Commentary.

The most important tool a journalist puts to use is not the
pen or the keyboard. It is the ability to keep his or her mouth shut and ears
open. 

There is a great amount of unrest in rural America these
days.  As I listen to farmers and waitresses, bank presidents and plumbers
discuss the reaction to COVID-19 and its impact on the overall economy, there
is undeniably one commonality in their complaint.  The common thread is
the frustration that they feel that no one is listening to them.

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