With compassion and faith, a mayor leads his city through the opioid crisis
Steve Williams of Huntington, West Virginia, may be the most successful mayor on the front lines of America’s opioid crisis. And he would tell you, it’s failure that helped him get there.
In the 1990s, he quit a 15-year career in public service after burning bridges as a state legislator and getting skunked in the Huntington mayoral race.
He went to work at a bank brokerage, but after a year he was the second-worst performer in the company and on the verge of getting fired. His manager came to him and said,
