Editorial: Reach accord on BAAJA permitting bill

High-stakes, highly partisan elections nationwide have consumed citizens’ attention in recent weeks, filling TV screens and news budgets with so much disagreement and name-calling that it hardly seems possible for Democrats and Republicans to find common ground. But that’s what’s happened, behind the scenes: High-ranking U.S. Senate Democrats and Republicans have been working — together, more or less — to hammer out a consensus, “bipartisan” plan to streamline federal development and public works permitting.