Good Morning! Today is Thursday, July 17th, the 198th day of 2025. There are 167 days left in the year.
Today on KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein … Waterloo Black Hawks coach Scott Gordon… Brock Webb of the Iowa Soybean Association… KXEL’s Tim Harwood with Benton County Naturalist Faith Hunt on fireflies… Michael Libbie of “Insight on Business” with Andrew Giangola, author of “Love & Try” about the professional bull riders tour… from the archives, a 2020 visit with comedian Tom Dreesen… and Dustin Hoffmann of the Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network with an RFD1540 conversation.
On yesterday’s KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein … Waterloo Mayor Quentin Hart… Dr. Alexander Litvin of the Iowa Soybean Association… KXEL’s Tim Harwood with Pete Moris of UNI on their out-of-state tuition plan… and “Weathered Questions” with meteorologists Jan Ryherd and Kaj O’Mara.
Don’t forget…the KXEL Morning News with Tim Harwood is on weekdays from 6-8 a.m.
“Action Not Reaction” is the topic for today’s Iowa Politics with Jeff Stein.
Here’s today’s KXEL Poll Question of the Day: “Some national outlets are speculating U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst will not run for re-election in 2026. What do you think she will do?” Weigh in at kxel.com/poll.
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