Todd Dorman

Quick. To the Situation Room, for some no spin Hardball, or whatever. The Pew Research Center is out with a …

So I’m back from a 4-day weekend. I’ll pause briefly for the applause to die down. No, really, I was …

My co-worker Diane Langton, as skilled an archives-digger as I’ve ever known, points out that the search for a welcome …

It was a spring tradition that a columnist could count on, or so I thought. About this time each year, …

Maybe you read last week that Cedar Rapids has socked away as much as $400,000 for a “City Gateways Enhancement …

READING Read the following passage and answer the question below: DES MOINES – Iowa Department of Education Director Jason Glass’s …

So I’ve driven past Morgan Creek Farm’s vegetable stand along U.S. Highway 30 west of town a bunch of times. …

A phone rings in the governor’s office. “Governor Branstad speaking.” “Yeah, hi, governor. This is the Butter Cow, calling from …

Last week, a Sioux City jury awarded $231,000 to a state lawmaker who sued his vanquished foe for running a …

Got a genuine pen-and-paper, old-school letter from a reader recently who is sick of hearing about Polk Elementary. How sick? …

Instead of sugary Peeps, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley gave us an acidic tweet over the Easter weekend. Grassley, whose freewheeling …

Maybe you heard, as I did, about the Colorado egg hunt that wasn’t. It was in the news recently. An …

We received dispatches from distant capitals this week bearing good news on the recovery front. Our own Iowa Legislature gave …

So our own Gov. Terry Branstad is demanding that Congress mount an investigation to uncover who is responsible for the pink slime …

So the Polk Elementary saga ends not with a bang, but a picnic. This evening, at 5 p.m., is the …