Politico - West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced a party switch Thursday evening in a surprise appearance with President Donald Trump in Huntington, West Virginia. Read.
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WBOY News 12 - Many West Virginia households struggle to put food on the table and agencies throughout the state are working together to fight the trend. Read.
100 Days in Appalachia - Republicans controlled both chambers of the legislative branch but still found themselves divided, struggling to pass a law while a maverick executive kept the press hanging on every word. Read.
Beckley Register-Herald - With 51 Republican votes, including a tie-breaker vote cast by Vice President Mike Pence, the Senate will now begin debating the repeal of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Read.
Charleston Gazette-Mail - Sen. Shelley Moore Capito issued a definitive statement about where she stands on the latest plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement: "I did not come to Washington to hurt people." Read.
Parkersburg News and Sentinel - An analysis shows President Donald Trump's tax reform plan will give over 61 percent of the total tax cut in West Virginia to the richest 1 percent, a think tank said on Thursday. Read.
Bloomberg - West Virginia is so strongly associated with coal that the state flag features a miner with pickax over his shoulder. A nurse with a stethoscope might be more fitting. Last year, WVU Medicine, a network of hospitals under the state's flagship public university, dethroned Wal-Mart Stores Inc. as the top employer. What's more, six…
The State Journal - A month after the West Virginia Legislature passed a series of bills designed to pay for a massive $2.8 billion road construction and maintenance program, those in the administration of Gov. Jim Justice remain convinced the program will create 48,000 jobs and dig the state out of an economic hole. Read
Salon - If President Donald Trump is to be believed, Appalachian states like West Virginia and Kentucky are filled with unemployed coal miners who are oppressed because out-of-touch liberals won't let them do the jobs that geography and God foreordained for them. Read.
Charleston Gazette-Mail - The former state director for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign announced her candidacy Wednesday for the U.S. House of Representatives in the second district. Read.