Author Archives: Tim Martin

Silence from the Podium Much has been made over reports that the president is going to limit those daily coronavirus briefings from the White House…instead of marathon two hour long affairs, sup...

New numbers from state health officials show several more deaths from the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, as well as hundreds of new cases amid increased testing. The Iowa Department of Publi...

Gov. Kim Reynolds says she’s taking steps to allow elective surgeries in hospitals and open farmer’s markets beginning Monday. A total of 521 new cases were reported today, along with conf...

On the Friday, Apr. 24, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Nick Adams, author of “Trump & Churchill” Legal analyst Loretta Powers Ken Lyftogt, retired UNI profess...

Words Mean Things We’ve developed a whole new language thanks to this global pandemic. First of all, the word pandemic. It’s not new, but how many of us used it in normal conversation befo...

On the Thursday, April 23, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate on absentee voting in the June primary Waterloo Mayor Quentin Hart on the closing o...

Black Hawk County became the first county to have more than 600 confirmed cases of COVID-19, that was announced at yesterday's county news briefing; the county total is now 622, with 90 percent of the...

THREE MEN WHO WOULD LIKE TO BE THE NEXT POLICE CHIEF IN CEDAR FALLS COULD ADDRESS RESIDENTS AS EARLY AS NEXT MONTH. THE CANDIDATES FOR THE JOB ARE ACTING CHIEF CRAIG BERTE, CEDAR FALLS CAPTAIN MARK HO...

One Way Carts I’ve said it here before, I’m not a big fan of shopping even in good times, much less with a pandemic in progress…but I am a big fan of eating, and that led me to the g...

Tyson Fresh Meats suspended operations at its Waterloo plant indefinitely yesterday. The plant is the company’s largest pork plant, processing about 19,500 hogs per day, about 4 percent of the t...