Good Morning! Today is Wednesday, January 15th, the 15th day of 2025. There are 350 days left in the year.
Today on KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein… Michael Swanger, publisher of “Iowa History Journal,” on the magazine’s January/February issue … KXEL’s Tim Harwood with Rick Whalen on the Reeve Power Generating Plant historic site designation in Franklin County… Scot Bertram of the “Radio Free Hillsdale Hour” with William Elliott Hazelgrove, author of “Dead Air: The Night That Orson Welles Terrified America”… and Governor Kim Reynolds’ 2025 Condition of the State Message, delivered last night in Des Moines.
On yesterday’s KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein … a live conversation with Kimberly Hermann, executive director of the Southeastern Legal Foundation, on recent court rulings… Illya Shapiro, author of “Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites,” joins us live…KXEL’s Tim Harwood with Steven Eilers of ISU Extension on the 2025 Master Gardner program… Morgan Bonwell, founder and CEO of the Iowa-based marketing firm Right Relations… and Dustin Hoffmann of the Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network with an RFD1540 conversation on items of immediate concern for the incoming USDA secretary.
Don’t forget…the KXEL Morning News with Tim Harwood is on weekdays from 6-8 a.m.
“Why Have Hearings?” is the topic for today’s Iowa Politics with Jeff Stein.
Here’s today’s KXEL Poll Question of the Day: “Should flags be restored from half-staff on Inauguration Day?” Weigh in at kxel.com/poll.
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