Category Archives: Jeff Stein

Halftime Shows of the Past   The first Super Bowl was held in 1967-it wasn't even called the Super Bowl back then, rather the "AFL-NFL World Championship Game".   That first game in Los Ange...

Memories Are All That's Left I remember being 7 or 8 years old when we loaded up the car and took the drive north on Highway 63 to an area at the south end of Waterloo, really in the middle of nowhere...

Price Rollback   As you pick up snacks for Sunday's big football game, you might feel like a quarterback who just got sacked by a linebacker...the prices for this stuff has gone up a lot in the p...

A Taxing Anniversary   As we noted previously, you could start filing your federal income tax returns last week, due April 15. And we have something that happened 113 years ago yesterday for it. ...

Voting Rights   In order to check books out of a public library in Iowa, you have to get a library card. In order to do that, essentially you need a valid photo ID card, issued by an employer, sc...

Not An Absolute Right I have always been an advocate for First Amendment rights, and the right of journalists in this country to report. But those are not absolute rights, and quite often misunderstoo...

Census Data   The latest census data is in, and it shows an interesting trend that will impact our elections in the future.   Net Domestic Migration is showing how people move across the cou...

Folding the Tents   I've watched this stuff for a long time, and I can't recall another time when not one, not two, but three congressional candidates all dropped out in the same day. But it happ...

Value for Your Money   Monday was the first day you could file your 2025 federal income taxes. They're due, as usual, on April 15...but you could not even file until this past Monday.   Of c...

Our Focus is Elsewhere   I have not paid close attention to what happened in Minneapolis last Saturday morning, when ICE agents fatally shot a protestor. There's much more to it than that, and ho...