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INSIDE Three strikes law in review in Va & U.S. - 2 Activist files suit over VBeach elections - 5 GRTC to honor rights icon Rosa Parks - 11 Va. business decries CFPB ‘Torture’ - 15

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CFPB battle with administration heads to court

The battle over leadership of a consumer watchdog created during the Obama administration headed toward a federal court showdown this week Leandra English, appointed as deputy director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last week in an 11th-hour move by Richard Cordray, the bureau's departing chief, filed a lawsuit late Sunday seeking to block President Trump from naming his own pick to head the agency on an interim basis.

English argued that she officially became acting director of the consumer bureau following Cordray's departure pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act, the sweeping Wall Street reform law that created the watchdog after the financial crisis.

Her lawsuit is aimed at blocking Trump’s Friday night appointment of Mick Mulvaney, the federal budget director, to serve as the consumer bureau's acting director until a new appointee is named and confirmed by the Senate.

The unusual court fight deepened the uncertainty surrounding the future of a watchdog that has been alternately criticized by the financial services industry it oversees and congressional Republicans, even as it has drawn praise from consumer advocates.

A nine-page legal memorandum filed on behalf of English argued that the Dodd-Frank Act mandates that the consumer bureau’s deputy director “shall ... serve as the acting director in the absence or unavailability of the director.”

That provision means English “serves in that capacity until such time as the President appoints and the Senate confirms a new director,” the legal memo argued.

English asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to issue a temporary restraining order barring Trump from naming an acting director of the consumer bureau and prohibiting Mulvaney from filling that role.

However, a Saturday legal memo from the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel argued that a federal vacancies statute gives Trump authority “for temporarily authorizing an acting official to perform the functions and duties” of an executive agency director whose appointment “is required to be made by the president.”

John Czwartacki, Mulvaney’s communications director at the federal budget office, tweeted an early Monday morning photo showing his boss already at work in the consumer bureau’s Washington, D.C. headquarters.

It was uncertain how soon the federal court would act on the lawsuit, and how the consumer bureau would function in the meantime.

Cordray, the Obama appointee who served as the bureau’s first director, launched the battle Friday by formalizing his previously announced plan to resign. In a letter to Trump, he highlighted the bureau’s record of returning nearly $12 billion to consumers “cheated or mistreated by banks or other large financial companies.”

While Cordray’s letter said his resignation would take effect at midnight Friday, it said nothing about a succession plan.

However, in a separate email to staffers at the consumer bureau, Cordray announced he reassigned English, the agency's chief of staff, as deputy director.

The elevation of English “would minimize operational disruption and provide for a smooth transition given her operational expertise,” Cordray wrote.

Hours later, Trump announced that Mulvaney would instead head the consumer bureau temporarily.

“The President looks forward to seeing Director Mulvaney take a common sense approach to leading the CFPB’s dedicated staff, an approach that will empower consumers to make their own financial decisions and facilitate investment in our communities,” the White House announcement said.

Alan Kaplinsky, leader of the Ballard Spahr LLP law firm's consumer financial services group, on Saturday tweeted that Trump should prevail in the legal fight because the Dodd-Frank succession process cited by English did not refer to the resignation of the consumer bureau’s director.

“Absence or unavailability connotes a temporary status and, in my opinion, does not cover a resignation,” tweeted Kaplinsky, who added that he thinks Trump “should win.” He also predicted that the consumer bureau's daily operations would bog down during the court fight.

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Parole board changes 3-strikes stance after newspaper investigation, could free more than 200 TIM EBERLY (VA PILIOT) The state parole board is changing how it interprets Virginia’s threestrikes law in a way that could free hundreds of inmates – many of them nonviolent – who are serving prison terms significantly longer than the typical first-degree murderer, the board’s chairwoman said.

The announcement comes after a Virginian-Pilot investigative story reported that a high percentage of three-strikes inmates have served two to three decades in prison for crimes in which no one was injured.

The majority of inmates interviewed

by The Pilot had never been to prison before and committed their crimes in a single spree.

Reached on a prison phone, threestriker Leonard Outlaw, who has been incarcerated for 33 years, choked back emotion and repeatedly offered his thanks after learning of the parole board’s changes.

“This is a chance for me to live life.

The things I’ve been dreaming about doing, I actually have a chance to do, like play with my grandchildren,” said Outlaw, 53, from Chesapeake.

“You gave me life, man. These people killed me.”

Adrianne Bennett, the parole board’s chairwoman, said in an interview that the board is making two major changes to its interpretation of the 1982 threestrikes law under which the inmates were deemed parole ineligible.

The changes have already been made in practice – as the board has discretion to do – but will also be codified in revisions to the written policy if the governor’s office approves it, Bennett said.

A spokesman for Gov. Terry McAuliffe did not return a call seeking comment for this story.

While the state Department of Corrections classified the inmates as three-strikers – which significantly

A prisoner classified as a three-striker wrings his hands while discussing the three decades he has spent behind bars. He is at Deerfield Correctional. lengthened their prison terms – the parole board has had the authority to overturn the DOC’s three-strikes decisions since 1993.

“It’s huge,” Bennett said of the changes. “It’s likely that there certainly could be quite a few people that are overturned – their parole eligibility determination by DOC is overturned – and they’re good candidates for parole and they get released.”

The most significant change she outlined is that the parole board will only uphold offenders’ classification as three-strikers if their offenses were separated by time “at liberty.”

In other words, only offenders who wound up in and out of prison repeatedly would continue to be ineligible for parole. Inmates who committed their crimes in the same stretch of time – and who had never been to prison before – could be heading home soon.

The three-strikes law in question states that offenders have to be convicted of three “separate” offenses of murder, rape or robbery.

The Virginian-Pilot interviewed more than 40 three-strikes inmates,

including many from Hampton Roads, for its Nov. 19 article. Most of them committed robberies in the same brief stretch in their late teens or 20s. With the parole board’s shift, all of those inmates would become eligible for parole and could potentially be released in the coming months.

Another key change: The parole board is now requiring that, in order for robberies to qualify as threestrikes offenses, the inmate must have been convicted of a weapons possession charge.

The 1982 three-strikes law states that, for robbery, a qualifying offense is “robbery by the presenting of firearms or other deadly weapon.”

But the DOC and parole board have counted robberies as strikes if an offender merely implied or pretended that he or she was armed and was never convicted of a weapons charge in connection with the crimes.

