Following a ruling Friday by a federal judge, thousands of farmers who endured racial discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture during the decades of the 1980s and 1990s should start receiving portions of a $1.25 billion settlement.
U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said in his written opinion that the More…
Noting The Iowa Independent’s report on the Iowa Democratic Party’s and U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell’s responses to a new attack ad, a Washington, D.C.-based conservative group continued to press for answers as to why the 3rd District congressman supported government stimulus plans.
Leaders of congressional agriculture committees are working with agricultural lobbyists outside of the public’s eye to draft a farm bill that could be included in the congressional super committee’s deficit reduction plan, Gannett reports.
The intention is to come up with a concrete plan to make real the recent More…
Carbondale’s denizens shouldn’t have to lie down in front of bulldozers any time soon.
Environmental group Audubon of Florida has released its “State of the Everglades” report, a summary of the most important stories and policies to come out of the Greater Everglades during the first half of 2011. #
In the report, Audubon applauds a recent announcement by U.S. More…
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will be in Florida tomorrow to tour the Winding Waters Wetland Preserve in West Palm Beach and to announce several Everglades restoration projects. #
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack noted Friday that education is at the core of all efforts to promote economic development in rural America, echoing a theme that has appeared numerous times in reports by The Iowa Independent staff.
“A well educated work force is More…
Undocumented workers make up large proportions of the nation’s chefs, cooks and dishwashers, and as the Obama administration shifts much of its immigration enforcement efforts toward employers, enforcement against restaurants is on the rise, The New York Times reported today. But many in the restaurant industry feel the More…
Facing what some have said is a crackdown on temporary worker visas, the business world is arguing U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services should refocus its legal immigration standards. Businesses that want to hire foreign workers are having an increasingly difficult time doing so. Meanwhile, corporate leaders and experts More…
One of the Bush administration’s many efforts to hobble the nation’s environmental protections occurred in 2005, when President George W. Bush lifted a Clinton-era ban on new road-building on nearly 58 million acres of isolated forest and grassland.
Today, the Obama administration reinstated for one year the so-called More…
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