KIRO Newsradio Commentaries

The postmortem on the Harris campaign is underway, and here’s a number that stands out.

According to The Washington Examiner, nearly $4 million went to a firm called Village Marketing. Their mission? Pay thousands of social media influencers to hype up Harris and tear down Trump. Now, at that point, can we still call them influencers or paid propagandists?

As President Elect Trump begins filling his cabinet roles, it becomes clear a theme is emerging. 

Loyalty - the very thing that likely hurt Kamala Harris.

Exit polls show the top issue for voters this cycle was the economy. President Biden’s pointed out that America has the best economy in the world, comparatively speaking. And from a detached perspective, sure, maybe that’s true. It’s been hard everywhere.

Dave Ross takes a look at the election results through the lens of sports, and confirms, you can still be friends with someone who voted differently than you. 

Kamala Harris wasn’t the only loser on election night, Left-wing media outlets suffered a stinging defeat.

Governor Jay Inslee -- the state's most powerful Democrat -- proudly proclaimed yesterday that all statewide offices are now held by Democrats.

He claimed the last time that happened was when Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was president 80-something years ago.

That prompted our Matt Markovich to dig up a familiar tune - to explain why our state is turning from blue to dark blue.

Angela Poe Russell considers some of the impacts of Amazon workers return to the office, and wonders if we are missing the point when it comes to hybrid work

Well, here we are — it’s Election Day. In just a few hours, we’ll start to get a sense of the winners and losers. Sooner or later, we’ll know who the next president is. And no matter who it is, about half the country is going to be pretty upset.

Tomorrow is Election Day – that’s what the calendar says. But there are two problems with the term "Election Day."

No. 1, we now have many election days, because people have been voting for weeks. No. 2, we have developed this expectation that, in addition to being Election Day, it should also be the day we find out who won.

And this is at the heart of the crisis of trust that we’re going through.

I am a dad. That means I worry almost constantly about our kids.

This week, I met two lovely people who made me worry a tiny bit less about how I am doing as a parent.

You may have heard of Dr. David Baker. He’s a genius who works at UW on creating brand new proteins.  He was just awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work. He’s a pretty big deal.

What you may not have heard, is that long before he was a Nobel recipient, he was a kid in Seattle Public Schools. He went to Garfield High School and what was then Meany Junior High.