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.
Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack has joined a group investigating the methods and effects of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids at workplaces across the country.
The investigatory group is led by Joseph Hansen, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW).
The group, which will hold hearings to investigate ICE operations and their effects on workers, plans to make a report to Congress this summer.Other members of the group include Mary Bauer, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project, and Samuel Kyles, a Baptist pastor in Memphis, Tenn.
In September 2007, the UFCW filed a lawsuit against ICE and the Department of Homeland Security, calling for “an injunction against the excessive, illegal and unnecessary worksite raids conducted by ICE agents.”
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