Author Archives: Tim Martin

It’s Not Over Until It’s Over We’ve heard this a lot in the weeks leading up to today, Election Day…”at least it will be over on November 3rd”. Hate to mention it, ...

The overall economic index of a monthly survey of Midwest business leaders hit a 16-year high in October, but the manufacturing sector of the economy remains stunted from the coronavirus outbreak. The...

On the Monday, November 02, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Mark Mix of the National Right to Work Committee James Rosen, investigative reporter for Sinclair Broadcast Group, w...

BOTH JOE BIDEN AND DONALD TRUMP STOPPED IN IOWA TO DRUM UP SUPPORT DURING THE CLOSING DAYS OF A LONG AND ACRIMONIOUS CAMPAIGN. ON FRIDAY IN DES MOINES, BIDEN TALKED ABOUT A YEAR WHICH HAS INCLUDED DEM...

Depth of Voting We’ve talked before about how important the vice presidential running mates are in this election. Let’s re-examine that, with some interesting possibilities. Presume Donald...

On the Friday, October 30, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos TV9 Meteorologist Kaj O’Mara KXEL’s Tim Harwood with Robin Pruisn...

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden returned to Iowa Friday for the first time since his fourth place finish in the Iowa Caucuses last February...and he told a drive-in rally in Des Moines that ...

A DRIVER AND THE POLICE WHO WERE CHASING HIM REACHED SPEEDS OVER 100 MILES PER HOUR, TEARING THROUGH PARTS OF LINN COUNTY EARLY THIS MORNING. THE PURSUIT BEGAN IN SOUTHEAST CEDAR RAPIDS, SPILLING ONTO...

Powerful Voters Here's another survey, for what it's worth...and to some degree, it simply reinforces what we already suspect. Iowa voters are the second most powerful in the nation in presidential el...

As we head into the last weekend before Election Day on Tuesday, the campaigns are winding up where they began here in Iowa. Democrat nominee Joe Biden holds a drive-in rally in Des Moines today, and ...