Category Archives: Jeff Stein

That Was Quick Earlier this week, the Twitter board did an about-face and agreed to accept billionaire Elon Musk's offer to buy the company, with plans to take it private. So many folks, almost all on...

Getting Information We've gotten used to hearing political ads on radio and television, and there's no sign of any change there. But new information indicates that the number of people who listen to p...

Can't Win The Iowa legislature is in overtime, as it were...they seemed to be on path for perhaps even an early adjournment, but that didn't happen. And last week, they ran out of per diem expenses, s...

Of Course, He's Running Those of us who overthink such things have consistently said Joe Biden would not serve a full term in office, much less seek a second term...but not necessarily for the reasons...

Short Coattails We talked at this time last Friday about the move by Tennessee Republicans to toss off the primary ballot there individuals who had recently moved to the state or a district, essential...

No Carpetbaggers Allowed We sometimes hear of someone moving from one county to another in order to put themselves into a certain legislative district; it happens increasingly often here in Iowa, both...

First Forecast We noted yesterday in this space that POLITICO released its first election forecast on Tuesday, analyzing each of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate races this November and looking into the...

No Appeal The White House deliberated for a day, then announced it would not appeal a federal judge's ruling striking down mass transit mask mandates. The ruling had immediate impact, as pilots announ...

Divided Viewpoints The New Republic came out with a poll last week...we asked a couple of the questions to you in our KXEL Poll Question of the Day. POLITICO suggests the results show that large major...

Starting the Week By all rights, virtually all of us should be in a really good mood on this Monday. Christians are just coming off celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and for many, the end ...