Category Archives: Jeff Stein

Turnabout And Fallout Earlier this week, we discussed a move last November by the Washington, D.C. governing council to reduce punishments for certain crimes and how that might be overturned by Congre...

It Certainly Can't Hurt There are a lot of bills moving around the Statehouse in Des Moines...this is the first so-called "funnel" week...items which have not progressed to a certain point are essenti...

The Threat of Veto Joe Biden has been president for a little more than 25 months, a bit over half a term. To this point...he has not yet used his veto pen. That's not tremendously surprising, given th...

Another Chance for Recognition   The annual Hawkeye Farm Show is now underway at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls...free and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day through Thursday. I'm doi...

That Was Then, This Is Now It's going to be a fine line for GOP presidential candidates to walk in 2024...challenging Donald Trump while still showing respect for the man they may once have worked for...

Trust Close To Home You all tend to trust your local news sources far more than national sources. At least that's according to a new survey of 5,600 Americans conducted by Gallup in cooperation with t...

You're Still Out There We have truly an infinite number of ways to get information these days. But a new survey shows that you're still relying on radio. AM and FM radio reached 89 percent of adults a...

Define "Controversial" Have you noticed that various proposals are glossed with the adjective "controversial"---such as "the Governor's controversial school choice plan"? Using that specific proposal,...

Pipelines and Politics I think back to last September, and our first "Candidate Cattle Call" event at the National Cattle Congress...we had incumbent lawmakers and candidates alike, for the Iowa house...

Happy Whatever Day It Is When I was growing up, in school we celebrated Abraham Lincoln's Birthday on February 12th and George Washington's Birthday on February 22nd. The latter was a federal holiday,...