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Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401

Todd Dorman
I’m a columnist, editorial writer and blogger for The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I write about local and state government, politics, social issues, children, dogs, barbecue, or whatever shiny thing catches my woefully short attention span. I’ve been here since October 2007, after covering the Statehouse for nearly a decade, and my blog has been online since November 2007. I was student body president of my high school in 1988-89 and that’s the last time I’ll run for anything. Except maybe a free beer or an ice cream truck. Sign up for my Pints & Politics newsletter, or watch my podcast.
Latest Articles by Todd Dorman
Staff Columnists May. 5, 2011 12:18 pm5244d ago
An East Side reader writes: Ron Corbett statement “Maybe the community’s just not as concerned about it flooding again as …
Staff Columnists May. 3, 2011 11:40 pm5245d ago
“Dancing with the Stars” was on the flat-screen TV at the RWDSU-UFCW Local 110 Hall as supporters of a local …
Staff Columnists May. 2, 2011 4:52 pm5247d ago
Tuesday’s print column. So … I guess I shouldn’t have turned in early Sunday night. I awoke to a red …
Staff Columnists May. 1, 2011 12:05 am5248d ago
Tuesday’s sales tax vote is a big decision. I guess that’s why so much of the debate has been about …
Staff Columnists Apr. 28, 2011 2:44 pm5251d ago
The opposing sides in the one-cent local option sales tax rumble have filed campaign finance reports. And if you were …
Staff Columnists Apr. 28, 2011 12:05 am5251d ago
Twenty-two years ago, I was a bright-eyed page in the Iowa House who sat in on closed-door Republican caucus meetings. …
Staff Columnists Apr. 27, 2011 1:05 pm5252d ago
Checked out the first meeting Tuesday evening of the Cedar Rapids City Council in its downtown digs at the new …
Staff Columnists Apr. 26, 2011 12:05 am5253d ago
After a 13-month road trip, your flood-displaced Cedar Rapids City Council is back for a permanent home stand, starting tonight. …
Staff Columnists Apr. 24, 2011 12:05 am5255d ago
Today’s print column. This sales tax campaign in Cedar Rapids has exposed one of my weaknesses. I’ve been working here …
Staff Columnists Apr. 21, 2011 12:21 pm5258d ago
The following is an unpaid commercial advertisement. Now, I’m no tenured professor of exercise studies or pilates physics or anything, but …
Staff Columnists Apr. 19, 2011 4:32 pm5260d ago
I’ve been trying to figure out what, if anything, I should write about the debate in Iowa City over what …
Staff Columnists Apr. 19, 2011 11:04 am5260d ago
This just popped into my inbox, or as I like to call it, my email pavilion: Physicians’ Clinic of Iowa …
Staff Columnists Apr. 19, 2011 12:05 am5260d ago
State lawmakers often take a beating in this space. So I feel a need to offer praise when I think …
Staff Columnists Apr. 18, 2011 4:00 pm5261d ago
Last week, when I was looking into dredging for a columnon Cedar River flood protection, I asked Ron Fournier, communications chief for …
Staff Columnists Apr. 17, 2011 12:05 am5262d ago
We in the media have become obsessive to a fault with anniversaries. Normally, I bristle at all the commemoration commotion, …