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hile growing up in Arcola, Miss., attorney La’Verne Edney witnessed firsthand the impact generosity and compassion can have. Her parents, the late Rev. Theodore Roosevelt Ford and Essie Mae Ford, not only reared Edney and her brothers and sisters, but they opened their home to 11 foster children, two of whom they adopted. “Watching my parents give back the way they did had a great impact on me. I got an opportunity to see my mom really nourishing and taking care of those kids (who) had nothing when they came to us. That kind of formed, really, my whole life—of at least trying to give back,” she says. Edney’s interest in law began when she watched TV shows such as “Perry Mason” and “Matlock” when she was young. But her early inclination was pushed aside as Edney focused on typing proficiency. In 1988, she obtained her bachelor’s degree in secretarial science from Alcorn State University. While working as an administrative assistant at the Mississippi Board of Trustees of Institutions of Higher Learning, the attorneys she worked with encouraged her to pursue her dream. Edney earned her law degree from the Mississippi College School of Law in 1996 and was admitted to the Mississippi Bar the same year. She began her litigation career at Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes, PLLC in Jackson in 1998. In 2009 she took a two-year leave

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to work as general counsel of the Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project, a nonprofit that provides legal aid to financially disadvantaged people. “It was the best thing I could have done,” she says of the experience. In 2011 Edney joined the Jackson office of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, where she is a shareholder. Her trial work primarily focuses on nursing-home and medical negligence, and premises liability. The 40-something Clinton resident has been the recipient of numerous honors including the Mississippi Business Journal naming her one of Mississippi’s Fifty Leaders in the Law in 2012 and being named as Mississippi Women Lawyers Association’s Outstanding Woman Lawyer of the Year in 2011. She has also served on the Mississippi Supreme Court’s Task Force for Gender Fairness, and former Gov. Haley Barbour appointed her to the Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee. Edney’s commitment to public service extends to local community organizations, and she serves on several boards. “It’s really important to stay involved in the community. That’s where you get to try to make the difference,” she says. Edney says she is most appreciative of finding success in doing what she loves while remaining active in the community and raising her two sons, E.J., 25, and Jaylon, 17. “I know where I’ve come from,” she says. “I’m extremely grateful for my life.” —Demetrice Sherman

Cover photo of Travis Childers courtesy AP/Rogelio V. Solis

8 Follow the Drip

Water customers owe more than $2 million to the city’s water department. How and when will it be collected?

27 Sourdough Dreaming

You might need to name your sourdough starter—Sparky?—to keep the relationship strong, but it’s one worth developing.

30 Stephen Coles’ Emphemeral Art

“I’m experimenting quite a bit as well with the formative aspects … the idea of all these very permanent materials, yet using them in a fairly ephemeral manner.” —Stephen Coles, “Ephemeral Permanence”

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EDITOR’S note

by Donna Ladd, Editor-in-Chief

Conceiving a Smarter Future

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t was a gorgeous day in Jackson for an outdoor luncheon; my stepdad would have lovingly called it “football weather.” I was blessed to be part of a group of folks the Kellogg Foundation had gathered on the northern balcony of the Mississippi Archives building, with the city’s skyline as a backdrop to the west. We looked into a construction zone immediately off the side of the balcony, filled with huge cranes and the flotsam and jetsam of an active work site. It was also loud. At points we all strained to hear Mississippi giants of change—Myrlie Evers-Williams, William Winter, Fred Banks and Reuben Anderson, among them—not to mention the president and CEO of the Kellogg Foundation board, La June Montgomery Tabron, when she spoke to us. But, for once, the racket was welcome. You see, we were literally looking down into, and listening to, the construction of two Mississippi history museums. One of them is our long-awaited civil-rights museum that, the speakers promised, would not minimize the reality of our state’s difficult past in a glossed-over version that makes it easy to blame someone else for “all that.” Instead, the museum is designed to be a place of learning, pilgrimage and reconciliation, as Ms. Tabron described it, adding that it would “illuminate a common path forward.” Ms. Tabron, who is an unassuming-yetpowerful woman who grew up in a family of 10 children in inner-city Detroit, announced that the Kellogg Foundation was giving a $2.3 million endowment in honor of Ms. Evers-Williams and former Gov. Winter for educational, racial equity and civil rights programs in the civil-rights museum. Winter is a former self-professed segregationist who, well, changed—showing that anyone can change backward, hateful attitudes with the right information, inspiration and willingness to question our upbringing. The most touching moment occurred

when Ms. Evers-Williams told the audience that the former governor had inspired her to return to Mississippi, the state that killed her husband, Medgar Evers, and didn’t bother to prosecute his known killer for so many years. After years away, it was Winter’s passion and efforts to heal racial division that brought her home. It was “through this man that I made a determination to come back to Mississippi … to forgive, not forget,” Ms. Evers-Williams said, calling for the “ability to

put negatives behind us and move forward.” Of course, Ms. Evers-Williams didn’t mean it in that sugarcoaty way that so many Mississippians are told to “get over” the past, stop talking about our shared history and “move on.” This embrace of history as a tool for the future is a more intelligent approach to healing division, solving problems racism created and building a stronger future. On an afternoon filled with quotable inspiration, though, perhaps my favorite came from Fred Banks, a black attorney who helped make the civil-rights museum happen in the first place. He quoted his unnamed high-school teacher: “He who knows nothing of the past has no understanding of the present and no conception of the future.” You could amend that statement to say that those who ignore the lessons of the past—even the victims—may turn around

and repeat similar offenses, and maybe toward an entirely new group of people. Despite the positivity of the luncheon and the presentation, everyone there knew we still have a tough row to hoe. That was no more apparent than in the foundation’s following town-hall meeting at Cade Chapel on West Ridgeway Street. I co-moderated the discussion about the need for adequate public-education funding and the difficulty of getting state lawmakers to follow the law and provide the funding, which would help our state with everything from having a better-educated workforce, to lowering our poverty rates (and reliance on public assistance), to decreasing crime (and thus prison costs), to basic economic-development progress. In other words, adequately funding public education in Mississippi would benefit everyone in the state, including state and personal pocketbooks. But, somehow, we’re on an arc of history where too many of our lawmakers (and voters) aren’t willing to address the disparities that our racist history created—unequal school funding due to forced, ingrained poverty—and aren’t willing to say out loud what many of them actually know intellectually: that quality public education is key to Mississippi’s future. This, right here, is the frustrating part of being a Mississippian. We end up with elected officials who won’t do the right thing out of fear of losing elections. What I don’t get is why anyone would want to win an election if you can’t use your brain and your knowledge to help the state move forward. Why bother? That, of course, brings me to Democrat Travis Childers, who is challenging longtime U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran—a Republican who has made plenty of political deals with the devil in his own right (like refusing to vote to apologize for lynching or to honor the memory of three civil-rights workers the Ku Klux Klan killed in 1964 for trying to help black people learn to read and vote).

“I made a determination to come back to Mississippi … to forgive, not forget.”

As we too often see with many “Democrats” running for office in our state, Childers seems to be trying to outdo Cochran’s disturbing votes. As you’ll read about later in this issue, Childers signed a pledge developed by a known hate group, FAIR, agreeing that he would oppose efforts to help immigrant children, who did not choose to come to the U.S., find a smart path to citizenship—immigration reform that benefits us all. This is the kind of disgusting political move that keeps Mississippi on the bottom and looking like we deserve to be there. I’ve written about this kind of backward chicanery many times: We cannot expect outsiders to not think the worst of us when we give our leaders a pass for wink-wink bigotry, and we will struggle to keep our brightest young people here, or get them to run for public office, if this is how we run our politics. I’ve heard the excuse many times: Don’t worry, he will vote for public education and improve health care when he gets there, so go on ahead and hold your nose and vote for him. It’s what we have to do to win. No. For one thing, I’ve seldom seen it work. Dems keep trying to out-wingnut the far right here and keep losing. As they do it, they, too, are spreading seeds of hatred, whether against people of color or, regularly, our LGBT neighbors, and thus keeping progressive people out of the voting booth. I thought of Childers’ nonsense as I sat on that balcony amid all that construction noise. Did the people we will honor in that museum get disrespected, beaten, spit on, disparaged and even killed so that our leaders could keep hawking hate and playing political games with our residents’ lives and livelihoods? I don’t think so. We can do better than this, Mississippi. It’s time we conceive that better future all our people deserve. Disclosure: Donna Ladd is a Kellogg Foundation Community Leadership Network fellow. Opinions expressed here are her own.

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CONTRIBUTORS

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R.L. Nave

Anna Wolfe

Demetrice Sherman

Mike McDonald

Brinda Fuller Willis

Jake Sund

Tommy Burton

Gina Haug

R.L. Nave, native Missourian and news editor, roots for St. Louis (and the Mizzou Tigers)—and for Jackson. Send him news tips at rlnave@ jacksonfreepress.com or call him at 601-362-6121 ext. 12. He wrote the cover story.

Whether it’s sources treating her like a child or public officials dodging her phone calls, Investigative Reporter Anna Wolfe “cannot.” She can, however, take your story ideas at anna@ jacksonfreepress.com. She contributed to the cover story.

Mississippi Delta native and freelance writer Demetrice Sherman loves animals, books and chocolate, all in abundance. Name a movie and chances are, she still hasn’t seen it. She wrote the Jacksonian feature.

Mike McDonald attended the University of Montana. He enjoys listening to rap music, writing short stories and reading books about American history. He wrote an arts story.

Brinda Fuller Willis often plays tricks on people with her identical twin. She’ll go anywhere to hear the blues, and she is a real farmer’s daughter. She wrote a music story.

Jake Sund is a native of Madison with a bachelor’s in English education from Mississippi State University. If he’s out and about, chances are he’s watching live music somewhere in the Jackson area. He wrote a music story.

Music Listings Editor Tommy Burton is keeping the dream alive, one record at a time. He can usually be seen with a pair of headphones on. He compiled the music listings. Send gig info to music@jacksonfreepress.com.

Account Manager Gina Haug is a self-professed information collector who has a love for all things fun. She is a huge Ole Miss and Saints fan, and her birthday is her favorite holiday.

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Response to “Voter ID Suffers Big Blows� by R.L. Nave Wrightlaw We have to show identification to buy alcohol, tobacco, write checks, use debit/credit cards, visit in prisons, etc., and there isn’t a problem, so why is it a problem to show an identification to prove that you are in fact who you say you are to cast a vote? Makes no sense. Since the voter rolls aren’t kept up, it’s easy to vote three or four times. Maybe casting multiple votes helps the integrity of the election? tstauffer This argument is a little tired, as it seems to willfully overlook the weakness of the comparison. The assumption is

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that it’s “easy� to show ID to make these everyday transactions. But the argument ignores the clear and remarkable differences between voting and everyday purchases or transactions, to a point that I find, frankly, a little disconcerting coming from members of a democratic society. Here’s just a few: 1. Voting is a fundamental right, and one where there’s a legal tension over creating undue hardships, regulations and disincentives (poll taxes, literacy tests) in order for a person to quality. 2. As far as I’m aware, no one is required to head down to the county courthouse and register to purchase alcohol and tobacco, thus placing your residence and signature on file with the authorities. 3. When you purchase alcohol and tobacco, you aren’t required to do so at a specific purchasing precinct where your name and address are on a roll, nor are you required to sign your name to complete the purchase. 4. If you’re turned away from a store that misreads your valid ID and disallows you from purchasing alcohol or tobacco, you generally have the remedy of going to a different store and purchasing there. 5. Identification is used in financial transactions to combat a different type of fraud than one generally finds in voting; ID is used to verify age for tobacco and alcohol sales; for a credit card transaction, it would be used to verify that the name on a photo ID matches the name on the credit card. There’s relatively little voter fraud that would be mitigated by showing a photo ID; most voter fraud happens at the registration level. (The George W. Bush administration went hard after it in the ’90s and came up with a handful of cases—that were prosecuted.) There are more reasons why voter ID is a bad idea. ... It does cost money to get ID if you don’t have ID and the supporting documents; it’s not clear what happens if you haven’t updated your ID after a move, birthday or expiration; you’re placing that decision in the hands

of someone who probably has minimal training or is feeling pressure from politically motivated poll watchers. As I’ve mentioned on more than one occasion, I’m always surprised by the relative lack of coordination among supports of the voter ID movement and the very similar proposal to license gun owners in the U.S. Isn’t the logic the same for what I like to call the “2A-ID� proposal? It’s simple—let’s federally require training and licensing of gun owners—and the registration of all owned firearms, associating them with that licensed owner. The result would be a valid photo ID that must be carried at all times by anyone who wishes to purchase, carry or transport any sort of firearm or ammunition on his person or in vehicle. After all—you’ve got to have a license to drive a car. Why would you bristle at the idea of getting a license to own and use a gun? Pilgrim3 Because the government could then use that ID to find them, take their guns and ship them off to FEMA camps. Its amazing how competent the government becomes when these myths are trotted out, isn’t it? tsmith Of the 10 original Bill of Rights the second one is the right to bear arms with no mention of training or licensing. tstauffer @tsmith No mention? “Well-regulated militia� sounds like training to me. tsmith Not me. tstauffer Well then, I guess that solves it. :) tsmith Why would you bristle at the idea of voter ID? tstauffer Why would you bristle at the idea

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of gun owner ID? And, for the record, I already spoke to the voter ID issue in some detail up-thread. Duan @tstauffer—I see you got a handle on this one. @tsmith and @Pilgrim3 Todd broke it down to you guys from A to Z. I’m sorry, but he is super right on this one. Pilgrim3 Apparently, sarcasm and humor don’t communicate. 1. Most people that want to arm themselves will claim that the government is incompetent and useless. 2. Yet, when the idea of an ID for firearms comes out, all of sudden, the government becomes super competent and able to confiscate weapons at will and whisk their owners off to FEMA concentration camps.

