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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.
“I hear people say, ‘There’s socialists? There’s actually socialist parties? I didn’t think they existed.’ We get no media access,” presidential candidate Gloria LaRiva said over coffee in Iowa City. “We can hardly get through.”
The Republican National Committee is pulling its money out of challenger races to shore up suddenly endangered incumbents, reports the Politico: In 2006, veteran Republicans Gil Gutknecht in Minnesota, Jim Leach in Iowa and Jim Ryun in Kansas suddenly found themselves in tough reelection fights. By the time the party saw what was happening, it [...]
Both parties, in cold political Darwinism, leave the weak to die. It happened to me in my own legislative race 12 years ago. But at the moment, the grumbling appears louder on the Republican side.
The retired Quad Cities minister who delivered a controversial invocation at John McCain’s Saturday rally in Davenport was “honored” Monday at the “Worst Person in The World” by MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann.
Why is John McCain in Iowa when polls show him trailing? Will he again defend his opponent Barack Obama from personal attacks as he did Friday? What is his response to an Alaska legislative report charging his running mate Sarah Palin with abuse of power? Iowa Independent’s John Deeth was live at McCain’s Saturday morning [...]
The four-candidate 2nd Congressional District debate seemed fairly congenial — but that may have been because the format left the candidates little time to engage one another. With a strictly enforced 45 seconds an answer, it was hard to stretch out.
Obama’s got so many electoral votes that he’s got some left over for John Kerry and Al Gore. At least that’s what FiveThirtyEight says, predicting a final electoral vote of 346.8 to 191.2.
“I better vote for Barack first,” said Dave Loebsack as he accepted a coffee bean from the cashier at Iowa City’s Hamburg Inn. The 2nd District congressman made the pilgrimage Tuesday to the old-fashioned diner which is a well-known stop for presidential and local politicians. His main opponent, Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks, made the stop in [...]
U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack said his vote for the financial bailout bill was “a lot reluctant,” and that the people responsible for the financial crashed should by identified and punished, perhaps even with prison.
The Dow Jones may be dropping, but one stock that keeps rising is Barack Obama’s — on the Iowa Electronic Markets. Tuesday morning, Obama shares on the Winner Take All market were selling at 77 cents, meaning traders give the Democratic ticket a 77 percent chance of winning. That’s up 10 cents since the first [...]
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