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.
The transparency adviser for Gov. Terry Branstad says the next step to ensure openness in state government is the establishment of an office with the specific job of addressing issues with Iowa’s open records and open meetings laws.
The Iowa Democratic Party, unions and other groups have used open records requests as a source of discovery to file lawsuits against the governor’s office, Gov. Terry Branstad says.
Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger has yet to be included in any debate, but he isn’t giving up.
Gov. Terry Branstad is denying allegations, brought in a lawsuit by a state labor leader and several Democratic lawmakers, that he violated the Iowa Constitution when he issued a line-item veto to shut down about two-thirds of the state’s Iowa Workforce Development field offices.
An Austin supporter of Ron Paul wants to know if there are any women who have engaged in promiscuous activity with Rick Perry. Paul refused comment on the print ad Friday, saying it would provide something “rather silly” with “too much credibility.”
Fred Karger, who was denied an opportunity to participate in last week’s GOP presidential debate by Fox News, will hand-deliver a federal complaint to the network’s New York headquarters on Thursday.
The Iowa Independent’s parent nonprofit, The American Independent News Network, was accepted into the Association of Alternative Newsmedia as the group’s first web-only news outlet following a vote of approval during its annual membership meeting held in New Orleans last month.
The tents have been taken down, the red, white and blue technicolor buses have pulled out of Ames and candidates have left either victorious or licking proverbial wounds.
AMES — Not surprisingly, charismatic Michele Bachmann took top prize at the 2011 Ames Straw Poll with 4,823 votes.
AMES — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says Texas Gov. Rick Perry — expected to announce his bid for the presidency today — will be a viable candidate, but expressed disappointment Perry chose to announce his candidacy in a state other than Iowa, and on the day of the Ames Straw Poll. “Rick’s going to [...]
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