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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.
A Carroll, Iowa, Boy Scout who survived the killer tornado in western Iowa recently met President Bush in Washington, D.C., and he came away surprised by the commander in chief’s apparent affinity for the word “dude.” From to the Carroll Daily Times Herald:
For Carroll Boy Scout Darrin Toney, who was among 145 scouts, volunteers and leaders from the Little Sioux Scout Ranch to meet President Bush on Thursday, what struck him was the commander in chief’s utterance of three words.
“He said ‘dude’ three times when he was talking to us,” said Toney, son of Mark and Mary Toney of Carroll. “The shock of the president saying ‘dude’ made everything else kind of blank out. I was like ‘Did the president really say ‘dude?’”
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