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.
Iowa Indy alum Douglas Burns wrote a story for the cover of this week’s Cityview profiling Iowa politico Jackie Norris, who was recently named chief of staff to First Lady Michelle Obama:
When he retires late in the evening to the private quarters of the White House, President Barack Obama, now the human being who more than 6.7 billion others can dare to author destiny, will no doubt seek the comforting counsel of his wife Michelle on matters from family dogs and blue ties to wars and economic stress.
And for her part, the nation’s new First Lady — the president’s “rock” or campaign “closer” — is placing her historically undefined job, and the spectacular public expectations accompanying it, in the trusted hands of political operative and former Central Iowa school teacher Jackie Norris, Michelle Obama’s chief of staff.
For further reading: Iowa Independent’s Jason Hancock, who happens to be a Cityview alum, interviewed Norris just before her new job was announced. Jackie’s husband, John Norris, is set to work under former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack at the Department of Agriculture.
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