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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.
Bruce Braley is one of three co-sponsors of federal legislation that would extend a renewable energy production tax credit through 2016. The bill is significant to the wind energy industry, which employs roughly 3,000 in Iowa.
The Governor’s Office has argued political contributions shouldn’t be a consideration for appointments, but one Iowa senator notes his concern of an ongoing pattern and hopes transparency will be a priority.
Members of the U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan appropriation package Tuesday that will soon need to be merged with an offering by U.S. House members.
Five Republican presidential candidates hammered on regulations, taxes and President Obama at a manufacturing forum Tuesday in Iowa, calling for major cuts to those areas and aiming to pin the worldwide economic downturn on the president.
Five members of the GOP presidential field offered very different assessments Tuesday of federal alternative energy initiatives that have paid big dividends and have spurred growth in the Hawkeye State.
Koch Industries Inc. isn’t just in Kansas anymore, Toto. The nation’s second largest private company and its subsidiaries are also in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Texas and just about every other state in the nation. But the locale where Koch Industries is making its presence felt the most isn’t a state at all. It’s Washington, D.C.
The top executives at some of the state’s largest businesses will serve on a board overseeing Iowa’s new public-private economic development efforts, Gov. Terry Branstad has announced, although he says any potential conflicts raised by their positions will be approached “carefully.”
The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation has endorsed the recommendation of a state commission to raise the tax on gasoline by up to 10 cents per gallon.
Hundreds of Occupy Des Moines demonstrators will march on Terrace Hill on Saturday, part of an international “Robin Hood Tax” day of action. And tonight the group will hold a “We are all Scott Olsen” candlelight vigil, named after an Iraq war veteran seriously injured by police at an Occupy Oakland demonstration earlier this week.
MARION — If voters in Iowa Senate District 18 were hoping to hear anything new from the candidates, they were likely disappointed when Democrat Liz Mathis and Republican Cindy Golding provided a rare joint appearance at local school Wednesday night.
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