Todd Dorman

Our red-state, trailblazing governor claimed yet another cookie-cutter national culture war trophy this week.

For one, we need a governor who doesn’t choose campaigning over governing at a critical moment.

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Asking the Department of Natural Resources, under current management, to save even a waterway it’s dubbed “outstanding” is an exercise …

Bills considered and passed paint a picture of the Iowans the Legislature actually serves

Given all the talk this week about a Linn County gambling referendum this fall, I tried this past week to …

There are thousands of individual stories among Iowans receiving federal pandemic unemployment benefits. The pandemic, which is not over, has …

In many ways she still lives. Sometimes through my keyboard.

So the same governor who claims to care deeply for children’s mental health is also willing to dump on transgender …

Bureaucrats are coming for Iowa’s farm puddles again. OK, not really. But as the Biden administration surveys the environmental wreckage …

No Iowa governmental entity is talking about requiring proof of a COVID-19 vaccination to conduct public business. Reports of Iowa businesses barring the unvaccinated also are not rolling in.

Attention good citizens: Be on the lookout for zombie bills as the legislative session rolls toward a merciful end. This …

If denial were a river in Iowa, it likely would be polluted by agricultural runoff. But, actually, denial is Iowa’s …

I’m not a baseball fan. But I am a Kernels fan.

Among all the shortsighted, petty and vindictive actions taken or considered under the Golden Dome of Wisdom this year, slapping …