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: Equating a Blue Dog Democrat with a Socialist reveals far more about the speaker than it does about the subject.
~ U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, Iowa Democrat
~ U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican
~ Matt Gronewald, Iowa House Majority Fund Director for the Republican Party of Iowa
~ U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, Iowa Democrat
~ Bret Hayworth, reporter with the Sioux City Journal
~ U.S. Rep. Steve King, Iowa Republican
~ President Barack Obama, Democrat
~ Johnson County Supervisor Rod Sullivan, Democrat
~ Terry Branstad/Kim Reynolds 2010 Gubernatorial Campaign, Republican
~ Urbandale Public Library
~ Iowa Rep. Nick Wagner, Republican
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