Kentucky Resident Responds to NYT 'Persistent Poverty' Coverage
During the last weekend of June, the New York Times Magazine asked: “What’s the Matter With Eastern Kentucky?” Today, via an op-ed in The Floyd County Times, Jonathan Gay answers with the equivalent of: “Less than you think.”
Gay is the director of the Kentucky Innovation Network office in Morehead, where he works with local entrepreneurs. He
argues that the piece by Annie Lowrey was a classic case of big-city myopia and explains how he, pro-actively, is moving forward:
Rather than wait on the New York Times to tell that [hopeful] story, we’ve decided to start telling it ourselves.
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