Response to “Too Little Too Late?� by Anna Wolfe Cheviecave McDaniel needs to leave this alone. About four months after the primary and runoffs, he’s still wanting to challenge the election. The public has voted twice and both times they voted for Cochran. Let it rest.

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Sunday, October 19 Troops from the rival Koreas exchange gunfire along their border in the second such shooting in less than 10 days. ‌ The U.S. military airdrops weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish forces defending the Syrian city of Kobani against Islamic State militants.

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Monday, October 20 The Canadian government ships its experimental Ebola vaccine to the World Health Organization for possible use in West Africa. Tuesday, October 21 Hong Kong student leaders and government officials talk but agree on little as the city’s Beijing-backed leader reaffirms his unwillingness to compromise on the key demand of activists.

More Jackson Water Woes by R.L. Nave

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perform a rate-sufficiency study, assist with the development of the one-percent salestax master plan and review part of a 2013 contract the city signed with German international engineering conglomerate Siemens AG. The Siemens deal includes the installation of new digital water meters and a new billing system. The contract includes a “performance guarantee� of increased water revenue for the city. Raftelis is one of a handful of national firms specializing in water and sewer consulting. Ninety-nine percent of the firm’s PRUH :$7(5 VHH SDJH

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Wednesday, October 15 Hundreds of Hong Kong police officers drag away dozens of protesters and tear down barricades from an underpass at night in the worst violence since pro-democracy demonstrations began. ‌ Fears of the Ebola virus deepen with word that a second Dallas nurse caught the disease from a patient and flew across the Midwest aboard an airliner the day before she was diagnosed.

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Take your inspiration from Jackson area nature. Perhaps Willow the Fondren pony can be your muse?

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clients are municipal utilities, and approximately 90 percent of Raftelis’ work involves setting water and sewer rates. In many other cities where they have worked, including New Orleans, Birming-

ham and Baltimore, Raftelis’ audits have led to higher bills. Kishia Powell, Jackson’s public works director, has advised the city council that water rates need to be raised, although Yarber has stressed that hikes could be up to two years away. Still, the city has fallen about $12 million short of the roughly $80 million in water revenue projected for the fiscal

year 2014. That shortfall has not only meant less money going into the local economy, but it also violates the city’s bond covenants. Under a borrowing agreement, Jackson must maintain a 120-percent debtratio coverage, meaning it must collect 20 percent over and above expenses specifically to pay interest on its bonds. In recent years, Jackson has struggled

to meet that threshold. In August 2011, Moody’s downgraded the city’s water and sewer debt, citing, in part Jackson’s failure to raise water rates to meet its debt coverage. Failure to comply with debt-coverage ration goals could result in default, making it more difficult and costlier to borrow for future infrastructure needs. Comment at www.jfp.ms. Email R.L. Nave at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

JPS Wants Tech-Savvy Students by Anna Wolfe

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research showing improvements in projectbased learning, independent class work and student engagement due to technology from a one-year study. Gray said youth today struggle to concentrate without gadgets. Students can receive a lecture from a textbook “for about 10 minutes, and they need something else to engage in, and most of the time it’s that little device that’s on their hip or in their pocket,” Gray said. Research has shown that the effect of a technology-integrated education is especially powerful for young people, whose brains can potentially lose the ability to sustain attention.

have terrible ADD, and I won’t disagree with you. But this is taking place in all facets of kids’ lives, and if school is the only place where they have to go with a pen and paper, and listen to a teacher at the front of the room, they’re probably not going to be too invested in it,” Bengloff said. How Much Is Too Much? While public schools rush to fill their classrooms with the latest technology, many people worry that the use of technology stunts independent thinking and takes away the benefit of human interaction. Today’s young people aged 8 to 18 spend twice as much time in front of TRIP BURNS

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ackson is plugging in and getting fully on board with the nation’s increasing push toward technology. The city and C Spire have teamed up to provide 1 gigabit per second fiber—100 times faster Internet access—to the homes of Jackson residents, but the advancements don’t stop there. They’re in schools. This year marked the beginning of Alignment Jackson, an initiative to improve Jackson Public Schools by increasing professional development, creating teacher teams and, most popularly, providing a MacBook laptop to each ninth grader. The policy change also allows students to bring their devices—like cell phones—to class with them. Matt Bengloff, the interim board chairman of Mississippi First, an education-policy think tank and project director for Clarksdale’s Race to the Top, a grant program, advocates the use of technology in the classroom as a tool to engage through hands-on teaching. Using technology—as students do in other areas of their lives—can create an individualized experience for students, give them the tools to search for answers themselves and is a way for students to take ownership over their education, Bengloff said. At a Jackson 2000 meeting on Oct. 8, JPS Superintendent Cedrick Gray spoke about the hurdles JPS has leaped in the last few years. The school district, for example, is no longer fighting a lawsuit against the city for funding and is now in full compliance of special-education requirements after having been lacking in accommodations for specialneeds students. What stuck out at Gray’s visit, though, was JPS’ push to use more technology in the classroom. “This is a move to usher our students into a realm of how they learn as opposed to how we want to teach. We want to put a textbook in front of them and lecture to them for an hour, and that doesn’t work for our young people anymore,” Gray said. The Institute Society for Technology in Education claims that tech tools can increase student achievement and better prepare students for college. The institute cites

JPS Superintendent Cedrick Gray welcomes positive changes to the city’s schools, including an emphasis on bringing technology to the classroom.

“Their brains are rewarded not for staying on task but for jumping to the next thing,” said Michael Rich, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and executive director of the Center on Media and Child Health in Boston in The New York Times. “The worry is we’re raising a generation of kids in front of screens whose brains are going to be wired differently.” Bengloff believes the benefits are great, even if technology can create distractions. “You can say that this generation is too plugged in, and everyone is going to

screens as in school, San Francisco researcher Vicky Rideout found. This presents a variety of challenges, even beyond short attention spans that can hurt focus and even lead to early onset of anxiety and depression, as research shows. For one, they may have difficulty making independent decisions. “The underlying issue is that they will become dependent on the Internet in order to solve problems and conduct their personal, professional, and civic lives,” said Paul Gardner-Stephen of Flinders University.

“Thus, centralized powers that can control access to the Internet will be able to significantly control future generations.” The Pew Research Internet Project found that millennials will both benefit and suffer from their increasingly “plugged in” lifestyles. Some education experts caution that increased reliance on the Internet and technology will result in ineffectiveness in its absence. Others, including representatives from Microsoft and Yahoo, who admittedly have a reason to be biased, argue that brains are being rewired by the use of technology for the better and that young people’s cognitive ability will improve vastly. This push-pull on technology means that many educators and institutions are looking for ways to balance the benefits of technology with avoiding over-use. The Waldorf Schools of North America, of which there are around 160 across the country, focus on teaching students through hands-on tasks. Even though many of the parents who send their kids to Waldorf use technology in their work, especially at Waldorf School of the Peninsula where 75 percent of the parents work for high-tech companies, the private school doesn’t allow computers in the classroom. In fact, the school discourages the students’ use of technology outside the classroom as well. Instead, teachers at Waldorf engage students through human engagement and interaction like doing physical exercises or teaching a skill like knitting, which they find more beneficial. Currently, the school begins letting students get acclimated to tech tools in the eighth grade, but for JPS, it seems no age is too early to start integrating technology into education. “Our children are innovative. We have to catch up with them. … We’d love to put a tablet in the hands of each of our kindergarten, pre-k (teachers),” Gray said. He added: “We’re trying to stay above that fray. … It’s a work in progress.” Comment at jfp.ms. Email Anna Wolfe at anna@jacksonfreepress.com.

DISH | politics

Wilson: Cashing in on Creativity by R.L. Nave

Film, obviously. Everybody talks about Farish Street, which has been such an up-and-down project, but there were problems with the contract from the word go. For one, (with) the oversight from the National Historical Society. When (David) Watkins said they have to have approval ... and he just started listing elements, you knew the bureaucracy was so deep that the project was going to struggle. The One Lake project. Let me tell you something—that’s got creative economy, that’s got tourism and flood control. I grew up in a neighborhood (where) I couldn’t get home from school because cars couldn’t get through the street (when) Eubanks Creek flooded. The city couldn’t do anything about it because they didn’t have the budget to renovate the rest of Eubanks Creek. So you had flooding for weeks … that was just poor planning on (the) part of the city. You often hear that Jackson isn’t business friendly. There are lot of businesses in Ward 1. What’s your assessment of the city’s business climate?

There are problems. One of them is water. (Another is) taxes. Some of the red tape. Quite frankly, there’s a lot of confusion in setting up businesses: How do I set one up? Do I have to file for a business permit? If I do, how do I classify my business? There needs to be more of a hands-on approach from the executive branch reaching out to nurture business.

changing because of people who have energy, who want to come back in and change things (and) who want to make a difference. And that’s great. We need more of it. We need policies that make people think Jackson is better. There’s always this debate over

people are going to be taxed, they should vote on their taxation. I think that the overwhelming support that (the) tax got shows the city supported it. I think the people (should) have a say on tax increases. Did you vote for it?

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Where do you see the opportunities for the creative economy?

We’ve got to lower taxes. Private business doesn’t want to pay the sewage taxes that we have. That’s a big cost. The water problems, with boil water notices and things like that. That costs businesses.

I did. That’s probably the only time I voted in favor of higher taxes. What about the pro-equality resolution? What’s your view on resolutions in general and that one specifically?

Amile Wilson, the owner of a creativeservices firm, believes teaming up with private businesses could go a long way to solve Jackson’s challenges.

Symbolic resolutions, to me, are a lot of fluff with no substance. It’s like naming streets. Naming streets is a giant waste of the city’s time and a waste of money. On the LGBT resolution, do you know how you would have voted?

But Mayors Johnson and Lumumba were concerned about giving up Jackson’s independence.

We can talk about being independent all we want to but, in the end, we’re all dependent on one another. We rely on a relationship with the state. We rely on relationships with the federal government. We rely on relationships with private businesses. They were concerned about Jackson’s independence; well, now we’re under a $400 million mandate from the EPA. How independent are we now? Do you have a wish list for Ward 1 in the 1-percent sales tax money?

Streets have to be paved; they have to be smooth; they have to be repaired timely. People, when they see potholes, and they see them linger, they feel like no one cares. And that’s been one thing that has plagued the city—the feeling that no one downtown cares. The water-delivery system is an obvious one. We’ve got to be fixing the pipes. And I want to take a look at these creeks. I want us to look at (Eubanks) creek and all of the creeks and start saying: “How can we stop these things from flooding? How can we make them nicer?” I read a lot about an exodus from northeast Jackson. How much truth is there to that?

There’s obviously truth to that. You look at the population shifts, the rise in renters. There is a shift away from all (of) Jackson. Some of that is changing, and it’s

whether things are actual or perceived problems. It doesn’t matter when you’re losing your tax base whether a problem is actual or perceived. If people are moving out because of an actual or perceived problem, they’re still moving out. We need to fix both: We need to fix the perception, and we need to fix the actual issues. Tell me about your plan for expanding the number of police officers in JPD.

A 2009 study was done that said if we just cut redundancy and lowered our civilian employees down to the southeastern average, we could afford, for the same money, to have 600 officers and give everybody a raise. In addition, it costs money every time we train an officer, they stick around for a year or two and then leave. I’m proposing a G.I. Bill for our police. You come in with in-state public university college debt, you serve four years full-time or six years in the reserves, and we’ll pay it off. It’s the equivalent of a raise without the city having to pay additional pension and FICA taxes, plus it signs them in and guarantees a four-year retention. And if we retain them for four years, the odds of them staying on and staying in the reserve program go up. Let’s talk about some of the big votes on council this year, starting with the vote to authorize the election on the 1-percent sales tax.

I think that was a great vote. I think that was the way it needed to be done. If

I wouldn’t have been a big fan of it. I would have opposed even having a vote on it because, quite frankly, LGBT people are covered by the entire Constitution. ... Everybody is covered under the Constitution, and I get sick of symbolic resolutions that go out of their way to make an issue of something without solving anything. And to me, that’s what the LGBT resolution did. It went out of its way to be grandstanding and garner press, but it didn’t solve anything. It didn’t even present a problem. And that’s what bothers me. The city council also voted to raise the minimum wage for city employees.

I would have supported that. Part of retaining good people is paying them like they’re worth it. We expanded a lot of the executive branch’s money in terms of salaries. You did some work for Mayor Yarber’s campaign. You’re in a lot of political circles. As a young person, how do you assure people of your independence, that you’re not going to be a rubber stamp for the mayor and others?

Anyone who knows me know that I am my own guy. I fight my own fights. I listen to everyone involved. ... I’m not beholden to anybody. And I care what Leland Speed thinks. I care what Socrates Garrett thinks because they’ve been successful. But I’m an independent businessman. I’ve always made a career of finding new ways and unexpected ways to accomplish things. I do my research and do my homework and then vote the way I feel I should. Read the full transcript at www. jfp.ms/amilewilson. Email R.L. Nave at 11 rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

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mile Wilson can often be spotted around Jackson with a camera in his hand. In truth, Wilson has got his hands in a lot more than just photography. A graduate of Belhaven University, Wilson runs two publications—Mississippi Aesthetic, a free arts magazine, and Mississippi Attorney-at-Law Magazine, the local franchise of Attorney-at-Law, a national magazine. He also runs Hapax Creative, a firm that does photography, video production, graphic and web design, and manages investments for creative projects, including one planned for Jackson next year. “We need someone on the council who understands the creative economy, who can provide both leadership and oversight so that Jackson’s able to get the best deal out of each project and grow,” he said. In a recent interview, Wilson, 29, talked to the Jackson Free Press about the creative economy as economic development, addressing infrastructure and improving the capital city’s image.

