Parkersburg News and Sentinel - West Virginia could fare the worst among states under the Senate's version of a health care bill, according to the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Read.
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Point Pleasant Register, HuntingtonNews.Net - Cassi Heib of the Marshall University College of Health Professions has been chosen to attend the inaugural West Virginia Summer Policy Institute, which will take place at West Virginia University in Morgantown later this month. Read.
The Daily Athena - The WVU Board of Governors voted to increase tuition 5% last week, along with a 3.5% increase in the cost of dining plans. Read.
Charleston Gazette-Mail - Three of West Virginia's five representatives in Congress say they won't support President Donald Trump's proposed cuts to food assistance benefits, on which nearly one in five West Virginians rely. Read.
Charleston Gazette-Mail - West Virginia University's governing board approved a budget Thursday morning which will see $1.07 billion in spending and will raise tuition for most of the school's students by about 5 percent. Read.
Charleston Gazette-Mail - West Virginia has been called "ground zero" of the opioid epidemic that is ripping across the nation. Every day, 144 Americans die from an opioid overdose. Here in West Virginia, 818 died in 2016 from drug overdoses, the highest death rate in the nation. Read.
Daily Beast - Attention will turn this week to the handful of Republican senators who are reported to be wavering on Mitch McConnell's health care bill. Read.
Charleston Gazette-Mail - U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders used his appearance in Charleston Sunday night to urge fellow Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., to vote against what he called a "barbaric and immoral" health care bill proposed by Senate leadership last week. Read.
Metronews - When West Virginia, up against budget struggles, reduced funding to its higher education system by $16 million for the coming fiscal year, it was far from the first state to do so. Read.
Beckley Register-Herald - With a cadre of GOP senators, all men, ensconced in secret discussions about a Republican health care plan that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, lots of people have been wondering: What's in the sauce? Read.