Wednesday was a difficult day for The American Independent News Network, which is the larger entity that operates The Iowa Independent. Our chief executive and founder announced two of our sister sites would close and their content would be moved to The American Independent.
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.
Former Agriprocessors CEO Sholom Rubashkin has requested that his trial be moved from Cedar Rapids to Chicago or Minneapolis because of the pretrial publicity he has received in Iowa.
In court documents, Rubashkin’s lawyer says media reports have identified Rubashkin, whose father founded Agriprocessors, as a former CEO, thereby making it sound like he was responsible for all of the company’s actions:
In court records seeking a change of venue, Rubashkin’s attorney argued that the “immediate and long-standing publicity” generated by the May immigration raid at the plant “has essentially focused on one man — Defendant Sholom Rubashkin.”
“Even where the pretrial publicity does not place blame on Defendant Rubashkin, the continued publicity and the correlation of the Defendant with Agriprocessors has left observers and potential jurors to conclude he is at fault for the ills facing the company and the community,” the motion said.
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