Category Archives: Jeff Stein

Giving Them Something To Talk About When people ask about what kind of programming we air on KXEL, I try not to use terms like "news" or "talk"...because they imply certain perspectives that are not e...

Seeing Ghosts As if the normal political scene isn't spooky or scary enough these days, we take a moment on this Friday before Halloween to note that Iowa is number 10 in the nation for the number of ...

One Issue Or More There are a variety of reasons why you cast your vote for one candidate or another. For some folks, one single issue is so important, it almost doesn't matter how the candidate feels...

Sure, They're Numbers, But... Less than two weeks before election day, early voting already underway...and no one has any earthly idea about how things will turn out. Which is actually as it should be...

Spending Plans We've heard a lot of bad economic news lately, particularly for folks in the Midwest. Christmas Day is two months from today, and stores are already offering plenty of ways for you to s...

Not Exactly Breaking News The headline of the story on foxnews.com read: "major newspapers across the country overwhelmingly endorse Democrats in elections"...good thing I was sitting down when I read...

That Darn Generic Ballot Again Yesterday, I downplayed this week's Iowa Poll that surveyed voters in Iowa's four congressional districts to determine if they preferred a Republican or a Democrat to re...

There Are Candidates We hear a lot about results from the Des Moines newspaper's "Iowa Poll"...they released data earlier this week showing numbers in the Iowa contests for Governor and U.S. Senate. B...

That Was The Plan It happened again late last week...reporting by the Associated Press that left a bit to be desired, to put it mildly. Here's the first sentence of the story: "A state panel says Iowa...

Which Side Again? The campaign for a candidate for public office in Iowa sent a news release last week, promoting that the candidate would "deliver a major foreign policy speech, where he will contras...