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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.
The fallout of University of Iowa President Sally Mason’s recent firing of former general counsel Marcus Mills last week is beginning to rear its head among disgruntled faculty members. Tenured UI professor Michael Lewis-Beck said Mason’s credibility is “very low” among faculty after she fired Mills, The Press-Citizen reports. “It is very low,” Michael Lewis-Beck, a [...]
In the wake of University of Iowa President Sally Mason’s firings of two officials, former UI vice presidents Phillip Jones and Marcus Mills, over their handling of an alleged sexual assault case last year, the Iowa state Board of Regents stood by the embattled first-year president while calling for increased accountability.
“Dr. Jones has never been given the opportunity to fully and fairly discuss his position as it relates to the finding in the Stolar report,” the letter from David Dutton and Cheryl Weber at the Dutton, Braun, Staack & Hellman PLC firm states.
Less than 24 hours have passed since UI President Sally Mason fired Marcus Mills, UI vice president of legal affairs and general counsel, for his handling of an alleged sexual assault investigation stemming from an incident that took place on campus Oct. 14, 2007. Mills, however, claims Mason was aware of how the investigation was [...]
Recent findings from an independent report chronicling UI’s response to an alleged sexual assault on campus involving two Hawkeye football players focused the brunt of criticism on the two men.
The Department of Defense announced Monday that Staff Sgt. Nathan M. Cox, 32, was killed Sept. 20 in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. Cox, a native of Walcott, was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, which [...]
For Marisa Handler, 31, her coming-of-age as a global activist happened just after the 9/11 attacks in the United States, when she was working in India as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Because of this summer’s flood damage in Cedar Rapids, the annual “Stand Down” for homeless and nearly-homeless veterans has been stripped down from three days to only one: Friday, Sept. 19, at the Armed Forces Reserve Center, 1599 Wenig Road NE. “We lost our place and we lost every piece of donation and every [Veterans [...]
Born in Cape Town, South Africa during the apartheid era, Marisa Handler eyewitnessed injustices firsthand, and it was these experiences that helped feed her passion for activism and global political organizing. “I have come to believe that every one of us is an activist, and that every action taken in the name of our interconnection [...]
In honor of Patriot Day and the seventh anniversary of the attack on Sept. 11, 2001, Gov. Chet Culver ordered all flags in Iowa to be flown half staff Thursday to remember those who lost their lives.
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