Under control

Under control

EAST PALESTINE — The explosion, fire and huge smoke plume over the village on Monday looked like something out of a Hollywood blockbuster movie — but the controlled-burn operation worked, according to Norfolk Southern Railway. “The controlled breach of several rail cars has been completed successfully under the supervision of experts and first responders. Some of the material is now burning off consistent with expectations from the earlier mod…

Lil' habits under control

Here is a simple fact regarding our environs: we cannot control everything. The more we think of it, the more appalled we might feel to discover that the things we cannot control are way trickier than what we might have previously figured out. If a State cannot perceptibly control such things that often appear easily controllable, it’s not for an ‘activist’ to take the baton, either.