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Saturday, January 22, 1994

Sooner or later Missourians will have to confront a problem long ignored throughout much of the state: the economic erosion in the vast majority of our small towns and communities that still serve a sizable portion of our population. I will concede that rural development, or the glaring absence of it, is not at this point a front-burner item in Jefferson City, or much of anywhere else in Missouri for that matter.

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