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.
A former reporter for the Lansing State Journal who lost her job in June along with 700 others throughout the Gannett news company came to a Michigan occupy movement encampment offering knits hats and scarves, but soon marched with a small contingent to Bank of America, the financial institution now threatening foreclosure of her home.
The head of the American Family Association, which bankrolled Bob Vander Plaats’ successful effort to oust three Iowa Supreme Court justice, won a straw poll conducted last week following a Michigan tea party-sponsored Senate debate forum.
U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, a California Democrat, has proposed legislation that addresses the ongoing criminalization of persons living with HIV. The bill currently has 12 cosponsors; none of whom are members of the Iowa delegation.
An appellate court in Florida ruled that the state’s HIV disclosure law cannot be applied in the case of a woman accused of having sex with another woman while failing to disclose her HIV-positive status. Because the law references ‘ sexual intercourse,’ the court found it could only be applied to heterosexuals.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan turned a few heads by calling for teachers to be paid $60,000 as a starting salary.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bradlee Dean, the controversial heavy metal rocker from Minnesota, filed suit Wednesday in D.C. Superior Court alleging he was defamed by reporting from The Minnesota Independent as well as MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow and her show.
Fred Karger sits down with reporter Todd A. Heywood of our sister site, The Michigan Messenger, in an exclusive interview Tuesday night and slams Michele Bachmann over allegations a counseling clinic she co-owns with her husband is offering ex-gay therapy.
Thaddeus McCotter may be a Michigan Republican but his hometown paper is none too keen on the idea of him entering the White House.
A Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that a man who attacked another man for unwanted sexual advances was rightly denied the use of “gay panic” as a defense strategy.
The National Institutes of Health in Washington D.C. announced Thursday that a study of the impact of anti-retroviral medications on the infectiousness of those infected with the virus found the medications cut infections by 96 percent.
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