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Move Madsen’s column

On June 10, Sue Lani Madsen’s opinion piece, “Don’t let emotions over train derailment impede good decision-making,” ran on the front page of the Local News section. It’s important news that the City Council passed a resolution asking to stop oil shipments after the derailment in Mosier, Oregon.

But Madsen added, “The right thing to do was to open the tracks; the emotional argument was to keep them closed.”

I have a different opinion. I think it was right to pass the resolution. I think if someone overturned the tables at my party, I would ask them to leave and they would be disinvited until I was positive it would never happen again. Call me emotional, but that’s just not polite.

I do not share Madsen’s opinions and that’s OK. What is not OK is that Madsen’s opinion gets a platform where we should expect factual reporting only. Please move her Friday column to the Opinion section, where it belongs.

Katy Sheehan

Spokane

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