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MELODIES AT THE STATE FAIR Smith, p 30

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Voucher Crossfire Mannie, pp 14-16

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JACKSONIAN Angela Butler Imani Khayyam

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hough Angela Butler is now a local entrepreneur and volunteer enthusiast, she says she had to “learn to fail forward toward success.”

A few years after graduating from North Forrest High School in Hattiesburg, Butler went to Associated Travel School in Miami. When she moved to Jackson in 1991, she began to work for Rightway Travel as a travel agent.

But Butler knew she was destined for more than a typical 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. job; she wanted to be her own boss. “I wanted to get more out of me and to spend time doing for other people,” she says.

Eventually, Butler took a leap of faith and started her career as the owner of a Jani-King franchise, a commercial cleaning company that she has now owned for 17 years. Five years later, she gained her license as a real estate agent. Having worked for more than 12 years in real estate, she is currently managing rental properties in the Jackson area.

Butler’s latest accomplishment is becoming a John Maxwell-certified public speaker, coach and trainer.

“I wanted to continue to invest in me to become better and add value to other people’s lives,” she says.

In April, she started conducting Mastermind sessions, which are six-week group

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meetings where professionals and leaders learn how to start apply the principal from John Maxwell books: to “live intentionally and get more results out of life.”

Part of Butler’s mission includes helping youth gain self-confidence despite the issues they may face, and to also “learn to fail toward success” like she did.

Butler says a big part of her self-development came from her years of volunteering. She has a nonprofit organization for families at local hospitals: Reach Beyond Ministries Inc. As its organizer, Butler serves breakfast and lunches to the families in the intensive-care family waiting areas of the Baptist Hospital and the Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital.

“I know there are people who are away from home and need a hot meal,” she says. “They need to see someone who cares about them.”

On living in Jackson, Butler says: “It has a lot of challenges but it has a lot of good things, too. Jackson has things to offer that are entertaining and educational, as well.” She loves to see plays at New Stage Theatre and loves Ballet Magnificat!. She is also a member of the Greater Fairview Baptist Church.

See angeladbutler.com to learn more about Live2Lead and her coaching sessions.

—LaShanda Phillips

cover photo of Kiyanna, Kenna, Jacob and Mikayla Kast

by Imani Khayyam

6 ............................ Talks 12 ................... editorial 13 ...................... opinion 14 ............ Cover Story 18 .................. Wellness 22 ........... food & Drink 25 ......................... 8 Days 26 ........................ Events 26 ....................... sports 28 ............................ ARTS 30 .......................... music 31 ........ music listings 32 ...................... Puzzles 33 ......................... astro 33 ................Classifieds

7 In Pursuit of Justice

Six trials and 20 years later, Curtis Flowers sat in Parchman with an affirmed death-penalty conviction from the Mississippi Supreme Court—until the U.S. Supreme Court got involved.

22 A Celebration of Gumbo

GumboFest is in its fourth year since its restart in 2012.

28 Light Painter

“I get pretty bored doing the same thing. … I’m just always searching for new, crazy ways (to make art.)”

—T.J. Legler, “T.J. Legler: Painting With Light”

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4 ............ Editor’s Note

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editor’s note

by Donna Ladd, Editor-in-Chief

2016 Election: A Tough Time for Women

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was a captive audience. I had settled into my window seat for the first leg of a twocity trip to Detroit and New York. It was early, and I was visibly tired, having been up late packing and tying up loose ends so I could be away for a week and a half.

No matter. The older man in the seat next to me recognized me as the editor of this paper and started chatting away. First, he said he likes my work and considers himself a “liberal Republican.” Half-asleep, I wasn’t saying a whole lot, nodding politely. Then he said something along the line of “It’s amazing that we have a lying bastard running for president.” Then he grinned.

“But which one am I talking about?”

From there, he launched into a diatribe against Hillary Clinton after briefly acknowledging that Trump is “terrible, but.”

He told me that her staff members over the years never liked her because she was so horrible to them—I honestly can’t remember if he called her a “bitch”; it could be my memory assuming he must have. She constantly lies; she’s crooked; she doesn’t have what it takes to be president, yada, yada.

And then the zinger, “You know, Hillary Clinton is not a feminist.”A gray-haired white man, leaning into me, just ’splained to me who is and is not a feminist.

I might have sputtered first. I said something like, “You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about,” and then reached for my headphones. “I’m tired, and I really don’t want to talk about either politics or religion right now.” (He had joked that “we” could talk about religion next.)

I was trembling as I turned away toward the plane window and the lecture about which women are qualified to be president, or feminist, from the next seat over. Maybe this wouldn’t have been so

exhausting if it hadn’t been just one more rooster peck of millions as a woman gets closer to serving in the White House.

It’s not like I’m a Clinton apologist.

I’ve long criticized the two Clintons for various issues—from his intern affair to her transparency failures. I have no problem debating actual issues, and no public servant is

“You know, Hillary Clinton is not a feminist.” immune from fact-based policy criticism.

But we’re seeing way too many vicious personal attacks, such as we see against Barack Obama because he’s black. And the blindsides on Clinton—for not smiling, smiling too much, raising her voice, sounding “shrill,” being egotistical or getting pneumonia during a crazy campaign cycle, thus showing a lack of (male) “stamina”— are textbook sexism. It’s not like such treatment of her, from across the political spectrum and media, are new. Watch a powerful compilation of 40 years of her being interrupted and insulted in media at jfp.ms/hrc.

As I watched that video, I cried a little as if it released years of frustration. Sadly, I’ve dealt with similar responses ever since I started my career and especially once I started having any degree of authority and public voice. The funny part was that I was a defiant feminist in high school and college and then basically stopped talking about it in my 20s, figuring things were cool then.

Since then, I’ve spent decades being

told to smile, called “angry,” “a lesbian” or “a bitch” for stating my opinion or challenging a male boss or someone I manage.

I’ve watched men I manage bow up and tell me, “I’ve done this work for __ years” when I gave feedback about actual problems. I’ve been flown to Lake Tahoe for a job interview and then asked to spend the night with the male interviewer. I’ve had every part of my body disparaged publicly because someone didn’t like my political endorsement.

I’ve watched a local conservative tech guy post a cartoon of me “whipping” my life/business partner Todd, as well as link the photo of a friend’s child to a picture of genital warts, and then continue to get good gigs from prominent men about town. I’ve watched candidates of all parties pay to advertise with a local blog that talks about how flat-chested women attorneys are and that they wish one’s breast implants would explode (alongside disgusting racism). And I’ve been lied about repeatedly. And more.

The typical, and sexist, response to my sharing all that is to call me “bitter” because I dare say all that out loud. That is the real secret to keeping women down and quiet: Say what you want about us, and then if we speak up, we’re out of control, hysterical and so on. That means that women, even in a position of authority, tend to stay quiet about women’s continuing reality. If we don’t, we’re “difficult” or whatever.

And this doesn’t just come from men.

I’ve written before about studies showing that many women also harbor implicit sexism toward women perceived to be in power. It’s a backward part of our culture, which means we all need to be “woke” about it to change things. And it’s even harder for women of color because they get hit with a double dose of sexism and racism.

But here’s the thing: When we women watch it happening publicly and repeatedly—down to calls to kill the woman who is objectively the most qualified person ever to run for president against a bigoted, juvenile clown who rates women by breast size— it is time to speak up and share our own sexist experiences, so other women know that they’re not alone. If we don’t, younger women will be blindsided by it, as I was by my 30s, when they realize that it’s really not about some power-hungry she-monster, and that it will be their turn in front of the firing squad when they reach a certain level of power—if we don’t change it soon.

Women, we must no longer consent to walk on eggshells and allow ourselves to be interrupted and belittled by men, whether “below” or “above” us in a pecking order.

And men, nothing about this cultural misogyny makes America a stronger nation or you a stronger male. In fact, this year, sexism could bring a very dangerous man to the White House who makes us vulnerable to myriad threats abroad and at home, including when he decides to launch a 3 a.m. strike at someone who dared criticize him.

As I like to say, I’m pretty Teflon to personal sexist attacks at this point, as is Clinton clearly, but I also must be willing to speak up about them to help other women, which in turn helps our strength as a nation. I am voting proudly for Hillary Clinton in November, and not just because Donald Trump is so vile and dangerous to democracy. She is tough, smart and learns from mistakes, and she keeps talking even when men try to shut her down.

She is ready to lead in more ways than one. And, yes, she is a damn feminist.

Follow Donna Ladd on Twitter at @ donnerkay. She won’t bite if you don’t.

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contributors

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Sierra Mannie

Arielle Dreher

Tim Summers Jr.

Timothy Quinn

Amber Helsel

Micah Smith

Kimberly Griffin

Zilpha Young

Education Reporting Fellow Sierra Mannie is a University of Mississippi whose opinions of the Ancient Greeks can’t be trusted nearly as much as her opinions of Beyoncé. She wrote the cover story.

News Reporter Arielle Dreher is working on finding some new hobbies and adopting an otter from the Jackson Zoo. Email her story ideas at arielle@jacksonfreepress. com. She wrote about a revived murder case.

