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Mood on Main Street - Newton, Iowa

An occasional series about politics in the Obama era, looking at Newton, Iowa, a town in the center of the state that launched the president to the White House. Newton was Maytag's company town for years, but globalization killed washing-machine manufacturing there in 2007. Since then, the town has been struggling to remake itself as a center of the fledgling alternative-energy industry.

Maintenance worker Maynard Claseman washes ceramic tile laid on mosaic pattern on the floor of the rotunda of Jasper County's 1911 courthouse on the town square in Newton
Maintenance worker Maynard Claseman washes ceramic tile laid on mosaic pattern on the floor of the rotunda of Jasper County's 1911 courthouse on the town square in NewtonRead more
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