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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 May. 12, 2024 5:00 am484d ago
Coldhearted is a good way to describe the closing of its store on First Avenue in Cedar Rapids’ core
Staff Columnists May. 9, 2024 9:52 am487d ago
The governor cares about women’s rights when she can score political points by bullying transgender kids
Staff Columnists May. 5, 2024 5:00 am491d ago
Iowa conservatives are cleaning out their racial anxiety closet.
Staff Columnists Apr. 28, 2024 5:00 am498d ago
Here are numbers that reflect the action and inaction of the the 2004 session.
Staff Columnists Apr. 25, 2024 5:00 am501d ago
Sometimes, a legislative sneak attack under cover of darkness runs out of time.
Staff Columnists Apr. 22, 2024 3:33 pm504d ago
The Iowa House approved a bill this past week raising salaries for lawmakers and statewide government officials. But as legislators hurtled toward adjournment Friday and into Saturday, the Senate said “No thanks” to an election year pay increase.
Staff Columnists Apr. 14, 2024 5:00 am512d ago
Rita Hart, chair of the Iowa Democratic Party, likes to compare her job to picking up rocks in a farm …
Staff Columnists Apr. 11, 2024 5:00 am515d ago
It seems like a bad time to be anti-tree. We’re not quite four years removed from a derecho which, according …
Staff Columnists Apr. 4, 2024 5:00 am522d ago
There was a curious double feature playing in the Iowa Senate Tuesday. First, senators approved legislation that would tighten regulation …
Staff Columnists Apr. 1, 2024 8:58 am525d ago
Republicans are pushing for a constitutional amendment requiring future Legislatures to muster a two-thirds vote in each chamber to raise income taxes
Staff Columnists Mar. 28, 2024 5:00 am529d ago
Iowa lawmakers have nightmares about lab-grown meat rising from its test tube and strangling the state’s livestock industry. So, of …
Staff Columnists Mar. 24, 2024 5:00 am533d ago
Bayer U.S. is a subsidiary of Bayer AG, a global drug and biotechnology conglomerate that raked in $53.3 billion in …
Staff Columnists Mar. 17, 2024 5:00 am540d ago
Lately, a scene from the 1992 film “A Few Good Men” has been stuck in my head. You know the …
Staff Columnists Mar. 14, 2024 10:06 am543d ago
The city of Cedar Rapids finds itself in the debate over a bill in the Legislature banning citizen police review boards. It would undo months of hard work put in by local police, city leaders and Advocates for Social Justice to form a Cedar Rapids review board in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020.