VIEWPOINT | The Dust Bowl is still teaching property tax reform lessons
Guest column by Jordan Deffenbaugh
Picture yourself standing in your doorway on a spring afternoon in 1934. The sun is shining. Then you notice the horizon: a wall of black rising from the earth, hundreds of feet high, stretching as far as you can see. It’s moving toward you.
This isn’t rain coming. It’s the land itself, torn loose and airborne. The fields you plowed last month, now churning through the sky. You have maybe 10 minutes.