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Preaching a ‘Black Genocide’ Parable by Anna Wolfe

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The delivery of the message lacked uniqueness as well. The four preachers were brought to Jackson by Thomas, a white antiabortion organization leader, to speak to a group of mostly white abortion protesters. “There have always been plantation preachers who have had to preach the truncated gospel that appeased white supremacy and sought to ameliorate the liberatory imagination of black folks,” said Rev. C.J. Rhodes, Oakland Memorial Chapel clergyman and the Alcorn State University director of student religious life. Thomas responded by saying: “I’m a white man. In other words, I have limited credibility when it comes to our black brothers and sisters simply because of my race. … I’m trying to get a specific message out to a specific people.” But, Rhodes argues, these are not the voices that represent the majority of the black community, and they do more to hinder the dialogue than to promote it. “That’s not the way to get a message across to black folks. You don’t call on some buffoon to come out and showboat and do this clown show for 15 minutes to get the attention of black women and men,” Rhodes said.

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t wasn’t a large crowd that gathered to N.Y., used most of his 14 minutes on the hear a group of infamous clergymen pulpit outside JWHO to tell a fictional story share their prophecy at the last abortion about how Beyoncé, Jay Z, representatives clinic in the state last week. Their mes- from McDonald’s, Nike and Essence Magasage: Abortion is “black genocide.” zine and other businesspeople expressed The four black preachers stood at a concern to him about the decreasing marpulpit near the edge of the Jackson Women’s ketplace of black people due to abortion. Health Organization property, next to a Even though he eventually admitted fence decorated with signs reading “Don’t that his story was a parable and that he was Be A Dicktator” and “You Won’t Defetus.” Near the entrance of the bright pink building, women and men wearing eccentric clothing chanted “women’s lives matter” and “my abortion saved my life.” Only one or two black protesters were in attendance. The preachers, some called “outrageous provocateurs” by local clergyman C.J. Rhodes, were there as part of a demonstration by Operation Save America, a con‘Uncle Ruckus’ troversial Texas-based organization One fact anti-abortion activaimed at abolishing abortion in ists like to call upon is that Margathe United States. ret Sanger—birth-control pioneer Police cars lined the opposite and founder of American Birth side of the road. A group of policeControl League, which became men huddled around one of the Planned Parenthood—recruited Speaking in Jackson recently, Pastor James Manning black preachers wearing a “USA” black preachers to spread the mesof Harlem said black abortion would be the end T-shirt. It was the Rev. Jesse Lee sage of birth control in 1939. of Beyoncé, Jay Z, McDonald’s, Nike and Essence Peterson, founder of Brotherhood Rhodes questions this simiMagazine. Figuratively speaking, of course. Organization of a New Destiny larity. “I wonder if there’s a group and Fox News contributor, and he of white conservatives who have, in had just been accused of shoving Michelle never told these things, he said the facts are essence, hired these particular preachers to be Colon, a JWHO escort who eventually true—that record labels and magazines that the conservative versions of a Jesse Jackson or pressed charges against the preacher. cater to black communities are losing cus- an Al Sharpton,” Rhodes said. Peterson, who calls himself a friend of tomers due to abortion. “So, they have to dance to the puppet Fox News’ Sean Hannity, took the pulpit “In their secret board rooms, that’s strings of Sean Hannity. … When you pull shortly after. “They’re trying to get me ar- what they’re talking about; they just don’t back, what you recognize is that this conrested over there, but that’s OK. I’ll go to jail invite me to come to hear it,” Manning versation is predominately had by Peterson, for the unborn child,” he said. said. “But it’s the truth, and it’s the truth by Manning, in contexts of very, very white from almighty God.” conservative audience or black audiences From Parable to Prophecy When asked about the myths spread that one would argue are self-hating.” The preachers speaking in Jackson at the press conference, like the fact that Manning, Rhodes points out, has gone consisted of Peterson, Pastor James Man- McDonald’s will cease to operate in three to on record saying blacks have done nothing of ning, the Rev. Mychal Massie and Bishop seven years because of a shrinking black pop- note in history except with the help of white Otis Kenner, all provocative and all oppo- ulation, Thomas said that Manning’s claims people. Manning has called Obama the son nents of abortion. were prophecy, not necessarily based in fact. of Satan, the ultimate evil. Manning told Operation Save America “I wonder if he’s doing this as a real National Director Rusty Thomas that he was ‘Plantation Preachers’ sincere sense of call, or is this a propaganda there to give the eulogy for JWHO and to Framing abortion in the context of thing for him?” Rhodes said. “They almost say “it’s over,” Thomas told the JFP later. Un- genocide—defined as the intentional killing sound like Uncle Ruckus,” Rhodes said, fortunately for Manning, a 5th U.S. Circuit of a large group of people of a specific ethnic referring to a self-hating African American Court of Appeals panel found that a law de- group or nationality—is not a new strategy character on the cartoon “Boondocks.” signed to close the clinic was unconstitutional in the anti-abortion movement. Those dediEven Massie, the creator of the Daily in July, suggesting that it is not, in fact, over. cated to abolishing abortion often compare Rant blog, downplayed civil-rights concerns The preacher, who is from Harlem, abortion to the Holocaust and the KKK. at the press conference.

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“We have people saying, ‘Oh it’s so horrible,’” Massie said in his most exaggerated, mocking voice. “‘Black children, black people are so mistreated. Black people can’t get a break. Black people are disenfranchised. Back people can’t get an education. Black people can’t get a job. Black people can’t get food.’” “You can go without food. You cannot go without life,” Massie said. ‘Womb to Tomb’ The preachers and many protesters wanted desperately to share their knowledge of Planned Parenthood’s history. The reproductive health-care provider has ties to Sanger, who joined a shocking number of progressives, conservatives and early-20thcentury intellectuals to support eugenics (forced sterilization) for poor women, as well the ability to choose contraception and abortion. Anti-abortion activists use this fact to claim that abortion providers are racist and target black families. Colon, a “Pink House Defender” (the clinic is hot pink), said that Planned Parenthood and Jackson Women’s Health Organization are not only unaffiliated—they’re competitors. Planned Parenthood does not contribute funds to JWHO because JWHO is an independent provider. “It’s like McDonald’s and Burger King,” Colon said. At one point during the press conference, the speaker began “my question is ….” But he was drowned out by Colon. “My question is: What have you done for the black children of Jackson, Mississippi?” Colon shouted. Rhodes offered a similar sentiment. “To be pro-life is not just about caring for the child in the womb—it’s womb to tomb. So if we’re supporting policies that will, in effect, hinder the prosperity and flourishing of the child out of the womb, that’s not really a pro-life position,” Rhodes said. Still, Rhodes—the new father of twins—considers himself “pro-life,” but he takes a “pastoral care” approach. He counsels women and couples to find resources to make abortion a last option, instead of focusing on the procedure itself. “If we have a community, if we’ve got resources around that couple, around that mother in particular, that could assist her in bringing this child full term and then giving birth to this child, loving and nurturing this child, then let’s look at those options first,” Rhodes said. A focus on education and health-care policies is essential to solving the root of the issue, he said. The fact is, black communities are having discussions about abortion, but “when the face of the conversation becomes Pastor Manning, it really cheapens it,” Rhodes said. “Automatically, ears turn deaf.” Comment at jfp.ms. Email Anna Wolfe at anna@jacksonfreepress.com.

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Courting Dixiecrat Votes

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y grandmother had the best shocked face. Her eyes crinkled at the edges, and her lips tensed. It was a bit of a scowl mixed with a disapproving over-the-eyeglasses look. It always made me chuckle. “Barbie, 321 Contact?� she had asked. “Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and 321 Contact please!� I quickly replied. I was 8 and loved following politics and current events. The personal was political to me even at a young age. I listened closely and could see quite clearly the impact lawmakers had on my life. This election season has been exceedingly disappointing to me as a liberal. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would see a Democratic candidate sign a pledge from a xenophobic hate group to attract votes from the right. Yet, here it is 2014, and that’s exactly what Travis Childers did when he signed FAIR’s anti-immigration pledge. To be clear, as a progressive, I don’t expect candidates I vote for to pass an ideological purity test. I do expect them to be a progressive or liberal at heart. I do think they should align with the party they affiliate with if they expect the party faithful to support them. At no time do I expect to see them throw my Hispanic brothers and sisters under the bus in the hope of gaining votes of bigots. I don’t expect to see Democrats promoting fear of immigration by implying undocumented people are welfare queens who also steal jobs. I am disappointed to see state Democrats hoping black voters fear Hispanic immigration and will vote for candidates pushing that fear. Some are even promoting the idea that blacks have the most to lose due to immigration. It is classism and race-baiting worthy of Dixiecrats and Lee Atwater, not 2014 Democrats. It’s hard enough to get excited about a state party that has been running from being progressive. It’s impossible for me, as a black woman, to trust a candidate who is willing to stigmatize one racial or ethnic group to gain the votes of another. It makes me believe that the next dog whistle can easily be blown in my direction. The party that I’ve felt drawn to since I was a child is leaving me. Where are the liberals? What I see around me are a lot of “liberal� lawmakers trying to get by being “safe� by shutting their mouths and playing conservative. It’s a game I have no desire to take part in. If winning means turning away from basic principles of progressives and liberals, that’s not winning. If Democrats want to be the party of Mississippi and not represent ghosts of our state, they need to rethink their strategy and do it quickly.

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Why It Stinks: Is Rev. Mychal Massie saying that you can’t live without life? That’s too meta. He seems to suggest that the racism and lack of opportunity that African Americans face on a daily basis is nothing compared to the issue of abortion, and that those who worry that African Americans “can’t get food� are focused on the wrong issue. Besides, the faulty logic he uses in saying that humans can actually “go without food,� which they cannot, mocking civil rights concerns isn’t helping him, either.

Our U.S. Senate Endorsement: No to Childers, Cochran

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e decline to endorse a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Mississippi, the premier political contest in the Nov. 4 general election. In the past, the JFP has declined to endorse in elections where the candidates were equally lackluster. Other times, we sit out endorsements when the contestants so evenly impress us that we are confident that any one of the candidates would make a fine representative. Neither scenario is true of our decision to endorse neither the incumbent, U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, a Republican, nor his rival, former U.S. Rep. Travis Childers. Let’s start with Childers. Since the summer, when Cochran was still fighting for his life against state Sen. Chris McDaniel in the Republican primary, the Jackson Free Press has been asking Childers—who had virtually no competition in his primary—to sit down with us and make a case for his candidacy to our audience. In doing so, Childers would have a prime opportunity to introduce and define himself to one of the largest and most diverse audiences, politically and otherwise, among news organizations in Mississippi. Additionally, Childers could have quelled some of the concerns of progressive voters with reservations about some of the candidate’s strong conservative positions, such as his pandering to the tea-party set by signing an anti-immigrant group’s amnesty pledge. But he had no interest in it. After signing the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s pledge to “protect American jobs,� by marginalizing the nation’s growing im-

migrant population, we have serious reservations about Childers’ sincerity in taking ostensibly populist stances on equal pay and workers’ rights. That brings us to U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, who has had a long career as a seemingly fairminded wheeler-dealer. To be sure, Cochran has single-handedly put more—and needed—federal money into the state’s coffers than any other elected official, Democratic or Republican. The problem is, Cochran rebukes the federal government and its spending when it is politically expedient, even as he rained federal manna down for GOP pet projects. At age 76 and one of the more senior members of Congress, Cochran’s tenure on the Hill is probably drawing to a close. He could be using these years—and his tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., as well as here, at home, in Mississippi—to talk in bold colors about the need for progress in the Magnolia State and the need to reject the politics of division. Instead, he’s doubling down and blowing dog whistles to xenophobes by touting how many times he voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act while health-care justice continues to elude the majority of Mississippi. We also suspect that an establishment Republican is waiting for Gov. Phil Bryant to appoint to the seat should Cochran decide not to serve out a new term. That is, more political games. We encourage all Mississippians to take advantage of their constitutional right to cast their ballots on Nov. 4. We just can’t in good conscience support either man at the top of the ballot.

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n September, Travis Childers, Mississippi’s Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, completed a survey about immigration. Childers’ stance has consistently been anti-immigration, so his opposing amnesty for “dreamers,” young people whose parents brought them into this country without authorization when they were too young to object, is no surprise. What angers Democrats is the questionnaire’s source: The Federation for American Immigration Reform, known as FAIR. The questions are: 1. Will you oppose or support legislation that would grant any form of work authorization to illegal aliens? 2. Will you oppose or support legislation that would increase the overall number of immigrants (legal permanent residents/green card holders) admitted each year to the U.S.? 3. Will you oppose or support legislation that would increase the overall number of guest workers admitted each year to the U.S.? Childers opposed each one, and FAIR is crowing about its first Democratic “pledge signer.” Despite its name, FAIR has no interest in immigration “reform”; it seeks “to end illegal immigration through enforcement of existing immigration laws as well as the application of new technology” and “to set legal immigration at the lowest feasible levels consistent with the national security, economic, demographic, environmental and socio-cultural interests of the present and future.” The Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, both of which fight anti-Semitism and other organized hate efforts, have linked FAIR to white-supremacist racism, a charge richly supported by statements of the organizations leaders and its funding connections. In the ADL’s 2000 paper “Is FAIR Unfair?” the authors include FAIR among “individuals and organizations whose anti-immigration position is marked by mean-spirited distortions, nativist bias, anti-foreigner fear-mongering, and even overt racism. These groups foment an atmosphere chilling to the notion of an open, tolerant America that respects all persons, regardless of origin.” Among FAIR’s shadier dealings, the ADL outlined its acceptance of grants from eugenics research organization Pioneer Fund, “which has sponsored projects based on the notion that Blacks are genetically less intelligent than whites.” John Tanton, who founded FAIR in 1997 and still sits on its board of directors, has compared immigrants to bacteria. In an ad opposing Sen.

