With Farms Fading and Urban Might Rising, Power Shifts in Iowa

The New York Times: LAURENS, Iowa — Pocahontas is running out of students. Public school enrollment in this corn-blanketed county in northern Iowa has plummeted 32 percent over the past decade as the population steadily shrinks. Schools have merged, classes have combined, and sports teams have consolidated, wiping out generations of tradition and rivalry.

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