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.
There are two big stories connected to the immigration investigation of Postville’s Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking operation emerging today.
First, former Agriprocessors CEO Sholom Rubashkin was granted bail and released from the Dubuque County detention facility where he was being held pending trial. Federal prosecutors argued that Rubashkin was a flight risk. A federal court judge disagreed and released Rubashkin on $500,000 bond. At least one person connected to the Agriprocessors investigation has already fled to Israel.
And second, on the state level, the AP reports that Jeffrey Heasley, a beef production supervisor at the Agriprocessors plant, was charged Jan. 16 with nearly 1,000 labor violations, including “alleged child labor violations of employing minors in a meatpacking establishment and for exposing minors to dangerous or poisonous chemicals.”
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