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.
The development of a half-a-billion-dollar-plus Google data center in Council Bluffs has been rumored for some time.
Now The Des Moines Register reports that an announcement in this western Iowa city is slated for Tuesday for a $600 million Google data center. Lawmakers and the governor earlier this year had put together a raft iof incentives intended to help lure a dominant Web company to Council Bluffs.
The announcement is another major step in the mercurial rise of Council Bluffs — which until only recently was derided as "Counciltucky" and something of a red-headed step sister to Omaha, Neb. With the arrival of casinos in the 1990s Council Bluffs moved into "Vegas of the Plains" mode. With Google coming to town can comparisons to the tech-savvy coffee-gulping Seattle be far behind?
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