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.
Today’s Twitter lesson two-fer: It takes some folks a little longer than others to catch on to the whole hash-tag/key-word functionality of Twitter. It is often hard to determine if you are like other people or if, gosh-darn-it, people just like you.
~ U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa
~ Iowa Gov. Chet Culver, Democrat
~ Iowa Rep. Christopher Rants, Republican
~ Dave Funk, GOP hopeful in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District
~ U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon
~ U.S. House Education and Labor Committee Democrats
~ Matt Strawn, chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa
~ U.S. Rep. Mike Honda, D-California
~ Olde Main Brewing Co., Ames
~ Rick Mullin, Democratic hopeful for Iowa Senate
~ U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland
~ Ted Sporer, conservative blogger & former chairman Polk County GOP
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