Author Archives: Tim Martin

It Had Such Promise Today is September 1st, which meteorologists say is the start of fall…the calendar says it’s a few weeks off, but no matter. At the start of the year, this had the maki...

We now know additional details in the shooting death of a man involved in home break-ins in Palo early yesterday. 40-year-old Kevin Kawanzel Harris of Cedar Rapids was shot and killed by a homeowner i...

STATE HEALTH OFFICIALS MADE MORE ADJUSTMENTS TO COVID-19 DATA ON THE IOWA CORONAVIRUS WEBSITE OVER THE WEEKEND. THE NUMBERS VARIED WIDELY AT DIFFERENT POINTS DUE TO MAINTENANCE ON THE PAGE. THE COUNT ...

On the Monday, August 31, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Iowa Secretary of State and elections commissioner Paul Pate TV9 Meteorologist Kaj O’Mara KXEL’s Tim Harwo...

A Numbers Game It's hard to trust any of the data being released about COVID-19. At its base level, we don't know how many of those with pre-existing conditions died due to COVID instead of the annual...

One day after a Linn County judge voided 50,000 absentee ballot requests, a second Iowa judge has ruled in favor of President Donald Trump's campaign and ordered Woodbury County to invalidate at least...

On the Friday, August 28, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Madeleine Westerhout, author of “On The Record” Legal analyst Loretta Powers (both audio and video podcast...

Adapting As Needed The COVID-19 roller coaster turn another turn yesterday, as Gov. Kim Reynolds ordered bars and similar businesses to close for about a month in order to flatten the curve in college...

FORMER UNIVERSITY OF IOWA MEN'S BASKETBALL COACH LUTE OLSON HAS DIED. HIS FAMILY SAY HE PASSED AWAY ON THURSDAY EVENING. HE LED THE HAWKEYES FROM 1974 THROUGH THE SPRING OF 1983. IN THAT TIME, IOWA QU...

IOWA GOVERNOR KIM REYNOLDS CLOSED BARS, LIMITED ALCOHOL SALES AT RESTAURANTS, AND STRONGLY ENCOURAGED MASKS IN SIX IOWA COUNTIES YESTERDAY. BLACK HAWK, LINN, AND JOHNSON COUNTIES ARE AMONG THE HALF DO...