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.
Abraham Aaron Rubashkin, family patriarch and owner of Agriprocessors, Inc., had an angry reaction to the court documents filed by the Iowa Attorney General that linked him, his company, his son and three human resource employees to more than 9,000 counts of believed child labor law violations.
“Baloney!” he exclaimed.
He went on to tell The Jewish Star that the charges were “crazy.”
“For what?” he asked. “What did I do?”
… we weren’t expecting a tearful telephone confession, but his absolute certainty that there’s no merit at all to any of this would seem to more than justify what’s been said and done so far, and what’s apparently about to happen next.
The shame of it is, it didn’t have to come to this.
“These are not bad people but they’re just so sloppy,†said Rabbi [Menachem] Genack [of the Orthodox Union]. “And because they messed up so many times, they’re just piling on.†…
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