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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.
Iowa Rep. Kim Pearson not only returned 2010 campaign funds given to her by the Republican Party of Iowa, but has made it clear that she’s willing to recruit and support candidates who will run against some existing members of her own political party.
The Hawkeye State will see several presidential hopefuls and high-profile candidates Monday and Tuesday.
Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal had better be prepared for a tough battle if he expects to reclaim his seat in the Iowa Legislature in 2012, Bob Vander Plaats predicted Tuesday, adding that his religious conservative organization isn’t sure if it would be leading the charge against the the Council Bluffs Democrat.
Social issues — especially same-sex marriage and abortion — are becoming defining factors in how a candidate will play in Iowa, but aren’t endangering the state’s status as first-in-the-nation, says GOP religious conservative Bob Vander Plaats.
The Iowa Democratic Party accused Secretary of State Matt Schultz of using public resources to advocate against a presidential hopeful, according to a complaint to the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board filed by party chairwoman Sue Dvorsky. In the complaint, Dvorsky claimed Schultz, a Republican, sent out a press release on the Secretary of [...]
Contrary to earlier reports from other media outlets that Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad had signed a letter urging Iowans to participate in a day of prayer and fasting at the behest of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Branstad’s office says the governor merely received a letter from Perry asking Branstad and the other 48 governors to “calling upon your constituents to join us in prayer for our nation on August 6″ in a May 23 proclamation.
Branstad declined to make such a proclamation.
New polling figures out this week from Public Policy Polling aren’t good news for Gov. Terry Branstad.
Sliding approval ratings are what have greeted newly elected Republican governors in battleground states who have pushed sweeping, controversial changes in education policy into law, according to analysis from Education Week.
Three Iowa Supreme Court justices will take their place on the bench Friday, filling three vacancies that were the result of a November 2010 retention election and a referendum on the Court’s unanimous decision that a legislative decision banning same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.
The Minnesota House passed a bill late Saturday night that would put a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage on the ballot in 2012. Following the vote, opponents of the amendment launched a new group, Minnesotans United for All Families, with the hope of defeating the ballot measure in 2012.
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