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Battle over ex-felon votes - 2 Local business spotlight - 3 is black America in revolt? - 6 State lab testing for Zika - 14

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Kaine as veep: Would he be too boring?

STAFF & WIRE Tim Kaine does not thunder. While introducing presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at a rally last week, the Virginia senator lit into her Republican opponent rhetorically, but with a delivery that was more Sunday school teacher than fire breather. “I’ll tell you one that gets me steamed,” Kaine said, pointing to one of Donald Trump’s myriad controversial statements—but he didn’t really sound at all that “steamed.”

Being seen as a nice guy is usually a handicap for those competing to become vice president. Presidential candidates tend to choose attack dogs, people who can go after the opposing nominees while they keep their hands clean. Being a white guy could also work against Kaine, given the Democratic Party’s increasingly diverse makeup. At 58 years old, Kaine is significantly younger than Clinton, but he is still a baby boomer, with the receding hairline and burgeoning paunch to show for it. It’s hardly an image that screams “fresh face,” particularly compared to other potential VP picks like Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro or New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, minorities in their mid-40s.

Yes, Kaine checks all the boxes a presidential candidate could want in a VP. Ivy League pedigree? Graduated from Harvard Law School. Executive experience? Served as mayor of Richmond and governor of Virginia. From a swing state? These days, Virginia is as purple as it gets. But while those are all solid resume builders, they’re hardly the sort of activist profile that’s going to make the Democratic base to swoon. That’s something Clinton is no doubt weighing as she prepares to make her vice presidential pick in the next week.

“It’s true,” Kaine admitted on NBC’s Meet the Press last month, “I am boring.” Personable but unassuming, he’s not the type who, like Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, will engage in Twitter wars with Trump. In Virginia, he built a reputation as a consensusbuilder, not a bold thinker, while governing as a Democrat in a traditionally conservative state. Dig beneath the surface, however, and another picture starts to emerge, one that’s a lot more colorful than the vanilla first impression. It turns out that this career politician actually has a pretty radical streak running through him: a fierce, Jesuit-inspired commitment to social justice and racial equality that was very much at odds with the consensus in his Southern state at the time he was building his career.

Kaine declined to be interviewed for this article, but in the past he has credited his deep Catholic faith and a life-changing year as a missionary in poverty-stricken Central America for his foray into public service and politics. Speaking to Charlie Rose in 2008, Kaine said the year he took off during law school to volunteer with Jesuit

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Hillary Clinton campaigns with U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine.

Clinton speaks at NAACP conference Hillary Clinton used her NAACP speech this week to launch an effort to register more than three million voters.

The presumptive Democratic nominee visited Cincinnati for the civil rights group’s annual convention, as the GOP gathered at the northern end of perennial swing-state Ohio. Her Republican counterpart, Donald Trump, declined the NAACP’s invitation to address the convention.

Clinton’s efforts to register more voters – urging them to commit to vote for her – came as a Washington Post-ABC News poll earlier in the week shows her leading Trump among all adults, but trailing among registered voters. Her efforts are focused in part on millennials, Latino and black voters. Trump, the poll shows, is leading by 15 points among white voters, while Clinton has a 52-point lead among people of color.

Clinton relied heavily on the support of black voters to defeat Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont in the Democratic primaries, and, until recent news events, it remained an open question how much Clinton would emphasize race relations and an overhaul of the criminal justice system in a general election.

But after the shootings of several black men by police officers, an ambush in Dallas that left five police officers dead, and the killing of three police officers in Baton Rouge, Clinton has spoken at length about her vow to work to end “systemic racism” and to better integrate police forces into the communities in which they serve.

The event was intended as an implicit contrast to Trump, whom black voters have largely rejected, according to recent polls, and whom Clinton has accused of stoking racial tensions.

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Battle over felons’ voting heads to Va. Supreme Court STAFF & WIRE Cheryl Fleming can’t wait to vote in November. The 54-year-old who lives in Fairfax County had her voting rights restored in April by Gov. Terry McAuliffe (right) after losing them in 1989 for forging checks to buy drugs.

She has never seen the inside of a polling booth.

“I was so excited I was screaming in the house,” Fleming said of hearing that she got her voting rights back.

“I’ve put my life back together and this was still being held against me,” said Fleming, who now works as an Uber driver.

If Republican lawmakers are successful in their legal challenge to McAuliffe’s executive order, Fleming and more than 200,000 ex-felons who’ve completed their sentences

could again be stripped of the ability to vote.

At issue when the Virginia Supreme Court met Tuesday to hear the case is whether the state’s constitution allows governors to restore political rights en masse or requires them to be handled on a case-by-case basis.

Republicans have said McAuliffe clearly violated the constitution, pointing to the words “person” and “his civil rights” in the document

as evidence that governors can only “remove political disabilities” individually. That’s the conclusion reached by two previous administrations that studied the issue, Republicans note.

“Gov. McAuliffe is entitled to disagree with the policies of the Virginia Constitution, but he is not entitled to nullify those he dislikes,” attorneys for GOP House Speaker William Howell, Senate Majority Leader Thomas Norment and other voters write in their lawsuit.

McAuliffe’s administration and backers say there’s nothing in the constitution that says — or even implies — that governors must restore a person’s rights on a case-bycase basis. Just because no governor has done it before doesn’t mean it’s not allowed, the administration says, arguing that if the constitution’s writers would have made it clear if they wanted that to be the case.

Republicans want the Supreme Court to prohibit election officials from registering felons and to cancel all such registrations made since McAuliffe’s April 22 executive order.

As of July 11, nearly 9,500 ex-felons who had their rights restored by the governor since April 22 had registered to vote, election officials said.

The governor also faces a federal lawsuit from the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch over his executive order, which also allows former felons to run for public office, serve on a jury and become a notary public.

McAuliffe has said he will restore all roughly 206,000 former felons’ political rights individually if he has to.

Republicans have accused McAuliffe- a close friend of Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton - of trying to add more minority voters to the rolls to help his party keep the White House in November. Virginia, which is one of only four states that remove voting rights for felons for life unless a state official restores them, is a critical swing state where a few thousand votes could have an impact.

McAuliffe supporters say that what has been lost in the political wrangling is its real positive impact the governor's action will have, particularly on minority communities. Nearly 50 percent of those whose rights were restored are black, even though African Americans make up just about 20 percent of Virginia’s population, according to an analysis done by the governor’s office.

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explained, “What ready means is more than just on time, it means well-prepared, it means they’re ready to get on the ballot!” The crowd roared.

In the event of a Clinton-Kaine victory, state law requires Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) to appoint someone to fill Kaine’s Senate seat for about a year. After that, a special election would be held, coinciding with the 2017 governor’s race, and the winner would have to run again for a full sixyear term the following year.

“These vacancies don’t come up very often so there are a lot of people who would be interested if the opportunity presented itself,” said Stephen J. Farnsworth, a political scientist at the University of Mary Washington. © Newsweek

missionaries in rural Honduras “really reenergized my faith, it gave me a role model…it gave me a sense of mission generally and specifically and it taught me a lot about our country.”

He harkens back to the experience regularly, including last week.

