Author Archives: Tim Martin

On the Thursday, February 18, 2021 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: KXEL’s Jeff Stein remembering Rush Limbaugh in conversation with Todd Starnes TV9 Meteorologist Kaj O'Mara K...

TWO PEOPLE ESCAPED AN APARTMENT FIRE NEAR KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN CEDAR RAPIDS OVERNIGHT. AUTHORITIES SAY A PIECE OF FURNITURE CAUGHT FIRE. THOSE IN THE APARTMENT WERE FORTUNATE UNDER THE CIRCUM...

The Greatest of All Time We all knew the day would come...and yet, it hit us like a thunderbolt yesterday–the news that Rush Limbaugh had passed away. Regardless of politics, there are a few fac...

Within days of abandoning a plan to hire a private company to establish a statewide call center to help residents arrange coronavirus vaccine appointments, Iowa officials now say they have decided not...

On the Wednesday, February 17, 2021 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: David Connon, author of “Iowa Confederates in the Civil War” TV9 Meteorologist Kaj O'Mara Legal analy...

THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IS MORE THAN POSITIVITY RATES AND VACCINE DISTRIBUTION. ACCORDING TO WATERLOO MAYOR QUENTIN HART, IT'S EVEN MORE THAN GETTING BACK TO WHAT WE USED TO CONSIDER NORMAL, WHICH HA...

The Right to Counsel As a lawyer, I used to be asked often, “how can you represent guilty people?” I would reply by noting that I never weighed guilt or innocence, rather how the facts sta...

Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a proclamation to suspend rules for those hauling motor and heating fuels...this, as a deep freeze across the Midwest sent demand for those fuels soaring. The proclamation...

On the Tuesday, February 16, 2021 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Ed Martin of Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagles TV9 Meteorologist Kaj O'Mara Dustin Hoffmann of the Iowa Agribusiness ...

AN UPDATE ON A SHOOTING AT A MARSHALLTOWN CONVENIENCE STORE: AN ARREST HAS BEEN MADE AND A 20-YEAR-OLD IS CHARGED WITH MURDER IN THE INCIDENT WHICH HAPPENED BEFORE DAWN ON MONDAY. AUTHORITIES ALLEGE T...