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NYT - He offered the first formal apology for Richmond’s role in the slave trade. He led the effort to add a statue of Arthur Ashe, a Richmond native, to its Monument Avenue. He attended a largely black church and sent his children to racially mixed schools. During Tim Kaine’s six years in Richmond’s local government, he became known for his commitment to the city’s blacks. But there were also stumbles as he began to fashion himself as the centrist conciliator that he is known as today, trying to steer a middle path in a majorityblack city drenched in Confederate history. No one here will forget the giant picture of Robert E. Lee. It briefly graced a prominent downtown wall in the spring of 1999, setting off an angry backlash from many blacks in the city. Within days, it was removed. Then Southern heritage groups revolted. Soon, Mayor Kaine was putting forward a compromise inside Richmond’s packed City Council chambers: a revised image, this time of a decidedly downcast General Lee in civilian dress after the surrender at Appomattox, that would be part of a series of murals featuring Abraham Lincoln and Powhatan Beaty, a black man who won the Medal of Honor fighting for the Union. This was not what the blacks had in mind. One after another, speakers rose to their feet to insist that any image of Lee would be, in the words of one protester, “a last slap in the face.” The Richmond City Council nevertheless passed Mayor Kaine’s proposal, 6-3, and the mural went up. In a matter of months, someone had set fire to it. In Richmond, race is always front and center. Its leafy grand boulevard lined with towering monuments to Confederate war heroes and its

clusters of bleak, low-rise housing projects are reminders of the city’s segregated past and its enduring legacy of poverty that are impossible to ignore. It was here that Kaine, now a Virginia U.S. senator and the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, settled after graduating from Harvard Law School. It was also here that he started his political career, and often found himself navigating the charged history and continuing sensitivities of the same black community that he had eagerly embraced in his private life. Powered by his ambition and ideals, Kaine took the helm of a racially divided and crime-ravaged city against considerable opposition from many blacks here who believed Richmond needed a black mayor. He cast himself as a bridge builder, and black leaders of that time remember him as a stark departure from the white legislators they had known before. “What was unusual was for a white male elected official to really go out into the black community, to walk among African-Americans, to attend church services in African-American communities,” said Viola Baskerville, who served with Kaine on the City Council and went on to work with him in the governor’s office. But as the fight over the Lee mural demonstrated, Kaine’s desire for compromise sometimes left raw feelings. “I was disappointed in Tim,” recalled Henry Richardson, a former City Council member who privately urged Kaine to abandon the idea. “I felt he had an opportunity to lead, but he didn’t stand up and say, ‘Look, we don’t need to be forcing this type of symbol on black people.’” These were wrenching years for Richmond, which was confronting the consequences of decades of white and black middle-class flight. In the late 1980s, the city was hit

Tim Kaine, Anne Holton, campaigned with Hillary Clinton over the weekend.

hard by crack cocaine, setting off a crippling epidemic of drug addiction and violent crime. In 1994, the year Mr. Kaine joined the City Council, a record 160 people were killed in Richmond, which at the time had a population of 200,000. While in office, he championed a program known as Project Exile, which mandated that all local gun crimes be prosecuted in federal court. Looking back on the initiative now, many progressives have attacked it as a mass incarceration program for young black men — though at the time, as with most anti-crime measures of the 1990s, its critics were few. Kaine also led the effort to reopen a black high school from the days of segregation, converting it into a magnet school. It has since been praised for its academic success, but also come under scrutiny for having a predominantly white student body. More contentious was Kaine’s sponsorship of an ordinance to prevent the Nation of Islam from

selling Final Call newspapers from a downtown median strip. He framed the issue as a matter of public safety, and his bill allowed vendors to continue selling papers on the sidewalk, but some AfricanAmericans saw the ordinance as discriminatory. “To me, it looked like it was singling them out,” recalled Rudy McCollum Jr., a City Council member who voted against the bill, which passed 7-2. Kaine, who declined to be interviewed, had grown up near Kansas City, Mo., and was drawn to Richmond by his fiancée at the time, Anne Holton, whom he had met in law school. Her father, Linwood Holton, was considered a progressive icon. In 1970, as the white Republican governor of Virginia, he broke with many Southern leaders who were resisting the desegregation of public schools, and famously walked his eldest daughter — Kaine’s future sister-in-law — into a

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Bishop Lewis to lead Va. United Methodists for next 4 years Bishop Sharma D. Lewis, (pictured) the first black woman elected a bishop in the Southeastern Jurisdiction of The United Methodist Church, has been assigned to lead the Virginia Conference of The United Methodist Church. Her fouryear term begins her term on Sept. 1. Lewis will oversee the 1,169 local churches and faith communities and 327,647 United Methodists in the Virginia Conference. She follows Bishop Young Jin Cho who is retiring after leading for the last four years. A welcoming service of worship for Bishop Lewis will be held at Reveille United Methodist Church, 4200 Cary Street Rd., Richmond, from 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17. Lewis, 52, was elected a bishop on the first ballot taken by the 376 delegates at the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference which met July 13-15 in Lake Junaluska, N.C. “I was called by God and I made

(from page 1) black high school in Richmond. Soon after his arrival in Richmond, Kaine began making a name for himself by litigating civil rights cases as a private lawyer. Holton became something of a political mentor to his son-in-law, helping him build relationships with Richmond’s black leaders, such as Henry L. Marsh III, who in 1977 became the city’s first black mayor, and Oliver Hill, a lawyer whose work on behalf of African-American students in Virginia became part of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. “Kaine’s father-in-law did a great deal to break that ice,” said L. Douglas Wilder, a Richmond native and the first black governor of Virginia. Holton has said that he encouraged his son-in-law to get into government, but urged him to avoid Richmond’s City Council — “where they bury budding politicians.” Undeterred, Kaine ran to represent Richmond’s racially diverse but majority-white Second District.

