Good Morning! Today is Wednesday, September 16th, the 259th day of 2026. There are 106 days left in the year.
Today on KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein… Deputy U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Stephen Vaden… a live conversation with Bill Hambleton, author of “The Sacred and Profane: A Memoir of Faith and Reckoning”… KXEL’s Tim Harwood with Karl Kozak of Black Hawk County Conservation on this year’s Hickory Hills Lights event… and a new edition of the popular podcast “Weathered Questions” with meteorologists Kaj O’Mara and Jan Ryherd.
On yesterday’s KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein… “Iowa Talking Points—The Candidates” with Chris Jones (D-Secy of Ag)… a live conversation with Brian Gaffney, author of “School of Hard Knucks: My Three Sons and Baseball’s Wildest Pitch”… Ben Bergquam of Real America’s Voice, author of “Step Into Fear: A Journey from Addiction to Courage and Purpose,” joins us live…KXEL’s Tim Harwood with Sarah Francis of ISU on Healthy Aging Month… and Dustin Hoffmann of the Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network with an RFD1540 conversation.
Don’t forget…the KXEL Morning News with Tim Harwood is on weekdays from 6-8 a.m.
“Find Them On Your Schedule” is the topic for today’s Iowa Politics with Jeff Stein.
Here’s today’s KXEL Poll Question of the Day: “Are you concerned about artificial intelligence, or AI?” Weigh in at kxel.com/poll.
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