A former superintendent at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch (W.Va.) mine where 29 miners were killed in an April 2010 explosion was charged today with conspiracy to violate federal money safety laws. He is the third former Massey official to face cr...

Donna Gratehouse, who blogs at Democratic Diva and elsewhere on all things Arizona, sends us this. Imagine a plant in your state announcing it was closing and taking 5,000 jobs with it. That is the shock to the economy that Arizona can expect with budg...

New York State Controller Thomas DiNapoli New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s push for a 401(k)-style plan for new public workers threatens the economic security of the state’s current and future retirees and in an op-ed in today’s New York ...