Charleston Gazette-Mail - Never before in U.S. history has a political party attempted to take medical care away from more than 20 million Americans. Read.
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The Parthenon - While members of the United States Senate enjoy the conclusion of their well-timed Independence Day recess, Americans remain in a state of concern about the future of their healthcare coverage and whether Senate Republicans will attempt to force through their unpopular healthcare bill or come up with a suitable alternative. Read.
100 Days in Appalachia - With bipartisan support and a focus on economic development in coal country, the Revitalizing the Economy of Coal Communities by Leveraging Local Activities and Investing More (RECLAIM) Act was supposed to fly through Congress. Read.
Charleston Gazette-Mail - West Virginia would lose 25 percent of the federal funding it receives for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program under President Donald Trump's proposed budget. Read.
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.
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.