Record Delta - There is a movement growing in West Virginia, a people-powered movement. On Sept. 29 and 30, Upshur County Indivisible-Votes will host the West Virginia Grassroots Summit at the Event Center at Brushy Fork in Buckhannon. Read.
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Charleston Gazette-Mail - With everything going on, you could be forgiven for losing track of some of things at stake in President Donald Trump's proposed budget. It would be terrible for working people, in general, and West Virginia, in particular. Read.
Parkersburg News and Sentinel - The meeting may not have been intentioned to become church, but those attending the "Compassion Calls Us" meeting got a dose of it anyway. Read.
Beckley Register-Herald - About 23 percent of the state's workforce works in low-wage jobs, according to a report released Friday from the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Read.
Beckley Register-Herald - As you read this, people are struggling across our country, trying to find their way forward. And we're not talking only about our friends in Houston in the wake of Hurricane Harvey that dumped copious amounts of rain on southeastern Texas or the good people of Florida who stand in the way…
WDTV News 5 - A local organization hosted a town hall Saturday afternoon to discuss the recent proposed changes in the federal budget. Read.
Charleston Gazette-Mail - When Congress returns to Washington this month, it is possible that lawmakers may be distracted by the people's needs -- emergency funding for Houston and Louisiana, raising the debt ceiling, things like that. But it is likely that the House will take up the Cassidy-Graham amendment, the next assault on health care…
Martinsburg Journal - Eastern Panhandle residents relying on federal assistance programs — including Medicaid, SNAP and PELL grants — will have to make do with less under proposed Congressional legislation aimed at cutting these and other federal assistance programs over the next 10 years, say government experts. Read.
Charleston Gazette-Mail - West Virginia spent 22.4 percent less on higher education this year than it spent at the beginning of the Great Recession, according to a report from a left-leaning national think tank. Read.
Huntington Herald Dispatch - West Virginia and Kentucky are among 13 states that cut funding to higher education this year, with West Virginia cutting per-student funding two years in a row, according to a new report. Read.