Essential Estrogen

There's a great piece in the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier today about Iowa's four youngest state lawmakers.

It's the ideas of and the work among these under-30 Democratic legislators - Reps. McKinley Bailey of Webster City; Elesha Gayman of Davenport; Tyler Olson of Cedar Rapids; and Andrew Wenthe of Hawkeye - that will allow Iowa to turn the corner in defeating our brain-drain issue.

From 1995 to 2000, nearly 30,000 people between the ages of 25 and 34 left Iowa, according to the US Census. Nebraska, North Dakota, and other nearby states have faced similar losses, but none to the extent of Iowa. In fact, Iowa leads the nation in number of 20-somethings crossing the border in search of greener pastures.