Category Archives: Jeff Stein

Another Year   So my personal odometer clicked ahead yesterday...another birthday come and gone. At this point, I'm just glad they are still coming, and that I can still remember how many there h...

Pass Something   Amid all the high-fiving and congratulatory back-slapping following President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress this past Tuesday, Republicans are sort of forgetting...

Feeding the World   This past Monday, I was recording our monthly conversation with U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley just as President Trump posted to Truth Social, telling America's farmers to get rea...

Pay Down The Debt   The idea has been floated that the Department on Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has found so much waste and therefore so much savings, that some of it should be returned to t...

Last Hired, First Fired Losing one's job is tough. Knowing that someone has lost their job is also not pleasant. And even though the government is massively in debt and needs to take drastic action to...

A Good Mood As you probably know, I spent the last three days at the Hawkeye Farm Show at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls. As always, it was so good to talk with so many of you, familiar faces after the p...

The Line We've talked about this before, but it bears repeating. Political movements swing over time. You may have a seemingly untouchable majority now, and lose it as soon as the next election depend...

Fiscal Restraint Last night, the U.S. House passed a big beautiful bill, as the President termed the concept. It's different from a measure on the topic passed by the Senate, so now it's off to a conf...

Accidental Stereo There are times that I use this space to talk about things related to the radio station. This is one of those times. As you might expect, there are a lot of moving parts to keeping t...

What Did You Do Last Week?   Anyone who has worked in business has no doubt at one time or another been asked to in essence justify their existence to a boss. When I first started practicing law,...