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.
Oil suspected to be coming from BP’s Deepwater Horizon gusher is now washing up on the white-sand beaches of western Florida, scrambling clean-up crews who hope to prevent the disaster from fouling the state’s $60 billion per year tourism industry.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Officials on Thursday afternoon spotted an oil slick within 3 ½ miles of the Pensacola coast, and a stretch of Pensacola Beach contained dozens of gooey, oil-like clumps Friday morning. Locals and tourists poked at the gobs with sticks and took photos of them with their cellphones. Few ventured into the water, although area beaches remained open.
Earlier Friday, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said officials already have some of the tools they need to battle the incoming oil, but “we want to get more boom.”
“We’ve got about 250,000 feet of boom already dispatched through the Panhandle,” Crist said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program. “We have about another 66,000 boom that is staged nearby, ready for us to be able to utilize and disperse. But in addition to that, we’re just going to keep asking and asking and asking for more.”
Meanwhile, BP engineers were successful in capping the seafloor well-head Friday, though a great deal of oil was reportedly still escaping into the Gulf.
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