Spencer Abraham, R-Mich., whose ancestry is Lebanese, FAIR “suggested that the senator’s position would cause Americans to be ‘… exposed to the threat of terrorism from criminals like Osama bin Laden.’” Beginning in the late 2000s, FAIR became increasingly “active in pushing antiimmigrant laws at the state and local level,” reports the SPLC. “Attorney Kris Kobach, who works for FAIR’s legal arm, the Immigration Reform Law Institute, helped to write Arizona Senate Bill 1070. The bill, signed by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on April 23, 2010, forces police officers to detain individuals who they suspect to be illegal immigrants and makes it a misdemeanor under state law for non-citizen immigrants to fail to carry their immigration papers.” The United States Supreme Court ruled largely against the law in 2012. In 2007, the SPLC discovered 17 boxes of Tanton’s private papers at the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. Those papers revealed that his prejudice includes Catholics and Jews, and confirm relationships with Holocaust deniers and white supremacists. The SPLC designated FAIR a hate group in 2007. In Tanton’s world view, the SPLC wrote, “Nations and their cultures … are largely determined by biology—race.” Blaming immigrants for unemployment, as FAIR does, is like blaming poor people’s poverty on their “character flaws.” The tropes are untrue but make us blame some monolithic, anonymous group for our misfortunes. Whether it’s agriculture, mining, building railroads or settling a frontier, immigrants historically take on the dangerous, backbreaking work that a comfortable citizenry will not. Nearly every group—Germans, Irish, Italians, Chinese, Vietnamese, Mexican—begins at the bottom of the economy and works their way up while contributing enormously to the America’s prosperity. Unfortunately, as they assimilate, they also climb on the anti-immigrant bandwagon for subsequent groups with the same tired rallying cry: “Immigrants take our jobs!” It’s not that simple. Unemployment is largely the result of policies that reward offshoring, outsourcing and public-service profitization while decimating workers’ rights, public-sector jobs and fair wages. That Travis Childers aligns himself with FAIR shows that he’s not ready for prime time. Ronni Mott is an award-winning writer and a yoga teacher, just stumbling and fumbling toward bliss like everyone else.

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year term, authorizing Gov. Phil Bryant, himself a tea-party ally, to name a replacement, and Maynor was prepared to accept Childers’ conservatism. Now, she’s torn about what she’ll do when she goes into the voting booth on Tuesday, Nov. 4. As long as he doesn’t do anything else to offend her between now and then, she’s leaning toward Childers anyway. “I want him to win,� she says, with a hint of reluctance. “I just don’t want his name on my car.� Gravel-Road Politician

he Jackson City Council set Dec. 2 as the special election for the seat recently vacated by Quentin Whitwell. The runoff, if needed, will take place two weeks later on Dec. 16. As of press time, these five candidates have announced they would compete in the nonpartisan race: Dorsey Carson, attorney Amile Wilson, owner of a creative-services firm Richard Sellers, teacher Charles Barbour, retired Guardsman and former Hinds County supervisor Ashby Foote, investment adviser

Travis Childers, a former congressman from Booneville, hopes traditional Democratic voters and tea-party members can help him upset Republican U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran in November.

interview with this newspaper before this issue went to press.) Unlike Cochran, who has served in the Senate for almost as long as McDaniel has been alive, Childers remains unfamiliar to voters outside northeast Mississippi, including here in the Jackson metro. Born and raised in Booneville, Childers often mentions the family role he assumed at the age of 16 after his father died. At the time, Childers worked nights and weekends at a local store to support his mother and sister, a story he likes to tell during campaign stops. Brandon Presley, a fellow Democrat and a member of the Mississippi Public Service Commission, describes Childers as a “gravel-

road politician,� who can connect with voters in remote areas of the state. Presley, who has known Childers for a decade, also points to Childers’ hard work to support his family as a testament to the candidate’s work ethic. “He came up hard, so hard work is not anything new to him,� Presley said. Childers continued working while a student at Northeast Mississippi Junior College and, in 1980, he graduated from the University of Mississippi with a degree in business and went into real estate. Eleven years later, Childers won his first election as Prentiss County chancery clerk, PRUH &+,/'(56 VHH SDJH

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Maynor finds herself in the same spot as a lot of Democrats in Mississippi. The choice is between Childers and incumbent Cochran, unless the Mississippi Supreme Court does the unthinkable and overturns the results of the June Republican primary. The polls firmly point to a Cochran victory, but even less-than-enthusiastic Childers’ supporters would point to similar polls that showed the veteran senator pummeling his young opponent, McDaniel, as evidence that Childers, too, could pull off a November surprise. Between now and then, Childers is finely threading with delicate string. He must simultaneously hold together as much of his Democratic base as possible while convincing Republicans who aren’t too keen on Cochran that he’s every bit as socially conservative as McDaniel. Of course, after keeping a low profile during the summer’s primaries, Childers’ first order of business is, or should be, to introduce himself to voters. (His campaign, however, failed to respond over recent months to repeated requests for a question-and-answer

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State Rep. Steve Holland, D-Plantersville, lost to Travis Childers in the Democratic primary for Congress in 2008. He believes Childers, a former Prentiss County chancery clerk, still has a strong support within the state’s tight-knit courthouse crowd.

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which serves as clearinghouse for county records such as land deeds and minutes of supervisors’ meetings. Later, he converted a local high school into an assisted-living facility. With his wife, Tami, Childers continues to run the facility, called The Landmark Community, in Booneville and is a part-owner of two realestate firms, A&C Enterprises and DLC Enterprises. Presley said that Childers’ pragmatism in business and politics has helped him remain popular even in his former district, which now leans Republican and is represented by U.S. Rep. Alan Nunnelee, who ousted Childers four years ago. “Standing in a corner screaming isn’t going to educate a child. You have to find a way to move the ball down the court,” Presley said. In 2008, Childers jumped into the race to replace Roger Wicker as the 1st Congressional District representative, beating out rivals that included state Rep. Steve Holland of Plantersville. In fact, most legislation Childers authored during his two years in the U.S. House seemed to align with his campaign messaging of today, combining give-thelittle-guy-a-break populism with meat-andpotato issues of social conservatism like championing gun rights, and being against abortion rights and illegal immigration. During the contentious primary between Cochran and McDaniel, when the candidates locked horns over who could diss Obamacare the hardest, Childers seemed to

be staking out new, possibly fertile ground as a fighter for the middle class. And he said he wouldn’t vote to repeal Obamacare. “Mississippians know that I have a solid record of being an independent guy who will work across party lines and stand up to the powers-that-be when needed,” Childers said in the press release announcing his bid. “In the U.S. Senate, I will continue to put Mississippi’s middle class first.” At the Neshoba County Fair in July, Childers not only criticized Republicans for spending heftily on their primary race— around $17 million in total—but he made an overture to blue-collar Mississippians. Holland, the longtime state representative Childers beat in the 2008 primary, said that as a result of Childers’ working-man ethos, the candidate continues to have a strong base in what Holland calls “the courthouse crowd.” “That crowd sticks together, and Travis has a way of melding grassroots support,” Holland said. Going Populist

At Neshoba and at other public events in the weeks following, Childers hit three points again and again: He blasted Mississippi Republicans for declining to expand Medicaid even though he voted against the Affordable Care Act, which allows states to put more people on Medicaid, because, he said the law was well-intentioned but “not the right bill.” Childers also supports raising the minimum wage, which now stands at $7.25 an

On the Issues hour. Childers invoked his mother in calling for equal pay for women despite the fact that he voted against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 while in Congress. At a September press conference, Childers pointed out that women earn 75.6 cents for every dollar a man makes and that the average woman in Mississippi makes $11,000 less than men and earn the lowest wage of any cohort of women in the nation. “After my father’s death, I watched my mom work two jobs to support our fractured family—needless to say, I only have to look to back as far as my mother to tell you that I support equal pay for equal work. I learned a long time ago to listen to the women in my family,� Childers said. “The votes against equal pay for women show how out of touch Senator Cochran is when it comes to the daily struggles of everyday Mississippians. What’s unfair is that women are losing thousands of dollars in income each year and have less money to spend on basic necessities for the entire family,� Childers said. “When it comes to putting groceries on the table, a mother’s money counts just as much as a father’s—a woman pays the same price for a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread and a tank of gas as a man does.� Democrats like Maynor hoped that with the Republican primary bloodying up the GOP’s eventual nominee and making a sizable chunk of Republicans sit out the November election, it would be possible for a Democrat who kept his nose clean and said the right things to scoot into the seat. Childers was on a good trajectory to do just that. Where early polls had the Democrat trailing by wide margins to either Republican, Childers started to close the gap as the year dragged on. Perhaps Childers’ campaign handlers believed that the candidate had to do something bold in the final days of campaign to put him over the top. Signing the FAIR pledge could be seen as political calculation: Courting angry conservative voters will pay bigger dividends that remaining on safe ground of talking about bread-and-but-

ter issues of health care and fairer wages for women and the poor.

– Health Care – Cochran: Has voted to oppose, defund or repeal the Affordable Care Act 102 times. In 2013, he and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz sponsored the Obamacare Repeal Act because he believes that “Obamacare denies health-care choice, stifles economic mobility and costs American jobs. “

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In some ways, the first and last bills Childers sponsored during his term in Congress define him. After winning a special election to replace Roger Wicker, who was appointed to the Senate in 2008, Childers joined the House Financial Services Committee and introduced his first bill, which he hoped would spur economic investment in Mississippi businesses that were still feeling the effects of the Hurricane Katrina. The Invest in Small Business Act of 2008 would have helped small businesses attract investors and make small businesses eligible for tax cuts. In addition, eligible taxpayers under the bill would pay zero taxes on capital gains. “This legislation is especially important for communities that are working to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina and are counting on small businesses to create jobs and help their communities rebound. I’ll be working hard to pass the Invest in Small Business Act, and continue to do everything I can to create jobs in North Mississippi,� Childers said at the time. The bill died in the House Ways and Means Committee, which Rep. Charlie Rangel, who had been besieged by ethics violations, chaired. Two and half years later, after losing his seat to Nunnelee, Childers introduced the International Child Protection Act of 2010. The bill, which never made it out of committee, would have barred entry into the US for immigrants convicted of sex crimes against children. In all, Childers was the primary sponsor on 19 bills. Not counting resolutions, several of Childers’ bill were related to gun rights, which earned the Blue Dog Democrat high marks from the powerful National Rifle Association, others sought to help homeowners PRUH &+,/'(56 VHH SDJH

Childers: Voted against the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but is against its repeal. “It is the law of the land now,� he told the Sea Coast Echo, a newspaper in Bay St. Louis. “I am very much in favor of health-care reform, and I think we can do a better job. I would be willing to improve on the current law and move on.� – Immigration – Cochran: Claims to have “consistently voted against inadequate immigration legislation,� including President Ronald Reagan’s amnesty bill in 1986, which tightened the U.S. border but made individuals who entered the nation before 1982 eligible for amnesty. He has also opposed legislation to grant legal status to immigrants who are already in the U.S.without authorization. Childers: Signed the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s so-called no-amnesty pledge, saying that he opposes both authorization for people who came to the U.S. illegally as well as expanding the guest worker program. “There are too many corporations in our state and across the nation who are hiring illegal immigrants and guest workers instead of providing unemployed Mississippians with opportunities to perform hard work at a decent wage,� he said in a news release. – Guns – Cochran: Received an A+ rating from the National Rifle Association. Childers: Received an A+ rating and endorsement from the National Rifle Association during his first campaign for U.S. House of Representatives. – Women’s Issues – Cochran: Supported the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013, which was designed to combat domestic violence, sex trafficking and other kinds of violence. Cochran is anti-abortion and supported legislation barring the use of federal funds to pay for abortion and requiring Affordable Care Act health-care exchange insurers to disclose whether abortions are a covered benefit. Received a 100 percent rating from the National Right to Life Committee. Childers: Endorsed in his race for Congress by the National Right to Life for his antiabortion record. Voted against the against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, but has said during his U.S. Senate campaign supports “equal pay for equal work.� – Economic Issues – Cochran: Voted against the 2008 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. Childers: Supported the 2008 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. Opposed the Troubled Asset Relief Program for banks in 2008 as well as the auto bailout, the latter of which Childers later said he regrets.

Court of Appeals—District 4, Position 1 Virginia Carlton

Hinds County Chancery Court Denise Owen

Hinds County Chancery Court Dewayne Thomas

Hinds County Chancery Court William H. (Bill) Singletary

Hinds County Chancery Court Patricia D. Wise

Hinds County Circuit Court Ali M. ShamsidDeen Jeff Weill, Sr.

Hinds County Circuit Court Tomie Green Hinds County Circuit Court Winston L. Kidd Hinds County Circuit Court William “Bill� Gowan Hinds County Court Melvin V. Priester Sr.

