It’s hard to know what to think these days. On one hand you have farmers on the news, along with John Deere crying foul on the tariffs. Not to mention the recent John Deere layoffs, just another addition to their never ending quest to trim the proverbial fat. But, then you take a little drive to one of the many expanding Des Moines suburbs, pick a direction; Ankeny, Waukee, West Des Moines, Altoona. What do you see?
Never ending housing develops seemly springing up out of fields like its the new corn.
One has to admit, the Des Moines skyscrapers have struggled for awhile, but they have seen better days. It’s a dystopian land of dichotomies, that is for sure, who would have thought it would come to the land of tall prairie grass? One minute you can be driving past the homeless with their cardboard signs of hope, and fifteen minutes later you can be in a suburban neighborhood with nary a house in sight that you could get for less than $750,000…