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.
Responding to a question in Washington, Ia., former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney downplayed the remarks of a national co-chairman of his presidential campaign who had stated that Iowa is where “they pick corn” not presidents.
Romney noted that he has “made more visits to Iowa than any other candidate.”New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg, a national co-chairman of the Mitt Romney presidential campaign, said on CNN earlier this week that New Hampshire is “a place where we pick presidents,” but Iowa is “a place where they pick corn.”
On Wednesday morning at a coffee shop in Washington, Ia. Romney said “That’s not my organization, that’s the senator from New Hampshire.”
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