Hinds County School Board Bill Elkins For School Board 5 Ella ‘Ellouise’ Beecham-Green Dexter Hutton Carolyn Shears Samuel Monty Wilson

Hinds County Court Bruce W. Burton Kimberly L. Campbell Henry C. Clay, III Bridgett M. Clayton LaRita Cooper-Stokes William ‘Bill’ Walker

Hinds County Court Malcolm O. Harrison Johnnie McDaniels William Louis ‘Bill’ Skinner, II

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get tax breaks and other regulatory requirements. More of his proposals were aimed at immigration, including a successful amendment to an infrastructure bill that would have prohibited undocumented immigrants from participating in certain federally funded programs. After the FAIR amnesty fallout, Childers scrambled to clarify the stance. “As I travel the state of Mississippi, I

try to listen to people more than I talk. I ask Mississippians about the issues that are important to them, and I believe it’s equally important for me to provide them with answers on where I stand and how I would vote if elected to the U.S. Senate,� he said through a statement to the news media. “In every town I visit, voters continue to voice their serious concerns over high unemployment and the lack of job opportunities

in our state and want to know where I stand on closing the gap. I continue to believe that Mississippians would be well served by hearing both candidates debate these tough issues, but in the absence of agreement on a public debate from Thad Cochran, I’ll continue to explain my positions on the issues.� He added that Mississippi’s unemployment rate remains one of the highest in the nation, at 8 percent. “Until we get Missis-

sippians back to work, I can neither support legislation that would grant work authorization or amnesty to people that came here illegally, nor can I support increases in guest foreign workers—many of whom accept work at sub-standard wages,� he wrote. “There are too many corporations in our state and across the nation who are hiring PRUH &+,/'(56 VHH SDJH

Federal Candidates on the Local Ballot U.S. Senate Travis Childers: Travis Childers, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, served the U.S. House of Representatives for the 1st Congressional District from 2008 to 2011. While Childers, a conservative-leaning Democrat from Booneville, Miss., touts his pro-gun and pro-life voting record, he also advocates for the expansion of Medicaid to Mississippi citizens. He owns a real estate firm in Northeast Mississippi called Childers Realty and Associates and a personal care home. Childers received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Mississippi in 1980.

U.S. House of Representatives, 2nd Congressional District

U.S. House of Representatives, 3rd Congressional District

Bennie G. Thompson: Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat who represents the 2nd district of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives, has served in community politics since 1968. He has held his current position as a representative since 1993. Before that, the Bolton native was a Hinds County supervisor. Thompson earned his bachelor’s in political science from Tougaloo College and his master’s in educational administration from Jackson State University.

Gregg Harper: The incumbent U.S. House of Representatives for the 3rd Congressional District has served in Congress since 2008. Before he was elected, he practiced law in Brandon and Richland. Harper has placed an emphasis on American-made energy during his time as a politician. He studied chemistry and received his bachelor’s in chemistry from Mississippi College before getting his law degree from University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981.

Thad Cochran: Incumbent Thad Cochran has served in the United States Senate for 36 years and is the ranking Republican of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Cochran was elected a U.S. congressman for the 4th District in 1972 where he served until being elected to the Senate in 1978. Cochran, who is originally from Pontotoc, Miss., earned a bachelor’s degree with a major in psychology and a minor in political science from the University of Mississippi in 1959 and his law degree from University of Mississippi School of Law in 1965.

Troy Ray: Troy Ray, a motorcycle mechanic in West, Miss., and author of “I Can Rebuild America,� is running as an Independent for the 2nd district of Mississippi U.S. House of Representatives. Ray, who was born in Memphis, has spent most of his professional life doing consulting and auditing work for businesses. He attended college at University of Houston, Texas A&M, and received his bachelor’s in accounting in 1991 at Mississippi State University, where he also worked on a master’s in economics.

Shawn O’Hara: Shawn O’Hara, the Reform Party candidate for U.S. Senate, has represented the Reform Party in a number of Mississippi elections. O’Hara, a selfemployed motion-picture and business consultant, has run for governor on five different occasions since 1991. He has also run for treasurer and mayor of Hattiesburg. O’Hara has a bachelor’s of science, a bachelor’s of arts, and two master’s degrees from William Carey University.

Shelley Shoemake: Shelley Shoemake, who is running for the Reform Party on the 2nd district of Mississippi U.S. House of Representatives ticket, is a chiropractor and Mississippi native.

Douglas MacArthur Magee: Doug Magee, a trial lawyer with Magee Law Firm, is running as a Democrat for U.S. House of Representatives for the 3rd Congressional District. Magee, from Mendenhall, Miss., studied law at the University of Mississippi School of Law. Roger Gerrard: Roger Gerrard, a civil engineer and retired Army and Air Force Inspector General, is the Independent candidate for U.S. House of Representatives for the 3rd Congressional District. Barbara Dale Washer: Barbara Dale Washer is the Reform candidate for U.S. House of Representatives for the 3rd Congressional District. Washer, a retired school teacher, ran for Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District in 2004 and 2010 and Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance in 2011. She received her bachelor’s after double majoring in secondary English and secondary education with a minor in social studies and Spanish from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1984.

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illegal immigrants and guest workers instead of providing unemployed Mississippians with opportunities to perform hard work at a decent wage,� he wrote. “... Washington insiders backing Senator Cochran argue that these corporations just can’t find Mississippians willing to do the hard work. However, I know that if the jobs are actually offered to Mississippians and provide livable wages, the people of our state would readily accept the work and do it proudly.�

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When Childers sought reelection in 2010, his Republican challengers seized on his vote for Nancy Pelosi for House Speaker. Childers countered, putting out a television ad about his nearly 300 votes against Pelosi’s agenda. Those votes included Childers’ no vote on the Affordable Care Act. While those rebukes of Pelosi and President Obama may play with the tea party, they risk alienating African Americans, the most single most powerful voting bloc for Mississippi Democrats. A look at recent elections show that the proportion of votes Democrats typically receive in statewide elections closely mirrors the state’s black population of approximately 37 percent. Plus, most of the Democratic members of the Mississippi House and Senate are also African American as are hundreds of local city and county officials, who give Mississippi the distinction of having the most black elected officials in the nation. “The Democratic Party in Mississippi, for all practical purposes, is a predominantly African American party,� said Rickey Hill, interim chair of the political science department at Jackson State University. “Childers’ track record is not conducive to convincing rank-and-file Democratic black voters to come out and vote for him.� It’s not that Childers’ record necessarily turns blacks off, particularly in Mississippi where African Americans are likely to align with conservatives on social issues and even gun rights, considering the large number of black farmers and hunters in Mississippi. Rather, Childers and Democrats have

not yet connected with their black base on kitchen-table economic issues, Hill said. For example, while Childers’ support of equal-pay-for-equal-work may resonate with white blue-collar men and women, he has stopped short of talking about economic inequality and the challenges of building generational wealth in Mississippi, which might get the attention of African Americans, who have endured generations of Jim Crow segregation and slavery. “He doesn’t calibrate those issues along racial lines,� Hill said. “He can talk along party lines.� Some might argue that Cochran did this masterfully during the Republican primary, when Chris McDaniel had Cochran on the ropes. Over the years, Cochran has toed a fine line on race relations. In 1989, Cochran refused to sign onto a resolution commemorating civil-rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner on the 25th anniversary of their murders by the Ku Klux Klan just south of Philadelphia. Cochran also voted against a federal hate-crime bill, and he failed to support a symbolic Senate resolution apologizing for the federal government’s failure to legislate against lynching, the most of which took place in Mississippi. Still, with his back against the wall this summer, Cochran advertised in Mississippi publications with large black audiences to tout his record of supporting historically black colleges and universities over the years, which included co-sponsoring legislation designating a week in 2010 as National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week. Cochran also enlisted the support of state officials, including every Republican statewide office holder, and local black leaders who depend on the millions of dollars worth of federal funds Cochran has helped appropriate during his time in the Senate. Childers faces a tall order to convince blacks to abandon Cochran, who typically PRUH &+,/'(56 VHH SDJH

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Telapex Inc. . . . . . . . . General Atomics . . . . . Baker, Donelson et al . . . Tenax Aerospace . . . . . Votesane PAC. . . . . . . Northrop Grumman . . . Balch & Bingham. . . . . Raytheon Co. . . . . . . . Southern Co. . . . . . . . Huntington Ingalls Industries . . . . . . . . . Entergy Corp.. . . . . . . Seemann Composites. . . Boeing Co. . . . . . . . . Sanderson Farms . . . . . Sierra Nevada Corp. . . . Butler Snow LLP . . . . . Cornerstone Government Affairs . . . . . . . . . . . Podesta Group . . . . . . Airbus Group . . . . . . . Altria Group. . . . . . . . CME Group . . . . . . .

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. $71,350 . $57,100 . $47,450 . $41,500 . $35,500 . $34,000 . $32,950 . $30,000 . $24,000 . $22,700 . $22,600 . $21,500 . $21,300 . $20,600 . $20,500 . $20,300 . $20,200 . $19,950 . $18,600 . $17,600 . $17,600

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Langston & Lott . . . . . . $11,400 Moderate Democrats PAC $10,000 Operating Engineers Union $10,000 Langston Law Firm. . . . . $5,200 Common Sense Colorado . $5,000 Empire PAC. . . . . . . . . $5,000 Great Land PAC . . . . . . $5,000 Hoosiers First PAC . . . . . $5,000 Searchlight Leadership Fund . $5,000 Jr Broadcasting . . . . . . . $2,600 Morton Construction . . . $2,600 Advanced Healthcare Management . . . . . . . . $2,500 America’s Leadership PAC . $2,500 American Assn for Justice. . $2,500 AmeriPAC: The Fund for a Greater America. . . . . . . $2,500 First American Financial Corp . $2,500 First State PAC . . . . . . . $2,500 Jones & Jones CPA . . . . . $2,500 Lobo PAC. . . . . . . . . . $2,500 Peak PAC . . . . . . . . . . $2,500 Rosewood Residence . . . . $2,500 *Through June 30, 2014

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should be spelling out in no certain terms why those seemingly divergent strategies are compatible, Hill argues. “Two weeks before the election, we should be engaged in a sharp debate around the issue areas Childers have laid out, but we haven’t seen that,” Hill said. A Golden Opportunity

The FAIR pledge touched off a spate of criticism from Democratic voters, including Natalie Maynor, who took to social media to disavow Childers. But Grant Sowell, head of the Tupelo Tea Party and a constituent of Childers’ former district, believes Childers’ move might actually have the desired effect of appealing to for-

mer McDaniel acolytes. Sowell said he could not personally support Childers because he voted for Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker, and he believes that raising the minimum wage will hurt the bottom wage earners. Still, Sowell said fellow tea-party members who believe that they don’t have a conservative in the race to support are taking a long, hard look at Childers. “I think he has the opportunity to peel off some of the McDaniel voters,” Sowell said. “Most people I know who were McDaniel supporters, there is no way they’re going to vote for Thad Cochran.” Comment www.jfp.ms. Email R.L. Nave at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

Pro-Cochran PAC Sheds Light on GOP Primary by Anna Wolfe

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ecent federal-campaign finance reports shed new light into spending that took place in the final days of the grueling Republican primary in June. The report, from super PAC All Citizens for Mississippi, came on the heels of an announcement from the organization’s founder, Bishop Ronnie Crudup of New Horizon Church International, would visit Africa the same week. Included in the report are donations from a super PAC, Mississippi Conservatives, founded by former Gov. Haley Barbour and his nephew, Henry Barbour, in the amount of $10,000 and one outstanding debt to American Media & Advocacy Group for the amount of $20,577.81. All Citizens drew attention both locally and from international media for influencing the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate election between incumbent U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran and state Sen. Chris McDaniel in June, which Cochran won by 7,667 votes. All Citizens, which is a pro-Cochran committee, is best known for distributing racially charged radio advertisements telling African Americans to vote for the incumbent. The bishop, who founded the super PAC, came under fire for not reporting all his donations and expenses in July after the McDaniel-Cochran run-off June 24. The Barbour super PAC is the only contributor that appears on the Oct. 15 filing. The additional $10,000 contribution brings the total contributions from Mississippi Conservatives to All Citizens for Mississippi to $152,000. Crudup’s super PAC has raised a total of $164,340 since its creation and spent a total of $155,280.54, including the debt to American Media.

American Media & Advocacy Group, a media-buying firm, placed advertisements on radio stations across the state in June that suggested McDaniel would be detrimental to race relations in the state and that a win for McDaniel would be a loss for black Mississippians. In July, Crudup said the expenditures for radio ads did not appear on the PAC’s

counting and consulting. All Citizens also racked up a $1,604.83 American Express bill for the purpose of “campaign material” and paid Crudup’s church $1,675 for rent of office space in its building. Crudup’s trip to Africa to help two churches in southern areas of the continent has been planned since before the Ebola virus hit the news, and his plans TRIP BURNS

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receives anywhere from 20- to 30 percent African American support in his elections. The last time Mississippi had a U.S. Senate election in a mid-term election, thenSen. Trent Lott beat then-state Rep. Erik Fleming by 30 percentage points. In subsequent elections, in 2008 and 2012, both presidential election years with Obama on the ballot, the Democratic Senate nominees—Fleming again in 2008 and Albert N. Gore Jr. in 2012—did just as poorly. Essentially, Childers is asking conservative Republicans to support a Democrat, and he is asking black Democrats to support a conservative who is making overtures to the tea party. With so little time remaining before the election, Childers

Bishop Ronnie Crudup didn’t let a trip to Africa during an ebola scare stop him from filing finance reports for his pro-Thad Cochran super PAC, All Citizens for Mississippi.

