Todd Dorman

BUCKLE UP, TEENS: When the University of Iowa College of Public Health observed 3,000 young Iowans in 36 counties to …

The Gazette Editorial Board —- We think Gov. Terry Branstad should drop a plan he floated this week for pouring …

I know things can get a little tense and fiery here in Commentistan. So before I take leave for the …

So the issue of potential school closings is now out of the hard data phase and into the politics, according …

If Iowa’s caucuses are still, truly, a unique milepost on the road to the presidency, and not simply a rustic …

Always one for nuanced understatement, Newt Gingrich says our federal courts have become “grotesquely dictatorial.” Of course, the ideas man …

Prof. Stephen Bloom is truly the Michelangelo of hick-punching. Rarely has rural Iowa been smacked around as artfully as it is …

There’s an interesting (now revamped) online site, Capitol Words, created by the Sunlight Foundation, which tracks the words and phrases uttered by representatives …

If you believe the punditry, the out-of-touch label carries a $10,000 price tag. That’s how much Republican presidential hopeful Mitt …

I can’t understand why so many Republicans are eager to throw away a perfectly good Mitt Romney. The Republican presidential …

In March, local voters will emerge from winter quarters to show us if we’ll have 10 more years of sales …

Leave town for one lousy weekend and I miss seeing my first drone protest. Maybe you also missed it when …

Today’s print column, delayed by technical difficulty. Linda Seger first heard it about a month ago. She was dropping off …

Rev. Welton Gaddy says our founders sought to put constitutional space between religion and the nation’s new government for a very …

Today’s print column. We may soon find out if the First Amendment covers camping on a vacant lot on the corner of …