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Jessica Dahlberg 310 Alba Road., Fredericksburg, Va.

Journalism Experience 382nd Public Affairs Detachment, Raleigh, N.C. March 2004 - 2012Deployment to Afghanistan Feb. 2008 – March 2009

• Published over 30 news stories for international news outlets that were uploaded onto the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System (DVIDS) while in Afghanistan.

• Photographed over 100 journalistic photos for DVIDS that were picked up by multiple international media outlets.

• Interviewed by Afghan broadcast journalists for a television segment about America’s mission and aid in Afghanistan and American radio outlets to give a soldier’s perspective.

• Escorted Afghan media to villages and American military bases to give examples of programs put in place by the American military to aid Afghans.

• Interviewed Afghan and American generals, Afghan police chiefs, Afghan civilians, as well as American service-members and civilians.

Relevant Experience Executive Assistant Intern, Podium Foundation Online, www.podium-online.org Jan. 2013 – Present Richmond, Va.

• Researched non-profit Social Media Interaction for best practices and made recommendations.

• Created a Newsletter regarding events, updates, and notices for distribution to Podium donors and media outlets.

• Developed press releases from coverage of outreach events.

• Created and distributed media kit for the release of a new literary journal. Staff Writer, The Commonwealth Times, www.commonwealthtimes.org Aug. 2011 – May 2012 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.

• Wrote two cover stories and eight news articles; published in a weekly student newspaper with a circulation of 25,000.

• Interviewed Richmond City Council member and his opponent for piece profiling city council members who have districts within the school’s campus.

• Wrote a news article, and a follow-up story a year later, about the abortion clinic regulations pushed by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.

• Wrote a news article about the new 2012 voter registration laws in Virginia. Interviewed ten community members to get their perspective on the issue, as well as the student campaigns for Obama and Romney.

Editorial Experience Intern, Podium Foundation Online, www.podium-online.org Jan. 2012 – May 2012 Richmond, Va.

• Selected, edited, and posted online written and artistic material created by high school students for online publication.

• Worked independently and uploaded over 25 editorial works onto a multimedia platform weekly.

Education

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va. Expected Graduation Dec. 2013 Bachelor of Science, Mass Communications Concentration: Journalism Cumulative GPA: 4.0 (4.0) Defense Information School, Fort Meade, Md. Public Affairs Military Certificate

reston.patch.com

FEB. 25, 2013

By Jessica Dahlberg, Capital News Service

As the 2013 legislative session came to a close, the Virginia General Assembly

approved amendments to the state’s two-year budget Saturday that included

expanding Medicaid and spending more money on education.

The amendments were passed by both the House (on an 83-17 vote) and the

Senate (31-8) after tense discussions over Medicaid, which provides medical

care for low-income residents. Legislators agreed to expand the program if

certain reforms are made.

The reforms will make Medicaid look similar to non-government health

insurance policies, according to legislators. Under the reforms, Medicaid will

provide long-term care for more Virginians and more waivers for families with

children who have special needs. The state will also standardize the way it

calculates the income of Medicaid applicants under the federal Affordable Care

Act.

“Virginia currently ranks 47th in the nation in Medicaid coverage,” Sen. Mark

Herring (D-Leesburg) said. “The expansion will cover over 300,000 uninsured

Virginians and infuse tens of billions of dollars into our state’s economy.”

To implement the reforms, the state Department of Medical Assistance and

Services, which manages Medicaid in Virginia, will need permission from the

federal government.

A Virginia legislative commission will also have to review and approve the

reforms before they can be adopted. If the commission approves the changes,

they would be effective July 1, 2014, when the federal Medicaid eligibility

standards are set to expand under the Affordable Care Act.

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The education initiatives included in the budget agreement were a top priority

for Virginia, said House Speaker William Howell (R-Stafford).

The K-12 public education system will get $70.2 million for a 2 percent increase

in salaries for teachers and school support employees. The schools will also get

$30 million, over a period of five years, to make security upgrades.

The higher education system will receive $3.4 million to add 1,700 in-state

undergraduate seats at the College of William and Mary, Virginia Tech, James

Madison University and the University of Virginia. Additionally, $8.6 million is

being set aside for in-state undergraduate financial aid.

“College affordability has become a significant barrier to higher education in

recent years,” Gov. Bob McDonnell said. “This year, we put in excess of $47

million toward higher education.”

A total of $4.1 million will be provided to the schools for research and economic

development. Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of

Virginia will each receive $1 million for cancer research.

Another priority was putting money into Virginia’s savings accounts, Howell

said. The final budget puts $125 million into these accounts: $95 million will go

to the “rainy day fund” for contingencies and $30 million will be set aside in

case the looming federal cuts harm Virginia’s economy.

Other provisions included in the budget agreement are:

A 2 percent raise for state employees. They will also receive $65 for every

year of service to help balance the salaries of employees that have been

with the state a long time. The $65 increase is limited to employees with

five years of service and will stop after 30 years to be capped at $1,950.

