Broken: The new director of insurance and retirement has his hands full

THE Wise administration has named Tom Susman director of insuranceand retirement services for West Virginia. With the exposure comeshandsome combat pay.

Susman made $75,000 a year as director of the Public EmployeesInsurance Agency. He now also assumes the duty of overseeing theConsolidated Public Retirement Board, the Board of Risk and InsuranceManagement and the Children's Health Insurance Program. His pay willbe $125,000 a year.

Huh?

Each of these entities already has a well-paid leader. It soundslike the Wise administration has quietly moved to create a new supersecretary, the cabinet- level post invented by the Capertonadministration. The highest paid …