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.
President-elect Barack Obama has gone a long way to soothe the concerns his critics had during the campaign with the announcement of his new economic team, Republican Sen. Charles Grassley said.
“During the campaign, the kind of change that the President-elect promised was so undefined it made me nervous,” Grassley said in a press release. “Now that he’s appointing familiar faces from the Clinton administration to very high-level positions I’m less concerned.”
Grassley praised Tim Geithner, Larry Summers and Peter Orzag as a team that “bring a lot of federal government and financial sector experience to the table.”
“Tim Geithner is an insider as president of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, and we could benefit from his knowledge in navigating the government’s effort to stabilize the financial system,” he said. “Larry Summers and Peter Orzag were part of the Clinton administration, where they saw up close how the tech bubble developed.”
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