Todd Dorman

Maybe it wasn’t your favorite Condition of the State address. But it probably had a lot of the same words. …

Gov. Terry Branstad unveiled his education reform ideas Monday. And there are some good ones. Raising starting teacher salaries is …

At our gilded Statehouse, where the Legislature returns Monday, division equals subtraction. The House is still controlled by Republicans, though …

If I had just finished managing President Obama’s 2012 re-election effort in a hotly-contested battleground state such as Ioway, I’d …

Political bedfellows are rarely strange anymore. It’s red or blue or nada. Then there’s gambling. In Iowa, the players don’t …

Jonathan Narcisse, the former Des Moines school board member who ran for governor as an independent in 2010, made the …

Here I am at the brewery I will be opening minutes after I win the lottery. Actually, this photo was …

As 2013, a gambling odyssey, begins, I’m trying to keep an open, but very skeptical, mind. First, I’m skeptical as …

The Republican state central committee meets Saturday to pick its leaders. Kevin Hall at the Iowa Republican thinks Ron Paul’s …

I mentioned in an earlier post that Iowa K-12 school enrollment posted an increase in 2012-2013. But Cedar Rapids saw …

Bleeding Heartland has a fine post remembering the famous Tinker case after one of its central participants, Christopher Eckhardt, died …

Introducing your new U.S. House of Representatives, now with 20 percent less Iowa. Yeah, it’s true, we went from 5 …

Happy New Year, one and all. Or maybe that should be Happy News Year, because I think 2013 is going …

Picking a word, or words, of the year for 2012 is pretty difficult. There are binders full of possibilities. You …

I guess we should consider ourselves lucky that road repairs in Iowa are not funded by a tax on political …