Category Archives: Jeff Stein

By the Numbers The Iowa General Assembly has now missed its target for adjournment by a week, with the sticking point as always being the state budget. Some are trying to make something out of the fac...

Still Blocked The Facebook Oversight Board made its decision known yesterday...former President Donald Trump is still off of Facebook. But there's so much more to it than that. First, the board admitt...

Quick Recovery The personal finance website WalletHub released a report yesterday on how quickly states are recovering from COVID-19, evaluating a variety of metrics ranging from fully vaccinated popu...

So What *Is* A Fair Share? Now that Democrats have officially put the idea of tax increases on the table...and it has to be a big table, that's how many taxes they want to raise...it's fair to separat...

Got Your Six If you avoided coverage of last week's presidential address to Congress, you may have missed this...but to me, it was an outstanding touch. It's traditional for the president to walk down...

By The Numbers Yesterday was the 100th day of the Biden Administration...and to mark that point, the Administration sent out a so-called "Fact Sheet" entitled, "100 Days In, Biden-Harris Administratio...

We're Tired of This I have had more conversations with people this week alone, who to a person say they are tired of all the political fighting going on these days. These are regular, average, intelli...

A Presidential Address The 46th president of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., will address a joint session of Congress tonight...it starts at 8, and you can hear the speech along with t...

A Shift in Power Preliminary U.S. Census data was released yesterday and it's generally good news for Iowa...we currently have four members of the U.S. House, and that will not change for the next dec...

Second Opinion I have complete trust in my doctor, but any time something significant has come up, he's suggested a second opinion with an expert. So far, so good. The government folks don't want you ...