When I asked Gov. Manchin Wednesday about speculation over Sen. Byrd’s health and possible need to replace him, Manchin said he hasn’t spoken recently with the hospitalized senator. Neither has Sen. Rockefeller, the D.C. publication Roll Call reports. An article published yesterday says they haven’t talked in recent weeks: Asked Wednesday whether he had talked with Byrd, [...]

As the increasingly bizarre accounts of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s extramarital affair stream in, one can’t help but harken back to the comparatively mundane scandal that ended then-Gov. Bob Wise’s political career back in 2003. As with the Sanford affair, there had been rumors floating around for weeks prior to his confession that Wise was having an affair, [...]

 The Parkways Authority’s vote on the turnpike toll hike was originally scheduled for today. But because of a public-notice snafu, the meeting was rescheduled for next Wednesday, July 1. Today, Phil reported on Senate Minority Leader Don Caruth’s outrage over the meeting’s location in Charleston. The Mercer County Republican called it “the ultimate irony” that the authority [...]