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.
Tucked away in an article about moving printing operations, The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier announced the layoff of 52 employees.
The move means The Courier rebuilt offset Goss press, highly visible on the west side of downtown through the former department store windows at Commercial and West Fourth streets, will run no longer.
It also means the layoff of 18 full-time and 34 part-time pressroom and packaging department employees at The Courier. All received severance packages.
Courier employees were informed of the change Monday afternoon “after Monday’s edition was printed.”
Pressroom Manager Scott Snyder, a person who was impacted by the decision to centralize printing, was interviewed for the Courier article and said the move was “unfortunate,” but unsurprising.
From June 2007 to December 2007, the site paper cuts tallied roughly 2,200 newspaper layoffs. To date for 2008, there have been more than 12,000.
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