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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> I used to joke that Iowa's two leading crops were rural poverty and 
> crystal meth. But it's not a joke. The fact is that Iowa is a beautiful 
> state. Minneapolis isn't that far away. Iowa would be a great place to 
> live, if only the air and the water weren't polluted and you could be sure 
> you wouldn't find yourself living next to 10,000 sows in a hog prison. 
> There was a time, well within my dad's memory, when Iowa's agriculture was 
> diversified and when the towns were rich in a culture of their own devising.

Leave it to Verlyn Klinkenborg to speak the truth about a rural condition. 
Thanks for posting the article, Mark.