Author Archives: Tim Martin

On the Thursday, June 04, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: New Waterloo Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald (audio and video podcast below) Dustin Hoffmann of the Iowa Agribusiness Rad...

WEDNESDAY NIGHT, PROTESTS IN WATERLOO WENT WITHOUT SERIOUS INCIDENT. TRAFFIC WAS DISRUPTED ON HIGHWAYS 218 AND 63 AS MARCHERS MADE THEIR WAY TOWARD CITY HALL. SHERIFF TONY THOMPSON MET WITH THE CROWD ...

Mask It Up What I’m about to tell you isn’t an original idea, I’ve heard others make the comment this week, but it bears repeating. In the wake of all the protests across America, th...

On the Wednesday, June 03, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Dr. Keith Ablow, about his new book “Trump Your Life” Legal analyst Wendy Patrick (both audio and video p...

Iowa's Governor, Secretary of Agriculture, and both U.S. Senators have gone to bat for the state's egg producers. They've asked the United States Department of Agriculture to include egg producers in ...

IOWA ELECTION OFFICIALS SAY TUESDAY'S VOTING REPRESENTED A RECORD TURNOUT FOR AN IOWA PRIMARY. MORE THAN 500-THOUSAND VOTES WERE CAST; THE PRIOR RECORD WAS AT LEAST 10 PERCENT SMALLER. IN 1994 WHEN IN...

Fall Ballot Yesterday was the Iowa Primary, and while we could have predicted this based on polling in advance, we now have official word. There are five so-called federal races on the Iowa ballotR...

9-term incumbent Congressman Steve King was defeated in a five-person race for the Republican nomination for House District 4...State Sen. Randy Feenstra defeated King in a race that went back and for...

On the Tuesday, June 02, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Twin Cities radio host Matt McNeil on the George Floyd death and aftermath Dustin Hoffmann of the Iowa Agribusiness Rad...

Not the Same Among the silliest things I heard yesterday in light of the riots across America and the continuing pandemic…and there were many…was criticism of Iowa’s governor for enc...