City Reporter Tim Summers Jr. enjoys loud music, long city council meetings and FOIA requests. Send him story ideas at tim@jacksonfreepress.com.

He wrote about Hinds County District Attorney Robert Smith and Darnell Turner.

Timothy Quinn is a family physician at Quinn Total Health who dedicates himself to giving his patients consistent, comprehensive and ethical medical care. He wrote about STDs.

Assistant Editor Amber Helsel likes to cook, eat, make art and pet cats. Pottermore sorted her into Gryffindor, but she knows that her true house is Slytherin. She wrote about the International Gumbo Festival.

Music Editor Micah Smith is married to a great lady, has two dog-children named Kirby and Zelda, and plays in the band Empty Atlas. Send gig info to music@jacksonfreepress.com. He wrote about the state fair music headliners.

Advertising Director Kimberly Griffin is a fitness buff and foodie who loves chocolate and her mama. She’s also Michelle Obama’s super secret BFF, which explains the Secret Service detail.

Zilpha Young is an ad designer by day, painter, illustrator, seamstress and freelance designer by night. Check out her design portfolio at www. zilphacreates.com. Zilpha designed ads for the issue.

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“I am a police chief, not a magician.”

Hinds County District Attorney Robert Schuler Smith is reinstated ... for now. p 10

— Jackson Police Chief Lee Vance on the need to tighten his budget.

Wednesday, September 28

Hinds County Chancery Judge Dewayne Thomas allows three groups that favor charter schools to intervene in a lawsuit challenging whether such schools can legally receive Mississippi education money. … FBI Director James Comey tells Congress that the FBI will have up and running within two years a database that tracks instances of police use of deadly force.

The Mississippi Supreme Court overturns an order barring Robert Shuler Smith from performing his duties as district attorney of Hinds County. … The FAA through the Airport Improvement Program and MDOT awards more than $17 million in grant funds to support airfield construction projects at both the Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport and Hawkins Field Airport.

Friday, September 30

The Oxford school district issues an apology after the superintendent was quoted saying the district might consider an optional separate school to try to boost low-income students’ academic achievement.

Saturday, October 1

Donald Trump physically mocks Hillary Clinton’s near-collapse from pneumonia at a campaign rally in Manheim, Pa.

Sunday, October 2

A leak of Donald Trump’s tax returns shows that he may not have paid federal income taxes for nearly two decades after he and his companies lost nearly $916 million in a single year.

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Monday, October 3

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A former Mississippi state senator, Irb Benjamin of Madison, becomes the sixth person to plead guilty in former Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps’ prisoncontract bribery scandal. … Gov. Phil Bryant announces that he is willing to discuss starting a state lottery, making him the first Mississippi governor since Ray Mabus in 1990 to do so.

Tuesday, October 4

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange promises “significant” disclosures on subjects, including the U.S. election and Google in the coming weeks after his promised 4 a.m.

“October surprise” against Hillary Clinton fails to materialize, angering Trump fans

and the alt-right community.

Get breaking news at jfpdaily.com.

by Arielle Dreher

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ississippians who receive earned probation for crimes Hall told the Performance Based Budgeting Committee that that do not carry a death sentence or involve deadly 25 detainees were participating as of Sept. 20—but the court had weapons will now have access to high-school equiva- only recently sentenced two of those to RRP. The strategy, while lency education, alcohol and drug counseling, re- mandatory for MDOC to offer, is optional for the courts. Judges entry and employment services—and perhaps, most importantly, can sentence individuals to the program who have been in the state’s “Thinking for a Change,” custody up to one year. an evidence-based cogni “It’s going to be a tive behavioral-therapy referral-based program program. whereby the probation and

Cognitive behavparole agent, after assessing ioral therapy is focused on the risks and needs of an helping individuals unoffender, would make a rederstand the connections ferral to a program coordiamong thoughts, feelings nator,” Hall told lawmakand behaviors. Inmates in ers Sept. 21.

MDOC’s custody who are sentenced to Mississippi Why Therapy Department of CorrecMatters tions’ new Recidivism Re Adrian James mainly duction Program will atworks with juveniles and tend therapy twice a week their families as a counin addition to their other selor at Pine Belt Mental classes.

Healthcare in Hattiesburg

Pelicia Hall, the and has experience with MDOC chief of staff, told cognitive behavioral therThe Mississippi Department of Corrections has replaced Mississippi lawmakers on apy. She says it likely can the Regimented Inmate Discipline program, a paramilitarythe Performance Based help inmates understand style program designed to reduce rates of re-offending.

Budgeting Committee on how they got to the point The program was found to hurt more than help, and MDOC Sept. 21 that RRP started in their lives where they introduced the replacement program this summer.

July 1 at South Mississippi were on earned probation.

Correctional Institution

“We aren’t born and in Leakesville for male ofthen go out (and comfenders and the Flowood Satellite Facility for female offenders. All mit crimes); what happened between then and now?” James said. those in the Regimented Inmate Discipline program it replaced “What things were you exposed to? What things happened to you, shifted over to the alternative. The department also is rolling out or in your home?” community-based options in work centers throughout the state.

The National Institute of Corrections developed the “ThinkCourtesy MDOC

Thursday, September 29

Replacing Military-Style Detention

Public Servants Do the Fair

by JFP Staff The fair is here! The fair is here! And it’s probably going to have a huge turnout, including members of the state GOP. Here’s what we imagine they might do.

Gov. Phil Bryant would be winning tiny boots for his performance in the water-rifle game and offering cheap flu shots (four ride tickets) to anyone who would have qualified for expanded Medicaid.

Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves won’t make it this year—too busy taking all the corporate heads out to dinner.

House Speaker Philip Gunn would be jamming out to Boys II Men with all his Baylor bros he invited along.

Rep. Dan Eubanks, R-Walls, would hand out tracts and fellowship with fairgoers.

Sen. Terry Burton, R-Burton, would be at the beer garden, but no worries, he’s not driving this time.

Stacey Pickering would offer free taxpayer rides in his “Campaign” R.V.

Rep. John Read, R-Gautier, also won’t make it this year because of his latest life development: handling the state’s budget problems.

Rep. Andy Gipson, R-Braxton, will have a clipboard asking for your signature for his petition to toughen #HB1523 next session Attorney General Jim Hood would gather evidence for a multistate class action lawsuit against the Tilt-a-Whirl Guy. Agriculture Commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith can be found with that “Make America Great Again” hat on and in deep thought about updating the State Fair’s website with 2016 information.

Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann will be checking IDs at the gate and wonder why fellow Republicans are ignoring his requests.

“It’s no different than Medicaid. You take public money, and you give it to private providers; it’s no difference.”

— Rep. John Moore, R-Brandon, the House Education Committee chairman, on special-education vouchers.

“It was a battle that we fought on behalf of the City last year, and I am pleased to say that we in effect won, because we did not have to see our budget impacted by that anymore.”

— Mayor Tony Yarber, member of the State Fair Commission, on the need for the State to help pay for fair security.

The Murder Trial That Won’t Go Away

by Arielle Dreher

MDOC

“Thinking for a Change” curriculum in the 1990s. Dr. Juliana Taymans, a special-education professor at George Washington University, helped develop and write the program’s curriculum.

Taymans said “Thinking for a Change” focuses on three steps: social skills, cognitive self-change (how change in thoughts affect situations) and problem-solving. Inmates will practice their new skills in groups and then practice outside the groups. The whole course should take 25 to 30 two-hour sessions to finish 25 lessons, Taymans said.

“It’s taught in a way so that there’s no lecturing or moralizing or sermonizing, we’re not telling them we’re going to make you better,” Taymans said. “The way it’s taught is, ‘OK, we’re going to explore a whole bunch of skills that are useful to you in your life, so let’s see if you can use them.’”

that morning. Witnesses for the defense testified that they were promised payment or implied they would get reward money for testifying against Flowers.

Six trials and 20 years later, Flowers sat in Parchman with an affirmed death-penalty conviction from the Missis-

Curtis Flowers, currently on death row in Mississippi, may get another trial after the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the Mississippi Supreme Court’s ruling in his sixth trial this summer.

At capacity, RRP should serve up to 100 people, but the National Institute of Corrections mandates that classroom sizes be kept low, at about 15 to 20 people.

Thinking for a Change therapy classes are offered to inmates on Thursdays and Fridays every week for 13 weeks. The RRP program lasts six months, in total.

Getting Rid of RID

MDOC had to replace the paramilitary program because inmates who went through the program actually fared worse than those that didn’t, Dr. Kirby Arinder, a methodologist from the Legislature’s nonpartisan PEER Committee, told lawmakers in September. He said that Regimented Inmate Discipline program “has a statistically significant negative affect on recidivism.”

“(We found that) people who go through actually do worse than people that

sippi Supreme Court—until the U.S. Supreme Court got involved in the case.

Flowers’ first three trials all ended in convictions and death sentences, but none of the convictions stuck. The Mississippi Supreme Court reversed the outcome of the first two trials due to prosecutorial misconduct, specifically that the prosecutor had admitted evidence from other victims in the first trial and arguing facts not in the evidence in the second trial. It reversed the third trial, finding that the prosecutor had racially discriminated in the selection of jury members. Then there were two subsequent mistrials, in which the juries were more racially balanced, but resulted in two hung juries, unable to reach a unanimous verdict.

