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Going Over the Cliff

By Ken Walker- The recent panic over our nation’s “fiscal cliff” brought to mind another time some 25 years ago, when the Dow Jones average slid more than 500 points in one day. It marked an historic plunge. As we watched the latest news at a friend’s house, his wife walked in and asked, “Well,…
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Carrying on the Food Fight

By Ken Walker- When famed British chef Jamie Oliver came to Huntington, West Virginia in the fall of 2009 to produce his first Food Revolution mini-series for ABC, I never imagined that I would become part of a healthy reformation that continues to this day. Filming stretched to April of 2010, when Oliver’s crew taped…
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Making an Impact

By Ken Walker- In the blur of “content” zipping by daily through every electronic device imaginable, you might assume that the written word makes little difference. However, the director of a residential drug treatment center in central Kentucky would disagree. Mark LaPalme of the Isaiah House knows the joy of opening an envelope with a…
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