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Dave Ross

With the amount of interviews Donald Trump is able to do every week, KIRO Radio's Dave Ross wonders...
Dave Ross

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
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Kipp Robertson

Millions of Americans are ‘fish on a hook’ for gimmicky food

As it turns out, Americans' dedication to work may also be why our country struggles so much with poor nutritional choices and and bad food.
10 years ago
710 ESPN's Danny O'Neil looks forward to watching the Oklahoma City Thunder losing to the Golden St...
Kipp Robertson

Danny O’Neil looks forward to drinking the ‘tears’ of OKC Thunder fans

It's time for people still bitter over the sale of the Seattle SuperSonics to start paying attention to the NBA.
10 years ago
"For years we've been sharing our locker rooms with transgender people ..." (AP)...
Kipp Robertson

Supporter of transgender law says use judgment ‘without discriminating’

The opponents of a group fighting to undo a law that gives transgender people certain rights argue that what is being disputed is part of a rule created a decade ago, and work by the Washington Human Rights Commission didn't weaken anything.
10 years ago
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Dave Ross

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
If Donald Trump has backbone for refusing to release his tax returns, just think about Hillary Clin...
Dave Ross

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
MyNorthwest Staff

Mariners’ 33-year-old rookie is ‘a blast to root for’

He's not exactly built like Griffey or Ichiro, but Dae-Ho Lee has been a sensation so far for the surprising first-place Mariners.
10 years ago
KIRO Radio's Dave Ross wonders who should be giving advice, Paul Ryan or Donald Trump. (AP)...
Dave Ross

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
A group is currently collecting signatures to amend Washington's discrimination law to, primarily, ...
Kipp Robertson

Bathroom wars: Opponent of transgender access says law violates women’s boundaries

Kaeley Triller Haver says the law that requires private businesses to give transgender people access to the restrooms and locker rooms they identify with is "a horrible statement to women."
10 years ago
Dave Ross

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
Dave Ross

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
Erin Jones says the state needs about $10 billion in order to fully fund basic education and previo...
Kipp Robertson

Superintendent candidate says Washington needs ‘a more progressive tax system’

The biggest problem facing Washington public schools is funding, and one superintendent candidate says it's going to take billions to fix it.
10 years ago
There are some who say Donald Trump doesn't have a chance to become President. But based on how thi...
Dave Ross

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
cold civil war, american rights, culture wars, intersectionality...
Kipp Robertson

McKenna: Republican Party isn’t doomed, but probably ‘changed forever’

Republicans are trying to find ways to cope with the idea that their presidential nominee was the host of a reality television show with the catch phrase known "you're fired." And there are ways to do it.
10 years ago
Donald Trump was much more affectionate after clinching the Republican nomination. (AP)...
Dave Ross

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
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Kipp Robertson

Can Seattle make I-5 disappear?

The movement to put a lid over I-5 through Seattle is picking up steam. Stakeholders hope to create additional downtown land and park space.
10 years ago
Kipp Robertson

Don’t want to vote for Clinton or Trump? Washington voters are in luck

If the thought of voting for either the Democratic presidential candidates or presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump makes you cringe, you're in luck if you live in Washington.
10 years ago
KIRO Radio's Dave Ross says any man thinking about going into the women's restroom with ill intenti...
Dave Ross

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
The Washington State Auditor’s Office found 175,000 toll bills bounced back because of bad addres...
MyNorthwest Staff

Ross: WSDOT audit proves your tolling concerns were valid

All of you who have complained about mistakes in your Good to Go toll bills, the latest state audit shows you are right.
10 years ago
Dave Ross

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
Kipp Robertson

Supreme Court rejection of Seattle minimum wage argument is a ‘stunning defeat’

An important decision by the US Supreme Court to turn away a challenge to Seattle's $15 an hour minimum wage law has franchise owners irate and advocates ecstatic.
10 years ago
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Dave Ross

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
MyNorthwest Staff

Voice of Sonics: Seattle council decision sets back NBA 60 months

The Seattle City Council voted against vacating a street in SoDo to build a sports arena, 5-4, a major setback to any chances of bringing the NBA back to Seattle.
10 years ago
Obama Correspondents Dinner...
Dave Ross

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

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