Speaking at a community college in Northern Virginia with Clinton looking on, Kaine recounted, “When I lived in Honduras, the best compliment you could make to someone…was to say that they were ‘listo,’ to say that they were ready”—a reference to the Clinton campaign slogan “Ready for Hillary.”

Showing off his fluent Spanish, he

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SMALL BUSINESS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Team Henry Enterprises, LLC Devon Henry Devon Henry is the CEO and president of Team Henry Enterprises, LLC, a construction firm specializing in environmental, marine and emergency response services headquartered in Newport News with offices in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Its clients comprise of both the federal government and the commercial sector.

Since buying the company in 2006, revenue went from around $700,000 to now over $20 million. The company had only a bare minimum number of employees in 2006, but has grown to around 60 in 2014.

OPEN Forum filed the below interview with Henry to find out what inspired him to get into the construction world, the challenges he’s faced while growing Team Henry, and what advice he has for other entrepreneurs about growing a government contracting business of their own.

How did you make the decision to get into government contracting?

I started my career in corporate America. But when my daughter was born prematurely at just 1 pound, 12 ounces, it gave me the motivation to be closer to home. I had been traveling so much and always had an entrepreneurial spirit—and I found a way to cure both urges.

How did you accomplish that?

I had the crazy idea to buy a small construction company that had been around for a while. I thought that between my academic background and my business acumen, I could take it to new heights. So I used all the money I had saved up to buy the business and moved it from Portsmouth, Virginia, back to my hometown of Newport News.

What was the name of the business you bought?

It was called The Silty Lady. It was involved in supporting road-building activities like erosion control and

putting up silt fences. Hence the name. But I wasn’t a lady and people were always confused by the name, so I said, “Yeah, we’re going to change that.”

You mentioned that your education and business background played a role in your decision. What skills did you have when you made the leap into entrepreneurship?

I got my undergraduate degree in biochemistry and my master’s in environmental management. I then worked for GE, where I was enrolled in the corporate leadership program, which was an amazing business training ground.

Interesting. But your new business wasn’t doing any federal contract work yet, correct?

Right, it was doing more work with local governments. But I recognized that we might be able to find a niche on the federal side. I applied through the Small Business Administration to get a HubZone certification as well as an 8(a) certification. That was part of my business plan, as to how we could differentiate ourselves in the federal market.

Did that help you land your first contract?

We were certified as an 8(a) business in March 2009 and we landed our first contract in August 2009. We were fortunate because I believe, on average, it takes most folks up to two years to get their first 8(a) contract. But that certification only gives you access to an opportunity—you still have to work hard to market yourself and let the government know who you are and how you can help them.

What kind of work did you land on that first deal?

The first contract we got was with the National Park Service to deal with some invasive species work up in Tennessee. It was a sole-sourcing opportunity, which means we didn’t

have to compete for it, which a business can be eligible for if it’s part of the 8(a) program.

Sole sourcing is a big advantage that 8(a) companies can have. But it only lasts so long. Have you worked to diversify the kind of work your firm gets?

Definitely. You hear so many horror stories about companies who graduate from the 8(a) program and then go out of business because they weren’t equipping themselves for the next phase. We have been aware of that. As we have grown, we have wanted to grow outside the federal space as a way to not be as dependent on those 8(a) contracts.

Today, our 8(a) contracts make up less than 50 percent of our total revenue.

How have you diversified?

We have worked to develop relationships outside of the federal government with state agencies like the Virginia and North Carolina departments of transportation.

But we’ve also developed great partnerships with commercial businesses like Dominion Power.

We’ve been very strategic about our growth and have also been careful not to grow too fast without the proper infrastructure in place.

Is the downside of growing too fast the fact that you might not be able to do everything you say you can do?

Absolutely, because having a good reputation in this business is huge.

It’s everything. You have to be very mindful of how you are performing, because you’re only as good as your last project.

But it’s a bit of a paradox where, for new firms, it can be hard to build up your reputation if you haven’t got your foot in the door yet, right?

That’s true. It’s like when you go looking for a job after college and everyone tells you that they can’t hire you until you have experience.

But how do you get the experience if they don’t hire you? For us, it was important that we weren’t afraid to work as subcontractors for prime firms as a way to get familiar with the paperwork—the Federal Acquisition Regulation and navigating through the different agencies.

Was there a big turning point in the business when you finally felt like you had made it?

Yes, Hurricane Irene. We had been courting FEMA for a while before they called us in 2011 after the hurricane. We had to go through a very vigorous interview process, because when it comes to emergency response, you have to prove that you can react fast and efficiently. They were a little uncertain about our abilities because we didn’t have a lot of experience performing that scope of work in the emergency response environment. But we convinced them

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Newport News swears in new council members Re-elected and newly elected Newport News City Council members were recently sworn into office at a ceremony in City Council Chambers.

Tina L. Vick, Dr. Patricia P. Woodbury and Marcellus L. Harris III (right) were each elected in May to serve a four-year term ending June 30, 2020. Vick was re-elected to her third term on council representing the South District. Central District voters re-elected Woodbury who is also serving her third term on council. Harris is starting his first term and represents the North District. Following the swearing in ceremony, the seven-member council members picked Vick to serve as vice mayor for the next two years.

NN approves real estate tax relief for the elderly At their meeting last week the Newport News City Council adopted changes to the real estate tax deferral program, allowing for elderly homeowners who meet certain criteria to qualify for exemption of their real estate taxes. Qualification criteria include age, 65 or older; own a home situated on a parcel on acre or less in size; annual household income less than $25,000; qualified assets less than $10,000; and at least 40 percent of household income spent on housing costs.

The Real Estate Tax Deferral for the Elderly and Disabled program is still available for those who do not qualify for exemption. The city also offers real estate tax exemption for disabled veterans.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY D/B/A DOMINION VIRGINIA POWER FOR REVISION OF RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE: RIDER S, VIRGINIA CITY HYBRID ENERGY CENTER CASE NO. PUE-2016-00062 On June 1, 2016, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Virginia Power (“Dominion Virginia Power” or “Company”), pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”), filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an annual update with respect to the Company’s rate adjustment clause, Rider S (“Application”).

Through its Application, the Company seeks to recover costs associated with the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center (“VCHEC” or “Project”), a 610 megawatt nominal coal-fueled generating plant and associated transmission interconnection facilities located in Wise County, Virginia.

In Case No. PUE-2007-00066, the Commission approved the development of VCHEC. In conjunction with its approval of VCHEC, the Commission also approved a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider S, which allowed Dominion Virginia Power to recover costs associated with the development of the Project, including projected construction work in progress and any associated allowance for funds used during construction. According to Dominion Virginia Power, VCHEC became fully operational on July 10, 2012.

In this proceeding, Dominion Virginia Power has asked the Commission to approve Rider S for the rate year beginning April 1, 2017, and ending March 31, 2018 (“2017 Rate Year”). The two key components of the proposed total revenue requirement for the 2017 Rate Year are the Projected Cost Recovery Factor and the Actual Cost True-Up Factor. The Company is requesting a Projected Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $230,706,000 and an Actual Cost True-Up Factor revenue requirement of $23,215,000. Thus, the Company is requesting a total revenue requirement of $253,921,000 for service rendered during the 2017 Rate Year.