FEC filings because American Media “extended some credit” to Crudup and his PAC. It appears from the filings that All Citizens has not yet paid the debt to the media buying firm, despite the fact that the super PAC’s donations exceed the needed funds to do so. Jacqueline Vann, All Citizens for Mississippi treasurer and New Horizon’s chief financial officer, said last week that the super PAC paid American Media in July, but she was not able to clarify why the purchase was filed under “debts and obligations.” The Oct. 15 report also shows disbursements to nine individuals totaling $14,300 for a variety of purposes from door-to-door get-out-the vote-efforts to ac-

to help around 100 Africans remains intact. Ebola has had widespread transmission in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone—thousands of miles from where Crudup will be. “I’m feeling pretty good about the trip. I don’t expect any problems. Certainly I expect that there’s going to be a lot more security, health-related checks. I’m expecting that. I’m even hopeful,” Bishop Crudup told WJTV before he left. Bishop Crudup’s donations do not stop at elections. Crudup’s church is giving $2,000 every week for the next three months to the group We Make it Better— a Jackson-based foundation that Crudup also founded, which will help fund projects in Africa.

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PIZZA Sal & Mookie’s (565 Taylor St. 601-368-1919) Pizzas of all kinds plus pasta, eggplant Parmesan, fried ravioli & ice cream for the kids! 707 N Congress St., Jackson | 601-353-1180 Mellow Mushroom (275 Dogwood Blvd, Flowood, 601-992-7499) Mon thru Fri: 11am-2pm • Sun: 11am - 3pm More than just great pizza and beer. Open Monday - Friday 11-10 and Saturday 11-11. Breakfast Catering Also Available ITALIAN La Finestra (120 N Congress St #3, Jackson, 601-345-8735) 2 Locations The brainchild of award-winning Chef Tom Ramsey, this downtown Jackson hot-spot offers authentic Italian cuisine in 125 S. Congress St. • 601-969-1119 cozy, inviting environment. BRAVO! (4500 Interstate 55 N., Jackson, 601-982-8111) 200 S. Lamar Ave. • 601-714-5683 Award-winning wine list, Jackson’s see-and-be-seen casual/upscale dining. Cerami’s (5417 Lakeland Drive, Flowood, 601-919-28298) Southern-style Italian cuisine features their signature Shrimp Cerami. 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BARS, PUBS & BURGERS Capitol Grill (5050 I-55 North, Deville Plaza 601-899-8845) Best Happy Hour and Sports Bar in Town. Kitchen Open Late pub food and live entertainment. Cherokee Inn (960 Briarfield Rd. 601-362-6388) Jackson’s “Best Hole in the Wall,â€? has a great jukebox, great bar and a great burger. Fenian’s Pub (901 E. Fortification St. 601-948-0055) MON-FRI 11A-2P,5-10P SAT 5-10P Classic Irish pub featuring a menu of traditional food, pub sandwiches & Irish beers on tap. 828 HWY 51, MADISON • 601.853.0028 Hal and Mal’s (200 S. Commerce St. 601-948-0888) Pub favorites meet Gulf Coast and Cajun specialties like red beans and rice, the Oyster Platter or daily specials. Martin’s Restaurant and Lounge (214 South State Street 601-354-9712) Lunch specials, pub appetizers or order from the full menu of po-boys and entrees. Full bar, beer selection. 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My Pet Sourdough by Amber Helsel

flour, yeast and water that has been sitting out for a few days. The environment inside the mixture is a delicate balance between yeast and bacteria. Yeast metabolizes the glucose and bacteria ferment the sugar the yeast can’t metabolize. The yeast then metabolizes the bacteria’s byproducts, which produces a carbon dioxide gas that serves as a leavener. The acidic conditions result in a weaker gluten content. Due to that, many people with celiac disease and gluten intolerance are able to enjoy sourdough without a whole lot, if any, of backlash. If a sourdough starter sounds gross to make, think again. Any time you make pizza or other bread products, you generally use an active yeast, which is a bacteria. All you’re doing with sourdough is letting it sit longer. If you’re still turned off by the idea, think of your starter as a pet or a plant, since it kind of is one (though more plant than pet). I named mine Sparky.

Sourdough Pizza

AMBER HELSEL

In a large, floured mixing bowl, mix the starter, flour, olive oil, milk powder and salt together. Oil another bowl, place the 1 cup discarded sourdough starter 1 cup all-purpose flour + extra for the dough 1/2 packet active dry yeast 1 tablespoon olive oil

1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon nonfat dry milk powder 6 ounces pizza sauce 5 ounces cheese blend, shredded 1 Roma tomato, sliced

ball of dough in there, cover it will oiled plastic wrap (you can just spray it) and let it rise for two hours, or until it doubles in size. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. On a floured surface, roll the dough into a circle that’s about a 1/2-inch thick. Add the sauce, cheese and tomatoes, place the pizza on an oiled cookie sheet and bake the pizza for 10 to 15 minutes. Let it cool for about five minutes and then slice and enjoy.

Decently sized glass jar Unbleached whole-wheat flour Non-chlorinated all-purpose flour

Warm distilled water 1 packet active dry yeast

Place one cup of wheat flour, one cup of filtered water and half the packet of yeast in the jar and mix. Put the jar on a plate, cover it with a paper towel wrapped with a rubber band and let the starter sit for 12 hours. After the first few hours, the level should have doubled in size. Pour out half the mixture and then add another 1 cup of flour and 1 cup of water and mix everything together. Repeat this twice a day (or every 12 hours) for about eight days. If the starter gets too large for the container, I’d put it into a bowl. After the starter’s first day, use non-chlorinated all-purpose flour instead of wheat flour to feed it. If you find that at some point your starter won’t rise, try one of these two things: If the starter is too watery, add less water; if it looks fine but still won’t grow, add some sugar to feed the yeast.

Sourdough Bread

Here comes your pet starter’s shining moment. After about eight days, the gluten in the mixture has broken down so much that it’s hardly even there. At this point, it should be safe to make a nice batch of sourdough bread. Many people will tell you that you need fancy materials, such as a bread baker. Fear not, though. Once sourdough hits this point, it’s much like baking regular bread; you just have to let it sit out longer. 1 1/3 cups all-purpose or bread flour 1 cup sourdough starter

1/2 cup water

At this point, your starter has essentially become a smelly, sticky sponge. Combine the flour, starter and salt in a medium-sized bowl and mix everything together. Then knead the dough until it no longer sticks to the sides or bottom of the bowl. Brush oil on it and place the dough in another bowl. Cover the bowl in plastic wrap and place it in a warm spot until the dough doubles in size, about an hour and a half. After the dough has doubled in size, place it onto a lightly floured surface. Sprinkle the dough with flour and gently knead it until it forms into a tight ball. Cover the dough with a kitchen or tea towel for another hour and wait until it doubles in size again. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Using a sharp serrated knife, cut a large X into the top of the dough. Place it in the oven on a baking sheet and bake until golden brown, about one hour. Remove from the oven and let it cool on a wire rack for at least 30 minutes. FLICKR/GRONGAR

Even in its young stages, the starter can be used to make a delicious recipe. For those of you who suffer from gluten issues, keep in mind that at young stages, the gluten hasn’t completely broken down.

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t the end of the day, I’m sure you would rather have a sandwich than a salad, and I don’t blame you. But for some, such as those with celiac disease or just gluten sensitivity issues, bread, even the whole-wheat variety, is probably not much of a friend. Celiaccentral.org estimates that 1 percent of American’s have the disease, whether they are diagnosed or undiagnosed. About six times that amount, or 18 million more people, are gluten intolerant. If you find yourself in either of these categories, you may have to make many concessions, such as finding a restaurant that serves gluten-free bread or cooking with unfamiliar ingredients. But worry not. There is a type of bread that lends itself well to gluten intolerance and celiac disease and isn’t made with strange ingredients: Sourdough. Sourdough is a type of bread that is fermented with yeast. A sourdough starter is basically just

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If you find it hard to get out of bed in the morning, try leaving mints beside your alarm clock.

Small Steps in the Journey by Amber Helsel

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n the track to better health, it’s all about the small steps. Remember that great cities such as Jackson weren’t built in a day; it’s a step-bystep process. Here are some small steps you can take each day to get healthy. • If your goal is to lose weight, download a calorie-tracking app, such as MyPlate or MyFitnessPal. Let it guide you in your journey to eating healthier.

• Eat on a small blue plate. The size of the plate allows for less food, and the color makes you eat less. • If you want to run but aren’t that great at it, try the Couch-to-5K Running Plan, a program that helps you learn how to run by training you in easy-to-do intervals. For more information, find it on Facebook. • In the morning, drink green tea with a little honey. It speeds up your metabolism.

• Take the stairs instead of the elevator.

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• If you haven’t already, go out and buy a Halloween costume—one that makes you feel good about yourself.

• If your vice is one type of unhealthy food, try to make a healthier substitution. For example, instead of eating white bread, buy whole wheat; eat dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate. • Know your superfoods (those considered to be especially good for health and well-being) and eat them. They include cocoa powder, blueberries and spinach. • Bring a lunch instead of buying one.

• Keep mints by your bed. Set your alarm clock early, and when it goes off, pop a mint into your mouth before getting out of bed. The minty flavor will help wake you up for your morning walk. • Think of fruits as candy. They’re often just as sweet, although eating a whole fruit is preferable to drinking sugary fruit juice. • Buy a small plastic bin and begin keeping snacks such as nuts and granola in it at work or home. You’ll be less likely to binge when mealtime comes around.

• On your lunch break, walk or run around the block. • Drink two glasses of water 30 minutes before a big meal. The water will give you a feeling of fullness, and you’ll eat less. • If you’re hungry, try drinking water. Our brains often confuse thirst with hunger. • Once you start drinking water, don’t stop. You’ll want it all the time if you stay with it, but if you stop, it’s hard to get back on that train.

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Ephemeral Permanence by Ronni Mott

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COURTESY STEPHEN COLES,

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he scarlet-red object lumbers down a lush hillside. Flashes of sunlight catch and reflect. Amusingly, it moves inexorably, slowly, almost of its own volition. It seems weightless and is nearly soundless. But its mass leaves a crunching, crushed track of green blades in its wake. It has edges but is all surface, moving solidly across the rich meadow. “Mobiesque” is a creation of sculptor Stephen Coles, 29, who focuses on cast metals—iron and bronze. “It was a curve that I extracted and pulled” on a computer, he says of the piece. “I ended up making this form that had one side.” Coles cast “Mobiesque” (and variations with additional surfaces) to see how the computer model would actually move and to get the feel of the form. In addition to geometry, Coles experiments with resonance. “I’m interested in doing pieces that react to sounds,” he says. “I’ve done a series of bronze bowls, sort of singing bowls” filled with water, and he harmonized its tones with a harpist for a tender, spiritual composition. “I’m interested in a lot of humor in my work,” he says. “It’s a dry English humor, so I don’t know how well it translates.” He cast plastic Chinese-made Halloween masks and rubber chickens in iron for a show last year, “taking cheap, disposable items and almost trying to make them into relics that have a permanence—trying to transcend that cheap, jaded, throwaway consumerism.” Coles is also intrigued with how the elements interact with metals. He might pour hot iron into a block of ice, for example. “You get this reaction that comes off it,” he says. “It’s similar to fireworks in some respects.” A native of England, Coles owns Coles Casting, a fine-art foundry in Shaftesbury, which is west of London. He completed his undergraduate sculpture degree in 2007 at West Wales School of the Arts, which is one of the few schools in the United Kingdom

Sculptor Stephen Coles will exhibit his work in “B+ (new work and investigations)” at Millsaps College Nov. 5-Dec. 17. “I’m interested in a lot of humor in my work,” he says.

that emphasize studio skills along with research and theory. “They still run a foundry,” he says of his alma mater. “They still teach stone-carving.” At West Wales, Coles made the contacts who brought him to the United States. He received his master’s degree in sculpture at New York’s Alfred University in 2010, where he runs the foundry and is filling in for professor Coral Lambert, who is on an art tour at the moment. He returns to the U.K.

at the end of the year with a short detour to mount a show here at Millsaps College. Among the art Coles will display at Millsaps is a piece he cast in iron from sandblasted plywood. The small-scale study takes on an organic, almost watery quality in the cold metal. Coles juxtaposed six 2-by-1 foot panels, some with horizontal grains and others with a vertical focus. “I’m experimenting quite a bit as well with the formative aspects,” he adds. “… the

idea of all these very permanent materials, yet using them in a fairly ephemeral manner.” He is working with ordinary household insulation and with Styrofoam. He hopes to bronze the final Styrofoam piece. He will display photographic prints that focus on the process and the spectacle of his work. Coles takes the open American artistic ethos back home, offering residencies at Coles Casting. Unlike U.S. artists, Coles says that most U.K. artists rely on galleries to promote their work, and they emphasize theory over execution. Sculptors will usually outsource the hot, craft-based work of casting their pieces instead of doing it themselves. Among his influences, Coles counts the late abstract expressionist David Smith, who used industrial materials to create his large steel geometric sculptures. Joseph Beuys, the late conceptual artist, and contemporary artists Anthony Gormley and Mona Hatoum also inform his work. Early on, Coles dabbled with other artistic methods, but sculpting metals won out. Painting is an “illusory medium,” he says, with “artificial depth.” Sculpture “is in the physical world. It has a permanence and a presence,” and remarkable plasticity. He can freely add to and subtract from a piece, and unlike carving, which is purely reductive, casting offers nearly unlimited options. Just the sheer heat—cast iron is liquid at about 2,700 degrees—is impressive. “The energy in the material is really quite a spectacle,” he says. “I see myself as more of a sculptor in general,” Coles adds, and his work expands beyond metals into ceramics and other materials. “Five or 10 years down the road, I might be working in something completely different.” See Stephen Coles’ “B+ (new work and investigations)” at the Lewis Art Gallery of Millsaps College (1700 N. State St.) from Nov. 5 through Dec. 17. Coles gives a gallery talk Nov. 14 at 2 p.m. Admission is free. Visit millsaps.edu or call 601-974-1762 for more information.

