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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.
Iowa’s local telephone and Internet service providers took a hard financial hit last year when the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) issued a ruling forcing them to lower access rates charged to other companies using their phone lines. And now they say the loss of revenue could result in massive layoffs at some of rural Iowa’s largest employers.
State Rep. Dave Jacoby, D-Coralville, was not surprised to hear that his former opponent in the Democratic primary, John Stellmach, had re-entered the race for House District 30.
John Stellmach, a union executive from Coralville, will accept the Democratic nomination if he wins Tuesday’s primary in Iowa House District 30 despite publicly dropping out of the campaign last month. And if he loses, he may run as an independent this fall.
Next Tuesday’s gubernatorial and congressional primaries will get the lion’s share of the media’s attention, but the long battle for control of the Iowa General Assembly will also begin, with 23 contested primary campaigns.
URBANDALE, Iowa — Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty had one question for the audience at Iowa Taxpayers’ Day: “Have you had enough?”
“There are unanswered questions on health care. I think at the very least he tried to do something to fix the situation and hopefully he learned from his mistakes,” said West Des Moines resident and Romney supporter Danielle Rossow.
“You have to look at where the dollars can impact the most students. A few dollars help many more students in some of the other grants than we would have had in the Tuition Grant last year,” said state Rep. Cindy Winckler, D-Davenport, co-chair of the legislative Education Appropriation Subcommittee.
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