A former state assistant attorney general for 27 years, he led a state investigation of the authority's practices in 2005 and 2006.
Mr. Blackmon and two supervisors led a state representative and a few reporters through a school building, a dormitory, a medical clinic and a now-empty isolation ward.
Boosted by renewed concerns over nuclear power following the disaster in Japan, the Greens did well and will now head a coalition, the first time the party has led a state government.
Early in Mr. Putin's tenure, he led a state takeover of NTV, a feisty, independent television channel that broadcast "Kukly," a show that featured puppet versions of Russian politicians.
But the state cannot erase the detailed and irrefutable proof of ugly racial bias that led a state trial judge to resentence four death row inmates to life without parole because of this statute.
In Ohio, Eric D. Fingerhut, who recently stepped down as chancellor of the Ohio State universities, led a state effort called Third Frontier to raise $700 million for alternative-energy and biomedical device initiatives.
