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…
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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.
Washington Post - Johnsie Gooslin spent Jan. 16, 2015, tending his babies — that's what he called his marijuana plants. Read.
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.
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.