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.
In the land of punditry, many people get things wrong without consequence, but few are praised for getting things right. One person who called the Mike Huckabee upset in the Ames Straw Poll correctly was the Rev. Bill Devlin, president of the non-partisan group Redeem the Vote, which works to register Christians between 18 and 30 to vote. The group says it helped register 79,000 young people in 2006.
Devlin had come to Iowa to increase that demographic’s political power during the straw poll. “Our goal is to get young people of faith to the straw poll,” he told me last Friday in Ames. “Huckabee clearly has the momentum,” he added, because “Sam [Brownback] has been in the attack mode…that’s probably not the way to go.”
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