Favored West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin is finding himself playing catchup to GOP challenger John Raese, in the midst of a recent PPP Poll.

Its a mess down here ya’ll

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A memorial video and comment on the miners lost in the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster

The title is self-explanatory. A grave injustice.

Five are dead in Washington; 29 in West Virginia. Work site explosions killed them. Both employers, a refinery and a mining company, have been cited for safety violations. America must introduce new factors into the corporate profit computation to protect the lives and limbs of workers. One factor is larger safety violation penalties – fines and shutdowns costly enough to outstrip profitability. And when corporations consider fines just another cost of doing business, another crucial factor is the ability to charge CEOs with criminal negligence when their corporations flagrantly violate safety regulations – an ability that other countries have written into law.

Five are dead in Washington; 25 in West Virginia. Work site explosions killed them. Both employers, a refinery and a mining company, have been cited for safety violations. America must introduce new factors into the corporate profit computation to protect the lives and limbs of workers. One factor is larger safety violation penalties – fines and shutdowns costly enough to outstrip profitability. And when corporations consider fines just another cost of doing business, another crucial factor is the ability to charge CEOs with criminal negligence when their corporations flagrantly violate safety regulations – an ability that other countries have written into law.

The Obama Administration wants to get to the bottom of the mining disaster, rescue efforts still going on.

More bad news about Don Blankenship’s poorly run mining industry