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.
You Count. Be Counted! a nationwide voter registration drive will begin today, targeting 65,483 unmarried women in Iowa. The drive is being run by the national organization Women’s Voices Women Vote, which expects to register close to 1 million women nationwide between now and election day.
According to the most recent census data, unmarried women – women who are single, separated, divorced, or widowed – make up a growing percent of the population. More than half of households nationwide are run by an unmarried woman. There are more than 230,000 unmarried women in Iowa.
In the past, unmarried women in Iowa and nationally have been underrepresented both in terms of registration and in actually showing up to vote. In 2006, 135,084 unmarried women in Iowa were eligible to register but did not; a further 111,288 were registered to vote but did not cast a ballot.
WVWV says it has registered more than 12,000 unmarried Iowa women to vote.
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