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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.
A just-released Sioux City Journal Lee Enterprises poll shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama with a commanding 14-point lead over his GOP opponent, John McCain. Here is The Journal:
In a survey of 600 likely voters who vote regularly in state elections, 53 percent said they would support Obama, and 39 percent said they would support Republican John McCain.
A total of 3 percent in the poll said they would support someone else, and another 5 percent were undecided.
Obama led among both male and female voters and all age groups as well as with independent voters. Of the independents polled, 55 percent support Obama and 37 percent support McCain.
The poll was conducted between Sept. 15-17 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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