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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 Jun. 27, 2016 1:05 pm3467d ago
So I’ve read there’s a chance of sweet corn by the Fourth of July. Not a good chance, but a …
Staff Columnists Jun. 23, 2016 7:18 am3472d ago
So Cedar Rapids’ drive to require builders to replace topsoil, or use some other method to make sure finished sites …
Staff Columnists Jun. 21, 2016 1:08 pm3473d ago
Don’t fear the ‘hodgepodge.” That’s how Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett described the prospect of Iowa counties and cities setting …
Staff Columnists Jun. 16, 2016 10:14 am3478d ago
Tyler Olson has some decisions to make. The former state lawmaker from Cedar Rapids whose gubernatorial ambitions ended abruptly in …
Staff Columnists Jun. 14, 2016 6:00 am3481d ago
So my family spent Sunday at a softball tournament, where little girls played their hearts out, people ate grilled hamburgers …
Staff Columnists Jun. 12, 2016 6:00 am3483d ago
State Sen. David Johnson is standing athwart the 2016 presidential race, yelling ‘Stop!” Johnson, of Ocheyedan in far northwest Iowa, …
Staff Columnists Jun. 8, 2016 11:43 am3486d ago
Here are a few winners and losers from Tuesday’s primaries. WINNERS Electability over shoe leather – U.S. Iowa Senate hopeful …
Staff Columnists Jun. 7, 2016 7:57 am3488d ago
It’s primary Election Day, and custom dictates I refrain from opining about the ongoing 2016 contest as voters go to …
Staff Columnists Jun. 5, 2016 6:53 pm3489d ago
COUNCIL BLUFFS – With time slipping away before Tuesday’s primary, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Rob Hogg is starting his closing …
Staff Columnists Jun. 2, 2016 6:00 am3493d ago
Maybe you’ve been out hiking and the trail before you suddenly turns to muddy muck. Find another way around? Avoid …
Staff Columnists May. 29, 2016 4:00 am3497d ago
So it’s been almost exactly one year since I wrote about how, after seven years, more than a few people …
Staff Columnists May. 28, 2016 7:00 am3498d ago
Fittingly, on the doorstep of Memorial Day weekend, Iowa’s battle flag preservation effort won a small but important victory. Gov. …
Staff Columnists Jan. 24, 2023 3:24 pm1065d ago
In the end, will the ‘wow” be more powerful than the ‘whoa?” The ‘wow” is One Park Place, a 28-story …
Staff Columnists May. 24, 2016 10:11 am3501d ago
So last week I was on the Bob Bruce Radio Experience, and Bob relayed a question for me from an …
Staff Columnists May. 19, 2016 5:00 am3507d ago
So Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has waded into the great American bathroom debate. This week, the governor criticized an Obama …

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