Category Archives: Jeff Stein

The Real World and the Other World As you probably know, I spent the bulk of the last three days at the Hawkeye Farm Show, which was quite well attended again this year. And it stood in stark contrast...

Iowa Women's Sports KXEL's Tim Harwood pointed out to me the other day how strongly Iowans were again supporting their women's basketball teams. For example, more than 15,000 people were at Carver-Haw...

As If Everything Wasn't Bad Enough Russia invaded Ukraine. Gas at the pump is at least a dollar more a gallon than at this time last year. Inflation is at levels not seen in more than 40 years. The co...

The State of Our Union The president delivers the State of the Union message before a joint session of Congress tonight, with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds delivering the official Republican response afterwa...

Timing is Everything There's nothing like a deadline or an event to help move things along. We make sure to clean our houses right before company comes, or take care of home repair or remodeling right...

An All-Too-Familiar Headline When the first headlines came through on radio, television and on line Wednesday night...one could not help but feel a sense of deja vu--and with it, a sense of great conc...

Iowa in the National Spotlight-Again Next Tuesday, President Biden will deliver his first State of the Union Address. As has become customary over the last few decades, the party out of power...in thi...

When Is A Mandate Acceptable? Lots of folks on the political right have loudly criticized attempts by the Biden Administration to impose mandates tied to COVID-19...mask mandates, vax mandates, the wh...

Maybe It's Not So Innocent It was on this date in 1732...290 years ago...that George Washington was born. He of course would go on to become the first president of the United States, among other thing...

Happy Whatever Day It Is When I was growing up, in school we celebrated Abraham Lincoln's Birthday on February 12th and George Washington's Birthday on February 22nd. The latter was a federal holiday,...