Category Archives: Blogs

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....

The Clark Effect on the Economy Yesterday, Common Sense Institute Iowa released a detailed analysis of Iowa women's basketball star Caitlin Clark's impact on the Iowa economy...they call it Clarkonomi...

The Best Case Scenario I am writing and recording this on Wednesday afternoon, at the end of the work day. As of this point, there is still no text provided to members of Congress of a bill concerning...

Making Lemonade Yesterday was the Ohio primary...not just for president, but other races, including Congress. At 2:18 p.m., I got an email from the Derek Myers for Congress campaign in Ohio's 2nd dist...

Thank An Iowa Farm Family Today is national agriculture day...the first one was back in 1973, dedicated to increasing the public's awareness of agriculture's vital role in our society...or so says the...

Taking-or Faking-the Pledge We knew it was worthless at the time, completely unenforceable, but in another bold show of stupidity, those running the Republican National Committee at the time insisted ...