Dominion Virginia Power utilized a rate of return on common equity (“ROE”) of 11.5% for purposes of calculating the Projected Cost Recovery Factor in this case. This ROE comprises a general ROE of 10.5%, plus a 100 basis point enhanced return applicable to a conventional coal generating station as described in § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code. For purposes of calculating the Actual Cost True-Up Factor, including an accompanying correction to the 2014 calendar year Actual Cost True-up Factor, the Company utilized an ROE of 11%, which comprises the general ROE of 10% approved by the Commission in its Final Order in Case No. PUE-2013-00020, plus the 100 basis point enhanced return.

If the proposed Rider S for the 2017 Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to Dominion Virginia Power, implementation of its proposed Rider S on April 1, 2017, would increase the monthly bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $0.54.

The Company has calculated the proposed Rider S rates in accordance with the same methodology as used for rates approved by the Commission in the most recent Rider S proceeding, Case No. PUE-2015-00060.

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, bifurcated ROE issues from the remainder of the case and scheduled a public hearing on December 7, 2016, 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 on the Company’s Application. At this public hearing evidence related to non-ROE aspects of the Application will also be received from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear in the Commission’s courtroom fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

A public hearing on ROE issues in this case and in Case Nos. PUE-2016-00059, PUE-2016-00060, PUE-2016-00061, and PUE-2016-00063 shall be convened by the Commission on January 18, 2017, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. At this public hearing evidence and testimony related to ROE aspects of the Application will be received from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff.

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 Resources 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 November 30, 2016, 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 November 30, 2016, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUE-2016-00062.

On or before September 16, 2016, 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. PUE-2016-00062. 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 October 21, 2016, 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. PUE-2016-00062.

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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Op/Ed & Letters

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Why shouldn’t black America revolt?

SHANNON M. HOUSTON If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress.

Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn’t even begun to pull out the knife.— Malcolm X How many people would be alive today, if all Americans were allowed to violently fight back against police, if and when the police are threatening their lives? If we were permitted to physically stop them, rather than just film them with cameras while they are killing us, would Philando Castile, or Alton Sterling, or any of the people we’ve lost, still be alive? In other words, what would it look like, if the police were even half as afraid of black people (and other people of color they target), as we are of them?

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I ask because I’m beginning to think that my people have been trained to negotiate with terrorists.

There is a myth that we desperately need the understanding and empathy of whites in this country—that we must do our best to appeal to it, endlessly—to avoid what should be the relatively simple task of not being killed by police (I say relatively simple, because there are whole countries throughout the world that exist without daily police brutality and murder, also known as lynching).

The general idea seems to be that if we cannot get white people to 1.) see that racism still exists and is thriving, and 2.) decide to join us in our fight against it, then we will fail to create an America where black lives matter.

That’s an awful lot of work to do, considering blacks neither invented race or racism. We are being asked to not only survive these attacks, but

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also fight against them and convince those who’ve watched the same videos and who’ve seen the same statistics, that the problem they do not wish to see is real; that their America and their white privilege is literally killing us.

So here’s a question respectable black people aren’t supposed to ask: what if retaliatory violence is part of the answer to the problem America faces today, wherein black lives (and the lives of many other people of color) do not matter?

Let me back up, and tell you a mommy story, because I know how much you like those. My oldest son is shy and creative, which is to say… not all that “cool.” He’s seven and I realize that the cool kids at school wouldn’t be especially impressed with what he can create with a pair of scissors, paper, markers and some colored ducktape (answer: the coolest paper Deadpool action figures you’ve ever seen, but I digress). He’s never been bullied, but a couple of times he came home from school and complained of another kid bothering him, even hitting him. His father and I had wildly different responses.

I wanted my son to understand that bullies are just unhappy people.

You should ignore them, you should tell a teacher, you should try to understand that they might not have a good mommy and daddy at home, that their anger is a reflection of

some substantial loss or lack. His father, on the other hand, seemed to only want to know one thing: “What’d you do? Did you hit him back? You better hit him back next time.” The end, good talk.

Over the years, and after many more nuanced conversations about this with my son’s father, I’ve found myself wading towards some strange middle ground I never thought I’d be in. Of course, I still want my son to understand and consider the motivations and machinations of a bully. But, more than that, I want him to be and feel safe. I want him to go to school, without worrying.

I don’t want him to be distracted, or to think he’s less than, because some kid’s parents are, perhaps, failing their child on some level.

Sure, it’d be great if he could reach that kid, if they could come together and overcome their differences. But I’m not interested in sacrificing my child so that can happen. That’s not an investment, I’ve realized, that I’m willing to make. I will not trade the health and the well-being of my blood, for the betterment of someone or something that I did not create.

I want him to be kind and to stay himself—shy, creative, Deadpoolobsessed. But I also need him to know when to fight back, principal’s office (though it’s not come to that yet), be damned. © PASTE

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

History lessons

The American people must be reminded the foundation of police killings, the denial of equal protection under the law to person of African ancestry and citizenship in the United States, rest upon the conclusion of the Supreme Court’s decision, on March 6, 1857, in Scott v. Sandford, written by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, white supremacist, was that current or former slaves and their descendants had “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”

Taney wrote in the majority Dred Scott decision: The foundation of federal, state and municipal police murder, without conviction, rest upon the legal authority Attorney General Eric Holder cited, that the high standard of proof in federal civil rights cases, prevents federal prosecution where local authorities are unable or unwilling to get a conviction.

“There is a better way in which we could have federal involvement in these kinds of matters to allow the federal government to be a better backstop in examining these cases,” Holder said in an NBC News interview.

The Justice Department later announced that it found insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges in the 2012 shooting death of a black teenager, Trayvon Martin, in Florida.

And the shooting of an unarmed black man, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Officials familiar with the case have said they expect that no federal charges will be filed.

In a written statement, government lawyers said their decision in the case was “limited strictly to the department’s inability to meet the high legal standard” in the civil

rights statutes.

Holder has repeatedly warned “We do need to change the law. I do think the standard is too high,” There needs to be a change with regard to the standard of proof.”

To bring a federal case, federal prosecutors must prove that a person used excessive force, willfully — meaning on purpose — with the knowledge that it was wrong.

William Yeomans, a former prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said proving intent is the biggest challenge in bringing a successful prosecution in such cases.

“It’s extremely difficult to establish beyond a reasonable doubt what was in the defendant’s mind when he committed the act.”

Federal prosecutors brought just such a charge in 1991 against Los Angeles police officers for beating a black driver, Rodney King, after a high-speech chase. But the government had videotape to help prove that case.

The high bar in the law often prevents the federal government from prosecuting. Examples include the New York police shooting deaths of Amadou Diallo, unarmed when he was killed outside his apartment in 1999, and Sean Bell, who died after officers fired 50 shots into his car.

No federal charges were filed in either case.

The police fatal shooting of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, and others similarly situated, should move the American people to demand that Attorney General Loretta Lynch, present some specific proposals to lower the standard of proof in federal civil rights cases, to allow federal prosecution to get a conviction, to share with the American people and with Congress.

