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4 Virginia: The Right Choice for Global Enterprise
6 Session marked an important, bipartisan step forward
on heroin and prescription drugs
7 A Healthy Virginia: Improving Access To Care
8 Virginia Public Safety and Homeland Security:
Women Leading The Way
10 Virginia Making Strides Towards Ending Veteran
Homelessness in 2015
11 Governor McAuliffe Signs Directive Establishing Center for
Behavioral Health and Justice:
The executive action ensures interagency collaboration
to address gaps in the behavioral health system.
12 Child Care: Virginia’s Evolving Improvement
12 Virginia’s Democracy Deficit: Uncompetitive Elections
15 Are the Virginia Tea Party movement and the Virginia
Republican Party all that different?
16 Smoke on the Mountain: Bringing Competitive Barbecue
to Galax, Virginia
18 Virginia’s Legislative Process: Fair, Equitable and Transparent?
18 Cost of Cleaner Power Could Take Toll on Low-Income Families
20 It’s All Relative...A Different Kind of Capitol Connection
22 Appropriate Use of School Counselors
22 Career and Technical Education—For Every Student
23 Smart Cookies Visit Virginia Capitol:
Girl Scout representatives from throughout the state traveled
to Richmond to speak to legislators during their annual
Girl Scout Legislative Day.
24 Bluefield College Unveils Half-Price Tuition Plan
26 Mark Twain “Alive!”
27 The Value of an Internship
27 VCCQM Salutes…..Student Interns!
28 The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental
Services Should Respect Residential Choice
29 In Memoriam
Delegate George W. Grayson
30 Association and Business Directory
Spring 2015
Volume 21 Number 2 • Editor–Kristen Bailey-Hardy • Assistant Editor–Ashley Dayton • Publisher –David Bailey • Art Director–John Sours • School Distribution–Kristen Bailey-Hardy
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On The Cover (see page 7):
Statue of George Washington,
Virginia Capitol
photograph by Wanda Judd
C O N T E N T S
VIRGINIA CAPITOL CONNECTIONS QUARTERLY MAGAZINE
On The Web
Reports from the
Governor’s Cabinet
pages 4, 7, 8
Moran
Bipartisan
Step Forward
page 6
HERRING
JOnes HaZel
Child Care
page 12
HANGER
Politics pages 12-15
TURNER Farnsworth O’Brien