Tim Stauffer is the managing editor at The Iola Register in Iola, Kansas. Before working at the newspaper, Tim taught at Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kansas. He and his wife, Violeta, have two children, Lucas and Sofia.
Allen County, where I live, had a population of around 18,500 in 1945. It’s now just over 12,000. I live and work in Iola, the same town where I graduated high school. Of a class of 110 students, I’d be lucky to name ten who stayed. Not exactly a long-term solution for growth.
While Kansas is indeed growing, most of our counties are not. The only exceptions are those containing metro areas.
The future of our state doesn’t look like our past. It doesn’t even look like our present. Our state…
