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.
Environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had plenty of harsh words for the Bush administration, but saved his strongest criticism for the mainstream news media during a lecture Wednesday night at the University of Iowa. “We have a negligent and indolent press that has let down the American people, ” he said to applause from an audience of several hundred people.
“If you don’t have a functional press, you’ll get
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