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A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
As Iowa Independent reported this morning, State Sen. Jeff Angelo, the Creston Republican who represents the largest senate district in the Hawkeye State, has announced that he will not seek re-election in 2008.
Angelo, a three-term senator, says the role of father and soon-to-be new husband to Tara van Brederode of Ames — not to mention the couple’s time-share arrangement between Ames and Creston for the benefit of the kids involved who are rooted in schools — make legislative service beyond 2008 too much.
The senator says he plans to be active in the coming legislative session, however.
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