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.
This morning, before a crowd of roughly 100 Iowans at Hawkeye Community College in Waterloo, one of Iowa’s youngest congressmen was the first from Iowa to offer an endorsement of a presidential candidate. Congressman Bruce Braley publicly announced his support for former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.
Following the event, Braley, an Edwards activist in 2004, said he was happy to endorse the Democratic candidate and explained the timing.
“I represent the First District of Iowa and I wanted to make sure that the people in the First District had the opportunity to meet the Democratic candidates and make up their own minds,” he said. “I was trying to make sure that I had a clear distinction between the stances of all the candidates and I had also told all of them that I would not be making an endorsement decision until after Thanksgiving. I’ve been very focused on my job in Washington and I’ve not had the time to sit back and reflect on this important decision.”
According to Edwards, the Braley endorsement was “heavily courted” by the candidates in the Democratic field.
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