Category Archives: Jeff Stein

Hometown Folks There's something great about Iowa's rural areas-you have to have lived there at least two, and preferably three, generations before you are considered to be a "local". I think of peopl...

Here's Your Recession Forget the numbers you hear about from the federal government. The country is too large to simply paint with a broad brush...it was true with COVID restrictions, it's true when t...

What's In A Name The president signed the so-called "Inflation Reduction Act" this week. You may not have seen any benefit yet...and now, even the bill's strongest supporters say you won't for quite a...

No Games That Day The NBA, the men's professional basketball league, announced yesterday that all 30 of its teams will have the day off on Tuesday, November 8th-election day. The theory, of course, is...

Not So Social Anymore Political campaigns are apparently putting fewer ads on Facebook during this 2022 election cycle than in the recent past. Facebook has pulled in a lot of political ad dollars in ...

Never Mind It sort of slipped by under the radar last week, with everyone paying attention to passage of a bill to more than double the number of IRS agents, and the FBI raid of a former president's h...

Spotlight on Iowa They played a major league baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site near Dyersville last night. There was no way that the event could have lived up to last year's inaugural ef...

Numbers in Perspective Much has been made about the number 87,000-that's the number of new IRS agents that will be funded if the interestingly-named "Inflation Reduction Act" passes the U.S. House thi...

Two Short Years Ago Everything changed for many Iowans two years ago today. It was not the first time a straight-line wind storm called a derecho struck parts of Iowa...and it has not been the last. B...

NIMBY That stands, of course, for Not In My Back Yard...things that you may want, but not have to see them. You want to eat, but you don't want a meat packing plant in your neighborhood. You want ener...