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.
CARROLL — The Whitesburg, Kentucky-based national Center for Rural Strategies this afternoon interviewed Iowa Independent fellow Douglas Burns about the impact of the war in Iraq on rural America, which is doing a disproportionate share of the fighting and dying.
Officials at the center had read Burns’ recent Iowa Independent piece “What Barack Obama gets about the war in Iraq, rural America, that John McCain doesn’t.”
The interview will be posted on the Daily Yonder, a new Web site portal that is being set up by the Center for Rural Strategies and should go live in the next week. it will be launched at www.dailyyonder.com.
The interview was recorded and is expected to be used for a short media/video/Youtube clip that will be featured on the Daily Yonder when it premiers.
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