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.
(Editor’s Note: The following video and feature package is the result of collaboration between Iowa Independent fellows Adam Burke and Douglas Burns.)
DES MOINES – While Iowa State Sen. Jeff Angelo, R-Creston, was dating his now wife, the evangelical Christian conservative just had to come right out with it and tell his lady just how much she meant.
“I’m falling in love with you — and you’re a liberal Democrat,” Angelo told Tara van Brederode.
As it turns out, she was guilty on both counts. An Ames lawyer and passionate supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, van Brederode is a committed progressive – and she was falling very much in love with a state senator whose positions she found to be rather, well
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