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.
These are the sorts of nuts-and-bolts mistakes that make you wonder if the Mike Huckabee hoopla has any real wind behind it.
Sioux City Journal reporter Bret Hayworth just reported on his blog, Politically Speaking, that an edit board meeting “believed to have been set up with Mike Huckabee fell through.”
We all have scheduling conflicts so no worries there, but other candidates found the time to get to Hayworth and his colleagues before the SCJ decides on endorsements — and this is the most influential paper in western Iowa. What’s going on here with Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor? There aren’t that many people home-homeschooled here — and many people still read and respect newspapers.
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