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.
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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.
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…