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.

My eyes are opened

I came home last week and the first thing my wife says to me "You know it's blue and black right?"
12 years ago

Supreme Court – just lie

The Supreme Court heard arguments about headscarves this week. Specifically, the case of Samantha Elauf who was 17 when she went into a job interview at Abercrombie & Fitch in Tulsa, Oklahoma, wearing a headscarf.
12 years ago

Will my Internet get faster?

Computer people are totally preoccupied with the FCC's net neutrality decision. But what normal people want to know is, will my Internet get faster, and will it cost me more? So I asked Maggie Reardon from CNET.
12 years ago

Will people ever get the message?

Back in 2006 a federal judge ordered tobacco companies to print a new warning on cartons which would say, "Cigarette companies intentionally designed cigarettes with enough nicotine to create and sustain addiction."
12 years ago

Guess who else was a war correspondent!?

After Brian Williams got in trouble for his Iraq War exaggerations, Fox commentator Bill O'Reilly was among the people saying the media must be held accountable.
12 years ago

Love, American style

I just want to say, in case it ever comes up, I love America.
12 years ago

Why we should offer free college diplomas

The latest study to shake up the income inequality debate comes from MIT Professor David Autor - who, by the way is not against inequality.
12 years ago

Could search engines decide the 2016 election?

Psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein says according to his research the answer is yes.
12 years ago

Bring the fun back!

From what I can see, and admittedly this is anecdotal, the no texting while driving laws aren't working.
12 years ago

The joy of being ordinary

When you were in middle school, what did you want to be?
12 years ago

What did he say? Remembering messages from beloved presidents

Today we remember our two most beloved presidents: Washington and Lincoln. These two great men are in fact still with us through their most famous quotations.
12 years ago

Pastor: Politics may be leading you to bypass Biblical foundations

The immigration debate has slipped out of the news, but there's been movement behind the scenes, and it involves Conservative Christians.
12 years ago

How many times have they tolled you?

Everybody hates highway taxes. So about 20 years ago, states began exploring free market solutions to raising money for roads.
12 years ago

Little League-gate

I loved baseball, as a kid. I watched all the Yankee games growing up New York. Phil Rizzuto, Bed Barber, and my favorite - Mel Allen they made it easy to watch a game on the radio. I can still sing the "Baseball and Ballantine" beer Jingle.
12 years ago

Delicious food suddenly got healthy

The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee is the panel of experts that decides which foods are good and which foods will kill you. And according to insiders it has decided - brace yourself - that it's OK to eat foods with cholesterol.
12 years ago

The President and God

I keep reading comments about what the president said at last week's prayer breakfast - most of the comments being about this part, "Remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, slavery and Jim Crow, all to often was justified in the name of Christ."
12 years ago

America, we made it without football

We got through a Sunday without football.
12 years ago

Under attack: Brian Williams’ Iraq tale

It was a week ago that NBC anchor Brian Williams told a story from back in 2003 when he was covering the Iraq War; saying that he was flying over the desert ...
12 years ago

You could get sued for not vaccinating your child against measles, but it’s not likely

If you decide not to vaccinate your child, and your child ended up spreading measles, could you get sued?
12 years ago

The physician within

This week, New York State's Attorney General claimed that 80 percent of herbal supplements are egregiously mislabeled.
12 years ago

Does America miss the measles?

I've noticed there are at least two potential Presidential candidates who talked tough about Ebola, and yet are talking soft on measles.
12 years ago

Time to break out of the loop

It was also the day the president presented his new budget and the same thing happened that happens every time a president presents his budget.
12 years ago

Is there life after losing?

So now America wonders, 'What becomes of Seattle? What's left for those poor people but to drape the needle in black and go back to being a muddy logging town.'
12 years ago

Katy Perry will do it in 12 and half minutes

Who faces the toughest challenge Sunday? Tom Brady? Russell Wilson?
12 years ago