Todd Dorman

So 2018 will be the year we get to watch thrill-seekers brave a very high wire in Cedar Rapids. And …

One corner of our great system of self-governance remains functional in our dysfunctional times. This I can report firsthand. I …

Maybe you weren’t crazy about the ‘framework.” No worries, ‘programing” will be better. The framework approved by the Cedar Rapids …

Someone, please, put the Cedar Rapids speed camera system out of its misery. Sorry, but it’s tough to watch the …

Persuasion is dead, or in a coma. Our current immigration ‘debate” is the latest boulder in a landslide of evidence. …

It seems clear the Cedar Rapids Community School District and its leaders should have a little more conversation before they …

Solid, historic speech, governor. But I think I found a typo. ‘My hope is that a water quality bill is …

Maybe you’ve noticed voting on big public projects is no longer trendy. It’s like flip phones, or our democratic norms. …

Near the end of a public forum Tuesday night on the Cedar Rapids school district’s big facilities plan, a man …

It was fitting, perhaps, that Mayor Ron Corbett’s last City Council vote involved the need for parking. For the final …

Iowans take a lot of pride in the moments when the nation turns its lonely eyes to us. In 2009, …

As the Cedar Rapids school board was briefed Monday night on a $224 million facilities plan shuttering eight elementary schools, …

There were two mayoral victory parties in Cedar Rapids Tuesday night, but only one victor. Such is democracy. You’re either …

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s recent remarks on the estate tax are getting lots of attention. Just Google ‘booze.” ‘I think …

Want to spice up a sleepy City Council runoff campaign? Toss in a swastika. In this case, the swastika appears …