Category Archives: Jeff Stein

It's A Record Low Union membership in the United States is now at a record low level. The percentage of U.S. workers who belong to a union dropped from 10.3 percent to 10.1 percent...this is according...

Gotta Name It To Claim It This is a story not so much about a political issue itself...but what it can tell us about other issues involving one of the parties that do have a tie to national security a...

Keeping the Community Safe Caution if you intend to listen for the next two minutes...I may be a dangerous threat to our community. At least that's according to the fine folks at YouTube, which flagge...

Checking Them Out When I go to the library, I have to show a proper library ID in order to check out a book. There is a bar code label within the book, and when they scan my ID, then the book, they ha...

Election by the Numbers It may not have been the "red wave" that many forecasted, but according to Gallup, there was plenty of movement to the GOP in last November's general election. The Gallup Compa...

Streamlining Government Literally for decades, I have advocated that the Iowa legislature should engage in a multi-year project to purge bad, outdated, or overly complicated laws. And it's pretty simp...

Never A Dull Email In Box I remember back when Congressman Rod Blum was first elected, taking office in January of 2015. I started getting regular emails from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Com...

What's In A Name It's not terribly well known by the public, but when a party gains control of one of the chambers in Congress, it has the chance to make tweaks and changes. That's in part the convers...

Blowing Past Deadlines We all need deadlines of one sort or another...that's how we get things accomplished, I suppose. Some of us...and I include myself in that category...hold off on getting things ...

Still Not Red After the results of the November 2022 general election, you could be forgiven for assuming that Iowa is now a red state. After all, Iowa was one of the few places that got the "red wave...