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.
Today’s Twitter lesson: “Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States,” and yet those combined forces were no match for one man who boarded a plane while wearing potentially lethal underpants.
~ Iowa Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad, Democrat
~ Former Iowa Rep. Chris Rants, Republican
~ Chet Culver & Patty Judge 2010 Gubernatorial Re-Election Campaign
~ George Stephanopoulos, chief political correspondent with ABC News
~ Greg Hauenstein, Iowa media producer & Democratic strategist
~ Johnson County Supervisor Janelle Rettig, Democrat
~ Matt Gronewald, Iowa House Majority Fund Director for the Republican Party of Iowa
~ Paul Yeager, producer/host with Iowa Public Television
~ Roxanne Conlin, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate
~ Brad Zaun, Republican candidate in Iowa’s 3rd District
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