Author Archives: Tim Martin

A Costly Trip Last Wednesday, a delegation from Iowa led by Gov. Kim Reynolds and public health director Dr. Caitlin Pedati traveled to Washington, D.C., for a meeting in the Oval Office with the pres...

Iowa's governor and medical director met with the president and other officials at the White House last Wednesday, and hosted the vice president in Iowa last Friday. Now Gov. Kim Reynolds may self iso...

MALLS AND OTHER RETAILERS, CAMPGROUNDS, AND MORE WILL BE RESUMING OPERATIONS TO ONE DEGREE OR ANOTHER STARTING TODAY IN PLACES WHERE THEY HAD BEEN SHUT DOWN COMPLETELY BY COVID-19. BLACK HAWK COUNTY I...

On the Friday, May 08, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Republican Party of Iowa chair Jeff Kaufmann Legal analyst and international attorney Loretta Powers Eden Lepucki, author...

It's Not Fair With each passing day, it seems, yet another event or festival long looked forward to on the summer calendar is either rescheduled or cancelled this year due to COVID-19. No My Waterloo ...

Vice President Mike Pence has called Iowa’s response to the coronavirus “a success story” and will visit Des Moines today. Pence is scheduled to meet with faith leaders to encourage ...

On the Thursday, May 07, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Hogan Gidley, Principal Deputy White House Press Secretary Dustin Hoffmann of the Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network with ...

IOWA GOVERNOR KIM REYNOLDS WAS IN WASHINGTON D.C. ON WEDNESDAY, TELLING PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ABOUT IOWA'S CORONAVIRUS SITUATION. STARTING TOMORROW, MALLS, RETAILERS, AND GYMS WILL BE ABLE TO OPEN IN...

Conspiracy Theory We've been talking this week about the nomination process Democrats will use to select a presidential nominee. How's this for a possible scenario. The party will eliminate its in-per...

A Linn County Correctional Center inmate committed suicide by hanging Tuesday. Sheriff's deputies discovered 52-year-old Chad Allen Lloyd of Cedar Rapids unresponsive in his cell around 6 p.m. He had ...