Category Archives: Jeff Stein

Check Your Work The Trump Administration has been at odds with a variety of institutions of higher learning, threatening to withhold federal dollars if certain requirements are not met. Harvard is the...

Adjournment Standoff   The Iowa Legislature was to have adjourned for the year last Friday; at least that's what the schedule said, since that was the day per diem expense payments to lawmakers e...

Square Root Day   Today is May 5, 2025...and if you use numbers to express it, it's 5-5-25. The square root of 25 is 5...so that makes this Square Root Day.   Don't take my word for it. Beli...

Economic Impact   There will be a basketball game at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City on Sunday, between the Indiana Fever WNBA team and the Brazilian National Team. It's an exhibition, and it w...

No Regrets   There was no shortage of polling data this past week, tied to President Trump's first 100 days in office. Approval ratings, policy preferences, personnel-everything was asked about, ...

Four Themes, One Hundred Days   President Donald Trump marked his first 100 days of his second term yesterday in a variety of ways, including a rally in Michigan where he touted a list of victori...

No One Above The Law   This radio station has two doors...a front door, used for members of the public...and a back door, where staff members park.   Let's assume I have someone in the KXEL ...

Adjournment   The first session of the 91st Iowa General Assembly will adjourn this Friday.   Well, that's what the session timetable says. Friday is the 110th calendar day of the session......

Retirements They're now calling it the "Biden Effect"-the reason so many Democrats in the U.S. Senate are opting out of running for re-election next year. The latest is 80-year-old Dick Durbin of Illi...

The End of Democrats   Ever since the 2024 election results came in, folks have predicted that this is the beginning of the end of the Democrat Party in U.S. political circles. There's no message...