Todd Dorman

Here are numbers that reflect the action and inaction of the the 2004 session.

Sometimes, a legislative sneak attack under cover of darkness runs out of time.

The Iowa House approved a bill this past week raising salaries for lawmakers and statewide government officials. But as legislators hurtled toward adjournment Friday and into Saturday, the Senate said “No thanks” to an election year pay increase.

Rita Hart, chair of the Iowa Democratic Party, likes to compare her job to picking up rocks in a farm …

It seems like a bad time to be anti-tree. We’re not quite four years removed from a derecho which, according …

There was a curious double feature playing in the Iowa Senate Tuesday. First, senators approved legislation that would tighten regulation …

Republicans are pushing for a constitutional amendment requiring future Legislatures to muster a two-thirds vote in each chamber to raise income taxes

Iowa lawmakers have nightmares about lab-grown meat rising from its test tube and strangling the state’s livestock industry. So, of …

Bayer U.S. is a subsidiary of Bayer AG, a global drug and biotechnology conglomerate that raked in $53.3 billion in …

Lately, a scene from the 1992 film “A Few Good Men” has been stuck in my head. You know the …

The city of Cedar Rapids finds itself in the debate over a bill in the Legislature banning citizen police review boards. It would undo months of hard work put in by local police, city leaders and Advocates for Social Justice to form a Cedar Rapids review board in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020.

Bill that prohibits cities and counties from approving ordinances requiring builders to replace topsoil on finished construction sites failed to pass. GOP lawmakers may move to undo that.

When Christopher Gadsden presented colonial Marines with a flag he designed depicting a coiled rattlesnake over the words “Don’t Tread On Me,” It’s doubtful he knew it would someday be affixed to the rear end of horseless vehicles traveling at great speeds.

In its most recent opinion survey on climate change, researchers at Yale University found that while most Iowans believe that humans are causing climate change, only 37% said climate change has affected them personally. This is where the being robbed blind comes in.