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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.
Student loan defaults are on the rise, according to a new federal tracking system. For students who began repaying their loans in 2008, 13.8 percent have since defaulted. For profit institutions had 25 percent of their graduates defaulting after three years, and public four-year colleges had 10.8 percent of their graduates defaulting after three years.
Higher student debt load means the state’s most educated professionals often seek to launch their careers in urban areas where they can garner sufficient wages, but the absence of quality service providers is one of the reasons rural areas in Iowa and throughout the nation are declining.
AMES — Longtime political consultant and activist Fred Karger, the first official Republican 2012 presidential candidate, admits he’s a long shot. But as Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss) bows out of the race because he “doesn’t have the fire in his belly,” Karger insists he does.
Senate Republicans don’t want the Iowa Board of Regents to name a new public policy institute at Iowa State University after sitting Democratic U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin.
No area of state government has taken more hits in funding over the past 10 years than Iowa’s Regent universities, according to the non-partisan Legislative Services Agency.
Although government officials have found several concerning trends within the for-profit college industry connected to taxpayer-funded educational loans, the schools have thus far escaped additional government oversight and regulation.
New polling suggests Iowa Republicans are skeptical of President Obama’s birth certificate, and largely support Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney
Gov. Terry Branstad is set to sign legislation Wednesday that creates an Iran divestment policy.
Only a few months ago, Iowa politicos were questioning whether U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell would face a tough challenge by Christie Vilsack, the wife of former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack. Now it’s clear Boswell has a challenge from another direction, by U.S. Rep. Tom Latham.
Conservative interest group Iowans for Tax Relief is objecting to Gov. Terry Branstad’s proposal to raise casino taxes.
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