The parole board’s shift in practice could affect more than 200 inmates who have been in the Virginia prison system for decades. There are about 260 three-strikers behind bars, and, based on The Pilot’s reporting, the

vast majority of them likely were not “at liberty” between their crimes.

Bennett, a lawyer from Virginia Beach, said she submitted the board’s proposed policy changes to Brian Moran, Virginia’s secretary of public safety, on Nov. 16 – the day before The Pilot published its investigative report online.

She said she had hoped that the changes could have been implemented prior to the article’s publication. The Pilot spent more than three months reporting the story.

“Your article did push us to prioritize the three-strikes issue,” she said.

Bennett granted The Pilot an interview on Sept. 14 for its original story. At that time, she said inmates did not have to be “at liberty” between their offenses to qualify as three-strikers. She also said she believed that such a condition “has never ... ever been a part of the language associated with the threestrikes offenders that we’re dealing with now.”

Weeks later, she hinted that major policy changes were afoot but did not agree to speak on the record about them before the article’s publication.

In her interview, Bennett said she considers Nov. 16 as the date that the parole board put the new changes into practice. The board didn’t meet that day, she said, but its five members had each agreed to the proposed changes to the written policy by then.

Other members of the parole board did not return calls seeking comment or could not be reached.

Bennett said the board’s interpretation of the three-strikes law has concerned her since she became a member in 2015. But it wasn’t until the newest member, Joni Ivey, joined the board in September, she said, that the panel reached a unanimous decision to make the

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VCU Health celebrates ribbon-cutting of new children’s mental health facility VCU Health and Children’s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University on Friday celebrated the ribbon-cutting for their new Virginia Treatment Center for Children. The new VTCC is the result of $56 million in funding from the Virginia General Assembly and a dedicated community of donors and mental health advocates.

One in five children will experience a serious mental health issue, but 75 percent of them will not receive the care they need, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

VTCC is an acknowledgement that national issues surrounding children’s mental health need to be addressed and VCU’s Department of Psychiatry is leading the charge.

The facility has been called “transformational” for children’s mental health care, bringing VTCC’s services out of a 50-yearold institutional space and into a modern facility with an inspirational design that incorporates natural

light, green space and unique safety features important to modern mental health care. Based on research and the unique profile of the pediatric psychiatric patient, the facility design features a soothing aesthetic, warm and bright color palette, and comforting, home-like furnishings.

“It eases the stigma surrounding mental illness and improves access to care,” said Marsha Rappley, M.D., CEO of VCU Health and vice president of health sciences at VCU. “We’re also doubling space to train future generations of children’s mental health providers and conduct innovative research initiatives that will enhance treatment and prevention efforts. Our work here in the commonwealth will have a ripple effect across the country.”

VTCC serves children from across Virginia, with nearly 50 percent coming from outside Richmond and surrounding counties. With new telemedicine programs, VTCC physicians will extend their reach

across Virginia, particularly in rural areas.

VTCC gave Kiva Gatewood’s son, Kyle, a critical chance to succeed.

The 3-year-old was referred to Bela Sood, M.D., a child and adolescent psychiatrist at VTCC, after exhibiting extreme behavior and failing to meet developmental milestones.

“The prejudice or stigma against those with mental health problems is declining and our scientific understanding of mental illness and treatment is greatly improving,” said Joel Silverman, M.D., chairman of the VCU Department of Psychiatry.

“As a result, more kids and families like the Gatewoods are seeking help and the outcomes are excellent — kids are returning to healthy, productive lives.”

“For the very first time, Kyle was able to sit still, no longer attacking himself or others,” Gatewood said. “Dr. Sood has been Kyle’s psychiatrist now for 15 years. It was her medical knowledge, research and

compassion that made the difference and enabled us to care for him at home.”

Inspired by the care her family received, Gatewood joined VTCC’s Advisory Council to help enact change for future generations of VTCC patients and families. She adds, “VTCC is a unique, caring and judgment-free place where each person is an individual. At VTCC no two cases are treated the same, because no two brains are the same.”

“We received wonderful care in the old facility, but the stigma of mental health was exemplified in its design — much like most mental health facilities across the country,” Gatewood said. “The fear of mental health, the gloom and doom, it wanes as you enter the vibrant and lightfilled spaces of the new facility. It’s one-of-a-kind, and it’s hope for the future. Our community is lucky.”

VTCC will provide inpatient and outpatient services for children and adolescents across Virginia.

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Virginia Beach woman files suit over city’s election system A Virginia Beach woman has taken legal action against the city over how council members get elected.

In a motion filed in federal court this week, Latasha Holloway claims Virginia Beach elections have the effect of unlawfully reducing minority voting strength and equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. That violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and three constitutional amendments, she said.

“The current system, plain and simple, represses the voice of the people. It disables individuals like me from having a voice, so we have entire communities that are not being heard,” she told WAVY News.

She would like to see a system of wards instead. A referendum to change the current system to a ward system more than 20 years ago did not pass, a council member said.

A city spokesperson provided the following statement: “The City has not yet been served with this lawsuit and has not had the opportunity to evaluate it. The City Attorney’s Office will evaluate the suit and advise the Virginia Beach City Council.

At this time, the city notes: The city’s election system, which is comprised of seven residence districts

and four at-large seats, all elected on a city-wide basis, is mandated by the city charter which was adopted by the Virginia General Assembly. The City’s voting system was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1967 and by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in 1997. Additionally, the City’s voting system, including the current residence districts, were pre-cleared by the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, in 2011 in accordance with the Voting Rights Act.” According to the City Clerk, all elections in Virginia Beach are “atlarge” for district representation — meaning every voter has a say in the election of every council member.

Even if you live in Kempsville, you can vote on who represents the Beach district.

Dr. Amelia Ross-Hammond, one of three African-American former Virginia Beach city council members, said she was not commenting on the court filing, but said that it seems very hard for some minorities to get elected or re-elected. She would like to see a study on the issue for a better balance on the council, she said.

Newport News investigates the death of a work release inmate An inmate on work release died Wednesday, Nov. 23, according to the Newport News Sheriff’s Office.

Melvin Stanback, Jr., 53, was found unconscious by a co-worker who reported that he left the work site to get Stanback over-the-counter heartburn medication and a soft drink. The co-worker called 9-1-1 ‘immediately’ and Stanback was taken off the skid-steer loader, put on the ground and CPR was performed until medics arrived, taking him to Sentara CarePlex in Hampton, where he died.

