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April safety initiative is on distracted driving

April is a month of showers and flowers, vacation planning and getting the mower out. It’s time to “play ball” across local baseball and softball fields. For putting away the winter gear and getting out shorts and casual shirts and tops. For getting the golf clubs and rods, reels and tackle boxes out. It’s a time for nice weather road trips. It is also a time to highlight the dangers of distracted driving. April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. AAA reminds motorists: “Don’t Drive Intoxicated. Don’t Drive Intexticated.” “Intexticated” is a new one ...

Division of Cannabis Control being efficient

Despite work by Ohio lawmakers to oppose the will of voters by fiddling with the law governing legalized recreational marijuana, it seems one government agency understands its job and has gotten to work. According to a report by WBNS, the state’s Division of Cannabis Control (DCC) is ready to roll out recreational marijuana this summer, with a proposed set of rules for dispensaries ahead of issuing licenses. WBNS reports the Division of Cannabis Control appears ready to give its first licenses in June to facilities that are handling medical sales. A second wave of licenses for ...

Division of Cannabis Control being efficient

Despite work by Ohio lawmakers to oppose the will of voters by fiddling with the law governing legalized recreational marijuana, it seems one government agency understands its job and has gotten to work. According to a report by WBNS, the state’s Division of Cannabis Control (DCC) is ready to roll out recreational marijuana this summer, with a proposed set of rules for dispensaries ahead of issuing licenses. WBNS reports the Division of Cannabis Control appears ready to give its first licenses in June to facilities that are handling medical sales. A second wave of licenses for ...

Ohio lawakers now have an opportunity to what’s right

Ohio lawmakers have an opportunity to what’s right, now that Secretary of State Frank LaRose has sought an opinion that resulted in a letter to Ohio Democratic Chair Liz Walters last week. In the letter, LaRose’s office told Walters about an “apparent conflict in Ohio law,” according to a report by ABC News. The Democratic National Convention is set to convene Aug. 19. The deadline to certify a presidential candidate in Ohio, for placement on the November ballot, is Aug. 7. “I am left to conclude that the Democratic National Committee must either move up its nominating ...

Fed probe launch into med shortage is much needed

News that the Federal Trade Commission is launching a probe of companies that help buy and distribute the bulk of medicines sold to U.S. hospitals is welcome — and hopefully will unravel and inject transparency into a procurement and maintenance process upon which few Americans reflect until they are affected directly by a medicine not being available. Hopefully, what is uncovered will help end medicine shortages or reduce them dramatically, when stacked against supply records compiled perhaps a decade or two ago. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the FTC “is ...

Two-person RR crews wonderful news but…

In a victory for rail safety, a new federal rule has been finalized, which will require major freight railroads to maintain two-person crews on most routes. It is wonderful news. But lest anyone become too encouraged that Congress has finally gotten itself in gear on rail safety reform proposed after the Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, this new rule was first proposed during the Obama administration. Once the new rule was announced, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg reminded us that a country like ours should not be satisfied with the average of nearly three ...