Taking on a white incumbent, he campaigned aggressively in black neighborhoods. Kaine won by 97 votes, becoming one of four white members of Richmond’s nine-person Council. Four years later, he made his move to become mayor. The process instantly became consumed by racial politics. At the time, Richmond’s mayor was selected by the nine members of the City Council. A group of local black leaders, including representatives of the Richmond branch of the N.A.A.C.P., came out forcefully against Kaine’s candidacy, arguing that the city needed a black mayor, for both symbolic and practical purposes. For years, Richmond’s black voters had been deliberately disenfranchised by their own government. Only recently — after the intervention of the federal courts — had the racial makeup of City Hall come to reflect that of the majorityblack city. “It was nothing against Tim,” said Richardson, who opposed Kaine’s candidacy. “Tim turned out to be a good mayor. But when you have 200

myself available, not just to a position, but to follow God’s will,” said Lewis. “I am excited, and I am really humbled. At 52 years old, I am excited that my next phase of life will be as an episcopal leader. I am humbled by the fact that this is historic.” Lewis is the first African-American woman elected as a bishop in the denomination since 2000. The first ever African-American female bishop in The United Methodist Church, Bishop Leontine Kelly, was from the Virginia Conference but was elected in 1984 by the church’s Western Jurisdiction. Currently serving as district superintendent of the AtlantaDecatur-Oxford District in the North Georgia Conference, Lewis is a native of Statesboro, Ga., and described as a life-long United Methodist. She is a graduate of Mercer University and the University of West Georgia, with bachelor’s and

master’s degrees in biology. After graduating, she worked as a biologist in the academic and corporate sectors. After answering the call to ministry, she entered Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, where she earned the Master of Divinity with honors. “I have an evangelistic heart, I just feel that people need Jesus. And I hope that’s what I bring to the Council of Bishops,” said Lewis. Before being appointed district superintendent, Lewis served at Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church in McDonough, Ga., Powers Ferry United Methodist Church in Marietta, Ga., and Ben Hill United Methodist Church in Atlanta. A United Methodist bishop in the United States is elected for life, notes the organization. Typically, a bishop will serve a specific episcopal area for eight years, but can serve as long as 12 years in one area.

years of racial polarization, you just don’t get over it overnight. I don’t think he understood that there was a whole lot of catching up to do.” The council’s black members lined up behind McCollum as an alternative. Kaine handled the situation deftly, taking his opponent out for coffee at a local diner to persuade him to support his candidacy instead. McCollum agreed to step back. He remembers thinking that Kaine would be more successful at helping blacks make inroads into Richmond’s predominantly white business community. What is more, he could see that Kaine had his sights set higher than the mayoralty of Richmond. “I knew he wasn’t going to be around long, and I wasn’t in a hurry,” McCollum said. Kaine would serve only one term before leaving to run for lieutenant governor. McCollum succeeded him as mayor. On July 1, 1998, Kaine was elected mayor by an 8-to-1 vote. Some Council members who had spoken out about the need for a black mayor days earlier now supported him for

the sake of unity. A standing-room-only crowd gathered inside the Council chambers to watch Kaine’s coronation. He said he was proud to live in a city where the issue of the race of its leadership “is being laid to rest,” but then went on to speak about Richmond’s racial history. He gestured at the large marble slab where the names of all of the city’s mayors dating back to 1782 are engraved, noting that for most of those years, African-Americans were prohibited from holding the office. “Can we really say we believe in equality when that is happening too close to us?” he said of the high crime and failing schools in many of Richmond’s black neighborhoods. Some of the same people who were inside City Hall that day came out last weekend to greet Kaine and his wife when they returned from Florida after Hillary Clinton formally introduced him as her running mate. An impromptu rally broke out on the grassy median in front of Kaine’s home, on a wide residential boulevard in North Richmond. The name of the street is Confederate Avenue.

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4 • Aug. 3, 2016 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 GV, GREENSVILLE COUNTY POWER STATION CASE NO. PUE-2016-00060

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 GV (“Application”). Through its Application, the Company seeks to recover costs associated with the Greensville County Power Station, a 1,588 megawatt nominal natural gas-fired combined-cycle electric generating facility in Greensville County, Virginia, and 500 kilovolt transmission lines, a new switching station, and associated transmission interconnection facilities located in Brunswick and Greensville Counties, Virginia (collectively, “Greensville County Project” or “Project”). In Case No. PUE-2015-00075, the Commission approved the development of the Greensville County Project. In conjunction with its approval of the Project, the Commission also approved a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider GV, 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 (“AFUDC”). In this proceeding, Dominion Virginia Power has asked the Commission to approve Rider GV 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 $87,497,000 and an AFUDC Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $1,664,000. Thus, the Company is requesting a total revenue requirement of $89,161,000 for service rendered during the 2017 Rate Year. Dominion Virginia Power utilized a rate of return on common equity (“ROE”) of 10.5% for purposes of calculating the revenue requirement in this case. If the proposed Rider GV 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 GV on April 1, 2017, would increase the monthly bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $1.06. The Company has calculated the proposed Rider GV rates in accordance with the same methodology as used for rates approved by the Commission in the most recent rate adjustment clause proceedings; including Rider W for the Warren County Power Station, Case No. PUE-2015-00061; Rider S for the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center, Case No. PUE-2015-00060; Rider R for the Bear Garden Generating Station, Case No. PUE-2015-00059; and Rider B for the Biomass Conversions, Case No. PUE-2015-00058, as well as for the rates submitted for Commission approval in the currently pending Rider BW rate adjustment clause update proceeding, Case No. PUE-2015-00102, for the Brunswick County Power Station. 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 January 10, 2017, 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-2016-00061, PUE-2016-00062, 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 January 3, 2017, 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 January 3, 2017, 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. PUE2016-00060. On or before October 6, 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. PUE2016-00060. 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 November 3, 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-2016-00060. 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. VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY d/b/a DOMINION VIRGINIA POWER

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Va. legislators, former board member question U.Va.’s $2 billion operating surplus STAFF DAISY XU & EVAN HENRY How did the University of Virginia accumulate a $2.3 billion operating surplus, titled a “Strategic Investment Fund”, that is significantly larger than Virginia’s own cash reserves? That was the question in the minds of state senators, Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax City) and Bill DeSteph (R-Virginia Beach), last week when they called for an investigation into how the fund came to grow so large. The senators said the money, which the university admitted comes from its operating accounts, should be returned to Virginia students and families through lower tuition. Meanwhile, U.Va. Chief Operating Officer Patrick Hogan said he is disappointed that the senators and others, including former U.Va. Rector Helen Dragas, are suspicious of the fund, which he said was created according to established rules and procedures. In a Washington Post editorial, Dragas — who called the reserves a “slush fund” — accused administrators of making large transfers of cash prior to the Board of Visitors’ vote on the proposal. The fund is intended to finance the university’s Cornerstone Plan — an initiative approved in 2013 with an estimated cost of $600 million — to hire new faculty and improve research infrastructure, Hogan said. “There has been nothing that’s taken place in these funds, these various transactions, that hasn’t been authorized by the board,” Hogan said. However, Petersen said he is concerned about the university’s standing as a non-profit organization, given the fact that it had accumulated a $2 billion surplus — an amount he said is “not normal.” “The university is a non-profit,” Petersen said. “The money they collected from tuition fees and state support should match the service, and extra funding should be given

Sen. Chap Petersen back to lower the tuition. It does not make sense to have a $2 billion operating surplus while the tuition is higher.” Kevin Martingayle, Dragas’ attorney, said the issues of tuition price and funding allocation are best settled by experts. Martingayle also claimed the closed meetings leading up to the establishment of the fund do not reflect the University’s responsibility to make its dealings public under the Freedom of Information Act. “I think what we’re doing right now is we’re having a timeout,” Martingayle said. “We’re going to take a good, close look at the way the meetings are held, whether they are as public as they’re supposed to be, and then once we make sure we’re complying with the law then we can decide whether or not, on top of what the law requires, there’s a way to be even more open.” Hogan said although the fund did not receive its final name until a February 2016 board vote, planning for the funds had been underway since the previous November. Hogan said both the board and administrators took the initiative to shore up the University’s financial holdings, a process that included debt restructuring, revised spending distribution and studies that ultimately led to the establishment of the fund.

