Category Archives: Blogs
KXEL Live & Local — Wed. Aug. 19, 2020
On the Wednesday, August 19, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich Legal analyst Loretta Powers KXEL’s Tim Harwood with Tara Thomas of...
Aug 19, 2020
Iowa Politics with Jeff Stein -- Wed. Aug. 19, 2020
Political Polarization You may have heard me talk with the author of a book called The Politics Industry not that long ago here on KXEL. The thesis of the book is that increased partisanship has led t...
Aug 19, 2020
KXEL Live & Local — Tue. Aug. 18, 2020
On the Tuesday, August 18, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Greg Edwards of Catch Des Moines about the regional economic impact of losing the Iowa State Fair this year TV9 Meteo...
Aug 18, 2020
Iowa Politics with Jeff Stein -- Tue. Aug. 18, 2020
Job Ads You may have heard the messages on KXEL recently…we’re looking to ad account executives in both our Waterloo and Cedar Rapids offices. I’m not involved in that, but I think I...
Aug 18, 2020
KXEL Live & Local — Mon. Aug. 17, 2020
On the Monday, August 17, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Rod Pritchard of ITC Midwest on power outages in Iowa TV9 Meteorologist Kaj O’Mara Acting Deputy of Homeland Sec...
Aug 17, 2020
Iowa Politics with Jeff Stein -- Mon. Aug. 17, 2020
Convention Week, Sort Of American political conventions have been the stuff of legends over time…but lately, they’ve become highly scripted, formulaic and somewhat boring. In recent cycles...
Aug 17, 2020
KXEL Live & Local — Fri. Aug. 14, 2020
On the Friday, August 14, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Legal analyst Loretta Powers TV9 Meteorologist Kaj O’Mara KXEL’s Tim Harwood with Justin Muir about a new ...
Aug 14, 2020
Iowa Politics with Jeff Stein -- Fri. Aug. 14, 2020
And Now, This A new wrinkle in the ongoing discussion about how or when to return to school came this week in the form of 100 mph winds. You can’t very well go back to school in person when the ...
Aug 14, 2020
KXEL Live & Local — Thu. Aug. 13, 2020
On the Thursday, August 13, 2020 edition of KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein: Marc Lotter, director of strategic communication for Trump Pence 2020 Dustin Hoffmann of the Iowa Agribusiness Radio...
Aug 13, 2020
Iowa Politics with Jeff Stein -- Thu. Aug. 13, 2020
The Real Race Yesterday we discussed the choice of U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California as the Democrat’s vice presidential nominee. Immediately after the announcement, Vice President Mike Penc...
Aug 13, 2020