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Stories of the South by Mike McDonald

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ississippi and the South have a rich and layered literary tradition, from Eudora Welty to William Faulkner to Richard Wright. Since 1989, the Eudora Welty Writer’s Symposium has hosted southern authors at the Mississippi University for Women in Columbus. The symposium provides a platform for authors specializing in southern fiction or scholarship about the South to voice their work, along with honoring the most well known alumnus of MUW. It culminates with festivities marking the inauguration of the university’s president. Over the years, the symposium has grown in popularity, expanding its reach into the state, and shifted from a balance between scholarship and fiction to an emphasis on fiction. “The goal of the symposium this year,� says professor Kendall Dunkelberg, director of the Symposium, is to “expose people to new writers, get people engaged in writing and literature, and introduce people on how to translate an idea to the printed page.� Bringing 12 authors to one place and having them read their work connects people to the books and “makes the words come alive,� Dunkelberg says. Copies of the books

will be available for purchase, and authors will sign copies after their readings. The symposium is unique this year for two reasons: More than half the authors have a connection to Mississippi, and outreach to high schools has never been more expansive. High schools students were offered the chance to enter a writing contest, and the winner will be announced during the symposium. Students from Clinton and Jackson submitted stories and are in the running. “I want to expose students to writing, to the process of creating a book, give them the chance to talk to published authors, and bring them onto a college campus,� Dunkelberg says. This year’s theme comes from Eudora Welty’s “Homesick for Somewhere: Displacement, Loss and Longing in the South,� a story from the book “The Bride of Innisfallen.� Works focusing on identity, culture and personal growth or destruction feature prominently. Most importantly, Dunkelberg wants the audience to “listen to stories they can relate to.� The year’s authors and the work they will read from at the 2014 Eudora Welty Writer’s Symposium are:

The Eudora Welty Writer’s Symposium hosts some of the states best authors at the Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Miss., Oct. 23-25.

• Tim Parrish— “The Jumper and Fear and What Follows: The Violent Education of a Christian Racistâ€? • Deborah Johnson— “The Secret of Magicâ€? • Carol Ruth Silver— “Freedom Writer Diaryâ€? • Katy Simpson Smith— “The Story of Land and Seaâ€? • Poet Derrick Harriell—“Ropesâ€? • Matthew Guinn— “The Resurrectionistâ€? • Poet Shayla Lawson— “A Speed Education in Human Beingâ€?

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WitchCrafted 5K Run Oct. 25, 8 a.m., at Old Trace Park (Post Road, Ridgeland). Includes the Super Heroes Fun Run for kids. $30 5K, $25 one-mile run, $20 ages 12 and under (includes T-shirt, breakfast and one-day pass to the Smokin’ On the Rez BBQ and Music Festival); call 601-856-7546; craftsmensguildofms.org. WitchCrafted Craft Competitions Oct. 26, at Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland). Enter the Creative Pumpkin Contest (carved or painted) or the MasterCrafted Creatures Competition for a chance to win prizes. Runs through Nov. 1. $10 individuals, $25 groups; call 601-856-7546; craftsmensguildofms.org. JFP Chick Ball Masked Jam Nov. 1, 7 p.m.midnight, at Hal & Mal’s (200 S. Commerce St.). Attend the first masquerade and costume event to raise awareness about domestic abuse. Proceeds benefit the Engaging Men program of the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Enjoy live music plus DJ Phingaprint, Southern Fried Karaoke and a Rooster Sports Brew Pub. $5; jfpchickball.com.

(/,)$!93 Halloween Tales to Frighten and Delight Oct. 23, 4 p.m.-5 p.m., at Madison Public Library (994 Madison Ave., Madison). Children in grades 1 and up hear spooky tales and wear costumes. Free; call 601-856-2749. Boo at the Zoo Oct. 24, 5 p.m.-8 p.m., Oct. 25, 5 p.m.-8 p.m., at Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). The zoo provides a safe place for children to go trick-or-treating for Halloween. Admission TBA; call 601-352-2580; jacksonzoo.org. Park After Dark Oct. 24, 6 p.m.-8 p.m., at LeFleur Museum District (Interstate 55 North and Lakeland Drive). Enjoy activities and trickor-treating at the Mississippi Children’s Museum, the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science and LeFleur’s Bluff State Park. $8; call 601-981-5469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com. Pumpkin Trail Oct. 25, 6:30 p.m.-9 p.m., at Clinton Community Nature Center (617 Dunton Road, Clinton). Includes decorated pumpkin displays, a children’s costume contest, carnival games, face painting, crafts and hot cocoa for sale. Gates close at 8:30 p.m. $3, children under 3 and members free ; call 601-926-1104; email ccnaturecenter@gmail.com. Books & Boos Oct. 29, 5 p.m.-7 p.m., at Canton Mart Square (1491 Canton Mart Road). At Drake’s Designs, Kristen Allen and Gail Lewis Manton share artwork. At the Book Rack, author Belinda Stevens signs “Just Out of Reach” and “50 Shades of Fur.” Includes food and door prizes. Free; call Drake’s Designs at 601-957-6983.

#/--5.)49 Pumpkin Adventure Oct. 22, 9 a.m.-noon, Oct. 23, 9 a.m.-noon, Oct. 24, 9 a.m.-noon, Oct. 25, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive). Enjoy a hayride tour, a visit to the Heritage Center Gallery and picking a small pie pumpkin to take home. $7, children under 2 free; call 601-432-4500; mdac.ms.gov/agmuseum. Events at Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.) • History Is Lunch Oct. 22, noon. Jacksonian Tim Whitsett - musician, music publisher, songwriter, producer and author - talks about his international career in music. Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us.

• History Is Lunch Oct. 29, noon. Old Capitol Museum staff present a preview of the upcoming program, “Present Meets Past.” Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us. Ready to Run Mississippi Oct. 23, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., at Mississippi State Capitol (400 High St.). The Mississippi Commission on the Status Women hosts the event to inform women about the ins and outs of campaigning and the political process. Registration required. Includes lunch. $25; call 601-359-3114; msstatusofwomen.org. Events at Fondren Hall (4330 N. State St.) • Hinds County Democratic Party's Beans, Greens and Blues Oct. 23, 6:30 p.m.-9 p.m. The dinner include a panel discussion with local leaders and music from Bobby Rush. RSVP. $30, $300 table of 10; call 601-940-3742; email memcinnis@att.net. • Golden Gloves Barber Battle and Fashion Showcase Oct. 26, 5 p.m. Students and professionals compete in freestyle hair competitions. Also includes a stylist fashion showcase. Doors open at 4 p.m. $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $50 VIP; call 601-291-6900. Events at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.) • Racial Reconciliation Celebration Banquet Oct. 23, 7 p.m. Bishop Duncan Gray II, the Rt. Rev. Duncan Gray III and Reuben Anderson. Sponsorships available. $65; call 601-353-6477; missionmississippi.net. • Black Tie Scholarship and Recognition Gala Oct. 24, 6 p.m. The Jackson State University National Alumni Association is the host. Includes a silent auction ar 6 p.m. and the main event at 7 p.m. The Russell Thompson R&B Funk Band performs. RSVP. $100, $1,000 table of 10; call 601-979-2281; email gala@jsunaa.org; jsunaa.org. Arts and Culture in Times of Struggle, and Dramatizing Politics and History Oct. 23, 6:30 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). Speakers include New Stage founding board member Jim Child, Free Southern Theater co-founder John O’Neal, company members of the play “All the Way” and Alternate ROOTS executive director Carlton Turner. Free; call 601-948-3533. Friday Forum Oct. 24, 9 a.m., at Koinonia Coffee House (136 S. Adams St., Suite C). Speakers include Rev. Ed King, Dr. Daphne Chamberlain, Dr. Leslie McLemore and the cast of the New Stage play “All the Way.” Free; call 601-9483533; email koinoniafridayforum@gmail.com. Sen. Delma Furniss Hospitality Station (Mississippi Welcome Center) 10-Year Anniversary Celebration Oct. 24, 1 p.m.-3 p.m., at Delma Furniss Hospitality Station (8600 Highway 49 N., Lula). Includes entertainment and refreshments. Open to the public. Free; call 662-337-2305; visitmississippi.org. “Thank You, Pat and Inez” Block Party and Fundraiser Oct. 25, 4 p.m.-7 p.m., at CS’s Restaurant (1359 1/2 N. West St.). Includes a shrimp boil, beverages, and music from guitarist Jesse Robinson, and Eric Stracener and the Frustrations. $35, $50 couples, $20 minors under 21 (price increase the day of the event); donations welcome; call 9699482; eventbrite.com. Rebuilding the Black Community: Valuing Our Black Youth Oct. 26, 12:30 p.m., at Farish Street Baptist Church (619 N. Farish St.). Panelists include Hinds County Sheriff Tyrone Lewis, Dr. Safiya Omari, Dr. Hickman Johnson. Youth speakers include Brianna Davis and Trenton Robinson. Free; call 601-594-1725; email malexander6@comcast.net.

Chevy Youth Soccer Clinic Oct. 22, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., Oct. 23, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., at Liberty Park, Flowood (694 Liberty Park Drive, Flowood). The Central Mississippi Chevy Dealers hosts the clinic for youth ages 6-14. Registration required. Free; email youthsportswired@gmail. com; rsvp.youthsportswired.com/soccer. Question It? Discover It! Saturday Oct. 25, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Highland Drive). Children get a closer look at nanotechnology. $10, children under 1 and members free; call 601981-5469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com. “The Not So Wicked Witch Party” Oct. 25, 11 a.m., at Persnickety (2078 Main St., Madison). New Stage Theatre’s Youth Acting Troupe presents the play that is based on Amy Purser Carter’s children’s book. Free; call 601-948-3533, ext. 232; email croebuck@ newstagetheatre.com; newstagetheatre.com.

&//$ $2).+ Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters Oct. 25, 9:30 a.m., at Walmart, Ridgeland (8125 S. Wheatley St., Ridgeland). Catholic Charities is the host. Learn how to buy healthy food on a budget. Free; call 601-956-2717; email monique.davis@ catholiccharitiesjackson.org. Spanish Wine Tasting Oct. 27, 6 p.m.-8 p.m., at Amerigo Italian Restaurant (6592 Old Canton Road). Sample four Spanish wines paired with bruschetta and tiramisu. RSVP. $20 plus tax and tip; call 601-977-0563; amerigo.net. Moonshine Tasting Oct. 27, 6 p.m., at Sombra Mexican Kitchen (Township at Colony Park, 140 Township Ave, Suite 100, Ridgeland). Enjoy three selections of American Born Moonshine paired with light appetizers. Reservations encouraged but not required. $20 plus tax and tip; call 601-707-7950; sombramexicankitchen.com.

30/243 7%,,.%33 Purple Dress Run Oct. 23, 6 p.m.-10 p.m., at Jaco’s Tacos (318 S. State St.). Catholic Charities’ annual 5K run/walk is a fundraiser to assist domestic violence victims. Includes a post-race celebration. Registration required. $35, $100 team of four; call 601-326-3758; catholiccharitiesjackson.org. Laps for Little Ones Oct. 25, 7 a.m., at Jackson Academy (4908 Ridgewood Road). Check-in is at 7 a.m. The 5K run/walk benefits The Little Light House of Central Mississippi. Awards given, including for best Disney costume. Registration required. $10-$30; call 601-956-6131; llhms.org. Breast Cancer Screening Overview and Clinical Breast Exam Screening Oct. 28, 11:45 a.m., at Baptist Medical Center (1225 N. State St.). In the Baptist for Women Conference Center. Radiologist Dr. James L. Burkhalter and Adrienne Russell, RN, are the speakers. Limited clinical breast exam screening appointments available. Registration required. Free; call 601-948-6262; mbhs.org/events.

34!'% 3#2%%. “All the Way” Oct. 22-Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 26, 2 p.m., Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The play features dynamic figures from the civil rights era. $28, $22 seniors and students; call 601-948-3533, ext. 222; newstagetheatre.com.

#/.#%243 &%34)6!,3 Brown Sabbath Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Austin-based band Brownout plays Black Sabbath with a Latin twist. $12 in advance, $15 at the door; call 601-2927999; email arden@ardenland.net. Live at Lunch Oct. 23, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Cody Cox performs. Bring lunch or purchase from the Palette Cafe by Viking. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

,)4%2!29 3)'.).'3 Events at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202) • "Ed King's Mississippi: Behind the Scenes of Freedom Summer" Oct. 22, 5 p.m. Ed King and Trent Watts sign books. $40 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@ lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com. • "The Search for Good Wine: From the Founding Fathers to the Modern Table" Oct. 23, 5 p.m. John R. Hailman signs books. $29.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@ lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com. • "In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music" Oct. 24, 5 p.m. Ben Wynne signs books. $38 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

%8()")4 /0%.).'3 Wolfe Studio Artists Show Oct. 23, 3 p.m.6 p.m., at Wolfe Studio (4308 Old Canton Road). Show hangs through Nov. 8. Free; call 601-366-1844; wolfebirds.com. Millsaps Faculty Exhibition Gallery Talk Oct. 24, 3:30 p.m., at Millsaps College, Ford Academic Complex (1701 N. State St.). In AC335. Sandra Murchison and Kristen Tordella-Williams are the speakers. A reception follows in Lewis Art Gallery. Free; call 601-497-7454; email johnsda1@millsaps.edu; millsaps.edu.

