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.
The federal government sued Arizona this week for its recently passed immigration law, a seeming deterrent to other states looking to try the same thing. But the feds’ action isn’t stopping supporters of the legislation from pushing to pass it in their states, the Washington Post reports. South Carolina, Utah and Oklahoma are viewed as [...]
The U.S. government responded late Wednesday to legal challenges to the federal health care law brought by several states’ Attorneys General in a Florida state court, the Wall Street Journal reports. While filed in Florida, the government’s response aims to answer nearly 20 Attorneys General, mostly Republican, who have challenged the law in court in [...]
As closing arguments ended Wednesday in the trial on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California’s voter-approved ban of same-sex marriage, the judge in the case wanted to know why defenders of the initiative put up only one witness during the first phase of the trial, reports the San Jose Mercury News. By comparison, the plaintiffs in [...]
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