According to the sheriff’s office, it appears Stanback died of natural causes, but the medical examiner will make the final determination.

The Hampton Police Department and the Newport News Sheriff’s Office are conducting a death and internal investigation respectively, as required by protocol.

Stanback had been in the work release program since the end of June.

He was serving time on habitual offender and DUI convictions.

Latasha Holloway, a resident of Virginia Beach, has filed a suit demanding a change to the way Virginia Beach elects its city council.

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Op/Ed & Letters

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A history lesson on tax cuts

RALPH MARTIRE To stimulate the U.S. economy to “levels you haven’t seen in many years”— President Donald Trump is proposing to cut federal income taxes, for most folks in general, but predominately for really affluent families and mega-corporations.

His proposal is so skewed to the wealthy that over the next 10 years, more than half of his multitrillion dollar tax cut will go to the wealthiest one percent. Big business does well too, gaining an estimated $4.1 trillion tax cut during the next decade. And that’s not the only justification offered for the president’s full-on, supply-side, tax cut. According to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), this tax cut will “create so much economic growth, it [will] begin to pay down the nation’s debt.” Which sounds too good to be true—because it is.

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By now, every American who is objective or can do math should know that the proposed supply-side tax cuts won’t work as promised.

Why expect certain failure? First and foremost is something called “history.” Supply-side tax cuts have never worked as promised. Never.

Second, focusing tax cuts on affluent individuals and corporations is not an effective way to stimulate private sector job growth—which pretty much explains why history has proven supply-side economic theory is bogus.

Start with history first. Top federal income tax rates for individuals were very high from the end of World War II through 1980—ranging from 90 to 72 percent. During that sequence, the U.S. economy grew at an average rate of 3.8 percent per year, in real, inflation-adjusted terms. Meanwhile income distribution slightly favored the top, with the wealthiest 10 The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions.

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percent realizing roughly 34 percent of all growth in income over that period, leaving 66 percent of income growth for the bottom 90 percent in earnings to share. Still, these were pretty good times, that included a strong middle class and real income growth for all earners.

Then came supply-side under President Reagan, who cut the top marginal income tax rate from north of 70 percent to 38.5 percent in 1981.

President George W. Bush then cut the top rate down to 35 percent in 2001, while also cutting capital gains and dividend tax rates, which all primarily benefited the most affluent.

That’s nearly four decades of supplyside. And the results ain’t pretty. In fact, average U.S. economic growth from the Reagan Administration through the end of George W. Bush’s second term was 2.8 percent annually after inflation. That’s one full percentage point lower than during the previous, high-tax era, and translates to about $150 billion less in annual economic activity.

There was never any trickle-down effect. Meanwhile, income inequality became much worse, with more than all real growth in income going to the wealthiest 10 percent. Everyone else earned less after inflation in 2007 than in 1980. And because the promised economic growth never materialized, federal deficits

exploded.

Which should surprise no one, because tax cuts mostly benefiting businesses and affluent families can’t be expected to stimulate job growth. Here’s why: the economy is primarily, as in around 68 percent, consumer spending. Tax cuts for affluent folks won’t generate much new consumer spending—because individuals at the top of the ladder already have rapidly growing real incomes. In economic terms, they have a low “marginal propensity to consume,” that is, they are unlikely to spend any tax relief they get. No bump in consumer spending, no job growth.

Business tax cuts also don’t incentivize job creation, because businesses only hire more workers when they actually need additional capacity to satisfy growing demand for whatever they sell. It makes no sense for a business to utilize tax relief to hire folks if there’s no work for them to do. Excess capacity is wasteful, and cuts profits.

Which means there’s literally no reason to believe President Trump’s proposed tax cuts will stimulate the economy, and every reason to believe they’ll grow the national deficit.

Martire is executive director of the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, a bipartisan fiscal policy think tank.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Unconstitutional

The court justices have now decided that the constitutionality of the law needs to be weighed in, Justice Antonin Scalia explained the court’s decision to declare the provision unconstitutional, noting that there is nothing in place that would ensure this law would be carried out fairly or in an undiscriminatory manner.

Justice Scalia wrote, for the 8-1 majority, that “it has been said that the life of the law is experience. Nine years’ experience trying to derive meaning from the residual clause convinces us that we have embarked upon a failed enterprise.”

Samuel Alito, argued a dissenting opinion, saying that the man in the case before them Samuel James Johnson was a violent offender who should be punished severely.

Both Justices Kennedy and Thomas agreed with the assessment of this specific anecdotal case but said that the law itself has unconstitutional elements that cannot be allowed to stand.

The Three Strikes Laws across the nation have now been gutted so that in the states where this approach has been implemented, it must be completely rewritten now if it is to exist at all. This is great news for people who agree that no one should serve a life-sentence for bouncing

checks!

One reality we all have to face, that is scores of the already very poor and marginalized people in America, will never benefit from the law or can even afford an attorney to have their cases overturned, when in fact the vast majority are unable to do so.

And contrary to the public assumptions, Gideon does not guarantee an indigent defendant, free counsel. Many scholars have written about the Supreme Court’s failure to protect the substantive meaning of Gideon, concluding that although “[t]he rhetoric of the Sixth Amendment is grand, the reality is grim.”

In Strickland v. Washington, for example, the Court made clear that the right to an attorney, declared necessary by Gideon, was essentially nominal: that in order to uphold a conviction based on a challenge to the effectiveness of counsel, a court needed to find that the attorney met only a minimal level of professional responsibility to the client.

Lawyers who have passed this minimal threshold include those who slept through their clients’ trials, those who appeared in court inebriated, those who spent only a few hours preparing for a capital case, and those who allowed their clients to be sentenced to death for example without putting on any mitigating evidence.

This interpretation of the substantive right to counsel sharply limits the “noble ideal” Justice Black put forth in Gideon and undermines the notion that America’s criminal justice system is a rigorous

adversarial process.

Scholars are rightly outraged that the right to counsel means so little. Yet their outrage over the shortcomings of the right to counsel overlooks the fact that states now charge indigent defendants for exercising their constitutionally protected right.

The Supreme Court declared these fees constitutionally permissible in 1974 in Fuller v. Oregon; today such fees are imposed by every state and the federal government, working a practical hardship on thousands of indigent defendants who decide to accept counsel rather than face the state pro se. These fees underscore the “grim reality” of the meaning of the right to counsel, a right that is still touted by lawyers and politicians as evidence that our criminal justice system is the fairest in the world.

