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.
Republican voters in Iowa’s 2nd District are ready to give Mariannette Miller-Meeks another shot at incumbent U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack, and she’s more than pleased to be going to battle once again.
“I think this is just an accumulation of a lot of months of very hard work, reaching out to voters, trying to educate and inform people, to get on board a team that has a vision of bold economic freedom, slashing wasteful government spending, limiting harmful regulation so that we can create private sector jobs and get our economy going — cap and trade and health care all fit into that scenario,” Miller-Meeks told The Iowa Independent moments after the GOP primary had been called in her favor.
The campaign, she said earlier in the evening, was able to build on a team that was in place following the 2008 election cycle, and has repeated a message that has resonated with voters.
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