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Virginia has been the cornerstone in the United States for leadership of this great nation from the time this was a colonialized country under British/English monarchy rule to the present democracy. Richmond has been the center for a “Sociopolitical Rebellion”. Virginia has been the center of a “Slave Resurrection”, as well as, an “Indian Unrest/”.

Unfortunately corruption has also been a part of this history, and rarely is the malefactor(s), perpetrator(s) held accountable.

Related it is said that Virginia is one of the most patriotic states.

Historically this has not been so. Patriotism means support and loyalty to one’s country, not traitorously selling your country out, or supporting that which is not contingent with unity of the flag, constitution, republic, and law.

People’s ideas always interfere with a rational, realistic approach to the meaning, understanding, and representation of patriotism. For instance America united to support the first non-white head of state, President Barack Obama, but now peoples short sighted intentions and/ or outlook reveals that that was only short lived; whereas, neither Trump or Clinton would need America to unify to be voted into office.

These societal shortcomings add to the unrealistic approach to unification especially when it is something to cause detriment, disparities. People unified to support slavery and jim crowe, the confederacy, homosexuality, but equal rights of women people did not unify to support, not even White women, but since they have more influence, authority, leadership positions, and increased income it has been taken for granted that they are treated equally. Black

people fall within the same category since blacks have more leadership positions, making higher wages, and can openly have interracial relationships without being killed.

People have never unified to support the rights of children, but they have for animal rights. Like I mentioned before America has unified to homosexuals, but not their victims.

The rich history of political leadership that Virginia has should put it in the forefront of equality for all cultivating not only patriotism and the rights of some, but the rights of all exemplifying patriotism, truism, peace, love, prosperity, ethics, loyalty, and democracy.

Instead things are opposite to where they should be.

There have been eight presidents of the United States with roots in Virginia, the most than any state.

These include George Washington a Federalist, Thomas Jefferson a Democrat-Republican, James Madison a Democrat-Republican, William Henry Harrison a Whig, John Tyler a Whig, Zachary Taylor a Whig, and Thomas Woodrow Wilson a Democrat. Today not only America but politics and religion are divided a great deal more.

As a black-Indian American man I am patriotic and love not only women and family, but all American people, even my enemies who do not hate me as a result of what is inside of me, but what is inside of them. Most importantly I love God. I feel that American’s should not be at odds with one another so vehemently. What can Americans do about this and how can we change this thing for the better starting in Richmond, enhancing the rich American leadership that has defined Virginians heritage?

Patrick Christian

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‘God break racism!’ Evangelicals on D.C. Mall pray for hope and reconciliation Rappers and pastors, spoken word poets and authors appealed Saturday to thousands of evangelicals gathered around the Washington Monument in baking heat to recommit to prayer and hope at a time of intense racial and political polarization and growing secularism.

People streamed into prayer tents, asking volunteers for prayers to “reset” their lives, their families, their country. They got on their knees by the thousands, appealing to God to “break racism” at the call of charismatic evangelist Lou Engle,

one of dozens of preachers in the hours-long lineup. They told personal stories of division in their lives that brought them to America’s capital for what aimed to be one of the bigger faith outreach events in the United States in years. Possibly an entire Bible’s worth of verses was written on the t-shirts in the crowd.

The event, scheduled to last from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., ended just after 4 p.m. because of the excessive heat.

U.S. Park Police and Nick Hall, who organized the event, said that emergency medical technicians were

overwhelmed by a large number of people who passed out in the heat.

Hall told the crowd that the hastened ending was all right: “It was never about coming to the Mall.

It was always about being sent from the Mall,” he said. “This is about sending a generation out from the Mall who are saying, ‘God, we wanna go — we wanna give everything for Jesus.'”

In the seven hours the event lasted, attendees heard impassioned prayers, sermons, songs, raps and poetry about unity in faith.

Calling people to their knees on the grass, Engle shouted references to Minneapolis, Ferguson and Dallas — now shorthand for America’s modernday racial violence, places where police killed black men and where, more recently, a black soldier gunned down five white police officers.

In the audience was Heather Crowe, who came from Pennsylvania with her daughter and other female relatives seeking healing. Recently neighbors and even relatives had chided her 18-year-old daughter for

dating an African-American, saying “Are you serious?” Between that and the recent police-involved killings, she said a big Christian concert suddenly seemed needed. Her family is white.

“It became more apparent we needed to be here, to feel like we were united,” Crowe said. Of her daughter, who is heading to college this fall, she said: “As a mother, you’re anxious for what the future holds for her. I’ve always told her to be a light in the darkness.”

The event, called “Together,” featured some of the biggestname musicians and evangelists in contemporary evangelical Christianity. It was aimed at more theologically conservative young evangelicals, with organizers calling it a “reset” for Christians who feel exhausted from battling the mainstream culture and sidelined by secularism.

“I think a lot of believers that are teenagers feel that they’re the only

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Va. Republicans skip Cleveland, and Trump camp sees it as a good sign Don’t look for Tom Davis in Cleveland. The former Republican congressman from Virginia, who attended the past six GOP conventions, will be rooting for the home team at Nationals Park this week, not cheering on Donald Trump at Quicken Loans Arena.

“The Dodgers are here for a threegame series. I’m going to the Nats games,” said Davis, who was Virginia chairman of Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s failed presidential bid. “I just don’t feel it this year.”

As a crucial swing state, Virginia was well represented at the Republican National Convention four years ago. Most of the commonwealth’s GOP stars made their way to Tampa to witness Mitt Romney’s nomination, albeit with varying degrees of enthusiasm.

It will be a different story this time, as Trump becomes the GOP’s standard bearer.

Former governor George Allen, who backed Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida in this spring’s primary, will be camping out West. Only

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Republican strategist Ed Gillespie, another 2017 gubernatorial contender and half-hearted Trump supporter, is also attending, said an aide who made it sound as if Gillespie’s focus would not be on the nominee.

“Yes, Ed will be there ...for a couple of days to spend time with the Virginia delegation,” said Chris Leavitt, executive director of Gillespie’s political action committee.

All the no-shows and hold-yournose shows are hardly flattering to Trump, whose inflammatory rhetoric about Muslims, Mexicans and other subjects has turned off many.

But some Trump supporters are looking beyond the snubs to

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something promising: a party in midrevolution.

“It’s unlike any other presidential election year because the establishment is [ticked] off that the power has returned to the grass roots,” said Corey A. Stewart, yet another contender for governor and chairman of Trump’s Virginia campaign. “I believe that the party is in the process of remaking itself . . . into a party that is more responsive to the concerns of middle America.”

Backhanded compliment or not, the absences read like a who’s who of Virginia politics.

At least four of Virginia’s eight Republican representatives in the House — Dave Brat, H. Morgan Griffith, Barbara Comstock and Scott Rigell — are skipping the convention.

Spokesmen for three others — J. Randy Forbes, Bob Goodlatte and Robert Hurt — would not respond

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League event opens dialogue on killings In an effort to increase the conversation around protecting black lives in the wake of recent killings of Black men in Baton Rouge, La. and St. Paul, Minnesota, the Northern Virginia Urban League Young Professionals

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Network hosted a “#No More Hashtags — Justice, the Movement for Black Lives… and YOU” that was billed as providing “a time for healing, dialogue and action in the wake of injustice in our communities”.

