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.
In an interview with The Independent, an influential California-based religious activist said his cause to “restore America to its Christian heritage” has been made more difficult by the nation’s 60-year descent into secularism.
If you had or if you have proof of an “illicit” sexual encounter with Texas Gov. Rick Perry, pornography magnate Larry Flynt will write your name on a check with lots of zeros.
During Monday night’s debate, Michele Bachmann took aim at Rick Perry’s 2007 executive order mandating middle school girls be vaccinated against HPV, implying that pharmaceutical dollars may have influenced the decision. Perry made light of the money in his response, but he failed to offer a full picture.
Prayer-goers who attended Gov. Rick Perry’s “The Response” may have been surprised to find themselves on a mailing list encouraging participation in an ambitious Christian voter mobilization effort two weeks after the rally.
Attendees at “The Response,” the all-day prayer event hosted by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, are now being asked to partake in an ambitious voter registration effort targeting conservative Christians, ending a months-long dance around the question of whether the event was political in nature.
Amid outrage in his home state, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback appears to be skipping out on the upcoming controversial all-day prayer event, “The Response,” hosted by Gov. Rick Perry and the American Family Association.
Billed as an “alternative” to Gov. Rick Perry’s prayer and fast event “The Response,” the ACLU of Texas and Americans United for Separation of Church and State announced today they will be hosting a gathering of their own the evening before Perry’s, to promote the diversity they say is missing from the Christian-based prayer event.
The group behind a federal lawsuit against Texas Gov. Rick Perry for his involvement in a controversial Aug. 6 prayer rally is revving up its suit by asking a judge to restrict Perry from promoting the event and to revoke his prayer proclamation.
Rick Perry declined to come out against New York’s recent passage of marriage equality, claiming it’s an issue of state’s rights. In return, Perry has met with the ire of social conservative, including one of the leaders of the group sponsoring Perry’s upcoming Houston prayer meeting in August.
The amount of student loan debt nationally has risen almost 25 percent in the past five years, and in 2008, students graduated from Iowa’s Regent universities with loans averaging $28,174 tagged to their futures, the second highest average among all 50 states. At Iowa State University, students graduate owing an average of $30,000.
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