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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.
Instead of pressing her index finger sternly to her lips and hissing “Shhhh,” Shannon McClintock Miller, the Van Meter Community School District’s librarian-slash-classroom teacher-slash-technology specialist-slash human whirlwind invites the opposite. In her library, students might prop their feet on the table and lean back in their chairs, sip from water canteens once taboo in America’s public school classrooms, or roam freely about.
What students research is important, educators say, but not as important as knowing how and where to access information, how to source and verify it, and how to apply it to real-world situations – a skill set that Carver says makes Van Meter graduates “some of the best prepared kids In Iowa” as the information age ends and what he calls the age of creativity and imagery begins.
The Branstad administration’s plan to increase agricultural and business trade with Asia won’t do much to help Iowa’s independent family farmers and raises environmental questions, the leader of the Iowa Farmers Union said Monday.
Key Democratic education leaders in the House and Senate on Monday sharply criticized Gov. Terry Branstad’s plan for voucher-based preschool, saying it puts early childhood education out of the financial reach of middle-income Iowans and is part of a budget “hoax” meant to justify $200 million in tax breaks to large corporations.
DES MOINES — Dozens of speakers lined up Monday night for and against the so-called marriage amendment, including a former three-term state senator who said his previous support for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage was misguided.
Gov. Terry Branstad said Monday morning that Iowans should be allowed to vote on same-sex marriage, but declined to say if a proposed resolution to be debated tonight at a public hearing is too far-reaching in denying state recognition of civil unions and other domestic partnerships.
Gov. Terry Branstad’s edict imposing a hiring freeze is “an all-out assault – an unwarranted assault – on public employees,” the leader of the state’s largest public employee union said Monday.
To unify voters behind Gov. Chet Culver, who has consistently trailed former four-term Republican Gov. Terry Branstad in public polling of the November showdown, Iowa Democrats may let Branstad do the talking.
Several key supporters of Bob Vander Plaats’ campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination — including state Rep. Kent Sorenson and the Iowa Family Policy Center’s Danny Carroll — are maintaining their earlier pledge not to help Terry Branstad defeat Chet Culver this fall.
Terry Marshall – a factory worker from Council Bluffs who regularly volunteers to guard the U.S. border in southern Arizona – became involved in Iowa’s militia movement in 2007 in response to the national debate over immigration reform.
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