Author Archives: Tim Martin

A new monthly survey of business leaders suggests the economy continues to improve in Iowa and eight other Midwest and Plains states, but business remains slower than before the coronavirus pandemic b...

FORMER CEDAR RAPIDS MAYOR RON CORBETT HAS A PRESCRIPTION FOR THE CITY AS IT RECOVERS FROM THE SIMULTANEOUS CHALLENGES OF AUGUST'S DERECHO AND THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC. CORBETT SPOKE TO OUR COVERAGE PA...

Words Flying Through The Air When you quote ‘listen to the radio’ unquote…it no longer means what it used to. You may be listening to this segment on the original, terrestrial, over-...

Police have identified the victims of that downtown Waterloo shooting incident early Saturday morning. 22-year-old Da'Curious Burkett of Waterloo and 28-year-old Takeya Hogan-Camp of West Des Moines d...

On the Wednesday, September 30, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Judge Jeanine Pirro about her new book, “Don’t Lie To Me” TV9 Meteorologist Kaj O'Mara Legal a...

A JUDGE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS DENIED BOND TO A MURDER SUSPECT IN A SHOOTING WHICH HAPPENED DURING SUMMER PROTESTS. 21-YEAR-OLD PARKER BELZ OF DAVENPORT WILL NOT BE RELEASED AHEAD OF HIS TRIAL. HE IS ...

Social Media Isn't, Part Two Not that long ago, I talked to you in this space about how social media wasn't...social, that is. It's home to some of the most vitriolic anonymous bombthrowers around, wh...

Cedar Rapids police are investigating after a woman was found dead along I-380 Monday afternoon. Investigators say the body was discovered by an Iowa DOT employee on the southbound side of the interst...

On the Tuesday, September 29, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Zack Smith of the Heritage Foundation on potential SCOTUS nominees Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and state representati...

HARVEST HIT HIGH GEAR LAST WEEK. WITH DRY CONDITIONS FOR MOST OF THE STATE UNTIL SUNDAY, THE LATEST USDA CROP REPORT SHOWS 30 PERCENT OF SOYBEANS WERE BROUGHT IN FROM FIELDS ACROSS IOWA. PRODUCERS HAV...