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.
President Barack Obama Monday morning called for a speedy nomination process for Elena Kagan during his speech announcing the Solicitor General as his choice to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. “I hope that the Senate will act in a bipartisan fashion, as they did when nominating Elena for Solicitor General,” the [...]
The average amount raised in order to win a seat in the Iowa House during the 2007-2008 election cycle was $106,000. In the Iowa Senate, it was $143,000. All this according to a study released Thursday by the National Institute on Money in State Politics. Only 22 percent of state legislative candidates around the country [...]
Being a “party favorite” in an election has been more of a hindrance than a help in some elections this year (right, Charlie Crist?). So will this trend continue? Tonight’s primary season kickoff elections in North Carolina, Ohio and Indiana include several tests of whether party favorites still reign or if outsider candidates continue to [...]
The Senate is expected to take up energy and climate legislation this spring. These ten people will determine its fate.
Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s political action committee, SarahPAC, has raised more than $2 million since its formation in January 2009. So which lawmakers and candidates are benefiting from all that potential spending cash? Well, Iowa’s Chuck Grassley, for one.
Mitt Romney’s PAC is burning through money — the PAC reported a 78 percent overall burn rate as of Dec. 31 — but he has plenty of cash to spare. Romney’s PAC reported $1,125,375 cash on hand as of Dec. 31, beating out both Sarah Palin’s SarahPAC and Tim Pawlenty’s Freedom First PAC in cash [...]
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