Category Archives: Jeff Stein

Not Paying For That The second week of the NFL regular season wraps up tonight, and it marked the first Thursday night game produced by Amazon Prime Video under an 11-year contract which nets the leag...

Time Flies Nothing makes you stop and realize how quickly the year is flying by than to be reminded it's time to purchase your 2023 calendars. Yes, I have access to electronic calendars...but I don't ...

How Can He Be So Out Of Touch I hear that from some people whenever Joe Biden's name comes up. They don't understand his anger or where he comes up with some of the things he says. We only know what w...

Candidate Cattle Call For well more than a century, the National Cattle Congress Fair has been held at the fairgrounds in Waterloo. For the better part of a decade, the KXEL Celebrity Cow Milking Cont...

This Old House Folks who comb through census data often find fascinating facts. The folks at Stacker have been at it again, including compiling a list of counties in Iowa with the oldest homes. Their ...

More Money...and More Money We're only eight months away from election day, and the latest forecast of political ad spending continues to climb. Over-the-air television ad spending will likely reach $...

The Family Business As you know, I have a lot of radio conversations with those involved in multi-generation, family-operated businesses...both for KXEL and for my Iowa Business Report program. We all...

Done with Debates I used to get very exciting about candidate debates, right down to producing my first congressional forum broadcast when I was in my early 20s. And over the past decade, I was involv...

Consuming News It's often been said, with some truth to it, that young people don't really follow the news. But a new Media Insight Project survey suggests that may be a misconception. The survey find...

Watching--or Living The President delivered a speech in prime time last Thursday from outside of Independence Hall in Philadelphia. I watched it like most of you did. That is, I didn't. Instead, we we...