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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.
What would the University of Iowa’s homecoming in Iowa City — or the Peoples’ Republic of Johnson County — be without an infusion of politics in its annual parade?
For starters, it would be 30 minutes shorter.
But with less than two months remaining before a presidential-election, droves of political aficionados hit the streets and marched on downtown Iowa City. Sporting the political primary colors – red, white and blue – candidates and their legions of staffers and volunteers, who vowed they bleed black and gold, used the parade to capitalize on the free advertising
Ironically, the number of political entries this year dwarfed the traditional floats from the Greek community, whose floats appeared to be more of an afterthought than a well-planned, thematically based plan that came together the night before.
I’m confident I was not the only one who yearned for an unauthorized, last-minute entry reminiscent of the wayward boys from “Animal House” – Bluto and D-Day – to swoop into the parade and wreak havoc on an unsuspecting community in order to save the parade from itself.
But to no avail. Unfortunately Bluto’s whereabouts are still unknown.
Nonetheless, families gathered up-and-down the streets to watch the advertisement-on-wheels roll by, while children participated in government-sanctioned panhandling, second only to Beggars’ Night, and begged for candy on the sidelines.
UI Employee Union sports its appeal for bipartisan support
Unified, Johnson County Democrats march together
Veterans for Obama brandish their support
Obama contingency bands together
UI Republicans remind the Republic that Obama is not running unopposed
Trailing the McCain/Palin floats, the UI Anti-War cheerleaders take cheering to a new level
The UI Anti-War cheerleaders chant: “Palin, Palin, get off our backs,/Bring our troops home from Iraq…”
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