Todd Dorman

6 days ago | thegazette.com | Todd Dorman

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Well, the pop police are on their way. Or the soda sheriff, if that’s your inclination. They’ll be looking for low-income Iowans who try to use federal food assistance to buy, for example, lemonade, that cool, refreshing but sugary drink. In the future, when life hands them lemons, they had better be squeezing them over fresh broccoli. Gov.

1 week ago | thegazette.com | Todd Dorman

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Maybe it was just a figment of our imagination. After all, we live in Iowa, where Republicans who run the Golden Dome of Wisdom, now redder than lines on a zoning map, have banished Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from campuses, encouraged the whitewashing of American history and passed a school library book ban that has sparked the removal of books by Black writers. And yet, it must be true.

2 weeks ago | thegazette.com | Todd Dorman

Senate Democrats, from left, Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., gather to speak to reporters before the start of a voting marathon as Senate Republicans push the next step to pass President Donald Trump's budget agenda, at the Capitol, in Washington, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread.

2 weeks ago | thegazette.com | Todd Dorman

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Our Golden Dome of Wisdom, now redder than a wrong way road sign, is closed for the season. Lawmakers finally adjourned and went home. Iowa was held hostage for 122 days. The drama ended Thursday after a 21-hour marathon stumble to adjournment. The words “common sense” will be uttered dozens of times to describe the session by majority Republicans who swear they have cornered the market on it.

3 weeks ago | thegazette.com | Todd Dorman

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Finally, it has come to pass. It had been long predicted by oracles. At last check, animal entrails, crystal balls and Tarot cards aligned with the stars. There’s also that $7.5 million campaign account. So, yes, state Auditor Rob Sand is running for governor of Iowa. Sand says Gov. Kim Reynolds’ decision not to seek re-election had no bearing on his decision to run.