Our view: Trains could be route to new jobs, too

Maybe the old adage about what’s good for General Motors being good for the country should get a tweaking: what’s good for the former GM worker is good for the country.

On first reading, two recent stories in this newspaper might suggest a struggle that is beyond winning. First, a report Friday, July 4, by business reporter Tim Tresslar told of the millions upon literal millions of square feet of plant space either already empty or due to turn fallow when, as announced, DHL and GM cease area operations.


Then, on Sunday, July 6, Washington correspondent Jessica Wehrman reported that during a nearly five-year period ending in September 2007, more than 42,000 Ohio workers got help from the federal Trade Adjustment Assistance program for factory workers whose loss of a job might be tied to trade.

What now? Some people are saying that one reasonable response to these problems