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.
An executive order Gov. Chet Culver signed earlier this year is making its way into the gubernatorial campaign, as Republican challenger Terry Branstad and others critical of labor unions make the case that it will hurt Iowa business.
While more than 3,000 members of the Iowa National Guard make final preparations for deployment to Afghanistan later this year, Iowa lawmakers helped ease their transitions and deployments with the passage of 10 bills recommended by the U.S. Department of Defense. Gov. Chet Culver made it official Tuesday when he signed in the final seven [...]
When Fred Phelps and members of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) of Kansas, a fundamentalist groups described by the Anti-Defamation League as “virulently homophobic,” bring their messages of hate to Des Moines Saturday, they will run into a wall of love at their first stop at the Drake University campus.
Students at Iowa’s public universities, who in 2008 had the second highest average education load debt in the country, will see significant relief under provisions included in health care reform legislation.
“After a year of debate and a century of trying, after so many of you shared your stories and your heartaches and your hopes, that promise was finally fulfilled. And today, health insurance reform is the law of the land,” President Barack Obama said Thursday in Iowa City.
A leading figure in the effort to overturn “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” called on Gov. Chet Culver last week to speak out on the need for the policy’s repeal, but the governor says the issue is beyond his scope of responsibilities and better left in the hands of federal officials.
“Through my experiences while serving in Iraq, I discovered why ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is so poisonous is that it forces people to lie about who they are,” said. Lt. Dan Choi.
Former Republican lawmaker turned lobbyist Laverne Schroeder will no longer represent the Iowa American Legion amid controversy regarding a bill he registered “against” without the American Legion’s authorization. As the Iowa Independent reported last month, the legislation that sparked the partisan controversy, HF 2110, would ease unemployment restrictions for military spouses who leave their jobs [...]
Although a bill that would ease unemployment restrictions for military spouses who leave their jobs due to military reassignment passed in the Iowa House last week, the process may have deepened the partisan gap on both sides of the aisle.
Approximately 130 soldiers from the 186th Military Police Company will return today from its recent deployment to Ira. A homecoming ceremony for the returning soldiers is scheduled for tonight at 7 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Des Moines.
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