Union workers welcome Sherrod Brown’s 2026 Ohio comeback — but can he win?

Union workers welcome Sherrod Brown’s 2026 Ohio comeback — but can he win?

Mark Williams, who is now 75 years old, spent more than 50 years working in mining and the coal industry before his retirement around 15 years ago. Before that, he served in the Vietnam War. Williams was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2015, he suspects, because of his exposure to Agent Orange, a herbicide used by the U.S. military to reduce enemy cover in the Vietnamese jungle. That diagnosis came just six years after Williams underwent open-…