VCC Magazine Fall 2018

V irginia C apitol C onnections , F all 2018 3 Fall 2018 Volume 24 Number 4 • Editor-in-Chief –Bonnie Atwood • Assistant Editor –Hayley Allison • Student Editor –DeForrest Ballou • Staff –Olivia Ratay, Nefari Steele, Dzemila Mujcic Publisher –DavidBailey• ArtDirector –JohnSours• SchoolDistribution –schools@capitolsquare.com• Advertising –Ads@CapitolSquare.com• Printer –Wordsprint• VirginiaCapitolConnections QuarterlyMagazine (ISSN1076-4577)ispublishedby:VirginiaCapitolConnections•1108EastMainStreet•Suite1200•Richmond,Virginia23219•(804)643-5554•Copyright2018,VirginiaCapitol Connections,Inc.Allrightsreserved.Theviewsexpressedinthearticlesof VirginiaCapitolConnectionsQuarterlyMagazine ,anon-partisanpublication,arenotnecessarilythoseoftheeditorsorpublisher. C O N T E N T S VIRGINIA CAPITOL CONNECTIONS QUARTERLY MAGAZINE On The Web www.vccqm.org 4 A Letter From First Lady of Virginia Pamela Northam 5 Children are First, with Virginia’s First Lady 6 Building Economic Opportunity 7 Economic Upswing 8 Fighting Gerrymandering with a Constitutional Amendment? 9 The ‘5th Estate’: Bloggers keep watch on news media 10 Virginia’s newspapers are bleeding staff and content 11 The Purpose of a Commonwealth: Senator Howell’s Trip to Southwest and Southside Virginia 12 The Singular Charlie Singleton 16 State Politics is Going National 17 Every year an Election year 18 The State of Our Public Administration: Why We Should Care 19 Working with the General Assembly 20 DBA Introduces New App 21 The Virginia Department of Veterans Services and WWI/WWII Commission Partner to Present a Special Weekend of Veterans Day Activities to Honor All Who Have Served 22 Capitol Police Exhibit Opened 24 In Memoriam Thomas R. Hyland 26 Association and Business Directory Cover photo by David Bailey page 4 page 6 page 7 NORTHAM NORTHAM COX HOWELL page 11