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.
In the year 2008, with Internet fund-raising and YouTube and “rapid response” Web sites that talk of politics, it is somewhat jarring to see a reference to Herbert Hoover in a U.S. Senate campaign in Virginia.
The heavily odds-on favorite to win a Senate seat there, former Democratic Gov. Mark Warner, sent out an e-mail Monday pushing a Washington Post line about his Republican opponent, the arch-conservative Jim Gilmore — also a one-time governor.
In Mr. Gilmore, Virginia had its very own Herbert Hoover.
Does a reference to Hoover, the only president from Iowa, and the 1932 campaign really have any resonance in 2008 — when increasingly economically anxious Americans have only to look to the last eight years to find their White House villainy?
Hoover deserves a full examination — not cheap shots.
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