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 state’s Transportation Commission, an arm of the Department of Transportation, approved $50 million to repair 55 bridges across the state at their monthly meeting Tuesday.
The money is part of Gov. Chet Culver’s I-JOBS infrastructure improvement plan. The $830 million bonding program establishes the Bridge Safety Fund, administered by the Department of Transportation, and allocates $50 million for infrastructure projects relating to functionally obsolete and structurally deficient bridges.
In April, 232 of Iowa’s bridges were classified as structurally deficient and 311 as functionally obsolete.
The commission also approved funding for several other transportation projects, including public transit and general aviation airport infrastructure.
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