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.

The race to become the Democratic nominee is still ‘mortal combat’

Donald Trump was practically holding hands with Megyn Kelly, almost wincing at himself for re-tweeting that she was a "bimbo" – even getting her phone number.
10 years ago

Incredibly long airport security lines are ‘unexplainable contradictions’

Over the weekend, the TSA security lines at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport took up to three hours. It was bad enough that the head of the TSA actually apologized - sort of.
10 years ago

Donald Trump’s tax papers hold the secret to beating the system

Donald Trump has a lot to teach us about how to manipulate an audience.
10 years ago

Ross: Use of an impersonator could explain Donald Trump’s changing sentiment toward Clinton

There is scratchy phone tape from 25 years ago which allegedly is the voice of Donald Trump posing as his own PR staffer and calling himself John Miller.
10 years ago

Congress’ anti-opioid bills could be funded by the drugs that got us here

Congress passed a series of bills this week to attack the prescription opioid epidemic, an epidemic which the LA Times says is at least partly due to a business decision.
10 years ago

Donald Trump undermines his ‘Crooked Hillary’ concept with a single refusal

Donald Trump has told the Associated Press that he will probably NOT be releasing his tax returns before the November election.
10 years ago

Is Donald Trump really open to advice?

CBS’s Major Garrett talked to Republicans on Capitol Hill to see what it would take to unify the Republican party behind Donald Trump. It didn’t sound promising:
10 years ago

Ross: North Carolina’s debate over bathroom access is ‘enough to make you wear a diaper’

The federal government is telling North Carolina it MUST allow transgender people to use the bathroom of the sex they identify with.
10 years ago

Donald Trump plays the impeachment card, tells Washington crowd Clinton is married to an ‘abuser’

Donald Trump was no-holds-barred on Saturday when he visited Spokane and Lynden.
10 years ago

Have your birth certificate handy, support for Donald Trump isn’t vanishing

When you hear smart, confident people saying there is no way Trump can win – I think by now we understand what that means: Make sure your birth certificate is in order and within reach.
10 years ago

After his excitement over a hard hat dies down, Trump becomes affectionate

It was Donald Trump’s first big crowd since clinching the nomination. He was in West Virgina – coal country. Love was in the air.
10 years ago

Men going where they shouldn’t might consider wearing a cup

In the latest viral Facebook video, a young woman named Candice Spivey confronts a man who was asking inappropriate questions as she was shopping for a bikini at a Florida Target. “Do you remember me in the grocery store?” she asks. She recognized the guy as the same person who harassed her two years ago […]
10 years ago

Hillary Clinton has a lot to learn about insults if she is going to out-shine Donald Trump

Let the insults begin. Remember when Jeb Bush said this? “Donald, you’re not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency.” Oh, how Ted Cruz wishes that were true. Although on the plus side, it appears that getting trounced in Indiana means he and Donald can finally be friends again. Mr. Trump […]
10 years ago

UW scientist: Third of the population has a susceptibility to obesity

Everybody knows most diets don’t work, but do you realize just how badly they don’t work? Dave Ross explores a study on Season 8 of The Biggest Loser.
10 years ago

Maybe Hollywood conditioned us to brace for a disaster

The high point of the White House Correspondents Dinner over the weekend was the Trump segment where President Obama congratulated the media for creating the story they wanted.
10 years ago

Dave Ross learns an important lesson from former Speaker

John Boehner, the former Speaker of the House who left last October, loved his job. That is until Senator Ted Cruz came along and convinced Republicans in the House that shutting down the government would get rid of Obamacare.
10 years ago

Donald Trump’s past antics are being compiled for an ‘avalanche’ of negative ads

Do you recognize this man? “I’d like to talk today about how to develop a new foreign policy direction for our country, one that replaces randomness with purpose, an ideology with strategy, and chaos with peace,” Republican candidate Donald Trump said. He promised he could be boring and he delivered. “America first will be the […]
10 years ago

Americans fed up with elites might cringe at their choices for president

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton now consider themselves the nominees for president.
10 years ago

It’s only a matter of time before those living in ‘fearful insecurity’ brandish pitchforks

On June 5, voters in Switzerland will vote on amending the Swiss constitution so that every citizen would get $2,500 a month just for being there.
10 years ago

Tough childhood helped Prince become a ‘musical prodigy’

More than with any other artist, the question about Prince was always where does that music come from?
10 years ago

Anyone pining for the ‘good old days’ can just check their wallet

The Treasury Secretary has finally ended the speculation. The first woman since 1896 to get a starring role on US paper currency will be on the $20 dollar bill.
10 years ago

New York tells Sanders and Cruz to ‘fugheddaboutit’

Trump may have had a big win in New York, but he faces steep challenges at the upcoming Republican convention where the rules may not favor him. He may have to start acting more presidential to garner favor with the party. But will that work?
10 years ago

The war on drugs seems to have failed … so now what?

A state representative wants to follow Portugal's example and stop the war on drugs to combat drug use.
10 years ago

How to fill those movie theater seats

Movie theaters have a lot of empty seats these days. Which is why last week the head of AMC Cinemas said he was considering allowing texting during movies.
10 years ago