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.
U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Waterloo, was greeted on the floor of the U.S. House with catcalls of “trial lawyer” shortly before passage of health care reform legislation Saturday night.
Braley, a Waterloo attorney, was chosen to respond to a Republican effort to block a vote on the bill. The parliamentary move, called a motion to recommit, would have forced the bill to be redrafted. Republicans were expressing concern about the cost of medical malpractice insurance and Braley was trying to make the point that health care reform should be about “standing up for patient safety.”
That’s when Republicans began heckling him.
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