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Albany County exec wants train jobs filled
Aug 05, 2017 12:05 am
Lynda J. Edwards reports in the Albany Times Union that a day after a train carrying hazardous cargo and head for Albany County derailed, county executive Daniel McCoy urged President Donald Trump to fill Department of Transportation vacancies. He said that "the top job, for Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, has been vacant since January.... There are so many jobs unfilled...we're dancing with the devil.... I don't want to wait until people die...I don't want to be saying I told you so." The train carrying molten sulphur and liquid petroleum gas caught fire near Hyndman, Pa. The entire town was evacuated, but no one was hurt. Read the full story in the Albany Times Union.