If the state may charge an indigent defendant for counsel, what is the promise of Gideon in practice?

Essentially, Gideon is the equivalent of a Miranda warning; it is the defendant’s right to know that a lawyer will be available should he/ she desire one. The state will still provide counsel for defendants who are too poor to hire a full-price lawyer, but the defendants will have to repay the state for the privilege of asserting this constitutional guarantee.

Roy L. Perry-Bey Norfolk

Wrong approach

The health of African American communities is a genuine cause for concern in our country, but attacking

the natural gas and oil industry is the wrong approach and detracts from the real work that should be done to reduce disparately high rates of disease among African Americans.

Let’s be clear—the natural gas and oil industry is: • Committed to the health and safety of the communities where it operates and to its workers.

• Leading the way on reducing U.S. greenhouse gas and other air emissions.

• Supporting millions of wellpaying jobs—one of the most important factors in the well-being of Americans.

Recently, I read a NAACP paper that accused the natural gas and oil industry of emissions that disproportionately burden African American communities. As a scientist, my overall observation is that the paper fails to demonstrate a causal relationship between natural gas activity and the health disparities, reported or predicted, within the black community.

Rather, scholarly research attributes those health disparities to other factors that have nothing to do with natural gas and oil operations— such as genetics, indoor allergens and unequal access to preventative care. The objective should be to address the underlying socioeconomic factors that contribute to the disparities, and one of the best vehicles is via the good jobs the natural gas and oil industry supports.

More specifically, the paper misleads on the information associated with asthma and cancer prevalence by conflating industry-associated emissions, hazards and risks.

Uni Blake

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Faith & Religion

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Late Gospel singer went to church instead of emergency room after suffering stroke Shawn Jones, a 32-year-old Alabama gospel singer and pastor who died during a spirited Christian event in Pensacola, Florida, just before Thanksgiving, said he relied on his faith in God instead of immediately seeking medical attention after suffering a “light stroke” at a revival service last summer.

Jones made the revelation at the Miracle Missionary Baptist Church in Alexander City, Alabama, in what was meant to be an encouraging testimony during the anniversary celebration of female gospel group Ruth Black Burns & The Harmonettes on Aug. 27.

“Let me tell you how I know that He’s good all the time. I ain’t told nobody but my church Sunday, but let me just tell you real quick how I know God is good. Last Friday night I was in Baltimore, Maryland, running a revival. As I finished preaching, sat down in the seat, pastor got the mic, gave it back to me and say

The late Shawn Jones gimme just a little bit more,” the late preacher is recorded saying.

“I got the mic back and I stood

up and I start singing and out of nowhere for a few seconds I blanked out. When I came to, the mic was on the ground and I was singing in my hand. I looked down, picked up the mic, I start singing again. Two seconds later, it happened again, couldn't hold the mic, dropped out my hand. And I was singing but I didn’t know what I was singing myself. I reached down and tried to pick up the mic and for about 10 seconds I just couldn’t pick it up. I just couldn’t, I just couldn’t,” Jones, who founded New Thing Empowerment Church, said.

“I looked at the pastor and he said ‘you alright?’ I said ‘yeah’. I walked over and handed him the mic and sat down. Hands start tingling, fingers got numb, hands start hurting. The first thing the devil said to me, ‘you having a stroke,’” he recalled.

Instead of signaling the church to get him medical help, Jones said he

simply kept trusting God to help him out of what he felt was a spiritual attack.

“How many know when you at your lowest when the enemy sneak in. I start having all kind of thoughts ‘God I’m out in Baltimore all by myself.’

But something in the back of my head said, ‘I don’t believe he brought me this far to leave me now,’” he told the congregation.

At the end of the revival service, Jones said he kept struggling.

“A lady walked up to me she said ‘Rev., I really enjoyed you. What city are you from in Alabama?’ I knew what city I was from but I couldn’t articulate it,” he said.

“And on the way back to the hotel, I just said ‘Lord, have mercy on me.’

I said ‘Lord, have mercy on me.’ How many know if you pray and pray right, won’t prayer change things?” he asked the worshipers.

“I got to the hotel, went to bed, got up the next morning, got on the plane by myself, hands still numb.

Got back to Atlanta, got in my car, my balance was off, leaving the airport, ran over the curb. And on the way home, I just started thinking about that song all night, all day,” he said of “Worthy Is He.” It wasn’t until he arrived home the following day that he told his family who advised him to seek medical help, which he delayed.

“I got home and I told honey and my mother about it. [They said] you need to go to the emergency room. I said give me till Sunday morning, let me go to church,” he said.

“There’s something about when you get in the presence of God that no matter what was wrong before you got there, when you get in the presence of the divine God He can change things,” he said speaking of

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Study measures economic impact of nation’s HBCUs DAVID PAULSEN ENN - The two historically black colleges with longtime ties to the Episcopal Church have significant economic impacts on their communities and on the lives of their graduates, according to a study released this week that quantifies the impact of a hundred such institutions in the country.

Saint Augustine’s University generates $72 million in annual economic activity in and around Raleigh, North Carolina, while Voorhees College in Denmark, South Carolina, generates $17 million in economic impact, according to the study from United Negro College Fund, or UNCF. Those two Episcopal-affiliated institutions and other historically black colleges and universities, also referred to as HBCUs, combine to generate an annual economic impact of $14.8 billion, the equivalent of a top 200 ranking in the Fortune 500, according to the report, titled

“HBCUs Make America Strong: The Positive Economic Impact of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.”

“Not only are each of our institutions strong as far as educational vehicles for American society, but also, to look at it from an economic impact … these are universities that have tremendous impact,” Everett Ward, president of Saint Augustine’s, said in a phone interview.

The report defines economic impact as “direct spending by HBCUs on faculty, employees, academic programs and operations and by students attending the institutions, as well as the follow-on effects of that spending.”

UNCF also collected data on jobs produced by the colleges and the estimated lifetime earnings of the colleges’ graduates.

“The economic benefits of HBCUs extend to more than just the students themselves,” UNCF President Michael Lomax said in the study’s

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Historically black colleges and

universities were founded in the post-Civil War period to provide educational opportunities to black

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Nov. 29, 2017 • 11 here. My choices seem to be to wind up living alone and scared or live in this inferno. Please help.

