Ex-lawmaker bares all

Former House Majority Leader Rick Staton, D-Wyoming, has had a rough decade. Flooding destroyed his Mullens law office, his marriage fell apart, he and his ex-wife each filed for bankruptcy, and he was one of only two incumbents to lose in the May 2006 primary election.

There have been other bad patches, to be sure. Staton has agreed to talk about at least one of them: a struggle with depression that led to his emergency hospitalization in 2003.

Anna Sale interviews Staton on Outlook, the weekly program from West Virginia Public Broadcasting. It airs 9 p.m. tonight, and again at noon Sunday.