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 House Ethics Committee will meet at 10 a.m. Monday to discuss Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement’s ethics complaint against state Rep. Dolores Mertz, D-Ottosen.
The group filed the formal ethics complaint against Mertz Tuesday. It calls for House leadership to remove her as chair of the House Agriculture Committee because of her family and financial ties to the factory farm industry. Mertz’s sons have owned a 4,000-head hog factory in southern Kossuth County for the last decade. In their complaint, CCI said the farm has been cited for five violations in the last five years.
A source in the statehouse told the Iowa Independent the complaint is not likely to result in the removal of Mertz from her committee position.
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