Category Archives: Blogs

Get Your Tickets We told you before to save the date of Saturday, June 29th for our annual get together at the National Cattle Congress. If you go to kxel.com/iowafest, you can reserve free tickets. T...

The Verdict Is In Even though many expected to hear of a guilty verdict in the case of New York v. Trump yesterday, it was still a sobering moment. I had said earlier in the week that a verdict before...

Fun With Flags When I was young, like many children of the time, I collected postage stamps, back when you had to lick the stamp to get it to stick to the envelope. The Harris company published albums...

Playing with Numbers Radio and television ratings reports are, frankly, pretty worthless. The more mobile we all are, the more different options we have, and the difficulty economically of getting a p...

A Morning in Iowa The scene played out in literally hundreds of smaller towns and cities in Iowa yesterday, Memorial Day. The American Legion honor guard marched in a line with the American flag promi...

The Reason for the Day Many of us will be taking a day off from work Monday, thanks to the federal government declaring it as a national holiday. So you might be doing yard work, or planning a cookout...

Gratitude Many of us woke up yesterday morning, realized it was another work day, and grumbled a bit about having to get up so early and go to a job we tolerate. We might have looked out the window of...

The King's Castle You've no doubt heard ads on the radio urging you to protect yourself against fraudsters stealing title to your home, running up debts, or selling the thing out from under you. Too b...

Unfounded Fears We've talked here before about this presidential election being a battle between two negatives...each side saying the world will come to an end, perhaps literally, if the other is elec...

Big from Small As you've heard on KXEL, the Iowa Association of Business and Industry and MidWestOne Bank are sponsoring a competition this spring, called the "Coolest Thing Made in Iowa"...they're do...