It's not all bad, continued

I've been making a conscious effort here to highlight positive things happening in WV...when they happen. And they do. Here are two related bright spots:

Try This WV is an effort by many groups and individuals to promote healthy lifestyles, real (and local) food, and physical activity. The long range goal is to pull WV's abysmal health statistics out of the nether regions. Try This is a combination website, conference, mini-grant program and movement. This year it awarded more than $100,000 to local groups working on healthy projects.

One group with Try This connections that is making a splash in the northern panhandle is Grow Ohio Valley, which educates about food justice even while promoting local health food.

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS. Here's the correct link for the NY Times editorial on Don Blankenship/Massey Energy/Upper Big Branch that I mentioned yesterday but didn't properly link. My bad!

More good from WV

Off and on these days, I've been blogging about some positive things happening in West Virginia (yes, there actually are some). Here's a look at several very positive things going on right in my neck of the woods having to do with child nutrition, healthy lifestyles and physical activity. And here's a special shout out to my friend Rick Goff, the rock star director of the WV Office of Child Nutrition.

I wish I could say something nice about the misogynistic and anti-labor majority on the US Supreme Court today, but that ain't gonna happen.