Category Archives: Blogs

When Did This Start? You'll have to forgive me if I get confused these days. I could have sworn I heard the current president yesterday say the following: "Violent protest is not protected. Peaceful p...

The Second Spot One of the big parlor games this spring has been to guess who Donald Trump will pick as his running mate. I had it narrowed down to South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and South Carolina Sen...

Debate Over Debates I'll put my opinion on the table from the start-there will be no presidential debates this year. That's not necessarily a bad thing; actually, I think debates under the current fra...

Help or Hurt U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson was in Iowa City over last weekend to appear at a fundraising event for first district congresswoman Dr. Marianette Miller-Meeks. The two term incumbent is...

What Exactly Are They Afraid Of? I was listening to a segment on KXEL where the host was summarizing all the various legal issues brought against Donald Trump this year. I won't bore you by going over...

Getting It Under Control Yesterday, I suggested we should not be surprised by the shameful anti-Israel protests on some college campuses. But we also should not let it continue. First, let's remember ...

It's Not A Surprise In the wake of a number of emails from listeners expressing displeasure about a programming change, one of my former bosses here who was responsible for the change said he was not ...

Social Media Update As noted before, if anything is inappropriately named, it's what we call "social media"--because typically it's anything but polite and social. But it is a part of many people's li...

Keeping Regular Hours Most communities have nuisance ordinances...for example, an outdoor concert in a town cannot extend past a certain time for fear of being a public nuisance. There's also the sens...

It's Not A Hush Money Trial After a week of jury selection, opening statements are scheduled for today in a New York criminal courtroom in a case where former president Donald Trump is the defendant. ...