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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. 6, 2021 1:03 pm1723d 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 am1732d 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 am1735d 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 am1745d 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 am1749d 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 am1753d 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 am1756d 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 am1760d 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 am1763d 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 pm1230d 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 am1770d 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 am1776d ago
Once more, with feeling. But no optimism. Groups including the Sierra Club, Food and Water Watch and CCI Action, along …
Staff Columnists Feb. 11, 2021 7:00 am1777d ago
Iowa is making headlines across the nation. Late Friday, Gov. Kim Reynolds announced she would rescind the state’s already thin …
Staff Columnists Feb. 7, 2021 7:00 am1781d ago
Our Legislature has a mean streak. Cruel, even. Just ask transgender Iowans. I recently wrote about a slew of bills …
Staff Columnists Jan. 31, 2021 7:00 am1788d ago
In the opening paragraphs of her Pulitzer Prize-winning essay commencing The New York Times’ 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones describes how …

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