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.
There weren’t just peace marches and labor events on May Day yesterday, there were also immigration marches across the country. In the Quad Cities, 40-50 people joined a march that, one year ago, attracted upwards of 2,000. The QC Times quotes one of the organizers as saying, “Immigration proponents have to move quickly before any effort is lost to the inertia of the 2008 presidential campaign.”
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“Although Fox News is supposed to be the conservative channel, its decision to narrow the field means that, depending on the polls they use, conservatives such as Brownback, Gilmore, Huckabee, Hunter, Paul and Tancredo could all be excluded from the debate,” Accuracy in Media Editor Cliff Kincaid wrote in a column.
“Such a process is blatantly unfair, this early in the campaign to those who have not benefited from favorable media attention and big business support,” he said.
“It’s outrageous to narrow the field that much,” Kincaid told Cybercast News Service Tuesday.
The Fox News debate will be the second live Republican debate. The first one, to be telecast on MSNBC this Thursday, will feature all 10 of the contenders. It is yet to be seen who will be the Republicans’ Mike Gravel this year. The standards that the Republican Party here in Iowa will use are also unknown.
D.R. Peterson, a resident and shop owner, fears more Illinois semi-automatic gun manufacturers will relocate to Iowa if the LeClaire City Council approves a development agreement with Les Baer. The company is moving out of its Hillsdale, Ill., location because of pending Illinois legislation that would ban the sale, distribution and manufacture of semi-automatic weapons.
“I don’t think they realize the impact that this can have. Once they approve this, it’s going to change the fabric of the community,” she said. “For me personally, I don’t want to be associated in any way with guns, and I don’t want the community I live in to be associated in any way with guns.”
Tonight, the City Council will discuss Les Baer’s offer to purchase the land and a second offer made by LeClaire residents Elmer Brunk and his wife, Cynthia Vaughan, The retired couple are willing to pay $10,500, or $500 more than Baer’s offer for the city-owned, wooded property in west LeClaire.
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