Category Archives: Jeff Stein

Voter Integrity, Not Voter Suppression Sometimes, I'll order office supplies on line through Staples, and then I'll go to the store in Waterloo to pick up the order and see what other items might be t...

The Fastest One Year It was on this date, February 17th, one year ago today, that the greatest voice in talk radio history fell silent. He always called his program the fastest three hours in radio......

Low Approval A composite of state-by-state polling, conducted over the past three weeks, shows that the lack of approval for the job President Biden is doing is very broad and very deep. Of the 50 sta...

The Free State of Iowa It becomes official later today...Iowa remains a free state. That used to mean something quite different, of course, more than 150 years ago. But Gov. Reynolds' public health em...

Record Wagering They played the Super Bowl yesterday, and there was no doubt a huge amount of money wagered on the big game. That's because it's gotten so easy to place such bets. Iowa sportsbooks hav...

Redistricting Focus Iowa was ahead of other states in finalizing new maps for congressional districts. Ours have been in place since late last year; others are still being discussed. The lone Iowa con...

Which Party Is It? Republicans are eagerly looking to this fall's general election...it's a federal midterm, and with only a couple of modern era exceptions, the party in the White House loses seats i...

Wanna Bet? Much was made recently of a feasibility study concerning adding a casino to Cedar Rapids. The history of racing and gaming in the modern era and Iowa's second-largest city has been complica...

Forming Alliances The 2022 Winter Olympics are underway in Beijing, China. You may be interested in it, I'm not. But one item that was of interest was dismissed by most news outlets last week. It's tr...

What's In A Nickname? We have this habit in this country of shortening names. For example, Robert will often be known as Rob or Bob; James commonly becomes Jim. And we often add a "y" to those nicknam...