In trial number six, the jury had 11 white jurors, more than the previous two trials, resulting in a conviction and death sentence for Flowers.

Flowers, who is black, appealed his case back up to the Mississippi Supreme Court, claiming, in part, that the juryselection process violated his fundamental rights under the Sixth and the 14th amendments. The Mississippi Supreme Court disagreed and sentenced him to death by lethal injection in late 2014.

That court denied Flowers’ motion for rehearing at the outset of 2015, so his lawyers filed a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court. This summer, the high court vacated the State’s high court judgment in Flowers’ sixth trial and remanded the case.

“The case is remanded to the Supreme Court of Mississippi for further consideration in light of Foster v. Chat-

didn’t go through, so we realized that while there were a lot of individuals who had success—they were the outliers,” Arinder said.

Back in 2015, the PEER committee recommendations led the Legislature to pass House Bill 906 in 2015, repealing the paramilitary program because it did not stop participants from later committing more crimes.

“The research had developed and shown that the boot camp and military disciplinary measures were not working and didn’t help for recidivism purposes, so we had to develop an evidence-based model to replace that component of the program,” Hall told the committee in September.

Not everyone was quick to embrace the change. Patricia Burchell, the Forrest County district attorney and president of the state’s prosecutors association, told lawmakers that prosecu-

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tors fought hard to keep RID.

“I don’t know about what the statistics show, but we in our jurisdictions felt that it did help the offenders that we sent there, so we were not fully on board with the replacement. Now that it is reality of course, we’re going to use it fully,” Burchell told the Performance Based Budgeting Committee in September.

The statistics show that the program was horrendous in terms of the number of participants who later re-offended. In 2011, RID had a 42-percent recidivism rate, while the state’s overall rate hovered around 37 percent. This means that of the 427 inmates who completed the RID program, 179 of those graduates were back in the system within three years.

Comment at jfp.ms. Email reporter Arielle Dreher at arielle@jacksonfreepress. com.

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t was the summer of 1996, another Tuesday morning in July in Winona, Miss. At around 9 a.m., Bertha Tardy, the owner of Tardy Furniture Store, called Sam Jones and asked him to come in and train two new employees.

When Jones arrived at the store he discovered the bodies of Tardy, Robert Golden, Carmen Rigby and Derrick Stewart, all shot in the head. Police found shell casings from .38caliber bullets and a bloody shoeprint at the scene. All four victims eventually died.

Police interviewed local man Curtis Flowers later that afternoon after they placed him at the scene of a burglarized car missing a .38-caliber pistol that morning. Flowers consented to a gun residue test as well. Flowers had worked briefly at Tardy Furniture at the start of the month before being fired after not showing up for a few days. Police interviewed Flowers again two days later, and he gave a different account of what he did on that Tuesday. Flowers moved to Texas that September, but in March 1997, police arrested Flowers, brought him back to Mississippi and indicted him on four separate counts of capital murder.

Witness testimonies in Flowers’ sixth trial revealed that $300 to $400 in cash was taken from the store during the murders, and witnesses for the state said that police found $235 in Flowers’ headboard and that Flowers wore a 10and-a-half size shoe, the same size of the bloody footprint, another state witness said. Witnesses also said that the gunshot residue test revealed one particle in the back of Flowers’ right hand. Eye witnesses placed Flowers at both his uncle’s car missing the .38-caliber pistol and near Tardy Furniture on Tuesday morning. One witness testified that he saw two African-American men outside of Tardy Furniture

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TALK | city

City Police Overtime Balanced, Fair Security Set

by Tim Summers Jr.

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Almost a Million for JPD

The City administration asked the council to approve a transfer of $996,173 for the police department’s last set of paychecks, an adjustment that came as the result of JPD accruing increased and unanticipated overtime hours.

Still, Yarber said that his administration is committed to cutting overtime expenditures in the police department going forward.

“Initially, what we have done is ask the chief to provide us not only with the details, but also with a plan of action going into this fiscal year that is due at the top of the fiscal year,” Yarber said.

The mayor says he wants the chief’s

plan to say, “‘Here are the reasons that we have seen these issues, and here is what we plan to do about them,’ whether it is a vacancy that we plan to make sure that we have filled, so we can cover, or

Jackson Police Chief Lee Vance said the department is developing a plan to rein in overtime expenditures in a budget climate he described as “desperate.”

whether it is us deploying services based on needs dictated by data, so we can be more efficient in that regard.”

Jackson Police Chief Lee Vance said in a Sept. 30 interview that overtime expendi-

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man,” the June order from the U.S. Supreme Court states.

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tures for the department are an issue.

“We were given a mandate, during the meeting, by the mayor to come up with a plan,” Vance said. “We plan on complying with the instructions given to us by the Imani Khayyam

n a climate of desperation, the Jackson City Council approved the final numbers for the 2016 budget last week, closing out a difficult financial year for the City while rolling over $5.9 million in reserve funds for the next year.

“Anytime that you come out of a budget season that we’ve had where you are looking at the possibility that your fund balance or reserve is at zero, and we come out with a reserve at 5.9 million, that’s a win,” Mayor Tony Yarber said after the meeting.

“Much of that credit is due to our finance team and our department directors who were very, very specific about implementing a revised spending plan.”

Of Race and Juries

To understand the history of Flowers’ case and the claims of racial discrimination in jury selection, it is vital to understand the history of landmark cases in the same vein.

When a person goes on trial for capital murder, jury selection is a natural part of the process—and a part that can sway the outcome. In 1986, the trial of James Kirkland Batson in Kentucky led to new limitations for prosecutors who attempted to strike potential jurors.

Both prosecutors and defense attorneys get an equal number of strikes during jury selection in death-penalty cases. Often, jurors are removed due to a conflict of interest in the case or because they have a predisposed inclination to not sentence someone to death on principle.

Removing a potential juror based on race or gender, however, is illegal. The Batson case solidified this standard nationally. The prosecutor in Batson’s case removed all four

mayor, and we will come up with a plan hopefully in the next 10 days. Now realistically that’s going to require some belt tightening, but we are committed to being in compliance.”

African Americans from the jury pool, and Batson challenged the action under the Sixth and 14th Amendments.

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with Batson and found that while a defendant is not entitled to have a jury completely or partially composed of people of his own race, the state is not permitted to use its peremptory challenges to automatically exclude potential members of the jury because of their race, a case summary from the U.S. Courts says.

The Batson case set a new standard: mainly that defendants in a criminal case can make an Equal Protection claim if they can show that race was a the reason a potential jury member was struck, the state must come forward and give an explanation for their exclusion.

If they succeed in proving another non-race-related reason for striking the juror, the onus goes back on the defendant. In Timothy Foster’s case, his lawyers were able to prove their claim with a public-records request.

Foster was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in Georgia, which the Georgia Supreme Court affirmed. Foster filed for public records, however, which revealed what the U.S. Supreme Court found to be convincing evidence that lawyers rejected potential jurors due

Vance said the budget cuts to his department means challenges, including balancing continuing service with fewer resources.

“It hasn’t been seamless; it’s been difficult. And it’s going to be difficult from the jump. I think for us, fortunately we had to get by last year with a lot of positions that were unfilled,” Vance said.

“So the savings that we offered up going into the budget process were cutting unfilled positions. So that made up most of the money that we were asked to cut.”

As a part of the departmental budget reductions presented to the council in the weeks leading up to the Oct. 1 deadline for the new fiscal year, JPD restructured the department to reflect a drop of $2,121,713, bringing its budget to $33,799,043 from $36,413,341. The department found the $2 million in savings by freezing 28 civilian positions and 26 “sworn positions” for officers. Some of these were the “unfilled positions” Vance mentioned.

For the next year, without the budget from unfilled positions as a cushion, the department is looking to stop staff expansion, particularly civilians.

“There’s going to be a minimal amount of hiring. I seriously doubt that we hire any additional civilians, I just don’t see more POLICE see page 10

to their race. “A draft affidavit from an investigator comparing black prospective jurors and conclude(ed), ‘If it comes down to having to pick one of the black jurors, [this one] might be okay,” the U.S. Supreme Court opinion says.

How Foster Helps Flowers

On June 20, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the Mississippi Supreme Court’s opinion, which sentenced Flowers for execution, asking the court to consider the case in light of the Foster precedent. Alison Steiner, an attorney with the Office of the State Public Defender, says the U.S. Supreme Court granted review to only a handful of cases— out of dozens. She said the chances of getting a petition for writ of certiorari granted in a death-penalty case are low.

“Although the opinion is vague, the context suggests that there is something about the issue raised in this case (Flowers) that six members of the court did think (the outcome in) Foster required looking at again,” Steiner said.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has set a motion hearing schedule for Flowers’ case for this fall and winter. Flowers has filed a separate petition for post-conviction relief in the Mississippi Supreme Court as well.

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THE DA FILES

FBI Accuses DA of Shielding Drug Traffickers

by Tim Summers Jr.