“Although this was a successful event it was also a call to action for the ongoing work to engage, educate and empower,” noted the group.

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But when it comes to the most lethal form of force — police shootings — the study finds no racial bias.

“It is the most surprising result of my career,” said Roland G. Fryer Jr., the author of the study and a professor of economics at Harvard.

The study examined more than 1,000 shootings in 10 major police

departments, in Texas, Florida and California.

The result contradicts the image of police shootings that many Americans hold after the killings (some captured on video) of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.; Tamir Rice in Cleveland; Walter Scott in South Carolina; Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La.; and Philando Castile in Minnesota.

The study did not say whether the most egregious examples — those at the heart of the nation’s debate on police shootings — are free of racial bias. Instead, it examined a larger pool of shootings, including nonfatal ones.

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PHOTO: Erik Jacobs scope of the data. Fryer emphasizes that the work is not the definitive analysis of police shootings, and that more data would be needed to understand the country as a whole.

This work focused only on what happens once the police have stopped civilians, not on the risk of being stopped at all. Other research has shown that blacks are more likely to be stopped by the police.

Fryer, the youngest black person to receive tenure at Harvard and the first to win a John Bates Clark medal, a prize given to the most promising American economist under 40, said anger after the deaths of Michael Brown, Freddie Gray and others drove him to study the issue. “You know, protesting is not my thing,” he said. “But data is my thing. So I decided that I was going to collect a bunch of data and try to understand what really is going on when it comes to racial differences in police use of force.”

He and student researchers spent about 3,000 hours assembling detailed data from police reports in Houston; Austin, Tex.; Dallas; Los Angeles; Orlando, Fla.; Jacksonville, Fla.; and four other counties in Florida.

They examined 1,332 shootings between 2000 and 2015, coding police

narratives to answer questions such as: How old was the suspect? How many police officers were at the scene? Were they mostly white? Was the officer at the scene for a robbery, violent activity, a traffic stop or something else? Was it nighttime? Did the officer shoot after being attacked or before a possible attack? One goal was to determine if police officers were quicker to fire at black suspects.

In shootings in these 10 cities involving officers, officers were more likely to fire their weapons without having first been attacked when the suspects were white. Black and white civilians involved in police shootings were equally likely to have been carrying a weapon. Both results undercut the idea of racial bias in police use of lethal force.

But police shootings are only part of the picture. What about situations in which an officer might be expected to fire, but doesn’t?

To answer this, Fryer focused on one city, Houston. The Police Department there let the researchers look at reports not only for shootings but also for arrests when lethal force might have been justified.

Fryer defined this group to include

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Cornel West endorses Jill Stein, says she – not Hillary Clinton – is the ‘only progressive woman in the race’ Not all of Bernie Sanders’ highprofile supporters are backing Hillary Clinton.

In a sharply worded op-ed article, Cornel West, an influential scholar and civil rights activist who was a staunch supporter of Sanders in the Democratic presidential primaries, endorsed Green Party candidate Jill Stein, calling her the “only progressive woman in the race.’

“This November, we need change.

Yet we are tied in a choice between [Donald] Trump, who would be a neo-fascist catastrophe, and Clinton, a neo-liberal disaster,” wrote West.

“That’s why I am supporting Jill Stein. I am with her – the only progressive woman in the race.”

West’s overt jab at Clinton and support of Stein, who was also the Green Party’s nominee in 2012, comes just days after Sanders endorsed Clinton’s candidacy as the two campaigned together in New Hampshire.

“I have a deep love for my brother Bernie Sanders, but I disagree with him on Hillary Clinton,” West wrote. “I don’t think she would be an ‘outstanding president.’ Her militarism makes the world a less safe place.”

Throughout the primaries, Sanders, along with many liberals such as West, consistently assailed Clinton for, among other things, her vote in support of the Iraq war.

In his op-ed, West, who has also been a vocal critic of President Obama, hit Clinton for her support of anti-crime legislation signed by her husband, former president Bill Clinton, in the 1990s. Critics say the measure helped contribute to the trend of greater levels of incarceration for black men. She has since said she believes that the legislation is flawed.

“Clinton policies of the 1990s generated inequality, mass incarceration, privatization of schools,” West wrote.

Stein has told Sanders’ supporters saying they “cannot forget the triumph of Bernie’s campaign” and the hope foor a better economy.

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(from page 8) Christian on their [sports] team, the only Christian who works at the McDonald’s where they work.”

The huge concert-style gathering shows these young people “the church is alive,” Mark Hall, a youth pastor who is the lead singer of the rock band Casting Crowns, said after their set. “Teenagers need moments.”

Hall said the timing of the longplanned event, falling amid violent events worldwide, was fated. “It’s something that God saw coming. He saw that we were gonna need it.”

A new poll by Pew Research showed 41 percent of “evangelical or born-again” Protestants say it has become more difficult to be an evangelical Christian in the U.S. in recent years; 34 percent answered the question the same way in September 2014.

Evangelicals are deeply divided about the causes and solutions to racism. A new poll this week shows 73 percent of white evangelicals — the vast majority of evangelicals are white — say they would support Donald Trump, a candidate who 66 percent of Americans believe is biased against minority groups.

Anjelica and Joseph Tynes, an African-American couple who attended the event on Saturday, said they arrived hoping to hear a message of racial reconciliation aimed at evangelicals. Anjelica said she wondered beforehand if a one-time event could really make a difference, but when she saw the crowd on the Mall, she changed her mind. In fact, she thought the day of prayer would do more for racial healing than the presidential election could.

“If Trump’s in office, we’re responsible to pray for Trump,” she

said. “If Hillary’s in office, we’re responsible to pray for Hillary.”

The Tyneses, like many others on the Mall, said they would not discuss whom they’re voting for, preferring instead to devote the day to prayer.

There wasn’t a political sign or shirt in sight.

Adam Gordon, 32, and Josh Brooks, 25, were among the few to engage in political discussion during the event. Brooks said he’s thinking he’ll vote for Trump if the polls in November show him with a chance of winning New York, where the two friends live. Gordon burst out, “Why?!”

“Better than Hillary,” Brooks said.

Gordon shook his head. “Please don’t tell me you’re using Christianity to vote for Donald Trump,” he said, adding hat he would vote for a third-party candidate since he thinks neither Trump nor Clinton is sufficiently opposed to abortion. - © WP

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State lab to begin testing mosquitoes for Zika virus The Department of General Services’ Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services (DCLS) will begin testing mosquitoes in targeted areas across Virginia for Zika virus, a mosquito-borne illness that poses a particular threat to pregnant woman and their unborn children.

“The surveillance of Zika cases in Virginia is critical to our ability to prepare for and provide treatment to people affected by this virus. This is why I established the Zika task force this past February,” said Gov. Terry McAuliffe. “Thus far, all Virginia Zika virus infections have been associated with travel abroad, but we are ramping up efforts in preparation for locally transmitted cases where a mosquito bites an infected person and then bites someone else.

