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.
Republican state Rep. Rob Roberts of Carroll told his hometown paper Monday that while he has yet to decide whether he will seek his party’s nomination for governor in 2010, he is more interested in a running than he has ever been.
And several GOP strategists told Carroll Daily Times Herald columnist and Iowa Independent alum Doug Burns that Roberts has a lot going for him, from his social conservative credentials to what former Republcian Party of Iowa chair David Oman referred to as his “winning personality.”
Roberts said he plans to make a decision by July 4. Sioux City businessman and two-time GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats is the only person to offically enter the race to unseat Gov. Chet Culver.
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