That’s how Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) sees it. Speaking Tuesday in support of Indiana U.S. District Judge David F. Hamilton’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Specter said: Speaking candidly, perhaps bluntly, Judge Hamilton is a pawn in partisan political warfare. That is the long and short of it. [...]

Today’s edition of the State Register lists three meetings that did not comply with the public notice requirements of West Virginia’s open meetings law. The agencies involved were the Cabell-Huntington Board of Health, the DHHR Drug Utilization Review Board and the Board of Psychologists. As we’ve reminded folks before, the West Virginia Open Governmental Proceedings Act requires [...]

Happy Thursday. If you haven’t seen these gems, you might want to take a look: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been criticized by some of its own members, and some members have quit, over the chambers old-fashioned views on climate change.  Chamber Director Thomas J. Donohue is unfazed, by a lot of things, apparently, in [...]