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.
Perhaps still reeling from his own Web site gaffe earlier this week, Senate Minority Leader Paul McKinley (R-Chariton) posted a message to his Twitter account earlier today making fun of his Democratic colleagues for not having a page on their site dedicated to their government reorganization effort. The link he posted was, in fact, broken; but it is not clear where he got it in the first place. The government reorganization page that was linked from the navigation bar at the top of the Democrats’ site works just fine, and anyone looking for it could have easily found it.
I can respect McKinley’s desire to get in on the back-and-forth about errors on Web sites, but that was a pretty cheap shot. Anyone who is savvy enough for Twitter should probably be savvy enough to look in a site’s navigation bar before concluding that a page doesn’t exist. (I should also note that the link that McKinley cited as being broken now redirects to the correct page.)
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