CHARLESTON — Change is always a necessary thing, though it’s rarely something that comes easy. In this case, I have the sad duty of saying goodbye and and the proud duty to introduce my successor.
I was hired by the Public Policy Foundation of West Virginia in April of 2009 to help mold a journalism and [...]

By Steven Allen Adams | West Virginia Watchdog
CHARLESTON — Hello and welcome to West Virginia Watchdog 2012. We’d like to welcome back our regular readers, but also welcome new readers and explain who we are and what we do.
West Virginia Watchdog was created as place where the public can go for West Virginia-focused investigative stories [...]

Dear Friend of West Virginia Watchdog,

Thank you for being a loyal reader of West Virginia Watchdog. Our investigative and statehouse news coverage is breaking the information monopoly so long held by the legacy media and shaping a debate built around facts, not special interests and cronyism.
We covered the succession controversy, wrote in-depth stories on the [...]

By Steven Allen Adams | West Virginia Watchdog
CHARLESTON — As we go into the week before Christmas, I’m sure things will get slow in the political news world. As a result, article will be sporadic this week.
As a result, West Virginia Watchdog will go on hiatus for the week, starting today. I’ll be using this [...]

By Steven Allen Adams
steven@westvirginiawatchdog
Hello friends, as you can tell this week has been a slow news week thus far. I hope to have a story looking at the updated 2010 West Virginia Certified Annual Financial Report, which shows, among other things, the state’s pension debt. I’m seeing a trend I don’t like and I’ll have [...]

By STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS
steven@westvirginiawatchdog.org
Pictured above is the Capitol news bureau for West Virginia Watchdog and the Reuters America news service.
On top of producing stories and reports for West Virginia Watchdog I’ll be acting as a stringer for Reuters America. I’ll let Reuters explain their new domestic wire service:
The new service, Reuters America, provides text stories, [...]

It has been one full year since this website, West Virginia Watchdog, launched and what a fun and wild ride it has been.
I was approached by PPF President Jim Shaffer in March 2009 about helping build an investigative journalism program from the ground up. At the time I was working as a staff writer for [...]

Charleston Daily Mail Report Ry Rivard, a friend of ours here at West Virginia Watchdog, wrote a good story about unemployment compensation overpayments:
West Virginia’s dwindling unemployment compensation fund is owed $6.3 million by people who were given too much money from the state for one reason or another.
The sum – a relatively small part of [...]

Watch as experts in education reform speak at the Heartland Policy Forum at the State Capitol Complex in Charleston, WV. The event was sponsored by The Heartland Institute, The Heritage Foundation, The Public Policy Foundation of West Virginia (a sponsor of West Virginia Watchdog), West Virginians for Education Reform, and the Foundation for Educational Choice.

It has been one full year since the Public Policy Foundation of West Virginia launched its investigative journalism program, and what a fun and wild ride it has been.
I was approached by PPF President Jim Shaffer in March 2009 about helping build an investigative journalism program from the ground up. At the time I was [...]