Todd Dorman

So they’re leaving us, Iowans, the candidates, their staffers and, saddest of all, the traveling media. Soon jets filled with …

Statehouse politicians are taking aim at political bias. In other news, mosquitoes are opposed to itch and irritation. State Sen. …

Stacy, just your average mom, has got a lot going on. In fact, ‘Stacy” is a mom, wife and teacher …

When Republicans’ legal arguments don’t prevail in Iowa courts, they don’t reconsider their misguided legislative proposals. They seek instead to …

This tax cut game is rigged. For all of the two decades or so your columnist has been watching state …

So after nearly a decade of waiting, an Iowa governor has rolled out a plan for, finally, filling the Natural …

Can a bulldozing Iowa Legislature learn the virtues of a gentle tweak? Count me as skeptical. We’ll soon find out …

Lots of scribes are making predictions for 2020. Most will be wrong. So why not be really, really wrong, I …

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds did the right thing last month when she agreed to continue accepting refugees for resettlement in …

So 2019 was wordy. Many can’t be repeated in a family newspaper. But what were the words that defined the …

Here are some Christmas songs I’ve rewritten to capture the modern spirt. Enjoy, or not. ’Get Lost You Tweeting Gentlemen” …

By now, we should have known the buffers would be rebuffed. You might recall a column back in August about …

Gov. Kim Reynolds talks often of the need to give Iowans who made serious mistakes a second chance. Apparently, that …

Gov. Kim Reynolds is working on it. But who is she listening to? The ‘it” in this case is potential …

Thanksgiving is here. Maybe you’re reading this in dawn’s early light. Perhaps your sleep was interrupted by second thoughts about …