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.
State Rep. Kent Sorenson (R-Indianola) has announced his candidacy for the Iowa Senate seat currently held by state Sen. Staci Appel (D-Ackworth).
The death of renowned scientist Norman Borlaug last weekend yielded a bumper crop of effusive obituaries. He was credited — almost universally — with saving billions of lives, fathering “the Green Revolution,” and changing the worldwide face of agriculture forever. I won’t pretend to know for certain whether any of those claims are false. Borlaug [...]
Technophobes, beware! The following post gets pretty deep into the weeds… When the Iowa Independent launched version 2.0 more than a year ago, we were Iowa’s only major news site built on the open-source WordPress blogging platform. Since then, other prominent news organizations have followed suit, including the (Cedar Rapids) Gazette and Radio Iowa. WordPress, [...]
INDIANOLA — At his 32nd annual Steak Fry fundraiser, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) was cheered by an enthusiastic crowd of supporters when he declared that a health care reform bill would pass both houses of Congress “by Christmas,” and that it would include a government-run, not-for-profit health insurance plan.
U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) is set to take over the chairmanship of the Senate’s powerful Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, the Washington Post reports. The position was held by former Sen. Ted Kennedy until his death last month.
Though President Barack Obama’s speech to schoolchildren today would have likely generated some controversy no matter when it had been scheduled, the White House seemed to pick a particularly bad day for it, at least for Iowans. As Obama delivered his live address today, hundreds of school board members and candidates were trying to win [...]
Democrat Curt Hanson has defeated Republican Stephen Burgmeier by 107 votes in House District 90, according to unofficial results released by the Iowa Secretary of State’s office Tuesday night.
Former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad made a splash here when he started looking and sounding like a potential candidate for governor once more, but around the country, it’s becoming par for the course.
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has feigned open-mindedness to Democratic health reform proposals for months, but, in a strongly-worded fundraising letter “Air-Gram”, he makes his opposition plain.
The Iowa Independent has been recognized for outstanding state government reporting by the Association of State Capitol Reporters and Editors, a national organization of state capitol journalists. At the group’s annual convention in Indianapolis over the weekend, the Iowa Independent took home three awards, including first place in the “Beat Reporting” category for our outstanding [...]
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