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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 Apr. 15, 2021 8:09 am1608d ago
Gov. Kim Reynolds channels a well-known Iowa governor. And it’s not Bob Ray
Opinion Apr. 9, 2021 9:29 am1614d ago
Sin has continued to be taxable since Gov. Nathan Kendall signed the nation's first cigarette tax
Apr. 8, 2021 7:00 am1615d ago
DNR’s acceptance of manure management plan for a large cattle feedlot near a trout stream is the latest reminder livestock interests run the state.
Staff Columnists Apr. 6, 2021 1:03 pm1617d ago
A lone rider gallops through the night, past farms and through sleepy villages, his voice cutting through the night like …
Staff Columnists Mar. 28, 2021 8:00 am1626d ago
It was the feel-good hit of last summer. With Black Lives Matter protests swelling across the nation and outside the …
Staff Columnists Mar. 25, 2021 8:00 am1629d ago
One highlight of my recent week off was grilling a rib-eye half as big as my head. It’s a very …
Staff Columnists Mar. 15, 2021 6:00 am1639d ago
So my column last Sunday in the opinion section proposing some new slogans to adorn our welcome signs generated quite …
Staff Columnists Mar. 11, 2021 7:00 am1643d ago
The big lie is alive and well. Just two months after the big lie about a flawed, fraudulent and stolen …
Staff Columnists Mar. 7, 2021 7:00 am1647d ago
There’s been talk under the Golden Dome of Wisdom that Iowa should update its welcome signs greeting travelers at the …
Staff Columnists Mar. 4, 2021 7:00 am1650d ago
Supporters of making Iowa the latest state to enact a Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA, insist it’s really nothing …
Staff Columnists Feb. 28, 2021 7:00 am1654d ago
Gov. Kim Reynolds says we have a model elections system in Iowa, but some people believe nonsense, so changes might …
Staff Columnists Feb. 25, 2021 7:00 am1657d ago
Only three groups lobbied to pass the lousy elections bill that just tore like a bullet train through the Iowa …
Staff Columnists Aug. 12, 2022 2:29 pm1124d ago
It seems, under the Golden Dome of Wisdom, Republicans who run the show have allowed the libs to drive them …
Staff Columnists Feb. 18, 2021 7:00 am1664d ago
Just a few weeks ago, my congresswoman, Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, argued that impeaching Donald Trump for inciting an …
Staff Columnists Feb. 12, 2021 6:50 am1670d ago
Once more, with feeling. But no optimism. Groups including the Sierra Club, Food and Water Watch and CCI Action, along …