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.

Why you feel so sleepy

Part of the reason you're sleepy could be staying up too late last night. But the other part could be the way you were trying to get to sleep. If you were trying to read yourself to sleep with an e-reader, you were sending a conflicting message to your brain.
12 years ago

Maybe New Jersey is to blame?

"A small child accessed a concealed weapon that was inside the victim's purse, and discharged it, striking the victim. And she's deceased on scene," explained a police officer.
12 years ago

It’s the wild west up there

This Christmas will be remembered as the year an entire generation of guys got their first drones.
12 years ago

When birds get too smart

Professor Ed Wasserman teaches experimental psychology at the University of Iowa and he designed an experiment using shapes on cards to test the intelligence of crows.
12 years ago

Another year gone

A poem by Dave Ross.
12 years ago

Is Santa a Democrat or Republican?

Chris Cillizza and Phillip Bump of the Washington Post asked various political consultants to consult on the politics of Christmas - specifically, whether Santa would vote Democrat or Republican.
12 years ago

Time’s up, shoppers…

A poem by Dave Ross.
12 years ago

It is an incredible coincidence

One day after the President said this about the cyber attack on Sony's computers, "We take it very seriously. We will respond proportionately."
12 years ago

The show must go on

Sony Pictures is promising to figure out a way to release Seth Rogan's comedy "The Interview" about two journalists being recruited by the CIA to assassinate dictator Kim Jong Un - in spite of North Korea's threats.
12 years ago

Sony is getting hammered

Think about it: the cyberterrorists - apparently sponsored by North Korea - had no trouble nuking Sony's computers.
12 years ago

Tale of two brothers

Brad Woodhouse, a Democrat, and his younger brother Dallas, a Republican - both political activists in North Carolina, were on CSPAN to promote their YouTube Film "A House Divided" which they describe as the story of a typical political family.
12 years ago

Seattle City Council split on tunnel with some calling it ‘boondoggle,’ others ‘essential’

There was a little finger-pointing over Seattle's troubled Highway 99 tunnel project at Monday's City Council briefing.
12 years ago

Bill Cosby’s wife defends him

Bill Cosby's wife, Camille, has finally issued a statement defending her husband against sex accusations from at least 27 women, by one count.
12 years ago

Pets and heaven

A story that delighted pet lovers is coming into question
12 years ago

What a difference a glut makes

Two and a half years ago, we were talking about $4 gas.
12 years ago

A different cop story

In Tarrant, Alabama last Saturday, Officer William Stacy got a call to the Dollar General store where a woman had been caught stealing a carton of eggs.
12 years ago

The most shocking part of that intelligence report

As gruesome as it was, I don't think it will shock many people that the CIA was capable of using torture in the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks.
12 years ago

Bertha rescue efforts suspected in sinking of 30 Seattle businesses

It sounds like the highway 99 tunnel project has entered the improv stage, with engineers still unsure about what exactly is causing the settling in the area of the huge rescue pit being dug for Bertha the boring machine.
12 years ago

Can our enemies really get any angrier?

Today, Democrats are releasing what by all accounts is a graphic intelligence report on the CIA's torture of terrorism suspects in the wake of the 9-11 attacks.
12 years ago

Zoning out in the cockpit

Everybody zones out while driving. You have automatic transmission, cruise control, collision-avoiding brake systems, computer-assisted parallel parking - there's nothing else to do except try to text without getting caught.
12 years ago

Finally – an immigration vote!

The House of Representatives has finally taken an immigration vote, overwhelmingly passing what Republicans called, "The Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act of 2014." And what Democrats called, "cynical, and unwarranted legislation."
12 years ago

Finally, hands across the aisle

We hear all the time that bipartisanship has disappeared.
12 years ago

Maybe it’s not what you eat, but when you eat it

At California's Salk Institute for Biological Studies, researchers took a group of mice, and fed them fatty foods.
12 years ago

They’re looking at you, but are they talking to you?

Last spring, I tried out Google Glass - the eyeglass computer that let you read the New York Times and monitor your Twitter feed while carrying on a conversation. One of Google's eyewear evangelists took me through a demonstration last spring.
12 years ago