200 additional intellectual disability waivers and 50 developmental

disability waivers have been added for fiscal year 2014. These waivers

provide Medicaid assistance especially for children who have special needs.

$6.9 million for public higher education faculty salary increases up to 3

percent.

$1.3 million for grants to hire school resource officers and school security

officers to work in elementary, middle and high schools.

How They Voted


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House:

Floor: 02/23/13 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (83-Y 17-N)

YEAS – Albo, Anderson, BaCote, Bell, Richard P., Brink, Bulova, Carr,

Cosgrove, Cox, M.K., Crockett-Stark, Dance, Edmunds, Farrell, Filler-Corn,

Greason, Habeeb, Head, Helsel, Herring, Hester, Hodges, Hope, Howell, A.T.,

Hugo, Iaquinto, Ingram, James, Joannou, Johnson, Jones, Keam, Kilgore,

Knight, Kory, Krupicka, Landes, Lewis, Lopez, Loupassi, Marshall, D.W.,

Massie, May, McClellan, McQuinn, Merricks, Miller, Minchew, Morris,

Morrissey, O’Bannon, O’Quinn, Orrock, Peace, Plum, Poindexter, Purkey,

Putney, Robinson, Rush, Rust, Scott, E.T., Scott, J.M., Sherwood, Sickles,

Spruill, Stolle, Surovell, Tata, Torian, Toscano, Tyler, Villanueva, Ward, Ware,

O., Ware, R.L., Watson, Watts, Webert, Wilt, Wright, Yancey, Yost, Mr. Speaker

– 83.

NAYS – Bell, Robert B., Byron, Cline, Cole, Comstock, Cox, J.A., Dudenhefer,

Fariss, Garrett, Gilbert, LeMunyon, Lingamfelter, Marshall, R.G., Morefield,

Pogge, Ramadan, Ransone – 17.

Senate

YEAS – Alexander, Barker, Blevins, Carrico, Colgan, Deeds, Ebbin, Favola,

Hanger, Herring, Howell, Locke, Lucas, Marsden, Marsh, McDougle,

McEachin, McWaters, Miller, Newman, Norment, Northam, Petersen, Puckett,

Puller, Ruff, Saslaw, Stosch, Vogel, Wagner, Watkins – 31.

NAYS – Black, Garrett, Martin, Obenshain, Reeves, Smith, Stanley, Stuart – 8.

Original URL:http://reston.patch.com/articles/virginia-lawmakers-vote-to-expand-medicaid-schools-funding-75141cff


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rappnews.com

by STAFF/CONTRIBUTED REPORTS | FEB. 14, 2013

By Jessica Dahlberg

Capital News Service

RICHMOND – A House subcommittee Tuesday killed a bill that would have

made it illegal to hold competitions in which dogs hunt foxes or coyotes in an

enclosed area.

The Natural Resources Subcommittee of the House Committee on Agriculture,

Chesapeake and Natural Resources took the action of a voice vote. The

subcommittee recommended that Senate Bill 1280 be “passed by indefinitely,”

meaning the bill is dead for this legislative session.

The subcommittee met at 7:30 a.m. in the Capitol. Opponents of SB 1280 had

packed the room.

“I got there at five minutes past 7 totally expecting to get into the room, but it

was filled up,” said William Barcroft, owner of Beechland Foxhound Training

Preserve in Surry County in Southeast Virginia. “We had a good turnout . . . I

was happy it was killed.”

SB 1280, which last week cleared the Senate on a 24-16 vote, targeted a sport

known as fox penning in which hunters use foxes in large enclosures to train

dogs.

As originally introduced by Sen. David Marsden, D-Burke, the bill would have

made it illegal to erect or maintain a fox pen. However, the Senate Agriculture,

Conservation and Natural Resources Committee scaled back the legislation.

The Senate committee approved a substitute bill aimed at stopping

competitions involving fox penning but still allowing hunters to use pens to

train their dogs.

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The substitute, which the Senate passed on Feb. 5, stated that it would be

unlawful to “stage or participate in any competition where any fox or coyote is

pursued by dogs and the fox or coyote is in an enclosure” or to “give or accept

any prize, money, compensation, ranking, or other award relating to the

participation” in such a contest.

As a result, the bill would have prohibited fox-penning events that raise money

for charity, Barcroft said. “If they do away with the competition hunt, they are

going to do away with a lot of charitable fox-pen fields,” he said.

In 2012, Barcroft’s training preserve held a charitable hunt for a man who

needed a liver transplant. Barcroft said he raised $1,500 for the man.

The bill also would have limited the number of dogs allowed in the enclosure to

five per acre.

The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) has a permit

application for people who want to have fox pens. The application states that

foxhound training preserves must provide an environment that provides food,

water and cover for the foxes. Barcroft said he adheres to those standards at his

training preserve.

