I love the city of Huntington. I'm no doubt biased. It's my county seat and it was always the city we could go to when we need a break from our small town. It's home of Marshall, my alma mater twice over.
It's been hit by tidal wave after tidal wave. Major deindustrialization, bad health, ground zero for opioid overdoses. But it keeps fighting back.
Usually any national attention it gets has to do with the opioid epidemic. This would be a case in point. Things are still bad there, but the fact that the city has made major progress in reducing overdoses doesn't always get the same level of attention.
I was pleasantly surprised to see this Washington Post story about how Huntington turned the corner from being America's most obese city. According to the CDC, the rate dropped by 13 percentage points over the last decade.
Some may remember when Jamie Oliver did a Food Revolution TV series about Huntington, with plenty of made up drama, but the heroes and heroines of this story are local.
And the city keeps plugging away.
Showing posts with label progress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label progress. Show all posts
April 11, 2019
April 15, 2013
Progress as endurance sport
This morning I find myself creaking around as I try to recover from two endurance events. One was a half marathon over mountain trails and the other was the 60 day WV legislative session. I'm not sure which one was more of a challenge.
There were some brutal spots on the trail and there were some really low points in the session, although parts of both were really good.
All this reminds me of an email I got from a friend as we commiserated on a good bill that got away due to the pressure from an unsavory interest group. I now quote it in full:
"Sleezebags always win in the short run. Good thing progress is an endurance sport."
Roger that.
JUST DO IT. Two op-eds recently appeared in the Gazette supporting Medicaid expansion in WV. Here's one that looks at it from a religious perspective and one that looks at it from the standpoint of women's health.
THE 99/1 PERCENT THING. Here's a timely call for tax fairness from a Nobel Prize-winning economist.
GOAT ROPE ADVISORY LEVEL: ELEVATED
There were some brutal spots on the trail and there were some really low points in the session, although parts of both were really good.
All this reminds me of an email I got from a friend as we commiserated on a good bill that got away due to the pressure from an unsavory interest group. I now quote it in full:
"Sleezebags always win in the short run. Good thing progress is an endurance sport."
Roger that.
JUST DO IT. Two op-eds recently appeared in the Gazette supporting Medicaid expansion in WV. Here's one that looks at it from a religious perspective and one that looks at it from the standpoint of women's health.
THE 99/1 PERCENT THING. Here's a timely call for tax fairness from a Nobel Prize-winning economist.
GOAT ROPE ADVISORY LEVEL: ELEVATED
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
News Feed (RSS & Atom)
