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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.
Comedian Stephen Colbert, who long ago mixed reality and comedy with the formation of his own Super PAC, has offered back-hand support of a Federal Elections Commission request by American Crossroads to feature federal candidates in ads developed and marketed by the PAC.
The tax proposals released by leading GOP candidates disproportionately affect women in the way they raise taxes on lower- and middle-income Americans, eliminate poverty aids and cut child-insurance programs.
The Army Corps of Engineers needs to change the way it manages the Missouri River, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad says, and the region overall needs a new approach to battling flooding along the major waterway.
Gov. Terry Branstad says the Republican candidate in a Nov. 8 Iowa Senate special election faces “an uphill battle” and cautioned that special elections “are not much an indicator” for the mood of the electorate as whole.
Another banner supporting the occupy movement appeared over Interstate 235 near downtown Des Moines on Monday morning, at least the third of such “banner drops” seen in the last month over the major thoroughfare.
Tom Harkin and Bruce Braley are calling for a small tax on certain types of trading, hoping to shift Wall Street away from short-term and speculative trading.
DES MOINES — Newt Gingrich stole the spotlight at the Republican Party of Iowa’s Reagan Dinner with a unique strategy that drew the most applause from the audience.
DES MOINES — More than 70 people answered the call of Occupy Iowa and an independent grassroots movement Saturday morning to march roughly two miles in protest of two national banks along Ingersoll Avenue.
DES MOINES — Iowa’s senior U.S. Senator and the chairman of the Iowa GOP delivered perhaps the most stirring speeches at the state party’s largest fundraising dinner Friday evening.
Iowa Senate District 18 Democratic candidate Liz Mathis raked in $64,306 between Oct. 15 and Nov. 1 and took in-kind contributions worth $269,898, outraising Republican Cindy Golding.
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