The Gazette is seeking your thoughts as we look forward to the rest of 2012. We are conducting an online survey in which we ask about your reading habits, your experience with The Gazette and the kinds of coverage you’d like to see from us. We want to learn from you so that we are [...]

Those iPads, Kindles and Nooks that were so new only two years ago are catching on as their prices become more reasonable, I noted in my Sunday, Feb. 26, column in The Gazette. My reference point is the Pew Internet & American Life Project report issued last month, which showed the number of Americans owning [...]

We have made some changes in how comments are displayed at TheGazette.com so I want to share them with you. Comments on news stories now go to a separate page, which will serve as a public forum for commenters but which also will give people who want to experience our stories without the comments an [...]

We are stepping up our coverage of the pending March 6 local-option sales tax vote in the Cedar Rapids metro area, rural Linn County and Walford. We took a look on Feb. 16 at plans Linn County communities other than Cedar Rapids have if the tax passes there. This is a countywide vote, after all, [...]

[Updated Friday night, Jan. 17] If you are on Facebook check out a page called Gazette & KCRG Visuals. The site showcases the great work our photographers produce on a daily basis and also lets you know some of the interesting things they are doing. So few photos get published that it is a shame [...]

I wrote my Sunday Gazette column for Feb. 12 about a story Diana Nollen did about Hancher Auditorium’s efforts to present shows without a theater, the result of the Great Floods of 2008. Some stats popped out at me, such as a 65 percent drop in annual revenue from the year before the record 2008 [...]

“Can you put this picture in your paper?” a letter writer asked on a sticky note. There actually were two photos on a page to which the sticky note was attached: one showing Occupy Wall Street protesters and bearing the caption “Twenty-Year-Olds in 2011 Wanting Everything” and the other showing soldiers and bearing the caption [...]

I received a note recently from a Gazette reader who took issue with a specific “Bizarro” comic that ran in the paper on Jan. 19. I am going to mention the note in my Sunday, Feb. 5, column in the paper. This particular cartoon showed urinals and a punch line related to urinating — ” [...]

Other stories in this report: Public information board proposal to get full airing Despite attention to openness, problems exist Iowans in poll favor more effort into providing access Fight over Riverdale security video ends with payout   Last year the North Liberty City Council was working on a policy for dealing with open records that [...]

I received this e-mail on a Sunday morning a few weeks ago: We’ve noticed Leonard’s Pitt’s column missing from the Gazette the last few Sundays. We miss him. Is he on vacation or is he too left wing for the Gazette’s right wing sensibilities? Just curious. A short while later came this, from the same [...]