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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 Sep. 30, 2018 8:00 am2537d ago
About this time 20 years ago, I was sitting across a desk from Tom Vilsack at his campaign headquarters, asking …
Staff Columnists Sep. 27, 2018 8:00 am2540d ago
Truth, they say, is the first casualty of politics. But magnanimity has to be high on the list. In July, …
Staff Columnists Sep. 20, 2018 8:00 am2547d ago
Warning: Satire. Somewhere high above a patchwork quilt of Iowa farmland, a borrowed corporate jet streaks across the sky. Inside, …
Staff Columnists Sep. 17, 2018 10:18 am2550d ago
In 2008 and 2016, as the Cedar River swelled beyond its banks, legions of Cedar Rapids residents gathered to fill …
Opinion Sep. 13, 2018 10:12 am2554d ago
So what’s it going to be, Iowans, a lack of transparency or bushels of hypocrisy? That’s where we’re at as …
Staff Columnists Sep. 10, 2018 10:18 am2557d ago
Tim Gannon, the Democratic nominee for Iowa secretary of agriculture, stopped by our shop about a week ago. We talked …
Staff Columnists Sep. 2, 2018 8:00 am2565d ago
John McCain was funny. That’s what I’ll remember. Yes, of course, he was a war hero, a towering figure in …
Staff Columnists Aug. 30, 2018 8:00 am2568d ago
So I was sitting on a terrace overlooking downtown Austin, Tex., last week when word came that newbo evolve had …
Staff Columnists Aug. 19, 2018 8:00 am2579d ago
Soon, we’ll finally get our chance to climb new trails ascending Mount Trashmore and enjoy the municipal vistas from its …
Staff Columnists Aug. 16, 2018 12:06 pm2581d ago
A couple more roundabouts are on the drawing board in Marion. And that made me wonder, could it be Iowa’s …
Staff Columnists Aug. 12, 2018 8:00 am2586d ago
In the end, after celebrating a now-fulfilled promise of federal flood protection funding for Cedar Rapids, the honorables and luminaries …
Staff Columnists Aug. 9, 2018 1:23 pm2588d ago
So our governor is curtailing her weekly scheduled Q and As with Statehouse reporters. This, we’re told, is no big …
Staff Columnists Aug. 5, 2018 9:00 am2593d ago
August marks my 48th anniversary as an Iowan. That’s a somewhat roundabout way of saying my birthday is fast approaching. …
Staff Columnists Aug. 2, 2018 8:00 am2596d ago
So last week, President Donald Trump was back in Iowa. Officially, he was here to talk about jobs. Obviously, he …
Staff Columnists Jul. 30, 2018 11:09 am2599d ago
Iowa Republicans are assailing Fred Hubbell for his record running Younkers 30 years ago. They say the Democratic nominee for …