"% 4(% #(!.'% The Mustard Seed Tennis Benefit Oct. 24, 4:30 p.m.-9 p.m., Oct. 25, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., at Club @ Crossgates (100 Professional Drive, Brandon). The tournament includes men’s and women;s doubles. Register by Oct. 20. Proceeds benefit The Mustard Seed. $40 per player; call 601-5912582 or 601-906-3296; email neil.witherow@ gmail.com; tennislink.usta.com. Walk Against Domestic Abuse Oct. 25, 7 a.m.-8 a.m., at Parham Bridges Park (5055 Old Canton Road). Check-in is at 6:30 a.m. Proceeds benefit Daughters of Baca. Bring donations of school supplies, uniforms and stuffed animals. $15, $10 per person in groups of 10, $5 ages 10 and under; T-shirts: $10, $12 for sizes 2X and up; call 601-329-0667; email daughtersofbaca@yahoo.com. Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk Oct. 25, 9 a.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). Check-in is at 8 a.m. Proceeds from the annual 5K walk benefit the American Cancer Society. Call 601-321-5512; email jacksonmsstrides@cancer.org; makingstrideswalk.org. Check jfpevents.com for updates and more listings, or to add your own events online. You can also email event details to events@jacksonfreepress.com to be added to the calendar. The deadline is noon the Wednesday prior to the week of publication.

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Screen on the Green is at 5:30 p.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). In the Art Garden. Includes a cash bar, concessions and a screening of “Art and Craft,” a documentary about art forger and Laurel native Mark Landis. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org. … History Is Lunch is at noon at the Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.). Jacksonian Tim Whitsett—musician, music publisher, songwriter, producer and author—talks about his music career. Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us.

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Jackson-Hinds Library System Writer’s Festival is from 2 p.m.-5 p.m. at the Eudora Welty Library (300 N. State St.). Free; call 601-968-5825; email emclean@jhlibrary.com. … WitchCrafted Craft Competitions is at the Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland). Runs through Nov. 1. $10 individuals, $25 groups; call 601-856-7546; craftsmensguildofms.org.

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The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra presents Beethoven’s “Eroica,” which dates back to 1804, at Thalia Mara Hall, Saturday, Oct. 25.

Free; call 601-948-3533. … Spirits and Stogies is from 6 p.m.-9 p.m. at McClain Lodge (214 Clark Creek Road, Brandon). Enjoy drinks, live music, heavy hors d’oeuvres and a silent auction. Proceeds benefit the Mississippi Firefighters Memorial Burn Association. For ages 21 and up. $40 in advance, $50 at the door; call 601-540-2995; email afontaine@ msburn.org; msburn.org.

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Park After Dark is from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. at the LeFleur Museum District (Interstate 55 North and Lakeland Drive). Enjoy spooky activities and trick-or-treating at the Mississippi Children’s Museum, the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science and LeFleur’s Bluff State Park. Costumes welcome. $8; call 601-981-5469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com. … Third Regiment United States Colored Cavalry Living Encampment is from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Smith Robertson BY MICAH SMITH Museum and Cultural Center (528 Bloom St.). Re-enactors JACKSONFREEPRESS.COM from Mississippi, Florida, Georgia and Michigan honor AfriFAX: 601-510-9019 can-Americans who served in DAILY UPDATES AT the calvary during the Civil War. JFPEVENTS.COM Free; call 601-960-1457.

Smokin’ on the Rez BBQ and Music Festival is at 6 p.m. at Old Trace Park (Post Road, Ridgeland). The two-day festival includes a barbecue competition, food vendors and live music from Mr. Sipp. The festival continues 10 a.m. Oct. 25 with performances from LoCash Cowboys and Hanalena. $15 for two-day ticket, $10 single day; call 601-853-2011; barnettreservoirfoundation.org. … Bravo I: Beethoven’s Eroica is at 7:30 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra presents Rossini’s Overture to “The Barber of Seville,” Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3. $25 and up; call 601-960-1565; msorchestra.com.

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Moonshine Tasting is at 6 p.m. at Sombra Mexican Kitchen (140 Township Ave, Suite 100, Ridgeland). $20 plus tax and tip; call 601-707-7950; sombramexicankitchen.com. … Joey Plunkett performs at 7:30 p.m. at Julep Restaurant & Bar (4500 Interstate 55 Frontage Road). Free; call 601-362-1411; juleprestaurant.com.

“Haunted” Dinner Theater is from 6 p.m.-9 p.m. at the Iron Horse Grill (320 W. Pearl St.). The four-act interactive comedy includes a three-course meal. Reservations required. For ages 18 and up. $42; call 601-937-1752; email info@theironhorsegrill.com; thedetectives.biz.

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MarchFourth Marching Band performs at 9 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The twenty-piece jazz and funk band with stilt walkers performs. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net.

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lligator Records artist Jarekus Singleton wouldn’t made it impossible for him to play sports professionally. Bastrade anything for his life’s journey, as it provided ketball was no longer an option. him with the material for his new album, “Refuse “At 25 years old, the blues cut me,” Singleton says. to Lose,” which remained on the Billboard Blues “Lying in that bed, I felt like that was the end for me. … Album chart for three weeks, peaking at No. 7. With a history of life-altering occurrences, the Clinton-born songwriter had plenty of fodder for the 11 tracks on his latest entry into the evolving music scene—a scene that Mississippi bluesmen once again dominate. “My music and my personal life are one now that I have taken on the blues as my life’s work,” Singleton says. “I now realize that they are really one and the same. Songwriting comes easy when you have a story to tell. I now know it’s not all about me anymore. Especially since the birth of my Mississippi blues artist Jarekus Singleton’s latest release, “Refuse to Lose,” is a result of tough breaks, good fortune and self-reflection. daughter, Zoie, it’s something much bigger. You know, all of the greats in the blues field have always said blues is a feeling. Thanks to God and the support of my family and friends, I now know what they meant.” I was given an amazing second chance when I picked up Five years ago, the 30-year-old had a promising career that guitar, and the blues in me started to come out.” ahead of him as a professional basketball player. He gained Many of his relatives played instruments and sang gosnational attention while at the University of Southern Missis- pel music, so Singleton became interested in music at a young sippi from 2002 to 2005 and his senior year at William Carey age, learning bass guitar before transitioning to electric. The University from 2005 to 2006. Then, a serious ankle injury more melodic guitar also allowed him to focus on singing.

“I didn’t know it then, but God chose this path I’m on, and what a ride it is proving to be,” he says. “As the old blues song goes, I feel like this music is going to take me from ‘Spain to Tokyo,’ and I can’t wait to see what happens next.” Self-evaluation is central to Singleton’s writing process and his progress as a musician. The guitarist’s partnership with Chicago-based Alligator Records, his label since fall 2013, gives him the freedom to create and change as he sees fit. “I’m constantly trying to improve my technique while developing a brand that fans can readily identify,” he says. “I think Alligator is allowing me to experiment with the results of my introspection. I met Bruce Iglauer on Beale Street when I was competing at the International Blues Challenge, and he said he thought I had what it takes in this business. I felt proud that the founder of a premier label could shake my hand in a casual encounter and provide me (with) the opportunity of a lifetime just a year or so later.” Singleton points to famed Texas musician Freddie King and Derek Trucks, the Grammy Award-winning member of the Allman Brothers Band, as examples of how he wants to be remembered. “(They) represent what I want to bring to this business because they both project compassion and confidence,” he says. “Those are two pretty good attributes when you take the stage—to follow in the footsteps of my Mississippi ancestors in blues. I’m proud to feel what I think (Howlin’) Wolf and Muddy (Waters) must have felt. That’s why I refuse to lose.” Jarekus Singleton’s “Refuse to Lose” is available now on iTunes and Amazon.com. For more information, visit artistecard.com/JarekusSingleton or find the Jarekus Singleton Band on Facebook.

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fiddle. Mellin named the band The Goat Ropers, after a group of famous fiddlers who went by the same name. Caroline began taking piano lessons in second grade. When she was in the fifth grade, she also picked up the mandolin, and joined The Goat Ropers about a year later. The sisters have been playing together ever since. Hannah, 29, says that although she and Caroline, 24, don’t live in the state anymore, playing for a Mississippi crowd is always special to them. Hannah says there’s a sort of magic when performing in such a creative area. “It’s so cool knowing that you’re in the birth place of the blues—so much great stuff,” she says. HanaLena performs with LoCash Cowboys at the Smokin’ on the Rez Barbecue and Music Festival at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, at Old Trace Park (Post Road, Ridgeland). Mr. Sipp the Mississippi Blues Child performs at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24. For more information, visit barnettreservoirfoundation.org and 35 nashstreet.com.

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second annual book and music festival. The book includes recipes from HanaLena’s musical comrades, including Grammy winner Rhonda Vincent and celebrated bluegrass vocalist Claire Lynch. “When you’re on the road, you have to get a little creative with what you’re eating because you’re always on the go, but you still want to eat good,” Hannah says. “My favorite recipe is the muscadine cobbler. It’s just so unusual.” In perfectly southern fashion, the Melby sisters inherited their musical inclination from a long tradition of family bands. Hannah was in second grade when she saw a fiddle for the first time at her grandmother’s house. “It was just sitting there on the mantel,” she says. “Turns out my great-grandfather played in an old-time fiddle group with his family in Ethel, Mississippi.” The family’s eight siblings performed together for square dances and hoedowns throughout Attala County in central Mississippi. It wasn’t until Norman Mellin

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Last weekend, the Florida State Seminoles and the Detroit Lions got favorable calls from the officials so they could beat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the New Orleans Saints.

THURSDAY, OCT 23 NFL (7:25-11 p.m., CBS/NFLN): Peyton Manning continues his assault on the record books as his Denver Broncos face the San Diego Chargers for first place in the AFC West. FRIDAY, OCT 24 MLB (7-11 p.m., Fox): Watch game three of the 2014 World Series between the Royals and Giants as the series moves from Kansas City to San Francisco. SATURDAY, OCT 25 College football (2:30-6 p.m., CBS): The No. 1 team in the nation, the Mississippi State Bulldogs, takes on their SEC East rival the Kentucky Wildcats. ‌ College football (6:15-10 p.m., ESPN): The Ole Miss Rebels look to repeat the feat done by MSU and beat the LSU Tigers in Death Valley. SUNDAY, OCT 26 NFL (7:30-11 p.m., NBC): The New Orleans Saints will look for some love from the officials at home as they face the their second straight NFC North team, the Green Bay Packers. MONDAY, OCT 27 NFL (7:30-11 p.m., ESPN): The Dallas Cowboys look to defeat an NFC East rival for the second straight week as they take on the Washington Redskins. TUESDAY, OCT 28 Documentary (8-9:30 p.m., ESPN): ESPN 30 for 30 “Brian and The Bozâ€? the story of the rise, fall and brief movie career of Brian Bosworth. WEDNESDAY, OCT 29 NBA (7-9:30 p.m., ESPN) The NBA is back and the regular season has begun, so get your first NBA fix with the Chicago Bulls at the New York Knicks. I’m still trying to figure out who got hosed worse: The ticky-tacky defensive pass interference call on the Saints or almost never calling the offensive pass interference on Notre Dame.

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his past weekend showed me that it is becoming nearly impossible to play pass defense. For example, West Virginia upset Baylor thanks to a few bad pass interference calls. The Detroit Lions used a weak—if it even really happened—pass interference call to beat the New Orleans Saints. Pass interference and defensive holding penalties are becoming an annoyance. It seems that any time a defense gets a stop to force a punt, a flag comes out to keep the offensive drive alive. Receivers now scream for flags on each incomplete pass. No one likes it when defenders clutch and grab receivers, but that doesn’t mean that nearly every pass play needs a flag. Most of the time, the replays don’t show much contact or anything worthy of throwing a flag. These calls have both benefitted and impaired each team. With teams passing so much in today’s football, penalties hurt the flow of the game. Since it has become too easy to draw a flag, the rules need to be either reworked or officials need to let defenders have a chance to play the game. One thing I know for sure is that after the debacle in Gainesville this weekend, Will Muschamp will be out as Florida Gators head coach. Florida fans will not stand for the

Gators to be beaten they way they did on Saturday night. The University of Missouri only had 119 total yards of offense but beat the Gators 42-13 with the help of six turnovers and four returns for scores. The Tigers had a fumble, interception, kickoff and punt returns for touchdowns. This loss sealed Muschamp’s fate at Florida. It doesn’t matter if it happens during or after the season. The Gators are going to need a new coach. The question is: When they look at what their former offensive coordinator Dan Mullen has done at Mississippi State University, do they think Mullen can bring the Gators back to the Urban Meyer era of Gator football? One thing is for sure: Florida has enough money to pay Mullen what he and all his assistants make at MSU. How rich is the Gators athletic program? In 2007, Gatorzone.com reported that Florida athletics gave $7 million to the academic side of the university and has given more than $50 million overall. If Florida wants Mullen, they have the resources to wine and dine him and offer him a salary that would be on par with Nick Saban or Les Miles. Florida will make a run at Mullen. That’s for certain. But only time will tell if Mullen wants to take the money and run or keep building a powerhouse at MSU.

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