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courtesy Hinds County Sheriffs Department

judge unsealed documents last had run a successful defense practice in the Turner was part of a group of young week as part of the ongoing case Washington Addition until he became dis- men that former Mayor Frank Melton against Hinds County District At- trict attorney, had represented Turner in an called his “boys.” The controversial mayor torney Robert Shuler Smith and aggravated assault trial in 2006, alongside attended the trial in then-Hinds County Assistant District Attorney Jamie McBride Corey Redd, Elisha Moton and Andre Ma- Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter’s courtthat reveal more about the possible reasons son—all allegedly members of the so-called room and defended the young men who for the circuitous legal quagmire that had turned themselves into him, spans multiple cases and courts. which prosecutors believed at the

Special Circuit Court Judge time hurt the case. A Hinds County Larry Roberts unsealed court docujury acquitted the five men after ments Sept. 12 alleging that the Sanders suddenly refused to testify. relationship between Smith and a Sanders recanted his identification of former client named Darnell Turner Turner and the other men to police. connects to an employee in the dis One of the Grayhead associtrict attorney’s office, revealing more ates, Terrence Womack, attended of Attorney General Jim Hood’s arMelton’s federal trial daily in his gument that Smith is trying to shield support. On Oct. 29, 2013, U.S. both Turner and Christopher Butler District Judge Henry T. Wingate from prosecution. sentenced Womack to 72 months in

Both Turner and Butler face federal prison followed by five years separate pending criminal charges of supervised release for possession in Hinds County at the moment. with intent to distribute more than The attorney general’s office charged 28 grams of crack. Womack was inButler with wire fraud involving a dicted in connection with Operation furniture store with which he used Paperchase, an extensive investigato be employed, in addition to drug tion targeting illegal narcotics districharges that were already pending bution in Jackson. against him. Turner faces a three On Sept. 7, a Hinds County An FBI agent accused Hinds County District count indictment for allegedly beatGrand Jury indicted Smith and Attorney Robert Shuler Smith of connections ing one man with a pistol and firing McBride on two counts of hinderto alleged drug traffickers in documents a judge recently unsealed. at another on July 12, 2014. ing prosecution and Smith alone of

Before he became district attorone count of assisting Butler in his ney, Smith had represented Turner as defense, but did not name Turner in a defense attorney, according to a motion to “Grayhead” gang supposedly because Mo- those charges. The same week, the attorney dismiss his attorney Dennis Sweet III filed ton’s hair was prematurely gray—for alleg- general dropped an earlier affidavit chargJune 10, 2016. Sweet alleged in the motion edly shooting Michael “Mike-Mike” Sand- ing Smith with misdemeanors for allegthat Hood was targeting Turner and did ers in the leg, duct-taping his mouth and edly helping both Butler and Turner to beat not have the authority to do so, which the locking him in a trunk for hours on March their charges and get out of jail. attorney general disputes.

10, 2004. Police then believed the shoot Sweet also pointed out that Turner ing was part of retaliatory violence between Turner and Smith had no previous conviction. Smith, who Inge and Cohea Street crime groups.

Reading like the spec script for a tele-

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that coming,” Vance said. “Whatever it is that we have right now, we are going to have to figure out how to make it work for the next fiscal year.”

How funding will affect service is still a question.

“It remains to be seen how that’s going to affect our ability to provide service. It remains to be seen,” Vance said.

“But I am not going to sit here and try to paint the picture to be more rosy than it actually is. When you cut that amount of money out of your budget, it’s going to affect how we operate.”

10 “I am a police chief, not a magician,” Vance said, add-

ing that with the City’s budget condition as “desperate,” his choices are limited.

“What they give you is what you got, and it’s up to us as managers to make it work with what you’ve got.”

JPD and the State Fair

Overtime for police officers during the last month of the budget cycle caused litigious issues for the City last year, but Yarber assured the council Sept. 29 that this year would be different.

“Those officers will be paid directly from (the) fair. It won’t impact the police overtime,” Yarber said after the city council’s Sept. 29 special meeting. “It was a battle that we fought on behalf of the city last year, and I am pleased to say that we in effect won, because we did not have to see our

vision crime show, the documents in the unsealed file, Case 16-120, paint a picture of a district attorney caught up in a larger and possibly illegal context with one of his former clients, although they only represent one side of a legal dispute.

Darnell Turner is mentioned in one of the 16-120 filings, a motion to recall the grand jury and install the attorney general’s office as the temporary prosecutor for all cases related to the cooperation between the FBI and AG’s office, which Hood’s office submitted Feb. 19. In that document, Assistant Attorney General Stanley Alexander, who unsuccessfully ran against Smith in the last election, states that the Federal Bureau of Investigation requested assistance from Hood’s office back on July 20, 2015.

“The request alleged that several cases, both violent and non-violent, had not been prosecuted by the Hinds County District Court District Attorney’s Office,” the motion states. “The request went on to opine that the cases had not been pursued because all of the defendants have a relationship with Donald (Darnell) Turner.” (The Hinds County Sheriff’s Department told the Jackson Free Press that Turner is also known as Darnell Dixon.)

The motion then states that Turner and Smith were “good friends,” and “it is because of this friendship that the (district attorney) has chosen not to prosecute the instant cases.” Alexander also reveals information concerning an alleged connection between one of the DA’s current employees and Turner.

“Additionally, DeOndra (Dee) Parker, the mother of two of Mr. Turner’s children, is an employee at the District Attorney’s office,” Alexander wrote. “According to

budget impacted by that anymore.”

Vance said the funding issues from last year would not affect the security for this year’s fair.

“Everything has been ironed out. We have a plan in place where we are going to be providing security on the outside of the state fair,” Vance said. “I try to be non-specific about numbers for strategic reasons, but anybody that comes down to the fair will see a very significant presence of the Jackson police.”

“There is an agreement in existence from last year where we kick in some, and they kick in some,” Vance said.

“But our financial commitment does not include any overtime.”

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records, Ms. Parker signed for one of the cases that has not been prosecuted by the DA’s office.”

Parker, who is still listed as an employee of the DA’s office, did not respond to calls by press time. Sweet, Turner’s attorney, did not return calls by press time.

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between Smith and Turner in the letter, especially concerning a now-defunct trucking company Turner owned, Southern Miss Transport LLC, “that is under investigation for being a front for drug trafficking.”

“James Mangum, the son of one of Turner’s truck drivers, was involved in a homicide as part of a drug deal in Jackson Turner’s Trucking Company in 2014,” Culpepper states. “Mangum was

In a September 2015 letter included arrested for the murder by the Jackson Powith Alexander’s motion, FBI Special lice Department, but was never indicted by Agent Robert Culpepper wrote to Special the District Attorney’s Office.”

Assistant Attorney General Marvin Sand- Records from the Municipal Court ers about the alleged relationship between did not provide a contact number for Smith and Turner, including the question Mangum. Mangum, then 23, was arrested of Deondra Parker and some allegedly for the 2014 murder of Dexter Myles, 35, missing documents. in the parking lot of the Exxon station at

“Tommy White was arrested by the 1635 Terry Road. Mangum turned himJackson Police Departself in after police issued ment in 2013 for possesa warrant for his arrest, sion of marijuana with WLBT reported then, intent to distribute,” adding that the grand Culpepper’s letter states, jury had not been preadding that White was sented enough evidence a reported associate of to indict him.

Turner and “supporter of

In yet another turn Robert Shuler Smith.” for a case that spans al Information obmost 10 different court tained through public files, Smith’s attorney, records indicated a posJim Waide, said he cansible address in Madison Darnell Turner also goes by not respond to the acfor White, but no avail- Donald Turner and Darnell cusations in Culpepper’s able number attached Dixon, as well as “Slick.” letter without the full to the address yielded a transcript of the agent’s response by press time. testimony to a Hinds

“White’s case has County grand jury. never been indicted by the District At- Waide said in a Sept. 28 interview that torney,” Culpepper said in the document. he had not reviewed the unsealed files in “The Police Department recently inquired full. He said he would have to see what that about the status of the case and was told document contained before commenting, by a representative of the District Attorney because Hinds Circuit Judge Jeff Weill had that they never received the case.” filed the Culpepper transcript in the Mis What happened to the case? It is listed sissippi Supreme Court. on a document from the Jackson Police Waide filed a motion on Oct. 4 for Department’s Major Investigations Divi- the court to compel Judge Jeff Weill’s court sion, also included with the motion. reporter to release the entirety of the Cul “The District Attorney’s Office em- pepper transcript from case 16-120. ployee who signed for the case was DeOndra (aka “Dee”) Parker,” Culpepper said, Editor-in-chief Donna Ladd contribadding that she was the mother of two of uted reporting on the Grayhead case to this Turner’s children and “has been suspected story. Email city reporter Tim Summers Jr. at of deliberately pulling cases related to Turn- tim@jacksonfreepress.com. Read more about er and his associates.”

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Is America Really the Land of the Free?

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’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

The line is stated four times in the “Star-Spangled Banner,” which is the national anthem. I always wondered what it really meant. I was taught that America was founded to be a “free country.” Our founding fathers developed a country to escape the monarchy system. They formed a country based on freedom of religion and liberty for all. America’s first principle is “equality”—that everyone is created and treated equal.

Growing up as an African American, I always heard, “They don’t want us here.” I never understood that saying, especially when you go to school with a diverse group of people, and you’re taught that “America is a free country.”

