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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.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul continues to buy ads in the Des Moines television market, with spots scheduled to run through Nov. 13 at the local CBS affiliate.
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.
Wells Fargo & Co. tops the list of companies receiving the largest tax breaks since 2008, according to a joint study from Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
A conservative policy and advocacy group founded by Karl Rove and based in Washington, D.C. continues to buy ads in the Des Moines TV market. An examination of public files shows the group has spent more than $24,000 in early November to target U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell and President Obama.
DES MOINES — Several 2012 GOP candidates went on the attack at a social conservative event Saturday evening, each trying to convince the crowd they have the strongest stance against abortion and same-sex marriage.
The Jan. 3 Iowa Caucuses will give Iowa Republicans a leg up heading into legislative races in 2012, a leading political observer says.
A national movement to change the way states’ electoral votes are cast would be detrimental to rural states and especially Iowa, say Gov. Terry Branstad and Republican Part of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn.
The Republican Party of Iowa has vastly outraised the Iowa Democratic Party so far this calendar year, bringing in more than twice as much money as its counterpart due in large part to huge contributions from Republican presidential hopefuls.
Iowa’s congressional delegation received a strong reminder Friday that state residents and workers are still concerned about unemployment and the impact it is having on middle-class families.
A campaign promise by Gov. Terry Branstad to rescind an earlier mandate by former Gov. Chet Culver for use of labor agreements in projects involving state funds survived legal challenge Wednesday when a case brought by labor unions was dismissed in U.S. District Court.
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