Todd Dorman

(Today’s print column) Tuesday’s rejection of a local-option sales tax extension for flood protection looked razor close on paper. But …

We know now that LOST lost again. It wasn’t as close as last time, though still close. So apparently, as …

Sunday’s column generated a fair amount of mail. A reader in the College Community district clarified the picture there: College …

“ … It is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power …

John Stossel, consumer reporter and investigative journalist, analyzed the budget of a hypothetical family, as follows: Family income, $24,700 per …

I am a Jefferson High School fan, but not a boys’ basketball parent, and I am greatly disappointed in the …

The Gazette’s coverage of the Decorah eagles is reaching Minnesota. I would like to add kudos to Bob Anderson. My …

At the last Cedar Rapids School Board meeting, defenders of Polk Elementary, many of them moms, spoke passionately of the …

Got tied up with other things yesterday, so I neglected to comment on the Big Democratic Statehouse Walkout of 2012, and …

So, where were we? Oh, yeah, upstream. On Tuesday, I wrote that the Army Corps of Engineers is designing its …

So I’m reading the New York Times dining section, page D6, dead tree edition even, when  I came across this …

(Today’s print column) Bring up flood protection, and you’ll get a deluge of opinion. A lot of the questions I’m …

As the fate of Polk Elementary School hangs in the balance, consider Sharon Cozzolino’s son Orion. Orion is a bright …

If Mayor Ron Corbett’s third Condition of the City speech were a book, I’d call it “Spend, Pray, Walk, Love.” …

So The Des Moines Register has launched a barrage of new Iowa Poll results in our direction this morning on various issues being …