The governor’s mine safety legislation (HB4351) has been moved from the 2nd reading calendar on the House floor to the inactive House calendar, at the request of coal industry lobbyists who are unhappy with several provisions in the current version of the bill. A key sticking point is a provision that would allow survivors of [...]

For several weeks now, I’ve been trying to determine Administration Secretary Robert Ferguson’s dates of service in the U.S. Marines — and the time frame of his combat duty in the Persian Gulf War. News accounts of his service differ on the length of his service. As best I can tell, he served from 1978 [...]

I’ve been collecting a lot of emails and letters sent by WV Administration Secretary Robert Ferguson as part of my reporting on Ferguson’s push for a retirement board policy change that would pad his pension pay. Some of the correspondence is in response to Freedom of Information Act requests. Other letters and emails — sent [...]