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.

Did we just barely escape the robot takeover?

Several news outlets have been reporting that a Facebook experiment in artificial intelligence got so out of hand that quite suddenly, the company pulled the plug.
9 years ago

Should we just deregulate fishing quotas and see what happens?

Some of President Donald Trump’s biggest victories were in the coastal states along the Gulf of Mexico where the big issue is fishing quotas.
9 years ago

I sense a political massacre coming

I sense a political massacre coming. But first, some historical perspective.
9 years ago

Transgender soldiers now know how AG Jeff Sessions feels

America’s transgender soldiers now know how Attorney General Jeff Sessions feels after President Trump banned them from serving in the military.
9 years ago

A politician’s plea for imperfection

Sen. John McCain had some radical ideas when he returned to the Senate floor this week.
9 years ago

Talk about a hostile work environment

KIRO Radio's Dave Ross thinks all of us have to feel sorry for Attorney General Jeff Sessions by now.
9 years ago

Ross: We are easily being played for suckers

A cybercrime expert said that Facebook would have known that something fishy was going on during the election.
9 years ago

Willing to hurl an insult, John McCain has also tried to teach respect

Senator John McCain doesn’t want to hear any more “woe is me” talk about his brain tumor, but this is an opportunity to talk about him as a man.
9 years ago

Dave Ross: I wish Senator John McCain well

At the age of 80, Senator John McCain has been diagnosed with glioblastoma, which is the fastest-growing tumor of this kind.
9 years ago

Dave Ross: Voters shouldn’t pay taxes if their vote is denied

President Donald Trump called the first meeting of his Election Integrity Committee yesterday, whose mission is to look for voter fraud.
9 years ago

Was the health care debate all for nothing?

Was the last six months of the health care debate a waste of time? KIRO Radio's Dave Ross says no, not exactly.
9 years ago

You’ll want to stay healthy now more than ever after failure of GOP bill

Obamacare lives, but it's a crippled version because, by executive order of the president, the IRS won't force healthy people to sign up.
9 years ago

Senators are realizing they would be voting for a unicorn

A Senate health care vote won't happen, and there’s a reason for that.
9 years ago

Thank John McCain’s surgery for delay in health care vote

A health care vote will have to wait, this time because Sen. John McCain is recovering from minor surgery.
9 years ago

The big story everyone’s been ignoring

There is a story in the Washington Monthly that may explain why government can’t seem to do anything right. Hint: look to the IRS.
9 years ago

The quest for transparency

We haven’t heard much about the border wall lately, so, on the flight to France aboard Air Force One a reporter asked the President whether he was joking when he talked last month about attaching solar panels to it.
9 years ago

I’d rather go back to debating ‘covfefe’ than this

The Russia story is starting to spin out of control and Congressman Steve King of Iowa has had it. He told CNN the real collusion here involves the FBI.
9 years ago

Why won’t the media cover Hillary Clinton?

Why won't the media cover Hillary Clinton? That was the main message during Sean Hannity’s interview with Donald Trump Jr. Tuesday night.
9 years ago

It’s time this story of a Democratic researcher got a second look

We have yet another story about a meeting we didn’t know about between President Trump's campaign officials and a Russian. It has an impressive guest list.
9 years ago

I did a double take when Ted Cruz said this

Congress returns this week with one last chance before the summer recess to pass a health care plan.
9 years ago

Who really won the meeting between Trump and Putin?

The big question on the US side after the Trump-Putin meeting seems to be – did he really try to hold Putin to account for interfering in the election?
9 years ago

Did Charlie Gard just settle our health care debate?

If we’re saying America, regardless of the cost, should come to the rescue of Charlie Gard, we can’t very well deny medical treatment to Americans, can we?
9 years ago

Whose idea were nuclear weapons anyway?

The UN Security Council agrees on one thing – North Korea testing a new long-range missile is very bad.
9 years ago

Air pollution meets the free market

A lot of people are concerned that the environment is going to suffer under the Trump administration. But maybe there's hope.
9 years ago