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.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., just indicated that the U.S. Senate might take up the unemployment benefits extension on Tuesday. The federally extended benefits lapsed at the end of May — leaving approximately 300,000 families per week, living in states with unemployment rates over 8 percent, without checks. The bill will retroactively approve benefits, and re-up funds until the end of November.
The U.S. Department of Labor found that by Sunday, 14,200 Iowans will lose their benefits. And the Iowa Fiscal Partnership estimates 1,500 to 2,000 more Iowans will lose benefits every week until the extension is passed.
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