I always heard people talking about racism and different encounters with it, but I never grasped it. I always said, “I don’t see race. I see people.” My mom used to say, “It’s more than that.”

I didn’t understand. I was blessed with the opportunity to learn and be a part of a “white privilege” school such as Jackson Academy.

As a young African American girl with a white best friend, I was blinded by the luxury. I failed to realize that the reason my mother stayed to herself was because the other parents weren’t greeting her with open arms. Instead, they were looking at her every move, looking at her full of judgment, making her feel out of place.

Schools teach their students about Christopher Columbus and Abraham Lincoln. Columbus, a Spanish explorer, was the first to discover America in 1492. President Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in 1862.

But textbooks don’t tell the whole truth about our country’s history. They worship many people who alienated human beings— people who we think so highly of the people who enslaved Africans and then made them three-fifths of a person.

I just don’t understand how someone would think a person with darker skin tone is less than they are. Learning one thing at school and another at home was very confusing for me. Everything I was being taught didn’t make sense. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve researched the real history behind “America The Great.” America is not free. I hate that we’re being taught false information.

African Americans get racially profiled every day. Police have shot and killed many unarmed black people—because of what? Is it because of their skin color? Is it because they were acting “too free”? People are born every day, and they still have to learn how to protect themselves based on their skin color.

Racism is our reality now, so stop acting like it’s not an issue.

I’ve grown up knowing that black people have it hard. I’m sick and tired of fighting for what we are entitled to have. I’m sick and tired of feeling belittled because of my skin color. I say my “skin color” because the world has defined race as the color of one’s skin. So I guess I’m trying to figure out where the “equality” and “liberty” we claim to all have is. Until I see it for myself, America is not free and never has been.

Jordan Mahoney, 15, is a junior at Ridgeland High School. She wants to become an entrepreneur. She was part of the Mississippi Youth 12 Media Project this past summer. This first appeared at jxnpulse.com.

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Mental Care Needed for All, Including Inmates

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f the more than 19,000 men and women behind bars in Mississippi, about 3,000 inmates are receiving mental-health care.

The state has received a federal grant to expand a mental-health and substance-abuse program to serve around 90 people. The launch of this Second Chance Act Reentry Program is so necessary and timely. Past incarceration strategies or even re-entry programs were mainly focused on punitive punishment and having inmates “learn a lesson.”

Then researchers started to look at how often the punished were re-offended—their “recidivism.”

As a result, even the tough-on-crime state Legislature forced the Mississippi Department of Corrections to stop a paramilitary incarceration “alternative” program because it had a higher recidivism rate than the state as a whole.

Research has finally caught up with what so many people experience on a daily basis: trauma.

Trauma can occur in a single incident, like a car accident, or in repeated traumatic events, like abuse.

Trauma affects our lives in a physiological way.

When we are exposed to repetitious trauma, including through growing up in dangerous, poor neighborhoods, our brains shut down certain regions to avoid feeling pain. Just because we avoid pain once, however, doesn’t mean the trauma left.

“Trauma can tattoo the imagination and disrupt normal powers of narrative,” David Morris writes in “The Evil Hours,” his book about post-

traumatic stress disorder. “It can create episodes that seem supernatural in origin.”

Trauma accounts for 41 million emergency room visits and 2.3 million hospital admissions in the U.S. each year, CDC data show. Our state’s psychologists and counselors recognize the urgency— the Department of Mental Health hosted the third annual trauma-informed care conference in September. We applaud state agencies’ work to bring trauma-informed care into mental-health practices and even our prisons throughout the state.

The State is headed in the right direction, but slowly. Every inmate who cannot receive adequate mental care in a prison or jail should access needed counseling or therapy once discharged. We need more funding and support and not just for more MDOC mental health-care programs, but for the state’s entire system of care. Prison must not be a revolving door for the mentally ill.

To rehabilitate Mississippians and keep them from committing worse crime and returning to prison later in life, mental-health support must be in their communities once they are discharged. The state needs more than new programs. We need a shift in mindset to a trauma-informed system of care to rehabilitate and address the issues likely at the heart of crime in the first place. This is what real violence prevention looks like.

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elieve it or not, some people still deny the undeniable influence of black culture. Unfortunately for those who still attempt to deny these influences, black culture is American culture, and it is here to stay. Without it, there would be no such thing as soul, rhythm and the immense creativity born from the hell of supremacy—or seasoning.

It should come as no surprise to many that black culture is popping up everywhere we look nowadays. For the purpose of time and word count, let’s bypass historic culture references. I want to reference present-day black culture, which, in recent weeks, has been more dominant than Hillary Clinton’s massacre of Donald Trump in the first presidential debate.

Black culture has only worshipped a few entities throughout its 400plus year history—white Jesus, black Jesus, Tupac, Biggie, Al Sharpton’s Jheri curl, The Fab Five, “The Dave Chapelle Show,” President Barack Obama and Beyoncé. Essentially, Princess Diana is to white folks what Beyoncé is to black folks. However, black culture embraced not the deity known as Beyoncé this week, but her younger sister Solange. Admittedly, I have not heard her new album, but apparently it’s producing more fire than Dany’s dragons, and the blackness of Master P’s interludes knows “No Limit.” Some people chalk up Solange’s album success to talent, perseverance and timing. Personally, I chalk it up to her shared bloodline.

Black culture has always dominated music. This is nothing new. However, at times the culture has been left off the big and small screen. Sure, black actors have starred in America’s favorite white savior/ black servant movies like “The Help,” “The Blind Side,” “12 Years a Slave” or “The Butler,” but it’s rare that black culture makes the movies and TV shows it really wants to make. You know, like “Malcolm X” or “The Last Dragon.”

So when I heard that the Netflix show, “Luke Cage,” which is based on the Marvel superhero comic about a black man who is bullet proof, temporarily shut down Netflix due to the massive amount of streaming following its debut, I was not shocked in the least bit. This black-culture show is trolling white supremacy so brilliantly. Get

this: Cage walks around wearing a hoodie, paying direct homage to one of black culture’s young kings, Trayvon Martin.

During such moments of TV brilliance, the culture is also celebrating the success of other brilliantly produced black shows such as “Blackish,” “Atlanta” and “Queen Sugar.” “Atlanta” is a brilliantly developed piece of art, created and starring one of the top black-culture talents around, Donald Glover. Glover’s nuanced way of piercing through the veil of young, black America and displaying it to the world is something that is much needed. Furthermore, the show seems to have a “Seinfeld””Curb Your Enthusiasm” sensibility about it.

Major motion pictures directed and starring black folks are slowly rearing their beautiful heads, with films like “Selma,” “The Magnificent Seven,” “Black Panther,” “Dope,” “Fences,” “Dear White People” and “The Birth of a Nation.”

Some movies on that list come with controversy (black culture wouldn’t be black culture without some controversy).

“The Birth of Nation,” which is created by, directed by and stars Nate Parker, is a real-life “Django” story about a slave who realizes that the horrors of slavery wouldn’t be undone anytime in the foreseeable future, so he decides to lead a slave rebellion.

This movie is laced with controversy, with everything from the content of the actual film to Parker being accused of rape.

Even though Parker was found innocent of the allegations, some people in the black community rightfully stand against him and his alleged actions and will, therefore, not watch the movie.

However, others in the community rightfully separate the movie from the person and will go watch “The Birth of Nation,” hoping to level up on their blackness. Conundrums like this bring me back to my original point of black culture being American culture.

Like American culture, black culture has the freedom to go wherever the hell it pleases to go.

Leslie McLemore II, a Jackson native, is now in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of Jackson State University, North Carolina Central University School of Law and American University Washington College of Law.

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Kenna Kast, grandmother of three, wants to send her grandson Jacob to a private school that serves autistic students, but cannot afford it.

From left to right: Kiyanna, Kenna (holding) Jacob, and Mikayla Kast.

Unmet Needs:

Children with Disabilities Caught in the Voucher Crossfire

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n February, while visiting her sick mother at a local hospital, Kenna Kast decided to check in with her grandson’s therapists.

Jacob, 9, is autistic and severely developmentally disabled. Kast used to accompany him by bus to his weekly therapy sessions at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Lexington, 10 miles from their home in Durant. But she was relieved of the duty when Jacob graduated from his Head Start preschool program and enrolled in a Durant Public School District elementary school.

As part of his exceptional-education program at the new school, Jacob was still entitled to continue his weekly therapy sessions. His school was supposed to provide transportation.

So Kast decided on that February day that it would be nice to say hello to Jacob’s caseworker and see how he was doing.

But the nurse she met was evasive, Kast said, encouraging her to direct her 14 questions about her grandson to a nurse

higher up in the department.

Kast said when she finally asked the nurse in charge how Jacob had been doing, the nurse told her she would have a better idea­­if his school would actually bring him.

“I beg your pardon?” Kast asked.

The nurse pulled out her grandson’s hospital attendance log. Out of 14 scheduled visits, dating from October 2014 to June 2015, the hospital counted Jacob as a “no show” for nine of them.