Petersen said the Charlottesvillebased university used its responsibilities under the 2005 Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operations Act as an excuse for accumulating a surplus of money. The act gave public educational institutions limited financial autonomy, provided they fulfill certain goals, including attracting outside research funds and making technological breakthroughs with private sector applications. “The law was meant to allow more entrepreneurship and researchoriented projects in universities,” Petersen said. “But U.Va. has totally twisted it.” Responding to the inquiry over

tuition hikes that have taken place in recent years, Hogan said the university strives for “affordable excellence,” a balance which is difficult to strike. “We have continued to invest in our AccessUVA program, and we believe that has been very true to our mission as a public university and our responsibility to maintain a very reasonable tuition level,” Hogan said. “[on the other hand] in order to keep the academic experience for our students, in order to attract top faculty and top researchers, we have to continue to invest in the university, and invest in our students and faculty.”

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Virginia’s economy needs a real boost MICHAEL THOMPSON Government bad news is oftentimes released late on a Friday afternoon when the taxpayers and voters are least likely to be paying attention. Late on a recent Friday afternoon, after most folks were heading home or starting their vacations, the governor announced that the state’s budget was going to be $266 million short of its goal. That budget shortfall for this past fiscal year, likely means a $500 million deficit for the two year budget unless something dramatic happens. But don’t count on it. State employees, teachers, college faculty and sheriff deputies will not see the pay increases they had hoped for and which the legislators and governor had agreed to. The money isn't there. This shortfall should not be a surprise. Government policies or lack of action has consequences and in this case it is reflected in these recent numbers that show an economy not moving forward. An economy languishing, limping along, barely growing. Federal government anti-growth policies are having an impact. Obamacare cut the definition of “part time employment” from 35 hours to working only 29 hours. And part time employees do not have to be covered in a company’s health care under the misnamed Affordable Care Act. So many hourly employees have The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 2 No. 36 Mailing Address 409 E. Main Street 4 Office Address 105 1/2 E. Clay St. Richmond, VA 23219 Call 804-644-1550 Online www.legacynewspaper.com

seen their hours cut by 17 percent over the past few years. And now the “new definition” of overtime, and who needs to be paid for working more than 40 hours, is also reducing payrolls. Of course, we all know that many of those working today are paid less than in years past, and millions have dropped out of the workforce. On top of this, federal policies are putting thousands of Virginia coal miners out of work. And when that happens, it impacts all those businesses that rely on these folks' payrolls - clothing stores, restaurants, hardware stores, grocery stores, etc. So, of course, payroll and income taxes coming into the state treasury are not what our state government wanted. Projections of future economic growth were not accurate because the impacts of federal government policies were underestimated. But we are also seeing a serious reduction of federal spending in Virginia. Billions of dollars less in federal government spending are coming into Virginia. And this is likely to continue. So what can we do to build our economy and put more people on private sector payrolls and thus increase the total taxes paid into our state treasury? For several years, the Thomas Jefferson Institute has urged our elected leaders to tackle real tax reform. Yet, we struggle under an The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions. Letter writers and columnists opinions are their own and endorsements of their views by The LEGACY should be inferred. The LEGACY assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. Annual Subscription Rates Virginia - $50 U.S. states - $75 Outside U.S.- $100 The Virginia Legacy © 2016

antiquated tax code crafted about 45 years ago. Our current tax system was created for a different economic era so it needs to be re-designed to better reflect today’s economy. Our current state tax system was passed when Richard Nixon was president; the Vietnam War was raging, and John Wayne and Elvis were top entertainers. Cell phones did not exist and Selectric typewriters and not computers were on our desks. Virginia's tax system is way too old and out-of-date to give our economy the boost that’s needed. For too long Virginia has not taken the actions necessary to reflect the clear fact that our reliance on federal government spending is not healthy. Not only is the consequence of sequestration a continued drag on our state’s economy but so is our aging tax system. Our political leaders need to rewrite the tax code. As a starting point, the Thomas Jefferson Institute has proposed a tax restructuring idea that can create close to 70,000 new jobs over the next five years. It gives all Virginians a tax break, eliminates two oppressive business taxes that discourage hiring - the gross receipts tax and the Machine and Tool tax, and it broadens

the sales tax to better reflect today's service economy. This tax restructuring plan is revenue neutral and Virginia’s localities will be kept whole, they will not be harmed. It encourages economic growth by simply re-arranging the tax system to bring jobs to our state and grow our economy. The total “government take” will be the same. But with 70,000 new jobs, our economy will grow and expand. Had the state adopted this tax restructuring plan a few years ago we would likely not be facing the economic “wet blanket” that we were presented with earlier this month. It’s time for serious action to encourage economic growth. Our state elected officials can’t change federal policy, but they can create a strong business climate, where more and more people are employed in good paying jobs, and where we rely on the private sector and not the federal government to grow our economy. The longer we wait to take this action, the longer our economy will languish. Thompson is president of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy. He can be reached at info@ thomasjeffersoninst.org.