Margie

GRTC to honor Rosa Parks

Dear Margie,

My son, his girlfriend and her mom live with me, rent-free Dear Alma, I’m going through an extremely difficult time with my son, his girlfriend and her mom. They all live in my house with their two children. The problem is that they live with me at my expense — room and board, electricity, water, cable and gas.

The two ladies refuse to get jobs and they stay on the third floor of my house all day, running the air-conditioning non-stop. My son works, but he has to pay for the car, insurance and cellphones, plus spending money for his girlfriend and her mom. He doesn’t give me a red cent! The girlfriend doesn’t clean or help out at all and her mom caters to her all day, cooking and taking food up to her.

I have to evict them and their two dogs, but they threaten to take my grandchildren away, which would devastate my son, knowing they would be homeless. We are both caught between a wall and a hard rock.

The worst part of this horror is that the girlfriend curses me out constantly with foul language and I haven’t told my other three children to avoid a huge fight, but I am on the verge of calling my kids to help me get them out. I gave them a time frame for leaving, but my son keeps looking for excuses to keep them

Girl, you ain’t in charge or livin’ large, but your house guest surely are. Your son isn’t married to her and she ain’t kin, demonstrated by the way she acts. If she was respectful, it would be a different story.

Your son and his other family are holding you hostage in your own house and using your grandkids as collateral; that’s crazy and you know it. Your son is using you and allowing his “girlfriend” and her mother to mistreat and disrespect you too. How and when did it get to the point that your son has no regard for you, your feelings or wellbeing? Let’s start with that. You’re a different kind of mother than I am Margie, because I ain’t never gonna be overwhelmingly disrespected in my own house.

Seems to me, you’re mad as Methuselah towards the wrong people. This foolishness reclines at the foot of your son; deal with him.

You are responsible for teaching him about life and so far, you haven’t done a good job. Simmer down, no worries, you still have time. It’s gonna be hard and it might break your heart for a minute, because your self esteem is shot and you’re afraid to be alone. Girl, please, that’s why the good Lord made books and volunteer programs.

Your son will never be the man he needs to be as long as you’re treating him like a child.

Unfortunately, he and the other adults in your house have tapped into your weakness and know they don’t have anything to worry about.

Why move when you’re perfectly happy living in a comfortable home rent-free.

Put on your big girl granny panties and kick them all out.

Stop feeding this monster, Margie, and get your house in order. The best and only thing you have available at any time to offer and assist them is prayer. Get them out and get on your knees.

GRTC plans to pay special tribute to civil rights icon Rosa Parks on Friday, Dec.1, calling the day an anniversary of an historic Civil Rights Movement, Parks is most well-known for her act of defiance on a Montgomery, Al. bus on Dec.1, 1955 when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, igniting an important phase in the movement. She was arrested and fined. Four days later, in response to Parks’ arrest, a yearlong bus boycott began. It ended when the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on public transportation was illegal.

Parks, known affectionately as the “Mother of the Civil Rights

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It wasn’t until three days later, the following Monday, that Jones saw a doctor.

“Got through service, Monday morning, me and honey, mother and Mary went to the doctor, ran a MRI and doctor ... said what happened was you threw a blood clot and [it] caused you to have a light stroke.

And you know what? I almost went into a praise fit,” Jones said.

“And one would wonder why you praising God and doctor said you had a light stroke. I was praising because I looked down at my left hand and I was still able to lift it. I know some folks that got stroke and they died a long time ago,” he said.

On Saturday, Jones collapsed fatally at The Event Center in Pensacola shortly after he began singing “Worthy Is He.” He and his

Movement,” will be honored by GRTC in a tribute by reserving the first passenger seat on every GRTC bus on the anniversary.

Each of these seats will have a commemorative sign displayed on them, honoring both Parks’ legacy and her dedication to the Civil Rights Movement. Operators will keep bus headlights on all day to represent her light, and the bus electronic header signs will rotate with a special message honoring Rosa Parks.

Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Al. She passed away at the age of 92 on Oct. 24, 2005 in Detroit, Mi., becoming the first woman in American history to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol. band, Shawn Jones & The Believers, were singing the same song when he testified about the “light stroke” Kenneth Woodson, manager of The Event Center, said Jones and his band had only been on stage for about 10-15 minutes before he collapsed and never revived.

“This fellow was blowing. It had a little jazzy feel to it and this was my first time hearing him but I was very impressed. I said ‘wow, this is gonna be nice. I can't wait to hear some more music from this guy and his band’. They were tight,” Woodson said.

“I guess the young man got hot.

He took some water and he drank some more water (for a second time), sat down and was speaking and he passed out,” Woodson said.

Jones’ band hosted a legacy concert in his honor on Nov. 27. His funeral service took place on Nov. 28.

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(from page 2) changes that she described Saturday.

Bennett said since January she and at least two other board members had, as the majority, voted to reverse the parole eligibility of more than 10 three-strikers. Some of those inmates also were granted parole.

She did not report that to the Pilot in the September interview.

In October, she did not respond to a request by The Pilot for records that would identify any such cases. The parole board does not have to comply with the state’s public records law.

While it is parole board policy that three-strikes offenders are allowed only one appeal, Bennett said in light of the new changes all threestrikers can now contact the board for reconsideration of their status.

A three-striker’s parole eligibility can be restored in as little as a couple of weeks, Bennett said. Once ruled eligible, inmates could be granted parole in four to eight weeks, she said. Inmates selected for release would be those who are not deemed risks to the public, she added.

The parole board’s shift is seismic, considering that its three-strikes policy hasn’t been changed since 1995. But board policies can be altered as members, appointed by the governor, come and go with every gubernatorial election.

The way to ensure that such changes stick would be to revise the 1982 three-strikes law itself.

And a state senator from Northern Virginia said that he plans to submit legislation to do that.

Sen. Scott Surovell, whose district includes parts of Fairfax, Prince William and Stafford counties, said he initiated the process last Tuesday.

His planned amendment, if passed, would add language that inmates could no longer be classified as threestrikers unless they were “at liberty” between their three offenses.

The state’s current three-strikes law, which essentially replaced the 1982 one, does require that inmates’ three offenses be separated by periods of freedom. But that law didn’t apply retroactively to the men and women, convicted between 1982 and 1995, who were deemed paroleineligible under the earlier law.

