

A Good Idea
This small town wasn't dismal over its future. It was just a tad glum. Insecure. Apprehensive ....looked in the mirror and felt paunchy, unkempt. Was it over the hill?This town's struggles and gap-toothed downtown business district were all too familiar on the sparse rural landscape. This sounds familiar to a good deal of small town Iowa communities. But as this Des Moines Register story suggest it does not necessary a story about ending but one about beginnings. It starts w