Category Archives: Jeff Stein

New Sounds At Night As you likely know, the final "Jim Bohannon Show" aired on KXEL last week. Mr. Bohannon ended his hall-of-fame broadcasting career due to health reasons, and we will miss his night...

Red Splash You hear lots of folks talking about a "red wave" this election...it may not be a "wave" here in Iowa, but it certainly looks like at least a splash. That's according to current data within...

The End of an Era I'm continuing today with thoughts on the departure of hall of fame broadcaster Jim Bohannon, whose last national radio show airs tomorrow. You can hear it in its entirety Saturday n...

A Legend Takes A Final Bow You no doubt heard the news earlier this week...this will be the final week of "The Jim Bohannon Show" on some 600 radio stations across the country, including KXEL. Mr. Boh...

More Numbers We shared with you yesterday some numbers from the most recent Emerson College poll of 959 Iowans, conducted between October 2nd and 4th. It's a good survey, of "very likely voters" and w...

By the Numbers There's very little polling being done in Iowa's general election races...and you probably can dismiss what has been done as not being very reliable. But even the worst poll can help to...

All About The Family I did not watch "The Sopranos" nor have I seen any of "The Godfather" movies. I have sort of jokingly referred to "the Biden Crime Family" at times, as information about shady fam...

DMs Are Open If you don't do Twitter, you may not understand that title. You're probably better for it. For all the focus on "the socials" these days--and at KXEL, we post daily to nine different soci...

Tops In The Nation Millennials in Iowa are the top drinkers in the nation. Let that sink in for just a minute. According to the "2022 Best & Worst States for Millennials" study, conducted by educa...

The New Monarchy Much was made of the new "family portrait" released by the British monarchy this week. It shows now-King Charles and Consort Camilla, along with Prince William and Princess Kate. All ...