“To me, that would solve the problem,”

described the plight of three-strikers as “mind-boggling.”

“You’ve got murderers getting in and out in less time than this, so exactly what is this proportional to?”

Del. Marcus Simon said Surovell, who was elected to the Senate in November 2015.

Del. Marcus Simon, a former Army prosecutor, described the 1982 threestrikes law as a “legal gimmick” that needs to be changed.

“It sells, and it’s a gimmick, but that’s not a good way to make policy,” said Simon, a Democrat from Fairfax County. “When you make policy around slogan and campaign gimmicks and things that grab headlines, it goes to show you that you can have some pretty poor results and bad policy decisions.”

Probably no lawmaker in Virginia is better suited to offer his or her opinion on the three-strikes law than Republican Del. Chris Jones of Suffolk. In 1987, a drug-addicted woman named Sue Kennon tried to rob Jones’ pharmacy with a broken handgun. Jones pulled a concealed firearm and shot her in the shoulder.

Kennon survived.

She served 14 years in prison for four robberies before the parole board restored her parole eligibility and granted her release in 2001. The three-strikers interviewed by The Pilot weren’t as fortunate, and plenty have served at least twice as much prison time as Kennon.

Jones said he would generally approve of a bill that added an “at liberty” requirement for threestrikers, with two conditions: that the parole board continue to have the final say in the matter, and that victims of the crimes have an opportunity to give feedback to the board.

“I think it’s something that should be revisited,” Jones said of the law.

“It should be on a case-by-case basis, if they have been a model inmate.”

Across the Elizabeth River in Portsmouth, Del. Stephen Heretick

said Heretick, a Democrat. “I don’t think that anybody looking at that (Pilot) article, and looking at these facts, believes in their heart that this is a fair, or a just or a moral result.”

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Study unveils reasons for racial disparities in patients participating in breast cancer research Motivation for cancer survivors to provide samples for genetic tests depends on oncologist engagement or the patient’s religion, rather than race, according to a Virginia Commonwealth University-led study.

The study, titled “Biospecimen Donation among Black and White Breast Cancer Survivors: Opportunities to Promote Precision Medicine,” published this month in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship.

It found that women who had earlierstage, less aggressive breast cancers, those who were less religious and experienced a greater sense of wellbeing, and those who had better access to health care were more likely to provide saliva specimens for future cancer research.

“A woman’s race, per se, is not the main driver of participation in genetics research,” said lead author Vanessa Sheppard, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Health Behavior and Policy at VCU School of Medicine. Sheppard, who serves as associate director for disparities research, co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program and the Theresa A. Thomas Memorial Chair in Cancer Prevention and Control at VCU

(from page 9 men and women who were excluded from white institutions of higher learning because of segregation.

The Episcopal Church at one point supported 11 HBCUs in Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

Saint Augustine’s was established in 1867 by the Episcopal Church and opened its doors the following January. The school that later would become Voorhees College was founded in 1897, and the Episcopal Church has supported it since 1924.

The Episcopal Church’s financial support of those two schools continues today. General Convention approved $2 million for the two schools in its 2016-2018 budget,

Massey Cancer Center, researches the biological, clinical and behavioral factors that influence breast cancer outcomes for women of color.

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among black women, according to the American Cancer Society, and black women have the highest rates of breast cancer mortality compared with any other racial or ethnic group. Breast cancer death rates are 42 percent higher for black women compared with white women despite similar

incidence rates, according to the ACS. “It is important to be sure that cancer research is inclusive of this population,” Sheppard said.

Advances in precision medicine have the potential to reduce or eliminate breast cancer disparities in treatment and survivorship, but compared to white American women, black women are often underrepresented in genetic research. Minorities overall tend to be underrepresented in genetic studies, with most samples coming

from non-Latina white women. The underrepresentation of minorities may diminish the potential impact of precision medicine, confining the genetically tailored cancer treatment and prevention measures to a limited scope of genetic, environmental, lifestyle and personal preferences.

“This study helped us understand factors that may promote provision of biological specimens among breast cancer survivors,” Sheppard said. “It highlights the important role that cancer providers have with their patients.”

The study findings indicate that interventions that target providers and patient-provider communication may be beneficial in the quest toward inclusion of breast cancer patients and survivors in genetic research.

“Hopefully researchers can work with cancer providers to assist with ensuring clinical and genetic studies are inclusive of black cancer survivors,” Sheppard said. “In the long term, we hope women of color will benefit from the predicted advances in precision medicine and studies will promote the delivery of novel and innovative therapies to all women to reduce disparities in breast cancer outcomes.”

including $400,000 in long-term development grants. Separately, the church’s Development Office is working to increase awareness of the schools within the church and to help with fundraising.

The UNCF report is based on 2014 data, which showed all HBCUs generated 134,000 jobs and more than 50,000 graduates that year who could expect to earn a combined total of $130 billion in their lifetimes.

For Saint Augustine’s, the study tallied 684 jobs, 301 on campus and 383 off campus, and the university’s 226 graduates in 2014 were expected to earn $574 million in their lifetimes.

Voorhees was found to generate 287 jobs, including 196 on campus and 91 off campus. The lifetime earnings for its 117 graduates in 2014 were estimated at $297 million.

The study also concluded that those earnings estimates represented 77 percent more than what the graduates would have earned without college degrees, or about $1.1 million more per graduate.

Fact sheets on each of the 100 HBCUs are available on the UNCF website.

The scope of the study was limited to the direct economic impact of the colleges and universities, which paints a positive picture but doesn’t tell the full story, the website HBCU Digest said in an analysis. “So much vital data about HBCU value is absent,” the website says, citing the additional economic value of the institutions’ athletics, social events, volunteerism, capital projects and philanthropy.

Ward, Saint Augustine’s president, acknowledged the study could have

incorporated more data but said it was well done. “This study can grow in future years as they begin to widen their scope and look at other indicators,” he said.

One key metric from his perspective is the 65 percent of Saint Augustine’s 974 students who come from North Carolina, many of whom are expected to remain in the state after graduation and contribute to the local economy.

Ward sees the UNCF study released last week as a valuable tool for showing the impact of his and other colleges.

“We plan to share it with the business community here,” he said.

“We are sharing it with community stakeholders so that the larger community understands the impact that the university has.”

