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Associated Press’ Michael Gormley’s article titled NYC bus driver's trail before fatal crash probed only examined one aspect of the story about bus driver, Ophadell Williams and the bus crash that killed 15 people.   It is also the most minor of the questions yet to be answered. The article focused on “investigators are focusing on the driver, a man with a decades-old manslaughter conviction who was not supposed to be driving because he never resolved several traffic tickets.”   "We want to know what he ate, what he drank and how much he slept," NTSB vice chairman Christopher Hart said.”   While it is prudent to probe this question if for no other reason than to try and prevent something like this happening again, I wonder if it will take away from the ultimate question.   That question is what exactly happened and who, if anyone, should answer for it.   I worry about these things because we sometimes get in such a frenzy about the little things that we fail to...

When I first heard about this, I thought of how brave this young lady was to step up and take on this job.   I was confident that she was aware of the dangers that she may face in accepting this job and marveled at her resolve to try and make a difference. Learning now and through the Associated Press writer Juan Carlos Llorca article titled Young Mexican Police Chief Seeks U.S. Asylum, “Marisol Valles Garcia accepted the top law enforcement job in Praxedis G. Guerrero, a township near the Texas border overrun by drug violence.”     “Residents have said Garcia received death threats, and the ombudsman, Gustavo de la Rosa, said there may have been at least one attempt to kidnap her” makes me even surer that it took great courage to stand in that box waiting for whatever pitch was going to be thrown by the gangs who are fighting to control that area.   I applaud her tour of duty even if it was only about 6 months long because any amount of time in that capacity an...