Sarah Lambert took her usual morning swim for 40 minutes off Exmouth town beach before her volunteer shift helping disabled people get access to the water. A wheelchair user herself, Lambert's regular sea swims twice a week between the lifeboat station and HeyDays restaurant were the perfect form of exercise for her disability.
The proposed $85 billion merger of Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific isn't about creating a more efficient coast-to-coast network - it's about concentrating private power and maximizing shareholder profits at the expense of workers, shippers, and the public. This is a public-interest crisis about who controls essential infrastructure: Wall Street or the American people. While executives promise efficiency and connectivity, past mergers show the truth - job cuts, safety shortcuts, degraded service, and higher costs.