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A loss in Massachusetts has damaged the prospects for comprehensive health reform legislation and left Democrats wondering how to galvanize the electorate.

A former loan officer for Wells Fargo & Co. told Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman that accusations of racially biased lending practices at the nation’s largest mortgage provider are true.
The revelations could resonate in Iowa, where two groups have made similar accusations against the company.

A 37-year-old man convicted by a Crawford County jury of human trafficking, ongoing criminal conduct and pandering was sentenced to up to 25 years in prison late Monday. According to Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, the case is the first to garner a conviction and subsequent sentencing under a human trafficking law that took effect [...]

Jewish rabbis were not paid Friday, and it was not the first time time. Other employees did receive paychecks, although some voiced concern that the checks may not clear. The rabbis were asked for patience and promised payments as soon as possible.

According to a source who attended a meeting Friday with upper management, the plant plans to concentrate on poultry production — particularly on chicken — in the near future. The plant’s beef line has operated only sporadically over the past two weeks.

Nearly six months after federal authorities swarmed the small town of Postville and detained roughly half of a kosher meatpacking plant’s workforce on suspected immigration violations, shock waves are still being felt throughout Iowa and the nation.

A Postville landlord believes he and his property management company have been unfairly portrayed in relation to a practice that he says was intended to help needy community newcomers.

GAL Investments, a property management company in Postville with roughly 60 properties, has notified tenants that it will be ending its relationship with Jacobson Staffing Company. Employees at the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant who are working under Jacobson will no longer have rents deducted from payroll, but will pay the fees directly to GAL.

People in the northeastern Iowa town of Postville have spent the past two decades learning how to thrive despite a wealth of differences. Between the town’s longtime residents, the influx of Hasidic Jews who arrived in the late 1980s to operate a kosher slaughterhouse, and the recently arrived Central American and Mexican migrants, the town [...]