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The America I know is full of courage, and optimism, and ingenuity. The America I know is decent and generous. Sure, we have real anxieties – about paying the bills, protecting our kids, caring for a sick parent. We get frustrated with political gridlock, worry about racial divisions; are shocked and saddened by the madness of Orlando or Nice. There are pockets of America that never recovered from factory closures; men who took pride in hard work and providing for their families who now feel forgotten. Parents who wonder whether their kids will have the same opportunities we have. All that is real; we’re challenged to do better; to be better. But as I’ve traveled this country, through all 50 states; as I’ve rejoiced with you and mourned with you, what I’ve also seen, more than anything, is what is right with America. I see people working hard and starting businesses; people teaching kids and serving our country. I see a younger generation full of energy and new ideas, unconstrained by what is, and ready to seize what ought to be. You know, nothing truly prepares you for the demands of the Oval Office. Until you’ve sat at that desk, you don’t know what it’s like to manage a global crisis or send young people to war. But Hillary’s been in the room; she’s been part of those decisions. She knows what’s at stake in the decisions our government makes for the working family, the senior citizen, the small business owner, the soldier, and the veteran. Even in the middle of crisis, she listens to people, and keeps her cool,

and treats everybody with respect. And no matter how daunting the odds; no matter how much people try to knock her down, she never, ever quits. That’s the Hillary I know. That’s the Hillary I’ve come to admire. And that’s why I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as President of the United States of America. President Barack Obama

‘Powerful’ combo

As a Democrat, I am so proud of our presidential ticket. The contrast between Hillary and Tim, and the bullying Donald Trump and his sidekick Mike Pence could not be clearer. This past week, we saw the stark differences between the Democratic vision for a strong America and the dark, divisive right-wing Republican agenda with its foundation of fear and bigotry. With our presidential ticket and all the strong Democratic candidates up and down the ticket, I know we can win in November. We must not fool ourselves. With backroom operatives like Paul Manafort and Roger Stone pulling the strings, the Trump-Republican machine will do whatever it takes to foist their extremist brand on America. Gov. Terry McAuliffe

Brewing battle

I have a very difficult time convincing some young men and women that there are thousands of great police officers. I have friends who are police officers, state troopers,

correctional officers, and other law enforcement officials, in spite of my past. I was beat by police in New Jersey and Los Angeles but that is not indicative of all law enforcement, or even most of my experiences with the law. Unfortunately, the experience for those under thirtyfive is far different. They were born during the beginning of the crack cocaine epidemic in the U.S. Although their parents may not have been or drugs or incarcerated, an overwhelming majority are also influenced by peers. Many are not afraid to die, with a bleak outlook on life. Communities are suffering nationwide due to the disconnect between police officers and citizens. I grew up in Keyport, New Jersey, and everyone knew the police because at least 80 percent lived in our town or nearby. Throughout the country now, police officers can’t identify with citizens because there isn’t a relationship. Police officers live fifty or more miles away and have no connection to these communities. When their radio sounds for a domestic violence call, rarely are they going to an area where they know people on a first name basis. I’m willing to bet the most successful policing communities are hiring from within the neighborhood or have a program in place that fosters a relationship where police are active with its citizens. It’s no secret successful police officers go above and beyond what their badge requires, and it’s horrific they are being killed and injured in the process. These are the men and women trying to find a solution,

because they see members of the community and their fellow officers as their brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers. There seems to be no end in sight as we turn on our televisions. Many of us are wondering if the amassing of such images is simply another form of consumer entertainment, a way to pull up a stool and watch the killings take place, over and over. There have been no concrete solutions put in place, while there seems to be a revolving, unaddressed pain. Those who dismiss the issue against police or civilians as ‘business as usual’ will continue to look at the pain of mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, and their children from a safe distance. So, let’s turn off our televisions and stop being influenced by media and rage, and find a police force willing to co-exist in our communities, both sides watching each other’s backs. We can make that happen. John “Doc” Fuller

‘Crooked’

Tim Kaine’s support of someone who is not only a proven liar, but who acts with “extreme carelessness” - as stated by the FBI, is beneath a public servant of the commonwealth. Someone should ask Tim Kaine if he thinks Hillary Clinton is above the law; if she should be held to a lesser standard than any one of Virginia’s thousands of government employees and service members. Who would defend someone who has a long career of corruption and lies? A guy whose political career comes first. Corey Stewart

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Can Clinton-Kaine bring Catholic voters back to Dems? DAVID GIBSON RNS - If there is one constant in this unconventional presidential campaign it is the unpredictability — and importance — of the Catholic vote. Once a reliably Democratic cohort, Catholics have in recent decades swung back and forth between the two parties. And because they represent about a fifth of all voters, and are concentrated in key Midwestern swing states, the candidate with the most Catholic support has wound up winning the popular vote. Catholics are also a diverse and constantly changing community thanks to immigration, largely from Latin America, and the exodus of cradle Catholics to other denominations or to the ranks of the unaffiliated. That only adds to the difficulty of figuring out what Catholic voters are likely to do from one quadrennial election to the next. “I always like to say there is no Catholic vote — and it’s important,”

said E.J. Dionne, a liberal Catholic and Washington Post columnist who was watching the Democratic National Convention unfold last week on the floor of the Wells Fargo Arena in South Philadelphia. As expected, white evangelicals are going solidly for Donald Trump and down-ballot Republicans, while Jews, African-American Christians and members of minority faiths, as usual, are going strongly for Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. Since the 1970s, Dionne noted, each party is guaranteed about 40 percent of the Catholic vote. But it’s that middle 20 percent that is in play, and in a close election winning that bloc is crucial to each candidate’s chances in November. That’s a key reason why Clinton picked the Catholic, Jesuit-educated Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her running mate — and why Barack Obama picked Joe Biden as his running mate in 2008, and why Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan as his wingman in 2012 — all Catholics. There has still been only one Catholic president in U.S. history — John F.

VP nominee Tim Kaine and wife Anne Holton have attended services as parishioners at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Richmond for 32 years. It is a diverse parish in a working-class neighborhood. Kennedy, a Democrat — and only two other Catholic presidential nominees, both Democrats: Al Smith in 1928 and John Kerry in 2004. But it now seems almost a requirement to put a second in command who can tick the Catholic box. Even Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, likes to call himself an “evangelical Catholic” even though he left the Catholicism of his birth to embrace Protestant evangelicalism while in college. Kaine delivered a powerful, faithinflected speech last week in which he spoke repeatedly about the centrality of his Catholic faith to his life and mission, and about his Jesuit education to be “a man for others” as the “North Star for orienting my life.” Such talk comes naturally to Kaine, and his affable religiosity could well appeal to the many voters who are turned off by Trump’s bumptious antics and harsh rhetoric — not to mention his penchant for picking fights with Pope Francis, a popular figure who is also the first pontiff from the Jesuit religious order that had such an impact on Kaine. “It’s not just the fact that he (Kaine) is Catholic,” said John

Podesta, a veteran Democratic operative and chairman of Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. “It’s the fact of what’s at his core, what motivates him in public life. “It’s really that core, that spiritual center that says, ‘I can make a difference in people’s lives if I apply myself in public life,’” Podesta said after a Mass held for convention delegates and activists at a historic downtown church. Kaine’s reputation for integrity, as well as his relatively centrist political record and knack for coalition building, make him the anti-Trump in many respects. That could play especially well with Catholics, in particular undecided Catholics, who seem to be disproportionately represented among anti-Trump Americans: a recent Pew Research Center survey showed that Clinton leads Trump by a huge 19-point margin among weekly Mass-goers. By contrast, Romney led Obama by 3 points among that same group at the same point in 2012 — a 22-point shift for the Democrats.

