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 changes are coming fast and furious at the “Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon.”
Des Moines Register Publisher Laura Hollingsworth informed readers in a column published Friday that the paper will be shedding some pages and combining some sections in an attempt to cut costs.
We’re combining the Metro & Iowa and Business sections into one. You’ll find Health inside IowaLife on Wednesday. The comics, the puzzles, Dear Abby and the TV grid are moving into Datebook on Thursdays. We will no longer publish Saturday stock listings, but we’ll still feature stocks of Iowa interest. We will no longer publish classified sections on Mondays or Tuesdays, although our online Marketplace is always active, 24/7.
The page cuts come just a few days after it was announced that all newspaper employees of Gannett Co. Inc., the Register’s parent company, will have to take unpaid week-long furloughs during the first quarter of this year, a move the company said it is using to avoid further layoffs.
Several sources inside the Register’s newsroom said employees have been informed they must have their furlough scheduled by Monday.
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