Good Morning! Today is Thursday, August 20th, the 232nd day of 2026. There are 133 days left in the year.
Today on KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein…Congressman Zach Nunn (R-IA03)… Adam Finnegan, author of “The Sleeper Agent,” joins us live… Pete Sepp of the National Taxpayers Union… Dr. Kurt Micelli of Do No Harm… KXEL’s Tim Harwood with Ethan Crawford of Hawkeye Community College Red Tails athletics… and Dustin Hoffmann of the Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network with an RFD1540 conversation from the Iowa State Fair.
On yesterday’s KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein… Republican National Committee chair Joe Gruters joined us live… a live conversation with filmmaker Chris Burgard, producer of “Remember the Alamo: Don’t Sharia My Texas”… KXEL’s Tim Harwood with information on the Gary Kelley Artist-in-Residence Program in Cedar Falls… and a new episode of the popular podcast “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.
“More Money” is the topic for today’s Iowa Politics with Jeff Stein.
Here’s today’s KXEL Poll Question of the Day: “The national debt has now topped $40 trillion. When will it start going down?” Weigh in at kxel.com/poll.
Scroll down for today’s KXEL Morning News summary…and as always, contact us via email (kxel@kxel.com) or text (319-235-1540).
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