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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 Aug. 11, 2010 3:35 pm5512d ago
I lived in Ames for six years before moving to Eastern Iowa, and it’s been surreal today reading/watching flooding updates …
Staff Columnists Aug. 11, 2010 3:09 pm5512d ago
Former and future Gov. Terry Branstad’s campaign spokesman tells The Register of Des Moines that his boss won’t be dabbling …
Staff Columnists Aug. 10, 2010 11:47 am5513d ago
Terry Branstad’s campaign says he’ll accept three debates with Gov. Chet Culver, including an Oct. 7 rumble in Cedar Rapids. …
Sports Aug. 10, 2010 8:37 am5513d ago
Area high school football teams started practicing Monday. For most schools, the season starts in three weeks, on Friday, Aug. …
Letters to the Editor Aug. 10, 2010 12:01 am5513d ago
My favorite part of The Gazette is “Today in History”: Aug. 7, 1964: The U.S. Senate, with an 88-2 vote, …
Staff Editorials Aug. 10, 2010 12:01 am5513d ago
With the opening of the Hotel at Kirkwood Center on the Kirkwood Community College campus, guests to the Cedar Rapids …
Letters to the Editor Aug. 10, 2010 12:01 am5513d ago
Marriage, according to my dictionary, is “the social institution under which a man and woman establish their decision to live …
Opinion Aug. 10, 2010 12:01 am5513d ago
I still search for the Twin Towers in movies. In the late-night reruns shot pre-September 11, 2001. In films that …
Letters to the Editor Aug. 10, 2010 12:01 am5513d ago
Pain-related diseases are serious conditions, but have long been ignored or treated as if they were merely arthritis or a …
Letters to the Editor Aug. 10, 2010 12:01 am5513d ago
In a June 8 New York Post article, Michael D. Tanner, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, reported that the …
Staff Columnists Aug. 10, 2010 12:01 am5513d ago
You have to admire his staying power, I guess. There was Bob Vander Plaats, fresh from his third failed bid …
Staff Columnists Aug. 9, 2010 1:03 pm5514d ago
As expected, Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett wants to make his two-meetings-per-month summer council meeting schedule the new normal. It’s been …
Staff Columnists Aug. 9, 2010 11:50 am5514d ago
I was reminded how much I love this time of year last week while my family and I biked north from …
Sports Aug. 6, 2010 9:06 am5517d ago
Larry Niemeyer called it “maybe the best overall infield I’ve ever had.”All of it has graduated. Half of it, today, …
Sports Aug. 6, 2010 9:05 am5517d ago
CLASS 4A First Team Pitchers – Kayle Gaunt, jr., Muscatine; Brittnie Krieser, sr., Lewis Central; Emma Remmy, sr., West Des Moines …