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.
The “Ralph Nader Democratic Caucus Campaign Draft Committee” is advertising for campaign staffers on the craigslist web pages for Des Moines and New Hampshire.
The Des Moines ad offers $1000 a week for full-time work between Dec. 15 and Jan. 15 and seeks “8 experienced (non-profit or political) organizers full time, and 12 field interns(6 part and 6 fulltime).”
The ad lists a New York address for the committee but offers no web site other than Nader’s Wikipedia entry.Nader entered the New Hampshire Democratic primary in 1992, and won a handful of Iowa caucus delegates in Johnson County in 1996 (though those results were delayed till after newspaper deadlines and, in effect, scrubbed from the historic record). He ran as a Green in the 1996 and 2000 general elections, and as an independent in 2004.
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