Public-school Failures

Kast has a long history of distrust with the district, alleging physical and verbal abuse and racial discrimination against her grandchildren by teachers there—her grandchildren are all half-black, and Kast is white. Legal representation for the school district told the Jackson Free Press they have investigated her charges and do not believe they are valid, or that the school districts or employees are discriminating against Kast or her grandchildren.

Jacob’s older sister and cousin now

attend Old Dominion Christian School, a private Christian school 20 miles away in Kosciusko, where the girls say they are happy. Kast says she, her two daughters and her own mother pool resources to cover the tuition at the school.

But her grandson presents a more difficult challenge. Kast says she would love to enroll him at Old Dominion, but the school does not have a exceptional-education program.

Most private schools in the state don’t.

Neither are they required to.

Private School Review, a website that vets private schools, says that the state has 250 private schools. Out of these, the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools, or MAIS, reports that it lists just over 80 schools in its directory. In addition, the Mississippi Department of Education accredits 68 non-public school programs.

Twenty-two of the MDE-accredited schools are programs focused solely on serving children with exceptional needs, or have exceptional-education programs in addition to

their general curricula. Some MAIS schools may have teachers or therapists trained to work with students with exceptional needs, but there is no way of knowing how many because the State doesn’t track it.

This did not stop Mississippi legislators from passing the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act in 2015, creating “educational savings accounts,” commonly known as vouchers, available to students with exceptional needs who have Individual Education Programs (often called IEPs), to help families afford the cost of attending a private school that may or may not be able to serve them.

With $6,500 at their disposal, students who qualify may use the funds for a variety of education-related needs, including tuition, a tutor or textbooks. Before, the state already had two voucher programs: the 2012 Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for Students with Dyslexia Program, and in 2013, the Speech-Language Therapy Scholarship for Students with Speech-Language Impairments.

Between the money from the fund and our own financial resources, and plus a little bit of state money, we are able to provide for children with exceptional needs,” she said.

It is not free to go to Nativity BVM Elementary School, however. Mike said some students at the school may receive funds from the education savings account to cover tuition—more than $5,000 for non-Catholic kindergarten through sixth graders, $6,386 for pre-kindergarten students. The trust fund pays for a exceptionally trained teacher, Mike added.

Parents who look to the 22 MDEaccredited exceptional private schools may not find an option that works for their children. Two are penitentiaries. Four are hospitals. Three Mississippi Children’s Home Service programs called CARES Schools primarily serve students who have IEPs for behavioral issues, and families do not pay tuition. The rest are dotted across the state

pay tuition at the states’ Millcreek Schools, which serve a wide spectrum of services, at a rate of roughly $180 a day—but usually, public-school-district referrals put the onus of payment onto the school districts.

Deaf and blind students may attend the public Mississippi Schools for the Deaf and the Blind.

Private schools that aren’t accredited by the Mississippi Department of Education charge a range of tuitions; high-school tuition this year at the prestigious St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Ridgeland, for instance, is $17,130—more than double this year’s undergraduate student tuition at the University of Mississippi.

Grant Callen, president of Empower Mississippi, a nonprofit dedicated to “school choice” options, including vouchers and charter schools, says an experience like Kast’s illustrates a range of failures on the part of public schools.

tricts will refuse to take diagnoses seriously in order to avoid creating an IEP for a student who will require the district to spend extra money on resources. This refusal will keep exceptional-needs students in schools and districts that cannot adequately provide for them, Callen argues.

Kast blames the Durant Public School District for not taking Jacob to his appointments. Now, the 50-year-old grandmother of three has started chaperoning him again.

“We’ve completely bypassed the school,” she said. “I take him and bring him back myself. I don’t trust them to do the right thing.”

The Money Problem

Nancy Loome, executive director of the Parents’ Campaign, a public-school advocacy group based in Jackson, told the Jackson Free Press in January that the schools cannot be wholly blamed for inad-

“We had heard for years just from talking to parents that simply because you have an IEP, which supposedly guarantees your child’s rights to have their educational needs met, regardless of their disability, doesn’t actually in practice mean you’re going to have those needs met,” Callen said.

Public-school districts draft IEPs in order to help identify the unique services most exceptional-needs students require in order to be successful in school. If districts cannot meet the needs of those students, the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act requires them to pay to have those needs met elsewhere.

Callen says some public-school dis-

equate care of exceptional-needs students.

She blames the Legislature.

“Schools have limited budgets. They can only spend what money they have, and when Legislatures aren’t giving them the money they’re due, they can’t spend more than they have,” Loome said. The State, she said, underfunded exceptional education in public schools in Mississippi by more than $12 million just this year. “Certainly, if the Legislature would follow the law and fund exceptional education in public schools as the law requires, schools would be able to provide more services.”Mississippi has only

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Grant Callen, president of “school choice” advocacy group Empower Mississippi, speaks before a crowd at the Capitol at the beginning of National School Choice Week in February.

and do not always provide a complete range of services for students with disabilities.

In many cases, the $6,500 stipend covers most of the cost of tuition at these MDE-accredited schools, but not all. At the New Summit Schools in Jackson and Greenwood, for instance, parents can expect to pay $7,500 and $5,100 in tuition, respectively. The Magnolia Speech School, which helps kids with communicative disorders, reports that the family portion of the school tuition is $550 to $850 a month.

The Willowood Developmental Center charges families less than $100 a week—but only serves newborns through 5-year-olds. And parents can choose to

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Backers of the legislation wanted to prevent students like Jacob from falling through the cracks in the state’s publicschool system, where many districts are struggling with funding shortfalls. But the law’s impact may be small if families who turn to private schools find themselves facing the same problems in the independent and parochial school system: few choices and limited resources.

The new Special Needs Act has set aside more than $3 million in state-funded vouchers for about 430 of Mississippi’s roughly 60,000 students with disabilities.

By January, the Mississippi Department of Education had approved vouchers for 286 students, yet had only reimbursed 131 of those because parents could not find schools that would accept their children.

Gretchen Cagle, director of special education at MDE, says this is common for applicants who try to use vouchers at private schools that do not exclusively serve exceptional-needs students. And unlike the dyslexia and speech scholarships, which stipulate that private schools must have licensed dyslexia and speech-language therapists before they can accept those funds, the special-needs legislation does not require private schools to have exceptional-education specialists or services.

“That’s definitely been one of the challenges for the families using the education scholarship account, is finding a school that will admit their child,” Cagle told the Jackson Free Press. “Some with milder disabilities have an easier time, but even once you get into those private settings, they have a limited number of spots.”

“Because we’re independent, there’s not a special-education requirement,” MAIS Executive Director Shane Blanton told the Jackson Free Press. “At most independent schools around the nation, there’s not per se special education—that’s a public mandate, and we’re independent schools.”

A ‘Blessed’ Coast School

Sister Mary Jo Mike, who leads Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Elementary School in Biloxi, has a certified exceptionaleducation teacher on staff. It is the only school out of 14 in the Catholic Diocese of Biloxi with a exceptional-education teacher that offers a program serving a range of student disabilities.

“Some of the other schools have some services available, but of the Catholic schools in our diocese, we have the most complete program available,” she told the Jackson Free Press.

Sister Mike says a generous family set up a trust fund more than 30 years ago to provide for exceptional-ed services in the school. “The donors, as they put it, were financially available to provide for their child, and not all families are that fortunate.

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twice fully bankrolled the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, or MAEP, the state’s school-funding formula, in its near 20-year existence under state law.

Rep. John Moore, R-Brandon, the House Education Committee chairman, encouraged Republicans to pass the exceptional-education voucher legislation last year. He said the provision of the law requiring students to have recently obtained an IEP from a public-school district kept many potential applicants away. Legislators this year amended the bill to expand participation to students who have had an IEP within the last five years.

But education and disability-rights advocacy groups have a different opinion of exceptional-needs voucher programs than the state’s education leadership. The National Education Association, a labor union that advocates for public education and teachers, wrote a policy brief that describes vouchers as a “scheme.”

In the brief, the NEA writes that “proactive early intervention, professional development, and full funding of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) are the best ways to improve the quality of education for students with disabilities, reduce the number of children inappropriately referred for exceptional education services, and provide great public schools for all children, including those with exceptional needs. We should focus on these proven strategies rather than voucher schemes that offer parents empty promises while asking them to give up federally protected civil rights.”

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lem with its funding mechanism.

“It’s no different than Medicaid. You take public money, and you give it to private providers; it’s no difference,” he said.

‘Lana Will Graduate’

Pelahatchie mother Martha Beard is convinced the state law allowing public tax dollars to pay for private-school instruction may be saving her daughter Lana.

“Because of that law, we are able to send Lana to a school where she gets to receive the best resources and education available to her,” Beard said, speaking before dozens of children, educators and lawmakers at the National School Choice Week Rally at the Capitol in January.

Beard said she and her husband adopted Lana at a very young age and that she was diagnosed with visual perception disorder, fetal alcohol syndrome and severe attention deficit disorder.

The disorders skewed Lana’s ability to process and retain information, and made school hard for her. Homework assignments took hours, and Lana’s defensiveness and frustration at the apparent ease in which her classmates navigated the classroom made it even worse.

Lana would cry and beg not to go to school in the morning.

