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Good Morning! Today is Friday, April 17th, the 107th day of 2026. There are 258 days left in the year.

Today on KXEL Live &Local with Jeff Steina live conversation with America’s Money Answers Man Jordan Goodman… Ben Murrey of Common Sense Institute Iowa joins us live to talk about Iowa population and demographics… Paul Runko, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, K-12 Programs for Defending Education… and an encore of the most recent “Voice of Reason” with Andy Hooser.

On yesterday’s KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein a live conversation with Will Hild of Consumers’ Research on woke insurance companies… Mitch Rolling of Always On Energy Research joins us live to talk about modern electric grid economics… Travis Trawick of FullPAC on how political money is increasingly becoming untraceable… 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.

Remember the Wordsis the topic for today’s Iowa Politics with Jeff Stein.

Here’s today’s KXEL Poll Question of the Day:  “A county prosecutor has charged an ICE agent with assault for pointing gun at people on a Minneapolis highway. Agree or disagree?” 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).

Make the most of your day!