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Adding buses with seat belts a first for Henrico schools & Va. Henrico Schools has added some school buses with seat belts for general student use, a first in Virginia. Buses with 3-point shoulder-and-lap belts were purchased to replace older buses. The addition to the fleet includes 22 buses for general student use and two for students in the division’s exceptional education program.

The buses began transporting students at 48 schools this month. The HCPS Department of Pupil Transportation has been making the buses available around the county so that students and families can hop aboard and try out the belts. Henrico Schools’ bus drivers have received training in the belts’ operation, so they can make sure students understand how they work.

“Our school buses are already extremely safe, due to the compartmentalization provided by the strong, heavily padded seats that are near each other,” said Josh Davis, the school division’s director of pupil transportation. “These seat belts will provide an extra level of protection.”

Each seat contains three seat belts that can be

used by smaller children. Larger children can sit

‘The total chaos at the CFPB is torturing small businesses like mine’ When Richard Cordray, the departing director of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau decided to leave office last week, he set off a political firestorm.

Washington is now debating who will run the Bureau: President Donald Trump’s nominee, OMB director Mick Mulvaney, or Cordray’s handpicked successor, Leandra English.

English filed a lawsuit against both Trump and Mulvaney to block the appointment of Mulvaney as temporary director.

As dramatic as this bureaucratic fight is, the press is missing an even bigger story, according to Nexus Services, Inc. CEO Mike Donovan.

“The bureau was supposed to safeguard the public against con men, crooked banks, and shady practices. Instead, it has become a bully that harasses companies like mine, threatens our clients and browbeats our vendors,” noted Donovan, whose company is based in Verona, Virginia and provides both

for-profit and charitable services, including legal advocacy. “It’s a shocking and incredible story that largely remains untold.

“I don’t want the suffering of our clients--immigrants seeking a better life among Americans-to be lost in the political shouting match. The CFPB has demanded that my company turn over the personal records of our clients (many of whom are frightened of the federal government after months in detention) and our employees (who are American citizens with constitutional rights to privacy).

“We stood our constitutional ground and told the Bureau ‘no’. When they threatened our clients, employees, and vendors, we filed suit in federal court against the CFPB.” Donovan notes that Nexus, or its sister companies, have not been charged with any crime or accused of any civil wrongdoing.

“In fact, as far as we can tell, there is not even a single public complaint

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two abreast, using two of the belts. Use of the seat belts is encouraged, but won’t be mandatory.

Henrico schools’ bus fleet contains more than 600 buses, according to the school system. As older buses age out of use, they will be replaced by new ones, equipped with seat belts.

Current Virginia laws requiring minors to use seat belts in passenger cars do not apply to school buses. The 2017 General Assembly considered a bill requiring seat belts on new school buses, with a goal of all buses in the commonwealth having seat belts by 2027, but the bill did not become law.

While this is a first among Virginia school divisions for traditional school buses, others, including Henrico, have previously used seat belts on buses used to transport exceptional education students. HCPS buses built since 2008 used for exceptional education have had 2-point lap belts, either in all the seats or in the first four rows of seats. Additionally, some students have Individualized Education Plans, or IEPs, that specify the use of seat belts.

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The Valentine Museum’s newly launched Controversy/History series will delve into the connection between monuments and tourism.

This first event in the series will begin with a short presentation on the history of monuments in Richmond, followed by a presentation on the historical debates Richmonders have had about monuments, provided by The Valentine’s director, Bill Martin and “Coffee with Strangers” host Kelli Lemon. A guest speaker will then provide on-the-ground data concerning the role monuments play in tourism today. Attendees will then engage in in-depth conversations and will receive concrete action steps and regional data from the Capital Region Collaborative.

The series’s other events take place Jan. 2, Feb. 6 and April 3 and explore contentious, presentday issues by comparing historic debates with modern data. These events aim to encourage sometimes uncomfortable but always relevant discussions that inspire action and promote progress.

12.7, 11 a.m.

Pine Camp Arts Center in collaboration with Field Studio, LLC presents a new documentary film, “The Hail-Storm:John Dabney in Virginia” on Dec. 7.

John Dabney, a giant of the 19th century Richmond high society, renowned for his extravagant mint juleps, terrapin stew and canvasback duck. Remarkably, spent 41years of his life enslaved-and yet able to save enough from tips to buy the freedom of his wife and infant son, when they threatened to be sold. The Hail-Storm produced by the Richmond’s independent filmmakers of Field Studio, LLC has two free screenings at 11a.m. & 7p.m. at Pine Camp, 4901 Old Brook Road, Richmond. Free parking.

RSVP with Pine Camp Guest Services, 804-646-3677 or e-mail Cultural Arts Community Liaison, Ann-Marie.Williams@richmondgov.com .

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Water is Life Rally and Concert Hundreds of Virginians from all walks of life and from all across the state are expected to gather in Richmond in a rally meant to show common cause support for the “protection of Virginia’s waters and to take a stand against the risky and unneeded Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines”, according to organizers.

The Water is Life Rally will feature a first-of-its-kind human circle around Capitol Grounds, with citizens joining hand-in-hand and holding ribbons and scarves of blue to represent our universal connection to water. It will also feature an enormous “Water Spirit” puppet created by Richmond’s All The Saints Theater Company, and a range of speakers calling on Virginia leaders to reject the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines.

The “Water is Life Rally & Concert” comes four days before the State Water Control Board begins a series of public meetings on the Mountain Valley (Dec. 6 and 7) and Atlantic Coast (Dec. 11 and 12) pipelines, at which the board is expected to decide whether to approve water quality certifications for the projects. This event is intended to send a message to state regulators that Virginians stand in solidarity in opposition to the dangerous and unnecessary fracked-gas pipelines.

The rally takes place Saturday, Dec. 2, 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. It is a collaborative effort of more than 30 environmental and arts organizations throughout Virginia. Following the rally, citizens will walk the few blocks to the National Theater for the concert starting at 2 p.m. and featuring Lobo Marino.

Mobile free clinic provides care for the uninsured The Bon Secours Care-A-Van, which provides free, bilingual, general medical services to uninsured adults and children throughout the region will visit several Newport News locations in December.

Community partners, including free clinics, local health agencies, and numerous faith-based community organizations, collaborate with Bon Secours to provide the free services that include routine evaluations, treatment of common acute illnesses, sports physicals, children's health insurance enrollment, and health education services. Care-A-Van services are designed to provide vital medical care in a timely manner to those who need it – a free clinic on wheels. Patients with medical conditions that are beyond the team's scope of care are referred to another care setting.

