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OP: Time for Shoshone County to Get a Fair Shake From the U.S. Forest Service
December 26, 2018 1:41 p.m.

OP: Time for Shoshone County to Get a Fair Shake From the U.S. Forest Service

A not very optimistic article in the New York Times a few days ago, suggested that America’s rural economies are probably in a death spiral. Something called “agglomeration,” said the author, was killing them. High tech expertises, he wrote, like to co-locate with themselves, thus creating so-called agglomerations of fast-paced, well-paid technology centers in a few selected places around the nation -- and leaving the rest of us essentially to make do with scraps.