Now at New Summit School, a private school in Jackson that offers a range of exceptional-education services, Lana is a new person, Beard says.

“She has more self-confidence,” Beard said during the rally. “She’s more readily able to express herself. Now she communicates outside her comfort zone. When she comes

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Rep. John Moore, R-Brandon, likens Medicaid expansion to school privatization—and supports vouchers.

Martha Beard, who used a voucher to help pay her child’s tuition at a private school, says her child flourished at her new school.

home at night, she now has the desire to do her homework for herself. She’s proud of herself when she gets an A or B. She’s not intimidated to ask and answer questions.””

However, little data exist to prove the effectiveness of voucher programs to improve outcomes for disabled children once they leave public schools, a June 2016 study from child disability-rights advocate group Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates Inc. found.

Such studies mean little to Beard, though, when she sees her daughter’s improvement. She acknowledges that her family still has struggles, but that she is hopeful for the future. “At New Summit, Lana will graduate,” she said.

A Question of Fairness

There is no guarantee that a private school can adequately serve a child’s needs simply because it is private. “When you get into the private schools, it’s really their interpretation of what they consider exceptional education,” Cagle of the Mississippi Department of Education told the Jackson Free Press. “With public schools, exceptional education is not a place, it’s not a classroom—it’s a set of services.”

Cagle says that, for some people, “special education” has a specific connotation of always being able to provide for the severely disabled.

“When you say you do special ed, they might think they take the full gamut, like public schools do. Private schools have the option to pick who they allow for admission into their places, who they feel like they can serve appropriately,” Cagle said.

If parents have a complaint about how a private school serves their children, they may have no recourse. Public-school students forfeit their rights to a free and appropriate public education under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act if they attend certain private schools, including private religious academies, which are not usually subject to federal oversight.

Parents like having the choice to send their children to new schools anyway, regardless of their ability to serve their children, the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates study found.

Kast’s family has ruled out a privateschool education because Old Dominion, where Jacob’s relatives attend school, lacks a trained exceptional-education teacher.

Kast would like to enroll Jacob in another nearby school district with a reputation for a stronger exceptional-education program.

But Mississippi law does not allow publicschool students to attend districts in which they don’t live—unless they fall under specific charter-school guidelines, have special affidavits or qualify for the Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship.

Kast still hopes the school board in Durant might release her grandson so he can attend elementary school in the Kosciusko School District. Meanwhile, Jacob is slowly making progress now that he’s attending therapy again.

“I’m not giving up on Jacob,” Kast said. “He’s going to be somebody one day.

Sierra Mannie is an education reporting fellow for the Jackson Free Press and The Hechinger Report. Email her at sierra@jacksonfreepress.com.

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fter I gave one of my patients the also experience pain and swelling in one or news of her pap-smear results, both testicles, although this is less common. she said, “I can’t believe this!”

If left untreated, chlamydia can result in reEven though this encounter productive problems for a woman, making occurred many years ago, I remember this it difficult to have a successful pregnancy. particular patient. She was the first one that The second patient had genital herI had to give this bad news: She had tested pes, which has no cure. A specific oral treatpositive for a sexually transmitted disease. ment can help with symptoms and can deShe told me of how her boyfriend was crease outbreaks. People affected with this someone she had met at Couples Night at disorder can have outbreaks of lesions on her church and how she had prayed for a and in their genital areas, which are typicalhusband for many years, and thought that ly painful and can last from days to weeks. she was going to marry him.

She said they decided to engage in a physical relationship prior to marriage due to the fact that he told her that he needed this to be “faithful.” She became overcome with emotions when she told me how he would tell her he loved her, and how he considered himself already married to her. She then told me that she had been celibate for more than two years before meeting her former boyfriend.

Another patient was also in shock at his results. I remember Methods such as wearing a condom during sex the encounter as if it was yestercan decrease the risk of sexually transmitted day. He looked at me with andiseases. ger: “I can’t believe this.”

This encounter occurred many years ago when I first started my Stress is a major contributor to an increased practice here in Mississippi after returning frequency of outbreaks. Patients with frefrom California. This patient was so upset quent ones can take prophylactic treatment when he learned that his condition could (taking the medication daily), which helps not be cured. He told me that he used a decrease the outbreaks’ frequency. condom, but it broke. He didn’t know the As a primary-care physician, I am lady well, but figured he would be safe by commissioned to give advice to adolescents using protection. and adults about sexual activity. My core Many patients are diagnosed with advice is to wait until marriage. sexually transmitted diseases in our state Earlier today, a teenager asked me because of unfortunate judgment. A recent what was true safe sex. He told me that he report by the Centers for Disease Control was going to wear a condom when he was says that Jackson ranks fourth of all major going to have sex, because he wanted to metropolitan areas with a high rate of HIV make sure he was 100-percent protected. infection per 100,000 people. Fortunately, I told him that the only true 100-percent the patients in this article did not have protection is abstinence. Condoms do proHIV, but both did contract a disease that vide some protection, if they’re properly was not desired. worn and don’t break.

The first contracted chlamydia, which People should consider discussing can be cured with oral medications. For getting tested with their partner prior to some with this disorder, they may have no starting a physical relationship. Men and symptoms. The most common symptoms women, especially, should also get yearly for women with this infection include a checkups and get vaccinated against HPV vaginal discharge and a burning sensation and hepatitis B. A good way to prevent when urinating. For men with this infec- STDs is to also reduce the amount of sexution, the most common symptoms include al partners you have. a penile discharge and a burning sensation For more information, visit cdc.gov or while urinating. Some men affected can askdrquinn.com.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The whole purpose behind it is to perpetuate and continue and give deserving students the opportunity to enter into the food industry,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(With) many of their dreams and aspirations, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re obviously in need of monetary assistance.â&#x20AC;?

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The Chimneyville Weavers & Spinners Guild Celebration is at the Mississippi Crafts Center.

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The Catholic Charities Luncheon is at noon at the Jackson Convention Complex (105 E Pascagoula St.).

Former University of Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz is the speaker. Benefits Catholic Charities of Jackson. $100; jacksonconventioncomplex.com. … Travis Tritt performs at 7:30 p.m. at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds (1207 Mississippi St.). The country singer performs. Included with admission ($5 per person, free under age 6); ; msfair.net.

THURSDAY 10/6

The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra presents “Bravo! Berlioz!” on Saturday, Oct. 8, at Thalia Mara Hall.

at 11:30 a.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). The event features food for sale with live music from Nellie Mack and Lonne’ George. Free admission; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

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The Live2Lead Simulcast is at 8 a.m. at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.). The event is a halfday simulcast the leader-development experience designed to equip individuals with new perspectives, practical tools and key takeaways. Speakers include John C. Maxwell, Simon Sinek, Liz Wiseman and Dan Cathy. $84; call 601-613-1764; l2l.johnmaxwell.com. … Live at Lunch is

John M. Floyd signs copies of “Dreamland” at 5 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Reading at 5:30 p.m. $24.95 book; call 601366-7619; lemuriabooks.com. … The Voices of Mississippi Concert is at 7:30 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Hall). Voices of Mississippi Competition winners such as Michelle Lange, Kevin Gwinn, Ezekiel Andrew, Cody Arthur, Sarah Stembel and Ibukun Babalola perform. $30; call 960-2300; email info@msopera.org; msopera.org.

The BankPlus International Gumbo Festival is at noon at Smith Park (302 Amite St.). Includes gumbo cook-off, food vendors and live music from John Mayall, Cyril Neville’s Royal Southern Brotherhood, the Quaker City Night Hawks and Young Valley. Proceeds benefit the Harold T. and Hal White Memorial Scholarship. $10 in advance, $15 at

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“Bravo! Berlioz!” is at 7:30 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascajacksonfreepress.com goula St.). The Mississippi SymFax: 601-510-9019 phony Orchestra presents pieces from conductor Hector Berlioz, Daily updates at such as “Queen Mab Scherzo” jfpevents.com and “Le Corsaire.” The event is part of the Bravo Series.. Free preconcert lecture with Timothy Coker at 6:45 p.m. $20-$62; msorchestra.com.

Relational: Where We Fit is at 11:30 a.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). See works from Horace Pippin, Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence, and compare them to artwork from Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Alexander Calder in the exhibit When Modern Was Contemporary. $20, $8 for members; call 601-9601515; msmuseumart.org. … Millsaps Arts & Lecture Series: Reflections on 20 Years in Jackson, and the Upcoming Election is at 7 p.m. at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). Editorial cartoonist and radio host Marshall Ramsey is the speaker. $10; call 601-974-1130; millsaps.edu.

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MONDAY 10/10

The Women’s Runner Safety Seminar is at 2 p.m. at Fleet Feet Sports (500 Highway 51 N., Ridgeland). Features an opportunity to learn about being safe while running. Features an opportunity to learn about being safe while running. Free; call 899-9696; fleetfeetjackson.com.

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FFT x Jackson Indie Music Week: “Culture By Design” is from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Fondren. Includes art installations, live chalk art and four music stages in Fondren.

Performers include Dolla Black, 5th Child, Scott Albert Johnson, Dream Cult and more. Free; call 601-720-2426; fondrensfirstthursday.com

Amanda Shires performs at 7:30 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The singer-songwriter and fiddle player performs. Lilly Hiatt also performs. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $15 in advance, $20 at the door, $3 surcharge for under 21; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net.

