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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 Feb. 9, 2009 1:52 pm6061d ago
Gov. Chet Culver and U.S. Homeland Security Sec. Janet Napolitano will make stops in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Wednesday …
Staff Columnists Feb. 9, 2009 5:43 am6061d ago
It’s a new week at the Statehouse, and Lee/Gazette’s Charlotte Eby reports that lawmakers will try to figure out how Iowa banks …
Staff Columnists Feb. 6, 2009 10:28 am6064d ago
Needless to say, most of my e-mail this week was tied to the two columns I wrote on the Linn …
Staff Columnists Feb. 6, 2009 5:38 am6064d ago
So what am I doing? I’m reading The Gazette’s front-page piece on local law enforcement agencies that are using social networking …
Staff Columnists Feb. 5, 2009 3:52 pm6065d ago
House Minority Leader Kraig Paulsen, R-Hiawatha, says he has a thick folder of e-mail messages to go through tonight. The …
Staff Columnists Feb. 5, 2009 2:08 pm6065d ago
Hey, remember the snooty travel writer who put Cedar Rapids on his list of five stinky places to avoid? He’d better …
Staff Columnists Feb. 5, 2009 10:26 am6065d ago
The Linn County Board of Supervisors will meet at 1 p.m. Friday (Feb. 6) at the Palmer Building downtown to take …
Staff Columnists Feb. 5, 2009 5:30 am6065d ago
The Gazette and Radio Iowa carry fascinating accounts of a legislative panel’s pointed questioning of officials with the Rebuild Iowa …
Staff Columnists Feb. 4, 2009 10:00 pm6065d ago
So the Linn County Board of Supervisors, all but one, proved me wrong. They didn’t understand what’s at stake. But …
Staff Columnists Feb. 4, 2009 2:07 pm6066d ago
I thought I was going to get a look around the flood-damaged Paramount Theater today for an upcoming column. I …
Staff Columnists Feb. 4, 2009 12:35 pm6066d ago
I’m writing my Thursday Gazette column on the latest lowlights in the Linn County Board of Supervisors pay saga. I’m …
Staff Columnists Feb. 4, 2009 5:29 am6066d ago
This morning’s Sioux City Journal fronts Charlotte Eby’s account of a public hearing yesterday where school officials from around Iowa …
Staff Columnists Feb. 3, 2009 10:04 am6067d ago
Iowa Independent notes dissatisfaction on the part of some Democratic state lawmakers who say the big federal stimulus bill doesn’t do enough …
Staff Columnists Feb. 3, 2009 5:37 am6067d ago
Locally, county supervisor salaries are the story of the day. Adam Belz reports in The Gazette that it looks like …
Staff Columnists Feb. 2, 2009 2:17 pm6068d ago
Gov. Chet Culver has been out selling his plan to float $700 million worth of bonds to pay for infrastructure …