Todd Dorman

I know, I know, I should probably confine my restaurant roaming and tavern travels to locally owned joints. That would …

Gov. Chet Culver is strongly hinting that he might veto the collective bargaining expansion for public employees that passed the …

You could be dressed up as “Polyp Man.” OK, it’s a funny picture. But it’s also a serious subject. From …

So I was on the treadmill this morning. Last week, front buttons popped off two pairs of pants on consecutive …

Senate Democrats agreed at midday to let senators go home for the weekend before a long Monday debate on the controversial collective bargaining …

Not true, apparently. From Radio Iowa: “Authorities in central Iowa have charged a Collins man with 41 counts of animal …

Sen. John Putney, R-Gladbrook, is making his last bid to save summer, or at least the last fleeting days of …

As high piles of snow disappear from the landscape, hopefully for good, they’re revealing items long buried. We can only …

Have you checked out Gazette City Hall reporter Rick Smith’s new blog? If not, you should. For one thing, you’ll …

O. Kay Henderson at Radio Iowa has the story: “Only 23 senators voted in favor of the House plan on …

The Iowa House voted this morning to exempt bars and restaurants that hold state liquor licenses from the controversial bill banning smoking …

This interesting story certainly puts things in a gloomy perspective. From the New York Times: Kissing the Earth Goodbye in …

This got buried by the Spitzer thing, but Obama gave a pretty good speech Monday slamming the Clintons’ Dream Ticket …

Almost the minute I heard about the Spitzer scandal, I wondered what headline the New York Post would come up …

  I opined in my Thursday column that an online search turned up only one pothole joke. From that intensive, …