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.
Wellmark Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Iowa will cooperate with an independent review of is recently-approved request for health insurance premium rate increases, the company told Radio Iowa Monday.
Gov. Chet Culver Monday ordered state Insurance Commissioner Susan Voss to halt the 18 percent premium increase scheduled to go into effect April 1 until a review could be conducted. A spokesman for Wellmark said the company does not object.
From Radio Iowa:
“We intend to cooperate fully with the insurance commissioner in an independent, actuarial review of the data that supports our recent, individual rate increases in the individual, under 65 market,” [spokesman Rob Schweers] says. “And by individual, we’re talking about people who buy their own policy as opposed to people who have a group policy through their employer.”
The review is expected to take less than 30 days.
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