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.
Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler are unlikely to get the help they need from U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, when Congress votes on a plan to bail them out (or to provide them a “bridge loan,” depending on your preferred nomenclature). The vote is said to be imminent.
From Radio Iowa:
“It becomes inevitable that either the government own and manage these auto manufacturers or they reform so they can compete in this environment — one or the other — and I do not want the socialization of industry in America,” King says. “I think then we give up so much a part of our free enterprise that we will never become again a viable economic force.”
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