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.
House Republicans may place more rigid amendments on an abortion bill passed by the Iowa Senate last week.
Senate File 534 would allow new free-standing late-term abortion clinics open in Iowa, with a stipulation that doctors get a certification of need approval from the state of Iowa prior to opening. Senate Democrats say approval will be difficult to obtain because the need for such clinics will be a hard sell; however, Republicans countered that the bill does not ban any type of abortion in the state..
The bill passed the Senate along party lines, 26 to 23. Iowa House Speaker Kraig Paulsen (R-Hiawatha), assigned it to the House Ways and Means Committee, where it is expected legislators will amend the bill to ban at least late-term abortions.
Paulsen told The Iowa Independent last week House Republicans would not pass an abortion regulation bill that would “formalize” the process for a clinic to open, but not prohibit at least late-term abortions simultaneously.
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