{"id":6619,"date":"2015-09-29T10:05:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T15:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2015-09-28T23:23:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T04:23:43","slug":"another-set-of-roadrunners-perhaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/another-set-of-roadrunners-perhaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Another set of Roadrunners, perhaps?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cherokee Chronicle-Times<\/em> ran a two-part series about Creighton economist Ernie Goss’ visit to Sheldon. Goss does the\u00a0Mid-American Business Survey. Links: Part 1<\/a>, Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n

The first story dealt mainly with Northwest Iowa’s economic opportunities. The second was devoted to Goss’ “alarming concern for the dwindling rural population and the out-migration of young people to larger metropolitan areas such as Chicago and elsewhere.” That’s not hyperbole, as a bunch of facts on this website and elsewhere can attest. (If you need to be hit over the head with one: Two-thirds of Iowa counties lost population between 2000 and 2010, and another 10 had growth under 2 percent.)<\/p>\n

It’s the throwaway line at the end of the Chronicle-Times’ story that I want to gently correct, though. “It kind a makes a person wonder when Iowa will see its first school system named after a highway as in the ‘Highway 3 Communities’ School District.'” Iowa already has a school system named after a highway: The Interstate 35 Community School District<\/a>\u00a0formed a few years after the interstate was built in Clarke and Decatur counties.<\/p>\n

The Highway 3 Roadrunners? Hmm.<\/em> It’s interesting enough it might work. Of course, Highway 3 goes all the way across the state, but on the other hand, it’s at least as specific as a river valley is. On the other<\/em> other hand, I-35 has red, white, and blue for school colors, and the black and white of a state highway shield is a little blander. (Perhaps black and silver?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cherokee Chronicle-Times ran a two-part series about Creighton economist Ernie Goss’ visit to Sheldon. Goss does the\u00a0Mid-American Business Survey. Links: Part 1, Part 2 The first story dealt mainly with Northwest Iowa’s economic opportunities. The second was devoted to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6620,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions\/6620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}