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.
POSTVILLE — At least two boxes of tissues have circulated among the roughly 100 people gathered at St. Bridget’s Catholic Church to speak to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
No one in the audience seems to be immune to the emotional stories being told by the immigrant women and children in attendance. U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a Democrat from Illinois and head of the delegation, has bowed his head numerous times in order to wipe his eyes with a cloth.
Rep. Joe Baca, a Democrat from California, walked from across the room to embrace one of the female workers after she nearly lost her voice to emotion while telling her story.
Even the several dozen children in the room stilled when one mother, overcome from the situation, began to nearly scream her family’s story to the audience.
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