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(from page 8) Of course, how much any running mate actually boosts a presidential candidate’s prospects is matter of some debate. The conventional wisdom tends to agree with Richard Nixon’s adage that “the Vice President can’t help you … he can only hurt you.” Kaine could put that standard to the test because he says he is personally opposed to abortion, but as a public official supports abortion rights and has a perfect rating from most abortion rights lobbies. That stance has drawn sharp opposition to Kaine from antiabortion Catholics and their allies. “Sen. Kaine is good at hiding behind his Catholic background — but no one should be fooled,” Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, said when Clinton picked Kaine. “His record, and his openly declared legislative goals, are as pro-abortion as they come.” Yet in spite of the media focus on that flashpoint issue, and the passions that inflame both camps, surveys show that voters generally don’t rank abortion very high on

Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine stand on stage amid celebratory balloons and confetti on the last day of the DNC last Thursday. their list of electoral priorities. And as Dionne said: “I think the Catholics who only vote on abortion have been voting Republican for a long time.” They were never likely to be wooed by anything Clinton did, and it’s a fair bet that Trump’s negatives would outweigh the reservations that undecided voters might have in regard to abortion.

Party leaders and activists here also seemed to believe that Kaine’s working class roots and his focus on pocketbook issues like jobs, economic inequality and affordable health insurance would matter far more to voters than debates over abortion rights and abortion reduction policies. Moreover, the issue that is far and away most important to a key Catholic constituency — Hispanics – is immigration. On that score Kaine, with his long support for immigration reform and his fluency in Spanish, which he learned during a year as a missionary in Honduras as a young man, easily beats Trump and provides a real opportunity for the Democratic vice presidential candidate to score points for Clinton. The Pew survey, conducted in mid-June, found that 77 percent of registered Hispanic Catholic voters

said they would support Clinton or were leaning toward supporting her, with just 16 percent backing Trump. The figures for registered white Catholics were a sharp contrast: 50 percent siding with Trump and 46 percent with Clinton. The numbers so far, and the fact that Trump’s candidacy has scrambled so many of the traditional coalitions and agendas, has Democrats here feeling good about where they stand with the Catholic vote. “I think the beauty of our faith is that it helps us formulate our ideas and our opinions and helps us think through the issues based on that faith,” said Kevin Washo, executive director of the convention’s host committee and a lifelong Catholic. “And as we come down to the wire I think our party is in a good position to reach out to a lot of those folks.”

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‘Jason Bourne” is great but could be greater There’s something missing in actor Matt Damon and director/writer Paul Greengrass’ return to the Bourne action/spy/thriller franchise. It’s hard to put your finger on it. But the brutal fight scenes, painstakingly coordinated cloak-and-dagger sequences and elaborate car chases aren’t as intriguing as those in “The Bourne Supremacy” or “The Bourne Ultimatum”. On paper (script by Greengrass and editor Christopher Rouse), the CIA plot to kill Jason Bourne, the naïve soldier they drafted into an experimental special ops program, should be totally engrossing. Says the menacing CIA Director Robert Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones): “No

bringing in Bourne. He has to be taken down.” Also, following the vengeful Jason Bourne, the hoodwinked amnesia-suffering killing machine who wants to destroy his tormentors, should be compelling. Add plenty of clandestine meetings and attempted assassinations, and the plotline, characters and events should hit their mark consistently, not intermittently. Right? Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles), a colleague of Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), tracks him down to the Greek/Macedonian border where he’s become a successful underground fight club boxer. She has info that will help him determine his real identity and what happened

to his father, whom he believes was killed by terrorists. She also wants to expose the Central Intelligence Agency’s perverse machinations. Parsons and Bourne are being tracked by the CIA, Director Dewey and the hacker and counterinsurgency expert Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander, Oscar winner Supporting Actress The Danish Girl). Besides silencing and killing the assassin he created, Dewey is in cahoots with tech billionaire Aaron Kalloor (Riz Ahmed, Nightcrawler) who is the CEO of the hip social network Deep Dream Corporation. He’s an entrepreneur who is loved by nerds and geeks and swears he respects their right to privacy.

Caller’s fans don’t know that their guru is secretly involved with the CIA’s plan for wide scale espionage. “Ironhand,” the agency’s new ops mission, involves “Full Spectrum Surveillance,” the kind of snooping that gives Edward Snowden palpitations. Kalloor is in over his head as Dewey puts the screws to him. Meanwhile Bourne seeks revenge for the murder of his dad, and new clues point to the CIA. Yes Greengrass is a champ at action scenes. For two hours and three minutes he puts on a graduate school course in frenetic direction. Yet what’s on view lacks the style, class and depth he’s exhibited before.

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AMC’s ‘Turn’ will return to Virginia for final season The AMC television series “TURN: Washington’s Spies” will return to Virginia for a fourth and final season. Based on Alexander Rose’s book “Washington’s Spies,” “TURN” is a historical thriller set during the Revolutionary War that recounts the story of America’s first spy ring. “TURN: Washington’s Spies” features Abe Woodhull (Jamie Bell), a farmer living in British-occupied Long Island. He and his childhood friends become an instrumental group of spies called the Culper Ring. This unlikely team of secret agents works with George Washington (Ian Kahn) during the War for Independence and, in the process, lays the framework for espionage tactics and techniques still in use today. “TURN” filmed seasons 1-3 in Virginia, with most of the filming taking place in Richmond and Williamsburg. “As a history buff and a supporter of Virginia’s film industry, I am excited to welcome ‘TURN: Washington’s Spies’ back for a fourth and final season of filming,” said Gov. Terry McAuliffe. “This is a great show, with plenty of action, memorable performances by a fantastic cast and vivid recreations of an important chapter in our history. We can always count on AMC for high-quality programming, and we are proud to continue our partnership as we work to build a

