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.
The Democrats in the Iowa House of Representatives have posted a map showing how the 2008 legislative elections look from the familiar “red vs. blue” perspective.
Mostly, nothing too shocking about how Iowa breaks down politically. Urban areas are solid Democratic strongholds and rural areas, for the most part, are in the camp of the GOP. Eastern Iowa is mostly blue, and other than the tiny dots of blue in District 1 (where an outcome is still up in the air), District 2 and District 100, Western Iowa is as solidly red as its ever been. Central Iowa, especially Polk County, breaks down to the suburbs for Republicans and the city of Des Moines for Democrats.
One point of note is that the 4th U.S. Congressional District, which was won handily this year by incumbent Republican Tom Latham, saw 15 of its 28 counties support a Democratic legislator this year. One of the counties that didn’t is Story County, which is home of Iowa State University and went for Democrat Barack Obama by big margins.
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