OPINION: 'The East Palestine families whose health and property the train wreck imperiled are fellow Ohioans and fellow Americans. Their needs, not their politics, are what should matter,' writes columnist Thomas Suddes.
Among the many ugly features of Norfolk Southern Railway’s East Palestine derailment is the nastiness some anonymous online commenters have directed at the town’s people.
. But here’s what PolitiFact, the Poynter Institute’s respected fact-checking program, says about that: ”The Trump administration repealed” an Obama-era rule “requiring high-hazard cargo trains to be equipped with electronically controlled pneumatic brakes by 2023, allowing them to brake faster.” But even if this safety rule “had still been in effect,, Ohio, because it was not categorized as a high-hazard cargo train.
The East Palestine families whose health and property the train wreck imperiled are fellow Ohioans and fellow Americans. Their needs, not their politics, are what should matter.: Ohio’s budget debate grinds on, with Ohio House committees and subcommittees reviewing the two-year operating budget plan that GOP Gov. Mike DeWine has proposed. Also pending: two-year state budgets for transportation and for the workers’ compensation system.
Still, it seems the push to allot more public resources for private schools is coming on the heels of the bipartisan Fair School Funding Plan, which is just getting rolling as part of the state budget that expires June 30.
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