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: The massive volume of political noise can be overwhelming, but if you are patient enough someone is eventually going to let a little piece of truth slip out.
~ U.S. Senate Republicans
~ Iowa Sen. Matt McCoy, Democrat
~ Darin Beck, Republican candidate for Iowa House
~ Jason Clayworth, reporter with The Des Moines Register
~ U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, Colorado Democrat
~ U.S. Rep. Steve King, Iowa Republican
~ Linn County Supervisor Ben Rogers, Democrat
~ Gary Johnson, former Republican governor of New Mexico
~ Iowa Rep. Tyler Olson, Democrat
~ Roxanne Conlin, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate
~ Jim Centers, northeast Iowa field director for the Branstad gubernatorial campaign, Republican
~ U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, Iowa Democrat
~ Dale Alison, managing editor of The Hawk Eye
~ Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a national policy institute
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