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.
Tuesday, a video of Republicans donning Catholic school-girl uniforms and singing a parody bashing President Barack Obama was stumbled upon by the liberal site Blog for Iowa. But this group, which includes a candidate for Johnson County supervisor, is no one-hit wonder.
Lori Cardella
Lori Cardella and four friends shot another video the same day as their Obama tribute, and in this one they mock a proposed franchise fee passed in December by the Iowa City City Council. Once again, their intent is to parody a song performed by school children last February praising the country’s first black president for Black History Month, something many conservatives decried as “socialist indoctrination.”
Cardella is a candidate in the Jan. 19 special election for the Johnson County Supervisor seat that was vacated with the death of Larry Meyers. In addition, she serves as a county chair for 2nd District congressional candidate Christopher Reed.
She is second from the right in the video.
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