Robert Murray

Public Health Care Enemy Number 1: Childhood Obesity

Carole Carson | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living


Carole Carson

Dr. Robert Murray is not a person given to exaggeration or hyperbole. When he states that from a public health perspective, no issue is more important than that of obesity among children, we need to listen.

Public Health Enemy Number One: Childhood Obesity, Part Two

Carole Carson | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living


Carole Carson

When Dr. Robert Murray states that from a public health perspective, no issue is more important than the future implications of obesity among children, we need to listen. And then act.

Blood Money: Will WVU Honor Coal Miner Heroes and Students or Violating Dirty Coal Barons?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green


Jeff Biggers

This might be the shameless story of the week: Either that, or West Virginia University president James P. Clements has a lot of explaining to do.

Max Follmer

Tougher Mine Safety Rules Clear Hurdle In House

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


A panel of lawmakers investigating the August mine disaster that claimed nine lives at Crandall Canyon in Utah approved tougher mine safety rules Wedn...

Feds Fight To Keep Utah Mine Investigation Docs From Public

CNN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Court proceedings of the investigation into the collapse of Utah's Crandall Canyon mine should not be made public, argue attorneys for the Mine Safety...

Mine Owner Murray Threatens Defamation Suits

The Salt Lake Tribune | Robert Gehrke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Crandall Canyon mine co-owner Robert Murray is threatening to sue a professor and an editor over what he claims were defamatory statements regarding h...

Utah Panel Considers Tougher Mine Safety Regulations

The New York Times | DAN FROSCH | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


In the shadows of the Utah mountain where six miners were entombed and three rescue workers killed last month, a new mine safety commission will conve...