Category Archives: Jeff Stein

Those Darn Microphones Thanks to intrusive devices like Alexa, or even your cell phone, which are triggered into action by the sound of a voice, you'd think we'd all know that anything and everything ...

Bare Shelves Twitter Just last week, I was at the grocery store and was struck by the number of empty shelves in a couple of different areas. By the third such area, it was clear it was not just the s...

At the One Year Point Tomorrow marks the one year point in the presidency of Joseph R. Biden, Jr., the 46th president of the United States. He came to office pledging to be a unifier, the figure who c...

A Real Partisan Split I saw the Heartland Institute-Rasmussen Poll last Thursday and thought perhaps I had misread it. Surely these weren't the findings, not in the United States of America. But this ...

What A Difference A Pandemic Makes We had a winter storm in Iowa last Friday. Not a blizzard, not an off-season surprise...just a good old-fashioned dumping of snow. Not long ago, we would have made s...

Out of Capital It's a pretty big risk...a president making a trip to the U.S. Capitol building to meet with members of his party to urge them to take action on a piece of legislation. Yet there Joe Bi...

A Bold Proposal Gov. Kim Reynolds wasted little time in Tuesday's Condition of the State Address in laying out a bold idea for individual income tax reform in Iowa...a flat 4 percent tax. As always, t...

Reversing Course No fewer than three Iowa school districts in the past week have either rescinded or tabled measures that would have required district employees to get a COVID-19 vaccination. The most...

Turnabout Is Fair Play A lot of folks are busy looking ahead to this time next year, when they assume Republicans will control at least the U.S. House, if not both chambers of Congress. That's pretty ...

Mistaken Identity There was perhaps no more "in real time" polarizing set of U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments than the ones presented last Friday concerning multiple cases tied to Biden Administratio...