Todd Dorman

So Halloween and an election are looming, which seems like a great time to channel Edgar Allan Poe. Poe’s darker …

A ballot measure in Marion seeking to change the way residents elect a city council is more interesting than you …

I couldn’t make it to Gov. Terry Branstad’s Republican pep rally in Marion last week. Lucky for me, The Gazette’s …

My column a couple of weeks ago on school lunch policies generated a lot of responses. Hot lunch, apparently, is …

It’s always makes me cringe when something I write about a campaign becomes part of a campaign. It’s inevitable, but …

BELMOND – It was the most-asked question Friday afternoon, without question. ‘Where were you when it hit?” asked many folks …

So I’m interviewing state Sen. Liz Mathis over coffee at Wit’s End in Marion recently when a guy stops for …

So my own state representative has had enough. Rep. Ken Rizer, R-Cedar Rapids, took to Facebook Saturday to explain why …

It’s not unusual for parents to embarrass their teenage daughters. It is unusual to get a big assist from their …

So I was a sixth-grade Republican in 1982, with a Branstad bumper sticker on my Trapper Keeper. It was the …

We know, thanks to U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s famous 2014 tweet, that Dairy Queen can be a good place for …

Back on Tuesday, Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett compared his city’s anxious wait for the Cedar River’s flood crest to …

So Cedar Rapids weathered the Cedar River’s latest surge. This time, the preparation, not the flood, was ‘epic.” ‘We won …

Jeff Melsha, who runs the iconic Little Bohemia tavern, was determined to look on the bright side Sunday afternoon as …

Just when we had gotten back to sweating all the small stuff, the normal stuff, like arguing over sidewalks, pointing …