Todd Dorman

Starting a new daily feature, picking a few interesting stories from print and blogs. Feel free to submit your own. …

 A well-done story by Jennifer Jacobs in this morning’s Des Moines Register carries very sad news that State Sen. Mary Lundby …

Gov. Chet Culver was in town at midday for the special “A Season of Hope” event at St. Wenceslaus Catholic …

Iowa’s population is now estimated at 3,002,555 according to the U.S. Census bureau. We’ve crossed the 3 million threshold. Hooray. …

Last Summer, at the Democratic National Convention, former Gov. Tom Vilsack told a small group of journos that he was still …

Normally, NORAD is watching out for airborne threats to the national security of the United States and Canada. But on …

Thanks to the Iowa Supreme Court’s August ruling in favor of Davenport’s effort to catch red-light-runners using surveillance cameras, the …

My internal weather geek kicked in yesterday as we careened from balmy to icy in a matter of hours. I was …

The Revenue Estimating Conference has spoken. Things aren’t good: Iowa leaders today said deeper cuts in state spending likely will …

Local pols all over the country are salivating at the prospect of a big federal stimulus package bulging with infrastructure …

Sorry for the long pause, but I was in Des Moines for Supreme Court arguments in the same-sex marriage case. …

I’ ll be live blogging Tuesday’s Iowa Supreme Court arguments in the Varnum v. Brien same sex marriage case. I …

Today is the 75th anniversary of the repeal of prohibition. On this day in 1933, Utah became the 36th state …

Geek Dad’s blog at Wired has a list of 10 Christmas songs he’s already sick of, and “geeky” alternatives. Meanwhile, Chicago’s examiner.com, …

It’s becoming more difficult for our Linn County Board of Supervisors to ignore that massive shopping mall on the southwest …