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.
Members of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement — along with National People’s Action, several labor unions and numerous other organizations — converged in downtown Kansas City Tuesday to protest big banks and call for passage of consumer-friendly financial reform.
The protest, which according to media reports drew around 200 people, was designed to “confront the big banks that crashed our economy and refuse to take responsibility for it” and was part of a nationwide protest taking place in cities in California, North Carolina, New York and in Washington, D.C.
Iowa CCI organized a similar event in January in downtown Des Moines.
Below are photos from Tuesday’s event, courtesy of Iowa CCI:
More photos available at Iowa CCI’s Flickr page.
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