McCall’s railroad bill approved after brief derailment

Posted by John Small | Apr 17, 2019 | Political

After being derailed by one Senate committee last week, a substitute version of State Speaker of the House Charles McCall’s bill designed to prevent trains from blocking intersections won approval before a different committee. House Bill 2472, which would fine railroad companies for blocking an intersection for longer than 10 minutes, had passed overwhelmingly in […]

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John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

McCall’s railroad bill approved after brief derailment

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