“Everything we do is regulated by the Department of Game and Inland

Fisheries,” Barcroft said. “I do everything I am supposed to do. Otherwise, they

would shut the pen down.”

Even though the bill is dead, the game department will hold public hearings in

March to listen to public comment and concerns about the regulation of fox

pens, said Lee Walker, the agency’s outreach director.

Supporters of the bill said one of the big issues with fox penning is the spread of

rabies. The Virginia Department of Health ranks foxes third in the state with 52

confirmed rabies cases for 2012. Raccoons have the highest number of cases at

256.

“Confining foxes to a pen makes it easier for them to transmit rabies to other

animals, humans and dogs,” said Robin Starr, Richmond SPCA’s chief

executive officer.

However, opponents of SB 1280 do not think rabies runs rampant in fox pens.

“I’ve been messing with foxes since 2005, and I have yet to see a rabid fox,”


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Barcroft said.

The bill’s supporters are also concerned about the welfare of the foxes.

“It is a terribly unnatural environment for them,” Starr said. “They spend their

entire life running from hounds. It’s a dreadful life for the foxes.”

People who have fox pens said they believe the sport provides a great way to

train hounds and spend time with the family.

Capital News Service is a student news-gathering program sponsored by the

School of Mass Communications at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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henricocitizen.com

by JESSICA DAHLBERG, CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE 01/24/13 | JAN. 24, 2013

It is the American motto – the premise the country

takes pride in: If you work hard, you can accomplish

anything, be anything. But for some who consider

themselves Americans, the rule does not apply.

Undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children face an

obstacle when trying to accomplish their educational goals. When they

graduate from high school, they must pay out-of-state tuition at Virginia’s

public colleges and universities — a difficult feat since they usually don't qualify

for financial aid programs either.

“It becomes part of the expectation for young immigrants that they won’t be

able to go to college,” said Robert G. Templin Jr., president of Northern

Virginia Community College.

Six bills – two in the Senate and four in the House – seek to change Virginia

law so that undocumented immigrants meeting certain criteria would be able to

pay in-state college tuition.

“If these bills are passed, it would be a positive impact on the Hispanic

community,” said Edgar Aranda-Yanoc, chairman of the Virginia Coalition of

Latino Organizations. “It would allow immigrants who came to this country to

pursue a higher education.”

The state legislation parallels a federal proposal called the DREAM Act, an

acronym for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors.

After the act failed in Congress, President Obama last summer established a

program to award “deferred action” status to certain individuals who

immigrated illegally to the United States as children.

Immigrants can qualify if they entered the U.S. before age 16, are now under 30

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and have lived in the country for at least five years. They must have a high

school diploma or GED (or be in the process of getting one), or have been

honorably discharged by the U.S. military. They must also have a clean criminal

record and not be deemed a threat to public safety or national security.

As of Friday, the federal government has approved more than 150,000 young

immigrants for “deferred action.” This protects them from deportation and

allows them to work legally in the U.S.

The six bills before the Virginia General Assembly fall into two categories: those

that do not require an undocumented student to have been approved for

deferred action, and those that do.

All of the bills require the undocumented immigrants to have graduated from a

public or private high school or have received their GED in Virginia. Moreover,

the student or a parent or guardian must have filed Virginia income tax returns,

unless exempted by state law.

Delegate Alfonso Lopez, D-Arlington, is sponsoring two of the House bills. For

him, the issue is personal: He is the son of a Venezuelan immigrant.

“My mom touched countless lives because of her advocacy on this issue, so I

promised this would be the first bill I put in my first year (as a delegate) and the

first bill I put in this year,” said Lopez, who was elected in November 2011. “I’ll

keep putting this bill in every year until it becomes a law in Virginia.”

Templin estimates that 200 undocumented students attend NOVA Community

College. He speculated that the number might reach 1,000 if such immigrants

could qualify for in-state tuition.

“It is a little uncertain because we don’t know exactly how many undocumented

students there are,” Templin said.

Aranda-Yanoc said the bills under consideration could help thousands of

students in the state. About 38,000 young immigrants in Virginia might be

eligible for deferred action, officials estimate.

Allowing such students to pay in-state college tuition in Virginia would have

little if any financial impact on the commonwealth, according to an analysis of

the legislation by the state Department of Planning and Budgeting.

Lopez believes that the bills would be helpful for undocumented students and a


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huge step for the immigrant population as a whole.

“It doesn’t make moral and ... economic sense for us to be investing in these

children’s education and having these incredible students not be able to

continue their education,” he said.

A subcommittee of the House Education Committee will hold a hearing at 5

p.m. Tuesday on the four House proposals. The Higher Education and Arts

Subcommittee will meet in the Eighth Floor West conference room in the

General Assembly Building, 201 N. Ninth St.

The Senate bills have been assigned to the Senate Education and Health

Committee.

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