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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.
Another banner supporting the occupy movement appeared over Interstate 235 near downtown Des Moines on Monday morning, at least the third of such “banner drops” seen in the last month over the major thoroughfare.
DES MOINES — More than 70 people answered the call of Occupy Iowa and an independent grassroots movement Saturday morning to march roughly two miles in protest of two national banks along Ingersoll Avenue.
Iowa Senate District 18 Democratic candidate Liz Mathis raked in $64,306 between Oct. 15 and Nov. 1 and took in-kind contributions worth $269,898, outraising Republican Cindy Golding.
Rick Santorum took a special exception to the judicial branch during a policy speech Friday in Urbandale, and advocated for the elimination of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and amending the U.S. Constitution to overturn Roe and ban gay marriage.
URBANDALE — If elected as president, Rick Santorum pledged Friday to implement many social conservative policies and roll-back changes that such Americans find objectionable.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was scheduled to give a speech at Chicago’s Union League Club Thursday morning, but a few unexpected guests in attendance had their own message to deliver.
The Washington, D.C. based National Organization for Marriage has proven it has no qualms about spending thousands in Iowa’s Senate District 18 to stir the pot on gay marriage. The group also appears to have no qualms about assigning its own talking points to Republican candidate Cindy Golding.
The national media remains abuzz with discussions of sexual harassment allegations made previously against presidential candidate Herman Cain and it now seems Cain may have acted in a manner that resulted in women at a Des Moines radio station feeling uncomfortable.
The National Organization for Marriage continues to make independent expenditures on behalf of Republican Cindy Golding in a special election race for the Iowa Senate.
Panelists in Des Moines warned that a coordinated attack against the judicial branch is underway in Iowa and across the nation that threatens much more than civil marriage rights.
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