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.
Today’s Twitter lesson: Each PoliTweeps installment offers readers around 10,000 words for an average reading investment of 30 seconds.
~ Christian Fong, former Republican gubernatorial hopeful
~ Linn County Supervisor Brent Oleson, Republican
~ Iowa Gov. Chet Culver, Democrat
~ Peace Corps
~ Brian Depew, outreach program director for Nebraska-based Center for Rural Affairs
~ Tyler Kingkade, journalism student at ISU & editor of Ethos magazine
~ Tom Fiegen, former Democratic U.S. Senate candidate
~ Karl Rove, national Republican strategist
~ One Iowa, state’s largest LGBT advocacy group
~ Nick Ayers, executive director of the Republican Governors Association
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