“Early detection of the virus in local mosquitoes allows health officials to pinpoint our efforts to prevent the spread to others in the community.

I applaud the efforts of our state and local public health officials who are working diligently to stop the spread of Zika, and we will continue

(from page 9) to inquiries about whether they are attending Some fear that Trump’s ties could be toxic to their own political futures. That appears to be the case with Comstock, a freshman seeking reelection in a Northern Virginia swing district that has been hostile to the real estate mogul turned reality TV star.

Even some Virginia businesses that would normally attend the convention to make contacts are staying away.

“If the nominee were 16 of the 17 people that ran, I would be there,” said Will Ritter, a longtime Romney aide who leads Poolhouse, a political and corporate ad agency in Richmond.

“But I’m not going to go and participate in a champagne toast for Donald Trump.”

In neighboring Maryland, a reliably blue state in presidential years, several top Republicans are picking an annual crab feast on the state’s Eastern Shore over Trump. Among them are Gov. Larry Hogan, Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford and Maryland House Minority Whip Kathy Szeliga (Baltimore County), who is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated

aggressive actions to prevent the spread of this virus in Virginia.”

As of last week, the Virginia Department of Health has reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 33 cases of Zika virus in Virginia residents associated with travel outside the U.S. There have been no locally transmitted cases.

DCLS began testing humans for Zika virus in April. The addition of

mosquito testing allows the lab to provide state health officials with even more information to quickly respond when local transmission is detected.

Recently, DCLS shipped collection kits to 10 local mosquito control jurisdictions in central and southeastern Virginia in order to trap the mosquitoes and return them to the lab for testing. DCLS will perform molecular tests on up to 1,200 pools, each consisting of approximately 50 mosquitoes, to determine if the virus is present in a particular area of the state. Results typically take one day.

“This testing provides important information to Virginia public health officials as they take the necessary measures to prevent illness in our citizens and the unborn,” said Dr. Denise Toney, director DCLS. “Our scientists can test up to 300 pools of mosquitoes per week, but if a public health threat is identified we can deploy an automated system that can process more than double that number per week to more quickly identify impacted areas.”

“Prevention is key when dealing with public health risks like Zika virus disease because we have no specific treatment and no vaccine at this time,” said Dr. Marissa Levine, commisioner, State Health. “Many people are hard at work because responding to Zika requires a true community response. Everybody has a role to play in reducing the risk of Zika virus disease. The testing of mosquitoes in targeted areas will allow us to stay ahead of any local transmission of the virus that might occur and help us reduce Zika’s impact on Virginians.”

Zika virus spreads primarily through the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti or Aedes albopictus mosquito, both of which are found in Virginia during mosquito season, which runs from May 1 to Oct. 31. The virus also can be spread during sexual intercourse with a male partner or from mother to her unborn child, which could cause birth defects.

There is no vaccine for the virus, so health officials encourage individuals to avoid mosquito bites.

by Barbara A. Mikulski (D).

Hogan, only the second Republican in nearly 50 years to become a Maryland governor, has said he does not plan to endorse or vote for Trump.

But Maryland’s lone Republican congressman, Andy Harris, will serve as a voting delegate in Cleveland.

Both states will have a handful of legislators in that role.

Perhaps the most prominent Virginia Republican in attendance will be former attorney general Ken Cuccinelli II, who sees his mission as trying to steer the party rightward.

An ardent supporter of Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.), Cuccinelli arrived a week early to try to change party rules to boost prospects for a conservative, grass-roots win in 2020. As for his attendance at the convention proper, Cuccinelli framed it more as an obligation than a confetti-strewn grand old party.

“I’m Virginia delegation chair,” he said. “It’s not like I could stay home.”

There is a flipside to Republicans’ boycotting the convention or attending with reluctance, and it is Stewart, Trump’s Virginia chairman.

The chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, who led a crackdown on illegal

immigrants there, could not be a more enthusiastic booster. But in Cleveland, he will be on the outside looking in.

Back in the spring, when Cruz supporters led by Cuccinelli still thought they had a shot at installing the senator from Texas at a brokered convention, Stewart lost a bid to become a delegate.

“During a fight between the Trump and Cruz camps, my name was removed,” Stewart said. “My wife and I are going as guests.”

He is not even sure if he will be allowed on the convention floor.

Other prominent Republicans denied delegate slots: former governor Jim Gilmore, a 2016 presidential candidate who never got any traction; former state attorney general Jerry Kilgore, finance chairman for both the state party and for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s Virginia campaign; and former lieutenant governor John Hager, who supported former Florida governor Jeb Bush and whose son is married to a daughter of former president George W. Bush.

“They were hoping for a coup. I was just hoping to just get selected as a delegate,” Hager said.

Hager does not miss many

opportunities to rub elbows with fellow politicos. More than a decade after leaving office, he remains a regular at General Assembly sessions and other political functions around the state.

“This will be the first one I’ve missed since 1980,” he said.

Gilmore and Kilgore have found ways to be around the action if not in the thick of things.

Kilgore, a partner in the Richmond legal and lobbying powerhouse McGuireWoods, will travel to Cleveland for a reception his firm is hosting at the Cleveland Browns’ stadium.

Late last week, Gilmore traveled to Cleveland to participate in a panel discussion about the convention sponsored by a conservative group.

There, he preached a message of Republican unity.

“I am not a ‘Never Trump’ person like Romney or Bush or any of those people,” he said in an interview earlier in the week. “I’m trying to hold the party together.”

But when his speech was over, he returned home to Richmond.

“There’s not a role for me to play,” Gilmore said. “I have constructive things I can do here.” © WP

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(from page 12) encounters with suspects the police subsequently charged with serious offenses like attempting to murder an officer, or evading or resisting arrest. He also considered suspects shocked with Tasers.

Fryer found that in such situations, officers in Houston were about 20 percent less likely to shoot if the suspects were black. This estimate was not precise, and firmer conclusions would require more data.

But in various models controlling for different factors and using different definitions of tense situations, Fryer found that blacks were either less likely to be shot or there was no difference between blacks and whites.

The study, a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, relied on reports filled out by police officers and on police departments willing to share those reports. Recent videos of police shootings have led to questions about the reliability of such accounts. But the results were largely the same whether or not Fryer used information from narratives by officers.

Such results may not be true in every city. The cities Fryer used to examine officer-involved shootings make up only about 4 percent of the nation’s population, and serve more black citizens than average.

Moreover, the results do not mean that the general public’s perception of racism in policing is misguided.

Lethal uses of force are exceedingly rare. There were 1.6 million arrests in Houston in the years Fryer studied. Officers fired their weapons 507 times. What is far more common are nonlethal uses of force.

And in these uses of force, Fryer found racial differences, which is in accord with public perception and other studies.

In New York City, blacks stopped by the police were about 17 percent more likely to experience use of force, according to stop-and-frisk records kept between 2003 and 2013. (In the later year, a judge ruled that the tactic as employed then was unconstitutional.)

That gap, adjusted for suspect behavior and other factors, was surprisingly consistent across

Is police brutality an equal opportunity issue? various levels of force. Black suspects were 18 percent more likely to be pushed up against a wall, 16 percent more likely to be handcuffed without being arrested and 18 percent more likely to be pushed to the ground.

