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.
Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd’s Presidential campaign rolled out a web site change Monday and announced the hiring of Matt Browner-Hamlin as chief blogger.
Browner-Hamlin is an experienced blogger who has contributed to The Huffington Post, My Left Nutmeg and The Right’s Field. He plans to travel with Sen. Dodd and offer updates from the campaign trail.
The Dodd campaign, under the direction of internet strategist Tim Tagaris, has been innovative in their implementation of web-based tech tools. They initiated a live two-way conversation between viewers of the first Presidential debate and staff. The technology used for that was, at the time, a month old.
The updated campaign site uses the regular suspects of social networking – facebook, flickr, MySpace and YouTube. The campaign is also trying a fewer of the newer technologies. Browner-Hamlin says he’ll be utilizing Twitter to post updates directly to the site’s front page. In addition, the campaign plans experimentation with UStream. When the beta web app is working properly, it enables embedding of live video streams.
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