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.
Officials at the University of Northern Iowa released documents this week detailing the UNI Alumni Association’s relationship with Bank of America.
UNI officials originally denied The Iowa Independent’s request for the contract between the alumni association and Bank of America because the association is technically independent from the state-funded university. However, Tim McKenna, university counsel, released the documents to The Iowa Independent because they had been disclosed to the State Board of Regents — a government board — in 2007.
Alumni associations at all three state universities — UNI, Iowa State University, and the University of Iowa — have agreements with Bank of America. The contracts allow the company to market credit cards primarily to university alumni in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties for the associations.
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