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.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is taking heat from both his GOP opponents and President Obama, who called him out on his science stance during a campaign fundraiser Sunday evening.
It’s been nearly two years since a privately-run prison in Minnesota held inmates, but that will change next year when 3,256 prisoners from California are handed to Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest private prison provider.
A vote by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee approving the “Legal Workforce Act,” which would mandate use of the government’s E-Verify program, has prompted mixed reactions among conservative and industry groups — especially those in the agricultural sector.
In a political climate where the most mundane of tasks often appear mired in complex partisan strategies designed to show one party or the other holding a strategic advantage, a U.S. Senate committee has managed something quite unusual. It has managed to come to agreement on the first authorization bill for Homeland Security since the department’s creation in 2003.
Iowa partisans are going about the business of recruiting or nominating candidates for a special election in Iowa Senate District 18, but what’s at stake goes far beyond the boundaries of the small region in eastern Iowa.
An open letter from leaders of several conservative groups is calling on members of Congress to reject the Legal Workforce Bill, sponsored by U.S. House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican. The bill would mandate use of the electronic ID system E-Verify for all businesses.
The federal Respect for Marriage Act has reached a record level of support, the latest coming from a North Carolina lawmaker who seems to object to a fact-tracked state level effort to place a ban on civil marriage for gays and lesbians in the state’s constitution.
Criticism hasn’t eased for Rick Perry in the wake of his statement during a recent debate that the border can’t be secured — and a two-day tour in Iowa this week doesn’t look like it will hold any solace.
U.S. Rep. Steve King believes distant relatives of President Obama were given preferential treatment by the Department of Homeland Security and wants to call on an uncle, recently arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. State Democrats say the move is one more example of King’s knack for “sensationalism.”
A controversial Maricopa County, Ariz. sheriff will be in Iowa this weekend to appear at a fundraising event for Jones County sheriff candidate Rick LaMere.
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