Category Archives: Jeff Stein

Registration Numbers On the first of each month, the Iowa Secretary of State releases data on voter registration in the state. We often share the data with you here to see if trends are developing. Th...

Are You Better Off Now?   Ronald Reagan speechwriter Ken Khachigian came up with the line in the 1980 presidential campaign...simply ask Americans if they are better off now than they were four y...

Location, Location, Location That's the mantra in real estate...properties move on the market based on a prime or desired location. Iowa law does not require a candidate for federal office, like Congr...

New Laws A number of states enacted laws that took effect on the first of the new year. Obviously we here in Iowa are making sure we are "hands free" in our cars, keeping those tempting phones and oth...

How Bad Is It?   Just how bad is the fraud situation in Minnesota? Bad enough that only a couple of weeks after news of it hit national news outlets, the incumbent governor dropped his bid for re...

What's to Hide? For whatever they are worth, the national quarterfinals of the college football playoffs were played around New Year's Day. As is always the case, half the teams won and half the teams...

By the Numbers   Real Clear Politics has made its name by aggregating various polls to create an average, sort of a "poll of polls," on various issues.   Their end-of-2025 report in a few ke...

A New Year It's probably a sign of advanced age, but once again, where in the world did 2025 go? Seems like it just started...and now the calendar reads 2026. One thing I liked when I was a college st...

Auld Lang Syne   So here we are, the end of another calendar year. Hard to not take stock of the past 12 months as one changes out the wall calendar with one last look at the pictures before toss...

Not So Life-Changing   If you're like me, you jumped onto the Powerball bandwagon and bought a $2 basic ticket in case lightning struck and you turned that $2 into a billion. The fact that I'm ta...