Author Archives: Tim Martin

On the Thursday, August 20, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Danielle DiMartino Booth on the latest Federal Reserve moves TV9 Meteorologist Kaj O’Mara KXEL’s Tim Har...

New data collected by the National Weather Service shows even stronger winds during last week's derecho than initially believed. The Quad Cities weather service office released new storm reports on We...

Is It Live? Remember the TV ad in the 1970s for Memorex cassette recording tapes? The theory was that it was so lifelike that you had to ask, "is it live, or is it Memorex?" I seem to recall the tape ...

THERE'S ANOTHER DATA PROBLEM WITH COVID-19 STATISTICS IN IOWA. A WEBSTER COUNTY CLINIC FAILED TO REPORT UP TO 3,000 NEGATIVE CORONAVIRUS TEST RESULTS. WEBSTER COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH SAYS THE AGENCY UNCO...

On the Wednesday, August 19, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich Legal analyst Loretta Powers KXEL’s Tim Harwood with Tara Thomas of...

Political Polarization You may have heard me talk with the author of a book called The Politics Industry not that long ago here on KXEL. The thesis of the book is that increased partisanship has led t...

One day after authorizing federal aid, President Donald Trump made a brief stop in Cedar Rapids yesterday to meet with officials and discuss additional help for the city. The president promised Cedar ...

On the Tuesday, August 18, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Greg Edwards of Catch Des Moines about the regional economic impact of losing the Iowa State Fair this year TV9 Meteo...

A COMPUTER PROGRAMMING MISTAKE HAS BEEN SKEWING IOWA'S COVID-19 DATA. THE GLITCH HAS BEEN SHIFTING NEW CONFIRMED CASES TO EARLIER MONTHS OF 2020, MAKING THE CURRENT RATE OF INFECTION LOOK LOWER THAN I...

Job Ads You may have heard the messages on KXEL recently…we’re looking to ad account executives in both our Waterloo and Cedar Rapids offices. I’m not involved in that, but I think I...