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.
Presidential candidate Joe Biden said he’s concluded that changes in Vice President Dick Cheney’s opinion on invading Iraq since Cheney served as defense secretary in the Bush 41 administration are about oil revenue and permanent bases.
Answering questions from a crowd of 75 people at Iowa City’s Hamburg Inn Monday morning, the Delaware senator emphasized that his plan for postwar Iraq was for a multipart federal state and not three separate nation-states. Then, saying he had not said so before in public, he added:
“I am not a big conspiratorial guy, because really good conspiracies require really smart people. (Laughter.) But. Working with for over 30 years with Vice President Cheney, working with and knowing Secretary Rumsfeld, knowing a lot of people in this administration, you’re gonna get mad at me when I say this. They are really smart guys
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