(from page 10) The grand technique that made his Bourne films win Oscars for technical credits (Christopher Rouse won for editing “The Bourne Ultimatum”) has lost its charm. One hour into the movie, you feel like you’re watching outtakes from a “Mission Impossible” sequel. It all leads to a grand finale chase scene in Vegas that is worthy of a great action B-movie, not a Bourne film. The personal rights versus public safety theme is very topical. Alicia Vikander’s character adds a new complexity. Vincent Cassel, as the deadly assassin known as “Asset,” is evil in a two-dimensional way. Tommy Lee Jones is convincing as a

new Virginia economy.” Season four picks up the story of Woodhull and his spy compatriots as they reach a significant turning point in the war, with both the British and the Americans reeling from monumental losses and betrayals. The show will shoot on location in and around Richmond. “’TURN: Washington’s Spies’ is a series that we have been able to share with viewers because of our extraordinary partnership with Governor McAuliffe and the Virginia Film Office,” said Stefan Reinhardt, co-head of AMC Studios. “Being given access to historically significant shooting locations and such distinct physical backdrops has made our cast and crew feel even more welcomed in the community. “The availability of such highly qualified local talent helps bring the history of the Culper Ring to life in Virginia, and we look forward to once again showcasing the state as we film our fourth and final season.” “The commonwealth of Virginia has massively benefited from having this series film in our beautiful state,” said Andy Edmunds, director of the Virginia Film Office. “Series television gives our Virginia crew members steady, good-paying jobs that hold the invaluable chance to rise in the ranks, develop skills and become part of what makes the

devious, cold-hearted adversary, but his performance is too reminiscent of his Oscar winning role in “The Fugitive”. The turmoil plays out over several countries, providing alluring locations that are well shot by Barry Ackroyd (Hurt Locker). Set design, art direction and music are decent but don’t stand out. Perhaps it’s tough to judge this movie because the nostalgia for the other Bourne movies made by Damon and Greengrass is so strong and indelible. Perhaps wanting the filmmakers to take this franchise up a level is asking too much. Either way, it’s hard to lose that nagging feeling that this good film could have been great.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe guest-starred as General Lawson, the head of the Virginia militia, during season 3. commonwealth such an attractive filming destination. We have found wonderful allies in the talented team at AMC, and we know this is just the beginning of a great partnership.” Season four of “TURN: Washington’s Spies” will be eligible to receive a film tax credit and grant. The exact amount is based on the number of Virginia workers hired, Virginia goods and services purchased, and deliverables, including Virginia tourism promotions. AMC has broadcast more than 80

commercials promoting Virginia and popular tourist destinations as part of the arrangement with the commonwealth for previous seasons. Additionally, the Virginia Tourism Corporation has established TURN: The Trail, which features locations from the filming of “TURN: Washington’s Spies,” as well as other Colonial-era sites across the state. Locations from the series include Colonial Williamsburg, several historic estates and homes, and Old Towne Petersburg.

Matt Damon stars in the action/spy/thriller “Jason Bourne”, which debuted at the top of the Box Office this week. PHOTO: Universal

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Agreement settles housing discrimination complaint A civil rights complaint filed last year with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) by Latino mobile home park residents against the city of Richmond was recently resolved by an agreement between HUD and the parties. The agreement ends a year-long investigation by HUD into allegations that Richmond unfairly targeted the largely Latinooccupied mobile home communities for unprecedented, intensive maintenance code enforcement and that the city refused to offer interpretation or translation as required by federal law. Under the agreement, Richmond will pay $30,000 in damages to the

complainants and will take numerous steps to ensure future compliance with the federal Fair Housing Act, to provide meaningful access to city services in Spanish and other languages, and to provide assistance to mobile home park residents affected by its code enforcement activities. “We are very pleased with this resolution to the HUD complaint,” according to Phil Storey, attorney with the Legal Aid Justice Center in Richmond, who represented the residents along with the law firm of Crowell & Moring in Washington, D.C. “The agreement has teeth, so we are confident that it will make a real difference in the way the city deals

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Amtrak Station Parking Lot Expansion Staples Mill Road (Rt. 33) Henrico County Willingness to Hold Public Hearing Find out about the proposed parking facility improvements at the Henrico County Amtrak Station, located at 7519 Staples Mill Road (Route 33). Construction will expand the parking lot for additional parking spaces and include new lighting and landscaping. Review the project information at VDOT’s Richmond District Office located at 2430 Pine Forest Drive in South Chesterfield, 23834-9002 804-524-6000, 1-800-367-7623,TTY/TDD 711. Please call ahead to ensure the availability of appropriate personnel to answer your questions. If your concerns cannot be satisfied, VDOT is willing to hold a public hearing. You may request that a public hearing be held by sending a written request to Winston Phillips, PMP, project manager, Virginia Department of Transportation, 2430 Pine Forest Drive, Colonial Heights, VA 23834-9002 or Winston.Phillips@VDOT.Virginia.gov on or prior to August 10, 2016. If a request for a public hearing is received, notice of date, time and place of the hearing will be posted. VDOT ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you have questions or concerns about your civil rights in regards to this project or special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact the project manager listed above. State Project: 0033-043-804, P101, R201

with mobile home park residents, immigrants, and other minorities going forward in terms of fair housing rights and language access.” The agreement will remain in force for four years, during which the city of Richmond will be subject to HUD oversight and must submit regular compliance reports to the agency. Some of Richmond’s obligations

under the agreement include: performing a new analysis of impediments to fair-housing choice and ensuring that its use of funding from HUD addresses those impediments, including in mobile home parks; regularly training the staff of key departments to protect fair-housing rights and to provide interpretation and translation services to city residents free of charge; posting notices in city offices informing people of the availability of free interpretation upon request; ensuring that city websites and telephone voice response systems are available in Spanish as well as English; appointing a Fair Housing Compliance Officer and a Language Access Coordinator, who will oversee and report regularly to HUD on the city’s compliance with the terms of the agreement. “The reach of the HUD agreement is very good for the residents of mobile home parks, but also for immigrants and other vulnerable people throughout Richmond,” said Cliff Zatz, partner with Crowell & Moring, which provided pro bono representation on the case. “This is a good example of how federal agencies like HUD work to protect people’s civil rights.”

(from page 8) Martingayle said the issue is fundamentally one of transparency, particularly given the university’s status as a public institution. “That is a good, healthy, selfexamination discussion that ought to be had,” Martingayle said, referring to the issue of tuition costs. “The only question is, who ought to be having it? And I think the answer is everybody. This is a public institution, which means we have an awful lot of people to answer to.” Hogan said he was disappointed with Dragas’ claims that the process lacked transparency, and said he welcomes questions regarding the fund. “I have been in business for over 40 years, and I will tell you that I absolutely believe in transparency and that I take my responsibilities as a chief operating officer for the University extremely seriously,”

Helen E. Dragas Hogan said. The university averages a 20 percent black student enrollment. According to published national graduation reports, blacks fail to graduate at twice the rate of whites and Asians at U.Va. even though it boasts the highest black graduation rate of any public university in Virginia.

