Shameless Frontier Mayor and Booster

A new era of farm policy is upon us and new Secretary @BrookeLRollins has vowed to fight for farmers and rural communities. This fight requires facing hard facts. Post-WW2 farm policy has turned rural America into an extractive colony. We’ve killed rural communities. We’ve…

I agree, ya just gotta unwind the last 100 years of raping and pillaging of rural resources somehow If cattle and crops were adjusted for inflation, Rural America would be as populated as it was in 1900.

The problem with populism is that the rhetoric is easy and the policy is hard. Whip the people into a frenzy with emotional rhetoric about helping the little guy until that requires you to deviate from the easy governance that enriches the few. And when the little guys get…

Now do Brazil. And don’t let them undercut American cotton on the export markets. And tariff American companies sending farm equipment to Brazil at cut rate prices. Make Cotton $1.00 Again.

It won’t just be cattle. Will society wake up and realize we should value and PAY independent farmers before it’s too late? That’s assuming it’s not too late. Is US agriculture sustainable??????

Utah’s sheep industry is struggling. That’s why @RepBurgessOwens and I sent this letter to the @USTradeRep and the U.S. International Trade Commission calling for fair market conditions. I will keep working to find solutions for an industry that is so important to Utah’s culture.

You think anyone in the room of the beef checkoff is self aware enough to say “gee, maybe that’s a bridge too far”

I’m talking to America’s largest home builder tomorrow. Stamford is #2 on my list.

Especially when HGTV remodel shows are so popular. The fascination is already there.

And if the grants/funds were only available to individuals it might take the steam out of the hedge fund bros who are trashing our housing stock.

Instead of builders building on farms outside of major metro areas, if they focused their attention to the small towns just a few more miles out, you could have people commuting to work not from a development, but a community..

Resettle Rural America.

There's a great line in MLK's Letter from a Birmingham Jail: "Actually, time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively." Those who pretend that technological destruction of good and decent things in society is merely some inevitability will lie…

A new survey shows many working-class MAGA voters are economic progressives. What they want is predistribution: combating inequality through higher wages, bargaining power, and limits on globalization. What Democrats offer is welfarist redistribution. unherd.com/2025/07/how-de…

Muddled? You’re citing to a guy whose first source is a *chatbot* that *he prompted.* Billionaire big box stores have the power to force their suppliers to cut them secret deals that stick their competitors with higher prices. That power also lets them jack up their own prices…