Lyman Dillon resides in the dusty recesses of Iowa history for his role in 1839 in one of Iowa’s earliest infrastructure projects.
Dillon’s work also figures indirectly in a modern-day lesson on how not to run a government.
This how-not-to-do-it tutorial occurred earlier this month during a Jones County Board of Supervisors meeting. A similar lesson is playing out in Storm Lake to a growing audience of discontented residents there…