Category Archives: Blogs

Survey Says There seems to be a great number of polls having been released in the past few days, measuring people's preference for president. That, of course, is followed by people telling you which p...

Two Different Worlds Regardless of who wins the November presidential election, our nation is in for even worse times in 2025. That's because the two sides, Republican and Democrat, are so polarized a...

Looking Sharp If you're a regular listener to KXEL, or if you view the social media videos of these segments, you know that I wear a shirt and tie to work most every day...it's just the way I was rais...

Viva, Las Vegas Today is the last day of business for the venerable Tropicana hotel in Las Vegas. Soon, like so many other legendary properties that made up the original Las Vegas strip, the Tropicana...

Vanishing Farmland We've heard a lot in the news about efforts to keep America's farm ground out of foreign hands. Iowa was ahead of the curve on this, but there are efforts to strengthen Iowa's laws,...

The Money Bomb That's what they called the special event at Radio City Music Hall in New York City last night...a fundraiser for the Biden re-election campaign featuring an on-stage conversation betwe...

Hoops Are Different These Days The explosion of interest in women's college basketball these days, driven in great part by the Iowa Hawkeyes, is a far cry from the days when I was a college student in...

Even More Money You may not want to hear this, and you probably won't be surprised by it...but leading analysts now predict a "massive spend"-their phrase-of advertising leading up to this year's pres...

You've Got Six Months Next Monday is April 1st, meaning there will be exactly six months left in the U.S. government's fiscal year. That should be plenty of time for members of the House and Senate to...

Wheels on the Omnibus Go Round and Round It was after their own self-imposed deadline, and it was six months later than the start of the fiscal year, but in the early morning hours of Saturday, the U....