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.
As Iowa Republicans battle to force debate on a bill that would overturn the Supreme Court’s decision voiding a ban on same-sex marriage, New York Gov. David Patterson plans to introduce a bill doing just the opposite in the Empire State, the New York Times reports.
If passed, New York would become the fifth state in the country to allow same-sex couples the right to legally marry, joining Iowa, Vermont, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
According to the Times:
Mr. Paterson has said in recent days that the State Legislature should move ahead now with the legislation regardless of whether it can muster enough votes. His reasoning, which some gay rights advocates have challenged, is that New York should make a statement that it is committed to treating same-sex couples the same way it treats opposite-sex couples.
A similar bill was introduced in 2007 and was passed by a 25-vote margin in the General Assembly, which is one of New York’s two legislative bodies. The other body, the state senate, is where the bill will have difficulty passing, observers say.
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