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.
On the first day of in-person early voting two weeks ago, a staffer friend of mine was marking his ballot and wondering aloud about the plethora of socialist options among the nine presidential candidates on the ballot. Socialist, Socialist Workers, and Party of Socialism and Liberation, not to mention the Peace and Freedom Party and the Green Party.
As one considers the minor arcana of dogma that separates these groups from one another, it’s easy to recall a scene from Monty Python’s Christ parody, “Life of Brian.”
Despite the low to invisible profile of Harkin’s Republican opponent, Chris “Who?” Reed, Wednesday’s KCCI poll showed the businessman and first-time candidate with 39 percent of the vote. That might not sound like much, but with near-universal name ID, John McCain got the same 39 percent in that same poll.
John McCain’s political stock dropped–literally–after Friday’s debate with Barack Obama, or so investors on the Iowa Electronic Markets think. At 9 a.m. Monday, McCain’s shares were trading for 32 cents on the IEM’s Winner Take All presidential market, meaning traders give the McCain-Palin ticket only 32 percent chance of winning. On Friday, before the debate, [...]
ANALYSIS: Five weeks before Election Day, Barack Obama likely has a lead of more than 30,000 votes in Iowa, based on a comparison of total absentee ballot requests from Democrats and Republicans.
In Iowa City, Democratic party activists have a traditional, friendly competition for the honor of “first voter.” On Thursday, the first day of in-person early voting, three dozen people lined up at the county auditor’s office before the window opened. The first-in-line winner was Sue Dvorsky of Coralville, an early Obama backer and one of [...]
Election day begins across Iowa Thursday as the 40-day early voting period gets underway.
Iowa House candidate Mike Robinson announced he was ending his campaign Wednesday night, telling the Linn County Democrats in a prepared statement that he was exiting the race for personal reasons. He is expected to make a formal announcement today. Robinson, who chaired the Linn County Democrats until stepping down for the race, was challenging [...]
Democrat Dave Loebsack has launched a redesigned campaign web site which, while mentioning campaign events, keeps its focus on Loebsack’s re-election strategy of emphasizing his work during his first term. The previous version of the site had been mostly unchanged since a thank you message on the front page following Loebsack’s November 2006 win. The [...]
Dave Loebsack is the first House Democrat to get rid of a donation from Charles Rangel’s political action committee, the Politico reports. Rangel, the House Ways and Means chairman, is under investigation for alleged ethics and tax violations. Loebsack donated the $5,000 he received from Rangel’s PAC to the Iowa City and Cedar Rapids chambers [...]
Iowa Independent’s John Deeth was at the Cedar Rapids airport Thursday liveblogging events at the John McCain-Sarah Palin rally. Anti-war protesters briefly disrupted the event and while John McCain adapted, Sarah Palin stuck to the speech.
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