Category Archives: Blogs

Getting It Under Control Yesterday, I suggested we should not be surprised by the shameful anti-Israel protests on some college campuses. But we also should not let it continue. First, let's remember ...

It's Not A Surprise In the wake of a number of emails from listeners expressing displeasure about a programming change, one of my former bosses here who was responsible for the change said he was not ...

Social Media Update As noted before, if anything is inappropriately named, it's what we call "social media"--because typically it's anything but polite and social. But it is a part of many people's li...

Keeping Regular Hours Most communities have nuisance ordinances...for example, an outdoor concert in a town cannot extend past a certain time for fear of being a public nuisance. There's also the sens...

It's Not A Hush Money Trial After a week of jury selection, opening statements are scheduled for today in a New York criminal courtroom in a case where former president Donald Trump is the defendant. ...

Cuts and More Cuts Yesterday afternoon, it was announced that Iowa House and Senate leaders had agreed on legislation to speed up the lowering of Iowa's individual income tax rates. The top rate this ...

Dangerous Precedent Imagine a situation where a trial is set to begin, those responsible for prosecuting have filed charges, and after the jury is sworn in...without hearing anything other than what t...

Why AM Radio is Important Yesterday afternoon, a number of tornado warnings were issued across the state, primarily in eastern Iowa. For most of the later afternoon, KXEL joined our coverage partners ...

On the Ballot This past Saturday, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., held a rally in Des Moines...technically, it was called a convention to take advantage of a unique provision of Iowa law. Iowa law allows an i...

Separate Issues The weekend attacks on Israel by Iran led to renewed talk about Congress providing aid to Israel. The most recent attempts have essentially seen the House want to decide separately how...