Close
MyNorthwest
News
Opinion
Sports
Tools
Connect

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.

Could ‘forgotten men’ lead to more political extremism in the U.S.?

Many of Donald Trump's "forgotten men" turn out to be people who are refusing to work, even if they are employable.
10 years ago

Maybe Canadians want to move to the U.S. for some excitement

Are Canadians choosing to move to America, even after such a divisive election? A dating app might hold the answer.
10 years ago

Families of overdose victims find solace in organ donation

It is happening hundreds of times a day, all across America – good people from families you’d recognize overdose on painkillers.
10 years ago

A ‘disaster for a democracy’ helped get Trump elected

Hillary Clinton is about a million votes ahead in the popular vote. But thanks to what Trump called a "disaster for a democracy," she won't be president.
10 years ago

Member of Trump’s transition team could put us in a ‘world of hurt’

The latest member of the Trump transition team is a member of a conservative group which says the current global agreements on climate change are an economic disaster.
10 years ago

Did the presidential race really set a bad example?

How many times have you heard someone complain that the presidential race is setting a bad example for our children?
10 years ago

Half of us won’t mind if Donald Trump can’t keep promises

Donald Trump is starting to walk back some of his promises and KIRO Radio's Dave Ross says maybe we look the other way.
10 years ago

Donald Trump needs to become beloved as quickly as possible

Because Donald Trump most likely has more compromising recordings than any president since Nixon, he needs to quickly get on people's good side.
10 years ago

Will Donald Trump be the Republican Bernie Sanders?

All President-elect Donald Trump has to do to become a national hero is channel Bernie Sanders.
10 years ago

And they said president-elect Donald Trump would never pivot

Let the record show that a lot of pollsters will likely be looking for work, because there was a hidden group of voters ready to elect Donald Trump.
10 years ago

Thanks to the election, an undercurrent of bitterness remains

Despite things starting to lighten up a bit, there is still a bitter undertone in the country thanks to the presidential election.
10 years ago

How to vote for president while saving your marriage

KIRO Radio's Dave Ross has some advice for couples who can't come to an agreement on who should be the next president.
10 years ago

At least the phone calls will stop after Election Day

Pollster Frank Luntz scared the hell out of everybody watching by showing what happens when a scientifically-balanced sampling of American voters is assembled in a room.
10 years ago

Is this voting tactic a creepy invasion of privacy?

A conservative group called the GOPAC Education Fund has been sending out mailers headlined “What if your neighbors knew whether you voted?"
10 years ago

People carrying ‘I am Melania’ signs will fill the streets if Trump is elected

Melanie Trump is the model of legal immigration in Donald Trump's mind. There are thousands of immigrants who share a similar story.
10 years ago

Imagine if we just picked our politicians by lottery

Imagine if every 10 years we called a timeout, sent the elected politicians home, and instead we picked the House of Representatives by lottery.
10 years ago

Barack Obama is just part of Hillary Clinton’s man problem

President Barack Obama is campaigning for Hillary Clinton. The problem is that people are comparing Clinton to Obama.
10 years ago

Americans are about to find themselves with a powerful role model

The effect of the IRS's investigations into Donald Trump and the Clinton Foundation will be seen after the presidential election.
10 years ago

Portions of the U.S. will be underwater before Clinton’s emails are reviewed

We’re probably going to have to vote without knowing anything more than we do now about Clinton's emails, KIRO Radio's Dave Ross says.
10 years ago

All the fence-sitters can finally vote in this presidential election

Anyone still on the fence about who they should vote for in this presidential election has to decide which headlines they are more interested in.
10 years ago

There are many ways to rig a presidential election

Donald Trump might want to tone down the rigging accusations in the election. There appears to be considerable evidence of Russian involvement in these leaks.
10 years ago

We might as well call health care what it actually is

Whether you repeal and replace Obamacare as Trump promises, or you keep it and fix it as Clinton promises, there's only one way healthcare works.
10 years ago

Voter fraud is not as rampant as Trump claims

Though there is a small amount of voter fraud, it's nowhere near as bad as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump makes it seem at his rallies.
10 years ago

Driverless cars could make mass transit obsolete

Cities might want to rethink mass transit, especially if driverless cars are really as safe as some claim.
10 years ago