Category Archives: Jeff Stein

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...

Remembering-and Revising-History O.J. Simpson died yesterday, of cancer, at the age of 76. Immediately, television screens were filled with images from 30 years ago...those were the same, but I was st...

Legal Status In our system of governance, we have a balance between rights retained by states, and those given to the federal government. Each is supposed to "stay in their lane," as the saying goes. ...

Small Business Caution While some segments of the economy are perking along, and others are holding their own, there are undercurrents of concern based on some recent surveys. As you heard on KXEL las...

Shifting Positions On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court interpreted a "right to privacy" component within the U.S. Constitution as extending to pregnant females. That "right to privacy" meant g...

Another Money Bomb A couple of weeks ago, the Biden campaign hosted a fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall, featuring two of his predecessors-Obama and Clinton-and various celebrities. After originally...