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.
DENISON — A well-known immigration attorney, JoAnn Barten of Ames, recently presented a forum on immigration issues that was sponsored by La Prensa, a western Iowa Spanish-language newspaper, and filmed by Iowa Independent.
Barten reviewed a number of issues, ranging from a discussion of jurisdictions in which court decisions tended to favor immigrants to new laws regarding reporting of undocumented workers to highly specific questions about the intersection of criminal backgrounds and citizenship matters.
The full forum is presented in both English and Spanish and be accessed by clicking here for the video post on Iowa Political Alert.
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