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 ceremony most likely won’t take place at the fabled Little Brown Church in Nashua, but will have Iowa ties just the same.
Friends of Chelsea Clinton received some happy news via e-mail this holiday weekend. The daughter of former President Bill Clinton and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now officially engaged to Marc Mezvinsky, investment banker and son of former Pennsylvania Congresswoman Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky and former Iowa Congressman Ed Mezvinsky.
Ed Mezvinsky is a native of Ames who left Iowa for Pennsylvania in 1979 after a failed re-election bid to Congress. Although he attempted several statewide races in the Keystone State, he was never successful and instead served a stint as the chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee.
In 2002, he admitted that he had bilked investors — including friends, law clients and even his late mother-in-law — out of more than $10 million. He was sentenced to 80 months in federal prison on fraud charges. He was released last year.
His wife, Margolies-Mezvinsky, who also served in Congress when Bill Clinton was president, was not charged with any wrongdoing. In fact, the schemes perpetrated by her husband dipped not only into her mother’s accounts, but her own inheritance and much of the family’s financial resources.
Marc Mezvinsky, 31, and Chelsea Clinton, 29, have been friends since they were teenagers. They both attended Stanford University and studied finance, and only became romantically involved a few years ago. The couple has not yet set a date for their upcoming wedding, but did indicate in their e-mail to family and friends that the ceremony will likely be held in the summer. It is also unclear how the families will mesh their distinctly different religious backgrounds.
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