Monthly Archives: July 2009
Moving – Updated
24-Hour Dorman has moved to a posh spot on The Gazette’s newly designed Web mothership. You can now find my blog here. Please, I beg you, update your bookmarks, links, blogroll, feeds etc. UPDATE — Here is the link to the new RSS … Continue reading
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ChetChase 2010 – The Week
It was a very active week in the race to become your Iowa governor. Party of Five – Five Republican gubernatorial candidates/near-hopefuls/explorers met in a forum sponsored by Iowa Politics.com. If you couldn’t be there, I was not, Radio Iowa’s … Continue reading
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Column — Library Uncertainty
Cedar Rapids Library boosters certainly make a strong case for a new central library. But I wonder whether the $45 million project may catch a fatal case of uncertainty. The library board of trustees wants to replace the flooded 85,000-squarefoot … Continue reading
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Don’t Go Changin’
State Rep. Christopher Rants stopped by my office Tuesday afternoon for a chat. I’ll be columnizing on our conversation over the weekend. I’ve been writing about Rants for 12 years, since I was a cub Statehouse reporter for his hometown … Continue reading
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Stupid System
Christian Fong’s campaign for governor sent out a news release today trumpeting that the Cedar Rapids Republican raked in $100,000 in campaign donations in the three weeks since he jumped into the race. Swell. Then I sent a reply to … Continue reading
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Why?
1. Why do we keep misplacing top state government officials in this country? First, it was the governor of South Carolina. Now, we can’t account for Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Marsha Ternus in the wee hours of July 12. Was she home while a seven-pack … Continue reading
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Column — Republicans Thinking Retro
Republicans trying to figure out how best to chase Chet from Terrace Hill are feeling nostalgic yearnings. They’re thinking about going back to the ’90s, when one of their guys held the veto pen and the ribbon-cutting scissors and could … Continue reading
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Chet’s Choo Choo Rolls East
This just in for our governor, who will be riding thr rails once again to promote his re-election campaign passenger rail service: GOVERNOR CULVER’S IOWA UNLIMITED ROLLS EAST THIS WEEKEND Train to promote passenger rail service throughout Iowa DES MOINES … Continue reading
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Column — Coddling Casinos
Back in the quaint old courting days of Iowa’s casino love affair, the state let you lose only so much. Loss limits were the law. But casinos lobbied to have those small-time limits removed. High stakes, baby, that’s the only … Continue reading
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ChetChase 2010 – The Week
This week’s developments in Iowa’s race for governor. 1. Vander Poll– TheIowaRepublican.com continued releasing tasty tidbits from its 612-part poll, including numbers that showBob Vander Plaats leading the big ‘ol field of GOP hopefuls and potential hopefuls. Vander Plaats got support from 46 … Continue reading
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