9 years ago

Should Moana be demanding candy?

There’s an Internet debate over whether little girls can dress as Moana for Halloween, even if they’re not Polynesian.
9 years ago

There’s a way to respect the law without being jerks

In America, we believe the law applies to everyone, even children who need emergency surgery in order to live.
9 years ago

An ode to Amazon Key

This is a watershed moment. Because if Amazon Key catches on, it will mean we now trust Amazon more than Santa Claus.
9 years ago

So much for withdrawing from the world

When Donald Trump was elected on his America First platform, many people worried we would withdraw from the world.
9 years ago

Slipping into the future

I now have a personal robot. And a strange thing has happened. I’ve started saying goodbye to it in the morning.
9 years ago

Dave Ross finally gets a robot

Regular KIRO Radio listeners know I've been an early adopter of any reasonably-priced new technology.
9 years ago

There’s a virus of distrust spreading through the U.S.

Distrust is what happens when people are programmed to automatically assume the worst of each other.
9 years ago

This is the perfect metaphor for our health care situation

Is Congress doing anything about prescription drug prices?
9 years ago

The ethical knob?

As we all know, in a few years, we won’t have to drive anymore because intelligent cars will drive themselves.
9 years ago

The president delivers a punch below the belt

The president seemed to punch below the belt at Monday's news conference when he said his predecessors may not have honored fallen soldiers.
9 years ago

Listen: ‘Zip with me’

Last week, we were trying to figure out a way to help the Washington State Department of Transportation impress upon drivers the importance of the zipper merge.
9 years ago

The real power of the NRA

There is still no appetite in Congress for further restrictions on weapons, now two weeks after the Las Vegas attack.
9 years ago

The U.S. general who can win without fighting

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly gave reporters a bit of surprise on Thursday when he held the daily press briefing.
9 years ago