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 new Gallup poll shows that the tea party has lost major ground in terms of mainstream American support since last year’s crop of tea party candidates took office in January. Almost half of all Americans now have an unfavorable view of the tea party, compared to a third who hold a favorable view.
Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum will be the featured speaker when the Republican Party of Iowa brings its “Chairman’s series” to Cedar Rapids later this month.
Photos from the inaugural ceremony of Gov. Terry Branstad by Tyler Kingkade/The Iowa Independent.
DES MOINES — Gov. Terry Branstad officially took the oath of office to enter his fifth term as governor Friday, using his inaugural address to highlight public service, cutting taxes and reducing the size of Iowa’s government, as well as improving education in the state.
Taking direct aim at critics that have emerged in the wake of a 2009 decision that legalized same-sex marriage in the state, Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady spoke extensively during the 2011 State of the Judiciary address about the state’s judicial nominating process and the decision that has wrought such contention.
Politico reports that U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s political action committee gave $27,500 to candidates in Iowa — out of a total of $33,700 that the PAC disbursed in the weeks ahead of the November elections — further fueling speculation that Bachmann is considering a run for president in 2012.
Gov. Chet Culver used his final Condition of the State address Tuesday to celebrate what he considers the biggest accomplishments of his four years in office, especially those Iowa Republicans have promised to undue.
An aide to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said on a conservative radio program Sunday that last year’s much-maligned ads by Palin’s PAC showing rifle crosshairs over 20 Democratic congressional districts – including Gabrielle Giffords’s CD8 in Arizona – were actually meant to represent surveyor’s symbols on a map.
Gov. Chet Culver is determined to be remembered as something other than the state’s first incumbent governor in almost half a century to get a pink slip from voters.
American Future Fund — a nonprofit closely associated with Gov.-elect Terry Branstad and based out of a P.O. Box in Des Moines — spent $9,599,806 in 2010, ranking 7th nationally in spending by outside political organizations, according to research by the Center for Responsive Politics.
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