Category Archives: Jeff Stein

Flying a Flag with Pride Tomorrow is Flag Day, and our KXEL Poll Question of the Day today and tomorrow will be tied to the flag. You can vote as always at kxel.com/poll. June has been designated "Pri...

This Is Not 50 Years Ago Next week marks the 50th anniversary of the infamous break in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building in Washington. Those of us of a certa...

Nothing Suppressed About This More than 356,000 people voted in the Tuesday Iowa primary election...the second highest turnout since 1994, which as you may recall from the Iowa Almanac story we did th...

How Do They Survive? You've heard of a "generation gap"...these days, I think at times it's a "generation chasm". Latest example...I had to get a new radio station cell phone. I had no problem with th...

No Chaos This Time Today is primary election day here in Iowa, and with serious races on both the Republican and Democrat party ballots, there's little chance of a form of "Operation Chaos" taking pla...

Super Bad Elon Musk has been getting a lot of attention lately for...well, whatever he does. Late last week, he told Tesla workers that he was expecting a return to the office for a full 40-hour work ...

Opportunistic Words The President last night delivered remarks on gun control...not gun safety, although he kept using the word safety...but gun control. There's clearly a difference, and until the Wh...

Iowa...A Place to...Walk? Some of us grew up with the state's economic development slogan being, "Iowa: A Place to Grow"-but according to data compiled by a national personal injury law firm, it's a p...

Survey Says A new survey suggests that one Iowa Democrat has an uphill battle on issues during this midterm election. Given the source, you might not be surprised at the findings, but they're worthy o...

Another Week, Another Lack of Answers One week ago, an 18-year-old in Texas shot his grandmother, took her vehicle, and made his way to an elementary school where he brutally shot and killed 19 childr...