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HU to receive $2m for Talent Search program Hampton University Educational Talent Search has received funding from the U.S. Department of Education for $1.9 million. Talent Search was designed to assist participants in completing high school and pursuing post-secondary educational or training opportunities The U.S. Department of Education recently announced the first slate of Talent Search awards in the amount of $127 million to 405 colleges and universities awarding a $1,931,990 continuation grant to fund Hampton University’s Talent Search program from Sept. 1, 2016 – Aug. 31, 2021. Six other colleges in Virginia also received funding. Talent Search, one of seven Federal TRIO Programs funded through the U.S. Department of Education to increase the number of target area secondary school graduates who complete a rigorous secondary program of studies and subsequently enroll in a postsecondary degree program, has been an integral

Dr. Dietra Trent replaces Holton as sec. of education Deputy Secretary of Education Dr. Dietra Trent is serving as Virginia’s secretary of education following Anne Holton’s resignation following the selection of her husband, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, as Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential running mate. Gov. Terry McAuliffe appointed Trent, whom he said is a “ goaloriented and a natural problemsolver who is already a crucial member of our team”. Prior to her appointment last week, Trent served from 2014 as the deputy secretary of education. She previously served as deputy secretary of education in former Gov. Tim Kaine’s administration, and as director of constituent services and director of the Council on Human Rights under former Gov. Mark Warner. She earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology and criminal justice from Hampton University, and completed

Dr. Dietra Trent her master’s and doctoral degrees in public administration and policy from Virginia Commonwealth University. “She is deeply committed to ensuring that all Virginians have access to an affordable education of the highest quality, and I know she will continue to be a strong voice for our young people,” said McAuliffe.

part of the Hampton University community for over 40 years. Awarded through a competitive process, the federal grant enables the university to serve 810 low-income and/or first generation participants from the following Hampton city schools: Bethel, Hampton, Kecoughtan, and Phoebus High Schools, and Andrews, Davis, Eaton, Lindsay; and Syms middle schools. “When we drafted the program design for the new Talent Search program, it was very important to utilize embedded counselors in each target school to monitor academic progress towards standard and advanced diploma completion and assist with pre-college planning and college course selection,” said Mikael Davis, director of Student Support Services at Hampton University. “We prioritized bi-weekly tutoring by school based teachers to improve academic achievement in core subjects of highest need.” The Hampton University Talent Search program identifies and assists individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds who have the potential to succeed in higher education. According to the historically

black university, the program provides academic, career, financial counseling, publicizes the availability of financial aid, and assist participants with their postsecondary application processes. Projects provide tutorial services, career exploration, aptitude assessments, counseling, mentoring programs, workshops, information on postsecondary institutions; education or counseling services designed to improve the financial and economic literacy of students. Services provided by the program include; academic, financial, career, or personal counseling including advice on entry or reentry to secondary or postsecondary programs, career exploration and aptitude assessment, tutorial services. The university notes that program also prepares students for education outside of the program by providing information on postsecondary education, exposure to college campuses, information on student financial assistance, assistance in completing college admissions and financial aid applications, assistance in preparing for college entrance exams.

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Report spotlights worst Va. toxic polluters and ZIP codes Community members and concerned citizens gathered in one of the most toxic ZIP codes in Virginia to highlight a new report released by the Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club. The report, entitled “The Top 25 Virginia Localities with the Highest Toxic Air Emissions”, spotlights the most toxic ZIP codes throughout Virginia. Community leaders with the Southeast CARE Coalition and Moody Street in Barnesville Community Garden united with health and environmental leaders to draw attention to the over two million pounds of toxic air pollution that have been released in the Hampton Roads area. The report, released last week is based on the EPA’s 2014 Toxic Release Inventory, a collection of air pollution data available for most ZIP codes across the United States. This data is analyzed to create the final Sierra Club report. "The students I see every day are dealing with asthma,” said Julia

Andrews, a nurse at Achievable Dreams Academy in Newport News. “We need to be doing all we can to reduce the amount of triggers and stressors in the environment for these kids.” Achievable Dreams Academy is located in ZIP code 23607, ranked No. 23 in the report. ZIP codes in Chesapeake, York County, James City County and Newport News also made the list. In this area alone, over two million pounds of toxic air pollution have been released. Sierra Club noted that the Dominion Virginia Power plant in Yorktown reported a release of over 560 thousand pounds, an increase of 6 percent from the previous year. Other polluters in the Hampton Roads area include the Dominion Virginia Power Chesapeake Energy Center, the Ball Metal Beverage Container Corporation facility in Williamsburg, Perdue Farms Inc. facility in Chesapeake, Huntington Ingalls (previously Newport News Shipbuilding) facility in

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The event highlighting the report included adults and children. Newport News and the AshevilleSchoonmaker Mica Co. also located in Newport News. “As All From One celebrates 16 years of youth leadership development, I am proud to stand with other youth from the Southeast CARE Coalition to fight for clean air in our community,” Marquis Harris, a youth leader and activist with the Southeast CARE Coaltion in Newport News, said. “Last year, a group of young scholars and parents hand delivered over 1 thousand petitions to Secretary of Natural Resources Molly Ward and Congressman Robert C. Scott asking for air monitors and a communitybased air monitoring program. I want everyone to know that young people in the Southeast Community of

Newport News are aware, involved, and engaged in fighting for a better quality of life for our community.” Harris, at 13 years old, is one of the youngest people fighting for clean air in the state. The All From One development program mentors youth in the southeast community. Harris is a participant in the All From One program. “There are a lot of things that we can do without in this life. But one of the few universal things across all of mankind, is the necessity for clean, breathable air,” Alden Cleanthes, a field organizer with Moms’ Clean Air Force, said. “The numbers here are overwhelming. I am someone who suffers from Adult-Onset Asthma, with no prior family history, so

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(from page 14) increasing levels of toxic emissions are a direct threat to my life everyday.” The chemicals released in the Hampton Roads area include over one million pounds of hydrochloric acid, over 150 thousand pounds of hydrogen fluoride, over 123 thousand pounds of sulfuric acid, 324 thousand pounds of glycol ethers, over 191 thousand pounds of n-butyl alcohol, over 50 thousand pounds of xylene, 30 thousand pounds of methanol and

40 thousand pounds of toluene. The health impacts of these chemicals range from eye, skin, nose and lung irritation to cardiovascular impacts, neurological impacts and liver and kidney damage. Worse yet, the cumulative and synergistic health effects of these combinations of chemicals in the air we breathe have in most cases never been studied. Sierra Club notes that toxic emissions are the sum of Fugitive Air and Point Source Air as reported by the TRI. This value is expressed in

pounds (TRI.NET, 2013). “Virginians living in these highly polluted areas don’t have the means to fight these giant corporations, and the polluters are taking advantage of that,” said Kendyl Crawford, conservation program manager of the Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club. “We are shining light on polluters. This is just the first step for neighboring communities to unite to continue to hold these polluters accountable for their toxic air emissions.” Other report findings include:

•Hopewell ZIP code 23860 is the most polluted in the state. In that ZIP code, air pollution levels are up 20 percent compared to the previous year’s data. •The top 15 chemicals tracked in the Toxic Release Inventory data amounted to 20 million pounds of toxic air pollution being released into the air in Virginia. •The toxic chemicals disclosed in the report cause health problems like birth defects, organ damage, and cancer among other ailments.

