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 Iowa Supreme Court’s decision to void the state’s ban on same-sex marriage will go into effect Monday, April 27, three days later than previously anticipated.
Rulings usually go into effect 21 days after a verdict is handed down. In this case, however, that date falls on a Friday when all court offices are closed because of budget cuts. So it has been pushed back to the following Monday.
After the Court’s ruling was made public, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller officially instructed county recorders and registrars that once the decision goes into effect they “must issue marriage licenses to same sex couples in the same manner as licenses issued to opposite sex couples.”
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