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.
John Deeth’s raspberry beret, which won a poll on his blog to earn its title as Deeth’s official blogging hat, earned its 15 minutes today on the front page, above the fold, of the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
In a very gracious acceptance post on his personal blog, Deeth writes,
You wanted the raspberry beret, you got the raspberry beret. I was planning a more low-key launch, but there it was this morning, above the fold on the front page of the print edition of the Gazette. I keep my word, loyal readers, even though it made me look really, really silly.
You’ll note that even though it was warm at the Clinton/Clinton event, I nevertheless wore much more. All of you should be happy about that.
Seriously for a moment, or as serious as I can be wearing a pink hat: I feel funny about being singled out so dramatically. There’s a lot of other really good Iowa bloggers out there, both progressive and conservative, not to mention all the people running listservs. There’s too many to single out though I do want to mention my Iowa Independent colleagues, the supergroup of Iowa bloggers (Emerson, Lake and Blogger? Crosby Stills Nash and Blog?). The honor, if you can call being in the paper wearing silly headgear an “honor”, really belongs to all of us. So I tip my hat to all my fellow citizen-journalists.
Managing Editor Chase Martyn was also interviewed for the piece.
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