Even when the police said that civilians were compliant, blacks experienced more force.

Fryer also explored racial differences in force from the viewpoint of civilians, using data from a nationally representative survey conducted by the federal government. Here, he found racial gaps in force that were larger than those he found in the data reported from the officers’ perspective. But these gaps were also consistent across many different types of force.

This is not news to the black community. It’s at the root of the “talk” that many black parents give to their sons and daughters about how to approach interactions with the police.

Fryer wonders if the divide between lethal force — where he did not find racial disparities — and nonlethal force — where he did — might be related to costs. Officers face costs, legal and psychological, when they unnecessarily fire their guns. But excessive use of lesser force is rarely tracked or punished. “No officer

has ever told me that putting their hands on inner-city youth is a lifechanging event,” he said.

For Fryer, who has spent much of his career studying ways society can close the racial achievement gap, the failure to punish excessive everyday force is an important contributor to young black disillusionment.

“Who the hell wants to have a police officer put their hand on them or yell and scream at them? It’s an awful experience,” he said.

“Every black man I know has had this experience. Every one of them.

It is hard to believe that the world is your oyster if the police can rough you up without punishment. And when I talked to minority youth, almost every single one of them mentions lower-level uses of force as the reason why they believe the world is corrupt.”

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7.23, 7:45 p.m.

What better way to spend a Saturday evening during the summer than watching a classic movie on the fantail of the Battleship Wisconsin just like sailors did during World War II! Folks of all ages can have this experience as Nauticus kicks off the fifth year of its Fantail Film Festival.

Doors open at 7:45 p.m. Tickets are $3 at the Nauticus admissions desk and reservations are not required.

Guests should bring their own camp chairs.

The 2016 Fantail Film Festival series includes “Finding Nemo” on July 23 at 8:30 p.m.; “Captain America: Winter Soldier” on Aug. 6 at 8:15 p.m.; and “Tarzan” on Aug. 20 at 8 p.m. For more information, visit nauticus.org or call 757-664-1000.

July 23, 11 a.m.

Rebuild America members will put in long hours July 18-22 to give Highland Springs High School, 15 S. Oak Ave., Highland Springs, a fresh look. More than 400 people – many affiliated with Faith Landmarks Ministries – will contribute to the makeover. Participants will brave the summer heat to rake, prune, paint, weed, scrub and generally spruce up the school.

To culminate, the group will hold a block party at the school to share the improvements with neighborhood families. The event will feature music; free grilled food; games; medical screenings; clothing, grocery and toy giveaways; free haircuts; and a vintage car show.

7.24, 11 a.m. & 3 p.m.

Star Fellowship Baptist Church, 2223 Keswick Ave., Richmond, is celebrating the 8th church anniversary with guest speakers: Rev. Melvin Hyke, pastor, Cedar Creek Baptist Church, Roanoke Rapids, NC and Rev. Richard Bailey, pastor, Chester Grove Baptist Church, Amelia.

The theme is “We’ve Come This Far By Faith” and all are invited.

7.26, 6 p.m.

The Breast Imaging Division of the University of Virginia Health System Department of Radiology is proud to bring digital screening mammograms to you with our Digital Mobile Mammography Coach Sponsored by SISTERS NETWORK CENTRAL VIRGINIA, INC. COMMUNITY HEALTH FAIR

September 24, 2016 ~ 10:00 am to 2:00 pm Bill Robinson Recreational Park 825 N. 35th Street, Richmond VA 23223 You should be at least 40 years old with no current breast problems Primary Care Physician preferred The cost of this screening will be billed to your insurance and results will be sent to your referring physician Programs exist to cover the cost of exams for women with no health insurance or Primary Care Physician Need a mammogram but can’t afford it – call our office for more information

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Richmond Transit Network Plan Public Meetings are scheduled for the following dates: o Tuesday, July 26 from 6 – 8 p.m., Southside Community Services Center, 4100 Hull Street (presentation to start at 7 p.m.) o Wednesday, July 27 from 6 – 8 p.m., DMV Richmond Central Services Center, 2300 W. Broad Street (presentation to start at 7) o Wednesday, Aug. 3 from 6 – 8 p.m., Powhatan Community Center, 5051 Northampton Street (presentation to start at 7) o Thursday, Aug. 4 from 6 – 8 p.m., Community High School, 201 Brookland Park Boulevard (presentation to start at 7 p.m.)

For information about preconstruction, visit www.ridegrtc. com/brt/construction-info/ GRTC has extended the offer to the neighborhoods and businesses located along the corridor to provide construction updates at their monthly association meeting. If your group is interested in receiving these updates, email brt@ridegrtc.com

8.2, 8:30 a.m.

The Richmond City Health District is offering free sports physicals to youth age 13 and older (middle and high school students) on special dates at selected Community Resources Centers in Richmond.

Parents who have children that participate in school sports know how challenging and expensive it can be to get required sports physicals for their children, so this is an excellent time to take advantage of the free physicals. Upcoming events are: Tuesday, Aug. 2 – (8:30a-12:30p) Gilpin Resource Center, 436 Calhoun Street, phone: 804-786-1960 Tuesday, Aug. 2 - (1-5 pm) Hillside Resource Center, 1615 Glenfield Avenue, phone: 804-230-7740 Bring a current April 2016 VHSL (Virginia High School League) Athletic Parental Consent/Physical Exam Form (completed and signed (by student and parent/guardian).

Physical will not be performed if the VHSL form is not completed in its entirety. Youth must be accompanied by a parent or adult. Walk-ins welcome.

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www.LEGACYnewspaper.com NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY D/B/A DOMINION VIRGINIA POWER FOR REVISION OF RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE: RIDER S, VIRGINIA CITY HYBRID ENERGY CENTER CASE NO. PUE-2016-00062

On June 1, 2016, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Virginia Power (“Dominion Virginia Power” or “Company”), pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”), filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an annual update with respect to the Company’s rate adjustment clause, Rider S (“Application”).

Through its Application, the Company seeks to recover costs associated with the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center (“VCHEC” or “Project”), a 610 megawatt nominal coal-fueled generating plant and associated transmission interconnection facilities located in Wise County, Virginia.

In Case No. PUE-2007-00066, the Commission approved the development of VCHEC. In conjunction with its approval of VCHEC, the Commission also approved a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider S, which allowed Dominion Virginia Power to recover costs associated with the development of the Project, including projected construction work in progress and any associated allowance for funds used during construction. According to Dominion Virginia Power, VCHEC became fully operational on July 10, 2012.

In this proceeding, Dominion Virginia Power has asked the Commission to approve Rider S for the rate year beginning April 1, 2017, and ending March 31, 2018 (“2017 Rate Year”). The two key components of the proposed total revenue requirement for the 2017 Rate Year are the Projected Cost Recovery Factor and the Actual Cost True-Up Factor. The Company is requesting a Projected Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $230,706,000 and an Actual Cost True-Up Factor revenue requirement of $23,215,000. Thus, the Company is requesting a total revenue requirement of $253,921,000 for service rendered during the 2017 Rate Year.

