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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.
Herman Cain told Milwaukee’s Journal Sentinel that Ohio’s Senate Bill 5, a wide-ranging anti-collective-bargaining bill that suffered defeat by voters, may have been an overreach.
This Tuesday Wisconsin Democrats and labor groups will begin an effort to gather more than 550,000 signatures by mid-January on a petition to recall Gov. Scott Walker.
Members of Mitt Romney’s social conservative steering committee in Florida were announced Monday, and the list includes prominent anti-gay rights and anti-abortion activists.
A television ad from Herman Cain, running statewide on radio and the FOX News Channel, erroneously claims the Environmental Protection Agency wants to regulate methane from cattle and dust from farming activities.
News outlets are reporting more reasons to worry that talks among super committee members will fall apart and that Congress may try other maneuvers to address the deficit.
Seventeen Iowans were victims of hate crimes in 2010. The individuals were targeted based on race, sexual orientation or ethnicity.
Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign released a video this weekend targeting virtually all of the Republican presidential front-runners for flip-flopping.
Closing 36 unemployment offices throughout the state and replacing them with stand-alone computer terminals has resulted in greater access to services and cost savings, Gov. Terry Branstad and the department head said.
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