Category Archives: Jeff Stein

In One Race, Out of Another   Between now and Independence Day, as we've noted before, there will be a lot of dominoes falling in Iowa politics.   The first to fall was Gov. Kim Reynolds mak...

Lack of Optimism A new poll was conducted earlier this month by the Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. And while the headlines were not positive for Democrats...there wa...

Wait 'Till Next Year That's the popular refrain fans of a losing sports team use...just wait 'till next year, we'll take care of business then. Unfortunately, that's becoming a popular refrain among l...

Sine Die   Sine Die is a phrase used when a legislative session, for example, adjourns with no definite date for return. The Iowa Legislature adjourned sine die early yesterday morning, after the...

A Taxing Question   While Congress struggles to figure out whether, or how, to keep the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in place beyond this calendar year, a few items of note...this data was sent to ...

Stop and Start I've mentioned before my fondness for cars made more than a decade ago...far fewer bells and whistles, no big screen on the dashboard, more things a driver controls as opposed to what's...

More Dominoes Falling   It was hardly a surprise that Democrat state auditor Rob Sand announced yesterday he was running for governor. That's been the presumption for some time, it was just down ...

Get Your Tickets   A few months ago, we asked you to 'save the date' for our fourth annual summer picnic, IowaFest...now, you can reserve your free tickets for our event online at kxel.com/iowafe...

Odds on the Pope   The white smoke came from the chimney at the Vatican yesterday, at 7 p.m. local time. The first pope born in the United States was elected by his fellow cardinals.   Rober...

Eight Decades Ago It was on this date in 1945 that the guns fell silent across Europe with the German surrender and the end of World War II on that continent. VE Day, or Victory in Europe Day. Given o...