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.
The Green Party of the United States filed a lawsuit against the City of Davenport and the local chamber of commerce alleging its members were prevented from collecting petitions for a presidential candidate at a street festival last year, the Quad-City Times reports.
A lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court on Friday, says three Green Party members tried to gather signatures last July 25 and 26 at the Street Fest so Cynthia McKinney could be on the Iowa presidential ballot.
Representatives of DavenportOne, which manages the street festival, prevented the three from gathering signatures, even calling the police to stop them, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit says a similar suit was filed in 1999 against a chamber organziation that was a precurser to DavenportOne. In that suit the city agreed then it had no right to prevent people from “peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights.”
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