Dominion Virginia Power utilized a rate of return on common equity (“ROE”) of 11.5% for purposes of calculating the Projected Cost Recovery Factor in this case. This ROE comprises a general ROE of 10.5%, plus a 100 basis point enhanced return applicable to a conventional coal generating station as described in § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code. For purposes of calculating the Actual Cost True-Up Factor, including an accompanying correction to the 2014 calendar year Actual Cost True-up Factor, the Company utilized an ROE of 11%, which comprises the general ROE of 10% approved by the Commission in its Final Order in Case No. PUE-2013-00020, plus the 100 basis point enhanced return.

If the proposed Rider S for the 2017 Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to Dominion Virginia Power, implementation of its proposed Rider S on April 1, 2017, would increase the monthly bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $0.54.

The Company has calculated the proposed Rider S rates in accordance with the same methodology as used for rates approved by the Commission in the most recent Rider S proceeding, Case No. PUE-2015-00060.

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, bifurcated ROE issues from the remainder of the case and scheduled a public hearing on December 7, 2016, 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 on the Company’s Application. At this public hearing evidence related to non-ROE aspects of the Application will also be received from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear in the Commission’s courtroom fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

A public hearing on ROE issues in this case and in Case Nos. PUE-2016-00059, PUE-2016-00060, PUE-2016-00061, and PUE-2016-00063 shall be convened by the Commission on January 18, 2017, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. At this public hearing evidence and testimony related to ROE aspects of the Application will be received from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff.

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 Resources 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 November 30, 2016, 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 November 30, 2016, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUE-2016-00062.

On or before September 16, 2016, 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. PUE-2016-00062. 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 October 21, 2016, 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. PUE-2016-00062.

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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BUNDLE PRICE Offer ends 7/13/16. Includes SELECT All Included Pkg ($50/mo), U-verse® High Speedonly Internet 6.0 or above ($30/mo) andCredit U-verse® Unlimited North monthly + upfor to 3Internet) add’l receivers. purchase all services in thefees sameapply. transaction & maintain all New approved residential customers (equipment lease req’d). cardVoice req’d (except MAAmerica & PA).($9.99/mo) Pro-ratedandETF feesfees (upfortoWi-Fi $480Gateway for TV;andupHDtoDVR $180 andMust Equipment Non-Return bundled services for 24 mos. to receive advertised pricing. After 24 mos, then-prevailing monthly rates apply (currently $88 for TV, $30 for Internet and $30 for Voice Unlimited), unless customer cancels/changes services prior to the end of 24 mos. Pricing excludes taxes, add‘l equip fees and other charges. † Geographic and service restrictions U-verse services. or go to www.att.com/uverse if you qualify.

PREMIUM MOVIES OFFER After 3 mos., then-prevailing rate for all four (4) premium movieapply pkgsto applies (currentlyCall$53.99/mo.) unless canceledtoorseechanged by customer prior to end of the promotional period.

PRICE Offer endsand 7/13/16.

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All Included ($50/mo), SpeedMÁS Internet aboveor($30/mo) U-verse® Voicew/PREFERRED Unlimited NorthCHOICE America ($9.99/mo) and applies monthly fees Wi-Fi Gateway HD DVR + up toC41W) 3 add’l receivers. all services in the samea transaction maintain GENIE HD DVR UPGRADE OFFER includes instant rebates BUNDLE on one Genie HD DVR up toIncludes three Genie Req’sPkg SELECT Pkg U-verse® or above; High ÓPTIMO Pkg6.0 or orabove; any int’landservice bundle Pkg. $99 fee forforWireless GenieandMini (model upgrade.Must Freepurchase upgrade offer requires Genie HD&DVR andall bundled services for 24 mos. to receive advertised pricing. After 24 mos, then-prevailing monthly rates apply (currently $88 for TV, $30 for Internet and $30 for Voice Unlimited), unless customer cancels/changes services prior to the end of 24 mos. Pricing excludes taxes, add‘l equip fees and other charges. at least one Genie Mini. $99 fee applies for single-room†setup.

Whole-Home HDAfter DVR3 mos., functionality req’s rate an HD DVRfourconnected one television a Genie Mini, H25unless HD Receiver(s) or a DIRECTV Ready each additional PREMIUM MOVIES OFFER then-prevailing for all (4) premiumtomovie pkgs appliesand (currently $53.99/mo.) canceled or changed by customer priorTV/Device to end of theinpromotional period. room. Limit of three remote viewings per HD DVR at a time. Visit directv.com/genie for complete details.

DIRECTV SVC TERMS Subject to Equipment Lease & Customer Agreements. maintain min. base $29.99/mo.

Add’l Terms: for each Receiver Genie Mini/DIRECTV Readybundle TV/Device; $5/mo. CHOICE for TiVoPkg. service forapplies TiVo HDforDVR fromGenie DIRECTV. Taxes not included.

Handling Deliverya fee GENIE HD DVR UPGRADEMust OFFER includesainstant rebatesTVonpkg oneofGenie HD DVR and up toFees three &Genie Minis.$7/mo.

Req’s SELECT Pkg add’l or above; ÓPTIMOand/or MÁS Pkg or above; or any int’l service w/PREFERRED $99 fee Wireless Mini (model C41W) upgrade.$19.95 Free upgrade offer&requires Geniemay HD apply.

DVR and Programming, pricing, terms and conditions subject to change at any directv.com/legal or call forsetup. details. at least one time.

Genie Visit Mini. $99 fee applies for single-room Whole-Home HD DVR functionality req’s an HD DVR connected to one television and a Genie Mini, H25 HD Receiver(s) or a DIRECTV Ready TV/Device in each additional room. Limit of three remote viewings per HD DVR at a time. Visit directv.com/genie for complete details.

DIRECTV SVCoutage TERMS without Subject tobattery Equipment Leasepower. & Customer Agreements.

Must maintain a min. necessary base TV pkg battery of $29.99/mo.

Add’lunits Fees &forTerms: $7/mo. forU-verse each add’lVoice Receiver and/or Genie Mini/DIRECTV TV/Device; $5/mo.wireline for TiVo service for TiVocalling HD DVR within from DIRECTV. Taxes not included. $19.95 & Deliveryotherwise, fee may apply. backup It is your responsibility to purchase back-up your service.

Unlimited North America:Ready Includes unlimited to wireline the U.S., Canada, Mexico andHandling U.S. Territories; U-VERSE VOICE including 911 dialing, will not function during a power Programming, pricing, terms andterminating conditions subject to change at any time. Visit directv.com/legal or call for details. per minute rates apply. An additional per minute rate may apply for international calls on mobile phones.

VOICE including 911 dialing, will not function during a power outage without battery backup power. It is your responsibility to purchase necessary battery back-up units for your service. U-verse Voice Unlimited North America: Includes unlimited wireline to wireline calling within the U.S., Canada, Mexico and U.S. Territories; otherwise, Offers may not be combined with other promotional offers U-VERSE on the same services and may be modified or discontinued at any time without notice. Other conditions apply to all offers. ©2016 AT&T Intellectual Property. All Rights Reserved. AT&T, GLOBE logo, DIRECTV, and all other DIRECTV marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T

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