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Virginia will offer a sales tax holiday through Aug. 7 so that shoppers can purchase qualifying school supplies, clothing and footwear, emergency preparedness items, and certain energy-efficient products without paying state and local sales tax. For more details, visit the state tax website.

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The 8th Annual Back-to-School Rally for all Richmond Public Schools will provide school supplies to students and teachers as well as free health screenings and parent and student workshops at MLK Middle School, 1000 Mosby St. Proof of residency is required for students.

8.13, 8:30 a.m.

The Henrico County office of the Virginia Cooperative Extension will offer a free workshop to help residents establish and maintain beautiful, healthy lawns. The SMART Lawn Saturday event will be held until 12:30 p.m. at the Extension office in the Human Services Building, 8600 Dixon Powers Drive. The workshop will feature presentations by lawn care experts as well as displays and exhibits by local vendors throughout the day. For information, go to henrico.us/ extension or call 804-501-5160.

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Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security Brian Moran will host, as part of the McAuliffe administration’s continued efforts to foster positive police and community relationships, a series of listening sessions with law enforcement and community partners to solicit recommendations on ways to continue strengthening and sustaining their relationships. Local law enforcement agencies and community partners have been invited to attend one of four sessions at the Richmond Police Academy, 1202 W. Graham Rd.

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Rotary International President John Germ is the featured headline speaker for the Rotary Club of Newport News Centennial Gala on Aug. 6 at 6 p.m. in the Marriott at Newport News City Center Grand Ball Room. Rotary is a 1.2 million member fellowship of business leaders giving back to their local and global community with a goal of abolishing polio. Rotary’s founder, Paul Harris, believed that serving humanity is “the most worthwhile thing a person can do,” Rotary International John F. Germ said, and that being a part of Rotary is a “great opportunity” to make that happen. “I believe everyone recognizes the opportunity to serve Rotary for what it truly is: not a small opportunity, but a great one; an opportunity of a lifetime to change the world for the better, forever through Rotary’s service to humanity,” said Germ. Rotary members around the globe are serving humanity by providing clean water to underdeveloped communities, promoting peace in conflict areas, and strengthening communities through basic education and literacy. But none more important than our work to eradicate polio worldwide, he said. Locally, the Rotary Club of Newport News hosts the annual Children’s Fishing clinic which has become a model around the country, creates opportunity for those unemployed or under employed by paying tuition, books, and credentialing for certificate level continuing education named The Ace Scholars Program which was recently honored by the States Community Colleges Association, as well, the club donates its time and money to countless local projects, ministries, and opportunities to give back. Globally, the club has funded and help build bridges to prosperity in communities where rivers divide commerce, community, and health. For more information, contact Rev. Cory Newell, 757-876-4920, corywnewell@gmail.com.

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Virginia launched a new grant program last week that officials note is designed to ensure that workforce credentials are accessible and affordable for Virginians seeking the skills they need to obtain good-paying jobs in high-demand fields. The New Economy Workforce Industry Credentials Grant program covers 124 different community college training programs at Virginia’s Community Colleges geared toward providing workforce credentials at one-third of their former cost. “This program establishes a firstin-the-nation performance funding formula to create and sustain a supply of credentialed workers who meet the needs identified by our business leaders,” said Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) in announcing the grant. “This launch is the culmination of many months of hard work by public and private sector partners, all of us working together to ensure that Virginia has a 21st century workforce with the skills and experience to compete in today’s global economy.” Virginia’s Community Colleges consulted with Virginia businesses to develop the list of eligible credentials that can provide access to a wide variety of high-demand jobs, such as certified welder, electrician, medical records tech, computer network specialist, pharmacy tech, digital security specialist, emergency medical tech, industrial machinery mechanic, dental assistant, and commercial truck driver. The Virginia Board of Workforce Development identified more than 170 in-demand jobs aligned with Virginia’s economic development targets for which Virginians can prepare through the new workforce program. These are jobs that require specific skills, but not necessarily a traditional college degree. Community Colleges are making it even easier to earn workforce credentials by developing new programs and adding classes and locations for increased convenience. “To create the skilled workforce the commonwealth needs now and in the future, we need more options for training and credentialing that work for Virginians of all ages and life circumstances,” said Secretary of

The grant covers 124 different community college training programs at Virginia’s Community Colleges. Commerce and Trade Maurice Jones. “With the New Economy Workforce Credentials program, for the first time, we have new options for workforce training and development that promptly get trainees into the skilled labor force.” Research indicates that these workforce credentials are in high demand across Virginia and will be for the foreseeable future. The company Burning Glass produced a recent report indicating that there were more than 175,000 job vacancies for so-called middle-skill occupations last year in Virginia – the types of jobs that typically require some type of credential. The jobs paid more than $28 per hour (or more than $58,500 per year). According to the research, the jobs went unfilled for an average period of 26 days, which is longer than the national average. As a result, Virginia businesses lost 36.4 million hours of productivity. Virginia families lost more than $1 billion in potential wages, and Virginia’s General Fund lost more than $54.3 million in revenue. Other

studies predict that Virginia will have to fill more than 1.4 million jobs over the next decade. As many as two-thirds of those positions will require postsecondary level workforce credentials. “The New Economy Workforce Industry Credentials Grant program will be a game changer for the Commonwealth,” said Secretary of Education Dietra Trent. “The indepth research that has gone into establishing this innovative program will help us to increase access and success in higher education, especially for some of our most underserved populations.” Students enrolling in one of the workforce credential training programs covered by the new grants will pay only one-third of the normal cost. Program costs vary widely, depending on the length and complexity of the training. The maximum value of each grant is $3,000. For example, a student who enrolls in and successfully completes a grant-eligible program that normally costs $4,500 will now

pay $1,500, and the grant covers $3,000 of the cost. Additional financial aid can offset that cost even further. McAuliffe won bipartisan support this year among Virginia lawmakers for funding to enable approximately 10,000 Virginians to receive Workforce Credentials Grants for training costs over the next two years. This unique performancebased funding model is the first in the nation. Further, it represents the first significant public funding for workforce training programs in the 50-year history of Virginia’s Community Colleges, said to serve about 400,000 students each year. “These workforce credentials increasingly represent the American Dream in the 21st century,” said Glenn DuBois, chancellor of Virginia’s Community Colleges. “Individuals earn these credentials in weeks and months, not semesters and years. Those students are often quickly employed by businesses hungry for their skills. And they accomplish all that without piling on a decade’s worth of student debt.”

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