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C O N T E N T S VIRGINIA CAPITOL CONNECTIONS QUARTERLY MAGAZINE

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Winter 2016

4 Virginia’s First Lady on a Mission 6 Bill Mims: Justice, Senator, Delegate 8 30 Years of Redbook 11 Virginia General Assembly New Faces in 2016 12 Gerrymander 13 Evenwel and the Coming Crisis in Redistricting 14 Crunching the Numbers: See How Much Each Vote Cost in the 2015 General Assembly Races 15 The Virginia Transition Assistance Program (VTAP): Connecting Veterans and Transitioning Service Members to Opportunities and Resources 21 Department of Juvenile Justice 24 SHAV Cultivates Student Advocacy 25 Accountability Overhaul for School Counselors 25 Where Are They Now? 26 Connecting Career Preparation to the Workforce 27 The Every Student Succeeds Act and American Education’s “Scarlet Letter” 28 Students Cannot Be Allowed To Choose Not To Learn 29 In Memoriam: Remembering Speaker Moss 29 Virginia’s Growing 30 Association and Business Directory 16 The Photography of Wanda Judd 18 A Year of Celebration for DCR 20 Women’s Monuments

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30 Years of Redbooks page 8

30 YEARS

Gerrymander page 12

Politics

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Vote Cost page 14

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About The Cover: David Bailey Associates celebrates 30 years of Redbook! Photographer Wanda Judd helped commemorate this historic event by photographing a layout of several covers of the Redbook throughout the past 30 years.

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Redistricting page 13

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Volume 22 Number 1 • Editor –Kristen Bailey-Hardy • Assistant Editor –Hayley Allison • Publisher –David Bailey • Art Director –John Sours • School Distribution –Kristen Bailey-Hardy Advertising – Ads@CapitolSquare.com • Printer –Wordsprint • Virginia Capitol Connections Quarterly Magazine (ISSN 1076-4577) is published by: Virginia Capitol Connections • 1001 East Broad Street Suite 215 • Richmond, Virginia 23219 • (804) 643-5554 • Copyright 2015, Virginia Capitol Connections, Inc. All rights reserved. • The views expressed in the articles of Virginia Capitol Connections Quarterly Magazine , a non-partisan publication, are not necessarily those of the editors or publisher.

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