Category Archives: Jeff Stein

No Coincidence Continued confusion from Washington last week...at various times, we heard all of the following--be sure to get the shot so you can be free, but even if you have the shot you have to we...

Working Together Permit me one more reference to RAGBRAI, the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, which finishes tomorrow after a sweltering week, and after a year off for COVID. Waterlo...

The Future of the GOP A new Associated Press telephone poll of 1,308 U.S. adults conducted during the middle of this month shows that more than 80 percent of Republicans say former President Donald Tr...

I'm Not A Doctor...and I Don't Play One on the Radio And that's why it's not my place...or the place of anyone on radio or television...to tell you whether you should get the COVID shot or not. That's...

Legislation by the Numbers The Legislative Service Agency, an non-profit entity designed to assist the Iowa Legislature regardless of who's in charge, recently released its annual report on the 2021 s...

Living Life This was somewhat unnerving last week...news that life expectancy in this country dropped last year. Some of that is due to COVID, of course; a 12-month period during a global pandemic wit...

Getting Together-Smartly A uniquely-Iowa tradition returns Sunday after a year off due to COVID...the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, or RAGBRAI. Co-founder John Karras has noted tha...

Record Spending Think there was a lot of spending on campaign ads in the 2020 election cycle? You're right...a record amount, in fact. But despite 2022 being a mid-term election and not a presidential...

Planning for the Future? We get a lot of emails from various interest groups and politicians, so in one respect it's not a surprise to see a couple of new senders filling our in box lately. But in ano...

Words Mean Things Just because you keep saying something doesn't make it true. We might think that, since talking points are repeated so frequently by partisan groups that the sheer volume of it may s...