Todd Dorman

GOP canddiate for governor Bob Vander Plaats performs for Bill Salier on WHO radio, then puts out a press release. …

Last week, I wrote about Ronnee O’Brien, who has moved back into her once-flooded, now restored home on the 1300 …

Time Magazine has a one-year-later piece on the flood that it posted today. Cedar Rapids northwest neighborhood activist Frank King, …

1. Why is Brett Favre still hanging on? I mean, when you’re pushing 40, your skills are diminished and clearly …

Nev. Sen. John Ensign was in Iowa recently testing the presidential waters. Now, apparently, he’s in a some extramarital  hot …

CR City Council member Monica Vernon won’t run for mayor.

Bureaucracy appears intent on sinking the boathouses. A year after the flood, which brought destruction and state scrutiny to Ellis …

Iowans have purchased 1,117 cases of Iowa-made Templeton Rye this year through the end of May, according to the state’s Alcoholic Beverages division. …

Am I the only one who heard about this and was reminded of this?

Republican gubernatorial explorer Christopher Rants tells the Muscatine Journal that if he ever formally jumps into the race, he will …

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is coming at us live, raw and unfiltered. I, for one, like it. In case …

There’s been some debate in Cedar Rapids this week over the appropriateness of commemorating the first anniversary of the flood. …

Michael Kinsley makes a case for picking a new national anthem in this morning’s WaPo.  I like the current one, …

These are a couple of pictures I snapped from atop the Crowne Plaza Hotel on June 12, 2008. The top …

The Quad-City Times’ legendary Bill Wundram is making lots of trouble for the rest of us columnistas: Writing a column …