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 National Journal has released its 2008 rankings of the most liberal and conservative lawmakers in Washington, and Iowa Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, has come in as the 9th most conservative (or 419th most liberal) lawmaker in the U.S. House.
Iowa’s other Republican member of Congress, Tom Latham, came in at 138.
On the Democratic side, Reps. Bruce Braley and Dave Loebsack tied as the 74th most liberal congressman, with Rep. Leonard Boswell ending up at 138 out of 435 members of the House.
In the Senate, Democrat Tom Harkin was the 27th most liberal and Republican Charles Grassley was the 19th most conservative.
The rankings were calculated using each lawmakers’ vote on 167 key roll-call votes in 2008 — 79 votes for the Senate and 88 for the House.
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