Category Archives: Jeff Stein

The Reason for the Day Many of us will be taking a day off from work Monday, thanks to the federal government declaring it as a national holiday. So you might be doing yard work, or planning a cookout...

What's Wrong With Being Political? Gov. Kim Reynolds is running for re-election this year, and not long ago was at a campaign event. As she spoke to the party faithful, she also gave a shout out to a ...

We All Scream For...Well, Never Mind We often say things like, "Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time"...but I'm not sure this ever was a good idea. Walmart thought it would be a good idea to c...

Verbal Richter Scale Japan was hit by an earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale yesterday...shortly before President Biden arrived in the country. Then came the aftershock...no, not another Ear...

One Size Does Not Fit All I did some traveling on Friday...including doing a talk in the city of Earlham, population 1,410, west of Des Moines. On the way back, I stopped at a couple of stores in Des ...

Watch Those Pumps I recall being in high school, a bit more than 40 years ago, when a change was made to gas pumps. Back then, gas was never thought to reach a dollar a gallon, so the pump only was co...

Show Me The Money You probably heard the first political ads on KXEL earlier this week. Not surprising, since we are less than three weeks away from the June 7 primary election. Nationally, mid-term e...

It's Still All Local In another sign of our fractured politics these days, it will be some time before we know the outcome of some of the state primary races from yesterday's voting. And ultimately, i...

Define Winning Two more major primary elections are being held today, in Pennsylvania and North Carolina...and a runoff is on tap for various races in Texas. So when going to the primary election poll...

Ultra Political There's a new phrase that President Biden has used a lot lately--"Ultra MAGA". White House officials have not been able to explain to reporters what it really means, or how he came up ...