Todd Dorman

Jessica Wiskus is not your typical rural legislative candidate.

Can an Iowa governor win re-election by running against public education? We’re about to find out.

A legislative Blitzkrieg hit so fast that local leaders and their Statehouse lobbyists had no time to react.

You’re going to need drinks. Here are some suggested libations.

Reynolds called ethanol “environmentally friendly.” But is it, really?

Iowa is being plagued by multiple cases of what I’m diagnosing as a strain of cat scratch fever.

Four members of the nine-member council recused themselves.

So Gov. Kim Reynolds slipped quietly into Marion Wednesday to hold a closed-door meeting with a select group of Linn-Mar …

If you think they’ll stop with abortion rights, you haven’t been paying attention.

The primary race pits state Rep. Liz Bennett, D-Cedar Rapids, against Joe Zahorik, political director for Ironworkers Local 89

It’s hollow, cynical political sloganeering at its finest. And it scares the hell out of older white voters.

He’s one of the state’s clearest, most experienced voices on agricultural policies and the pressing need for improved environmental stewardship.

His argument is that he brings seriousness and substance to the Senate race.

A recent letter-writer, for example, claimed I’m “sweltering in hatred.”

From the same Legislature that brought us a constitutional amendment making it virtually impossible to regulate firearms and a constitutional …