The Care-A-Van is visiting the following locations. Registration begins each day at 8:30 a.m. and continues until the clinic is full. Patients are seen on a first come, first served basis.

- Dec. 5 - Mary Immaculate Education and Resource Center, 2 Bernandine Drive - Dec. 12 - Our Lady Mount Carmel, 144 Harpersville Rd - line up at St. Michael’s Hall for registration - Dec.19 - New Beech Grove Church, 326 Tabbs Lane To learn more about Care-A-Van services, call Bon Secours Care-A-Van at 757-889-CARE (2273) or go online to Care-A-Van.

12.7, 6:30 p.m.

Participants can learn about the process of purchasing a home and obtaining a mortgage at a free seminar offered by Virginia Credit Union.

The First-time Homebuyers Seminar will be held at Virginia Credit Union in the Boulders Office Park, 7500 Boulder View Drive, Richmond. Mortgage experts will be on hand to answer specific questions.

To register to attend, call 804- 3236800 or visit vacu.org .

Ongoing

The University of Richmond Downtown is hosting a new exhibition, “RVA Cures: Conquering Childhood Cancer.” The exhibition was part of September’s National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

Organized by Connor’s Heroes Foundation, the exhibition tells the stories of local children, caregivers and researchers who are facing cancer, the number one disease killer of children.

The exhibition features photographs

by Richmond artist Kristin Seward and 100 zebrafish painted by children and local artists. The zebrafish is the symbol of pediatric cancer research conducted in Richmond.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY D/B/A DOMINION ENERGY VIRGINIA FOR REVISION OF RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE: RIDER US-2, SCOTT, WHITEHOUSE, AND WOODLAND SOLAR POWER STATIONS CASE NO. PUR-2017-00127 •Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion”) has applied to update its Rider US-2 by which it recovers the costs of three solar power stations.

•Dominion requests $14,653,000 for its 2017 Rider US-2. According to Dominion, this amount would increase a typical residential customer’s bill using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by $0.08.

•A Hearing Examiner appointed by the Commission will hear the case on February 27, 2018.

•Further information about this case is available on the SCC website at: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

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(from page 15) about Nexus on file with the CFPB,” he noted.

“Incredibly, the CFPB told us that it was investigating us... to see if we were within its jurisdiction. A total fishing expedition--at great cost to our immigrant clients (among America’s most vulnerable) and our companies.

“We have not been shy in fighting for the principles we believe in. Earlier this month, we produced and shared a video documenting the excesses of the CFPB, noting that its director is more powerful than the president of the United States of America.

“Today it appears the CFPB director is indeed more powerful than the president of the United States, or at least he believed he was. What will happen to our democracy if unelected bureaucrats can thwart the will of our elected officials? Without elections to instruct them, how will there be any accountability for those bureaucrats when they misbehave?

And, if we are ruled over by people we cannot remove through elections, are we still a real democracy?”

Donovan notes that his company, Nexus Services, Inc. will “proudly” fight the CFPB in federal court.

“Whoever ends up running the CFPB, he (or she) should start by ending its pointless crusade against my company,” noted Donovan. “We have saved the taxpayers more than $650 million in detention costs alone and freed more than 25,000 migrants since 2013. We employ more than 200 men and women in rural areas, where jobs are scarce. We have not been accused of any wrongdoing. The bureaucratic attack on our small business should end promptly.

“If not, then we will know that the new director is more interested in ‘business as usual’ than in real reform. Worse, we will know that corrupt bureaucrats can openly flout the will of the American people.”

On October 3, 2017, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion” or “Company”), pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code of Virginia, filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an annual update with respect to the Company’s rate adjustment clause, Rider US-2 (“Application”). Through its Application, the Company seeks to recover costs associated with (i) the Scott Solar Facility, a 17 megawatt (“MW”) (nominal alternating current (“AC”)) facility located in Powhatan County; (ii) Whitehouse Solar Facility, a 20 MW AC facility located in Louisa County; and (iii) Woodland Solar Facility, a 19 MW AC facility located in Isle of Wight County (collectively, “2016 Solar Projects” or “Projects”).

In Case No. PUE-2015-00104, the Commission approved construction of the 2016 Solar Projects. In conjunction therewith, the Commission also approved a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider US-2, which allowed Dominion to recover costs associated with the development of the Projects, including projected construction work in progress and any associated allowance for funds used during construction.

Dominion states that the 2016 Solar Projects were completed and became operational as scheduled during December 2016. Dominion states that the total forecasted cost of the Solar Projects has increased and is now approximately $131.5 million (excluding financing costs), which is approximately 1.5% over the original budget of $129.5 million.

In this proceeding, Dominion has asked the Commission to approve Rider US-2 for the rate year beginning September 1, 2018, and ending August 31, 2019 (“2018 Rate Year”). The Company is requesting a total revenue requirement of $14,653,000 for the 2018 Rate Year. The Company proposes to use rates of return on common equity (“ROE”) of 9.6% and 10.5% for purposes of calculating the Rider US-2 revenue requirement.

If the proposed Rider US-2 for the 2018 Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage.

Interested persons are encouraged to review the Application and supporting documents for the details of these and other proposals.

TAKE NOTICE that the Commission may apportion revenues among customer classes and/or design rates in a manner differing from that shown in the Application and supporting documents and thus may adopt rates that differ from those appearing in the Company’s Application and supporting documents.

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing on February 27, 2018, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive testimony from members of the public and evidence related to the Application from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

The public version of the Company’s Application, as well as the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, are available for public inspection during regular business hours at each of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Copies also may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Lisa S. Booth, Esquire, Dominion Energy Services, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means.

Copies of the public version of the Application and other documents filed in this case also are available for interested persons to review in the Commission’s Document Control Center located on the first floor of the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, between the hours of 8:15 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Interested persons also may download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

On or before February 20, 2018, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Application shall file written comments on the Application with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before February 20, 2018, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact disks or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2017-00127.

On or before December 29, 2017, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”), any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2017-00127. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing.

On or before January 16, 2018, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission, and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of such testimony and exhibits shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. Respondents also shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including: 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service; 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format; and 5 VAC 5 20 240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR 2017-00127.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice may be viewed at http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. A printed copy of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and an official copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing in this proceeding may be obtained from the Clerk of the Commission at the address above.

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