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Fondren’s First Thursday Oct. 6, 5 p.m., in Fondren. The monthly event features local artists, vendors, designers, live music, pet adoptions and more. Free; fondrensfirstthursday.com.

“The Irascibles Live—Artists in the Galleries” Family Day Oct. 6, 9 a.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S Lamar St.). New Stage Theatre brings to life artists whose work is in “When Modern Was Contemporary,” including Jimmy Ernst, William Baziotes, Hans Hoffman, Hedda Sterne, Adolph Gottlieb, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. Free with admission ($12 adults, $10 seniors; free for students); msmuseumart.org.

COMMUNITY Live2Lead Simulcast Oct. 7, 8 a.m., at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.). The event is a simulcast the leader-development experience designed to equip individuals with new perspectives, practical tools and key takeaways. $84; call 601-613-1764; l2l.johnmaxwell.com.

2016 Mississippi State Fair Oct. 5, 5 p.m., Oct. 6-7, 11 a.m., Oct. 8, 9 a.m., 9-14, 11 a.m., Oct. 15, 9 a.m., Oct. 16 11 a.m., at Mississippi State Fairgrounds (1207 Mississippi St.). The annual fair includes livestock shows, rides, food, games and concerts. $5 entry; call 961-4000; msfair.net.

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Millsaps Arts & Lecture Series: Reflections on 20 Years in Jackson, and the Upcoming Election Oct. 11, 7 p.m., at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). Editorial cartoonist and radio and television host Marshall Ramsey is the speaker. $10; call 601-974-1130; millsaps.edu.

Friday, Oct. 7

Dinner 34 Oct. 6, 7 p.m., at Cathead Distillery (422 S. Farish St.). Adam Biderman is the guest chef. Chefs include Ryan Bell, Reynolds Boykin, Karl Gorline, Gary Hawkins, Jesse Houston and more. Includes cocktails at 7 p.m. and dinner at 8 p.m. Benefits the Craig Noone “Rock It Out” Scholarship. $75; catheaddistillery.com.

“It’s Time to F.L.Y.” SHERO Brunch Oct. 8, 10:30 a.m., at Hilton Garden Inn (235 W. Capitol St.). The keynote speaker is Yolanda Turner Evans. Comfortable attire, but no tennis shoes. $20 brunch; call 601-519-7068; email hickmanallison@yahoo.com; eventbrite.com.

Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) • Eric Johnson Oct. 5, 8 p.m. Johnson presents an evening of acoustic guitar and piano. $25 in advance, $30 at the door; ardenland.net.

• The Hip Abduction Oct. 7, 9 p.m. The afropop/indie-rock group performs. Great Peacock also performs. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; ardenland.net.

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This could be an October to remember. It would be historic if the Chicago Cubs can back up being the best team in regular-season baseball with a World Series win.

Rotary International Interest Meeting Oct. 10, 5:30 p.m., at Iron Horse Grill (320 W. Pearl St.).

The world’s largest service organization is exploring the opportunity to become a satellite club to the Capital Area Sunset Rotary Club. Casual attire. Free; mail kimberlydgriffin@gmail.com.

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• Old Dominion Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m. The Nashville-based country band’s latest album is called “Meat and Candy.” $5 admission, free for under age 6; call 601-961-4000; msfair.net.

NFL (7:25-11 p.m., CBS): The Arizona Cardinals and the San Francisco 49ers both look to right sinking ships on a short week.

College football (6:30-10 p.m., ESPN): Clemson University hits the road on a short week to face Boston College after an emotional win against Louisville.

Saturday, Oct. 8

College football (11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., WLOO): Southern Miss looks to start 3-0 in C-USA play as the Golden Eagles travel to face Texas-San Antonio. … College football (11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., SECN): Mississippi State University had two weeks to prepare for this home game against Auburn.

Sunday, Oct. 9

NFL (3:25-6 p.m., CBS): Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys look to win four straight games as they host the Cincinnati Bengals.

Monday, Oct. 10

NFL (7:30-11:30 p.m., ESPN): The Tampa Bay Buccaneers hit the road to break a three-game losing streak against the Carolina Panthers in a major NFC South showdown.

Tuesday, Oct. 11

MLB (TBA, FOX Sports 1): If necessary, the Chicago Cubs travel to face the National League Wild Card winner in game four of the NL Division Series.

Wednesday, Oct. 12

College football (7-11 p.m., ESPN2): Watch some midweek Sun Belt Conference action featuring Appalachian State University taking on the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

The Cubs haven’t been to the World Series since 1945 and haven’t won it all since 1908. Will this be the year that Chicago makes history, or will the “Curse of the Billy Goat” strike again?

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Hoot and Holler Family Creation Lab Oct. 9, 2 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). A museum educator leads participants in a collaborative art project that takes inspiration from a different artist each month.

For ages 6 to 10. $10; msmuseumart.org.

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Pumpkin Adventure 2016 Oct. 12, 9 a.m., at Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive). Includes a hayride tour, a pie pumpkin to take home and more. $7 admission, children under 2 free; msagmuseum.org.

SPORTS & WELLNESS Women’s Runner Safety Seminar Oct. 9, 2 p.m., at Fleet Feet Sports (500 Highway 51 N., Ridgeland). Features an opportunity to learn about being safe while running. Free; call 601899-9696; fleetfeetjackson.com.

CONCERTS & FESTIVALS Events at Mississippi State Fairgrounds (1207 Mississippi St.) • Travis Tritt Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m. The Grammy Award-winning country singer performs.

Included with admission ($5 per person, free under age 6); call 601-961-4000; msfair.net.

• Frank Foster Oct. 6, 7:30 p.m. The country musician performs. Included with admission ($5 per person, free under age 6); msfair.net.

• Alter Bridge Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m. The rock band’s latest album is titled “The Last Hero.”

Included with admission ($5 per person, free under age 6); msfair.net.

• Boyz II Men Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m., at Mississippi State Fair (1207 Mississippi St.). The R&B trio performs. Included with admission ($5 per person, free under age 6); msfair.net.

• Voices of Mississippi Concert Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m. Voices of Mississippi Competition winners such as Michelle Lange, Kevin Gwinn, Ezekiel Andrew, Cody Arthur, Sarah Stembel and Ibukun Babalola perform. $30; call 601960-2300; msopera.org.

• Anderson East Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m. The Nashville-based Americana artist performs. Brent Cobb also performs. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; ardenland.net.

• Amanda Shires Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m. The singersongwriter and fiddle player performs. Lilly Hiatt also performs. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; ardenland.net.

FFT x Jackson Indie Music Week: “Culture By Design” Oct. 6, 6 p.m., in Fondren. Includes art installations, chalk art and four music stages in Fondren. Performers include Dolla Black, 5th Child, Scott Albert Johnson, Dream Cult and more. Free; fondrensfirstthursday.com

BankPlus International Gumbo Festival Oct. 8, noon, at Smith Park (302 Amite St.). Includes a gumbo cook-off and music from John Mayall, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Quaker City Night Hawks and Young Valley. Benefits Harold T. and Hal White Memorial Scholarship. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; jacksongumbo.com.

Bravo! Berlioz! Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra presents pieces from conductor Hector Berlioz, such as “Queen Mab Scherzo” and “Le Corsaire.” Free pre-concert lecture with Timothy Coker at 6:45 p.m. $20-$62; call 601-960-1565; msorchestra.com.

LITERARY & SIGNINGS Events at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, Interstate 55 N. Frontage Road, Suite 202) • “The South in Color” Oct. 6, 5 p.m. William Ferris signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $35 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

• “Dreamland” Oct. 10, 5 p.m. John M. Floyd signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $24.95 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

• “Hero of the Empire” Oct. 11, 5 p.m. Candice Millard signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $30 book; call 366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

• “El Paso” Oct. 12, 5 p.m. Winston Groom signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $27.95 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

CREATIVE CLASSES Adult Acting Class for Beginners Oct. 10, 6:30 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.).

Chris Roebuck teaches the class designed to provide introductory basics of stage acting. Students gain basic skills in acting, analyzing and improvisation. $100; newstagetheatre.com.

EXHIBIT OPENINGS Events at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.) • Relational: Where We Fit Oct. 11, 11:30 a.m. See works from Horace Pippin, Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence, and compare them to artwork in “When Modern Was Contemporary.” $20, $8 for members; call 960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

• Daringly Different Interactive Tour Oct. 11, 6 p.m. daniel johnson, Julian Rankin and Caitlin Podas lead the tour of the museum’s current exhibition, “When Modern Was Contemporary.” $20 admission, $8 for members; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

BE THE CHANGE Country and Blues Rock for Recovery Oct. 6, 6:30 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.).

Performers include Bill & Temperance with Jeff Perkins and the Lucky Hand Blues Band. Benefits the McCoy House for Sober Living. $20 in advance, $25 at the door; ardenland.net.

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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T.J. Legler: Painting With Light

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T.J. Legler, who specializes mediums such as in light-painting photography, is the first artist for the Mississippi Contemporary Arts Center.

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.J. Legler’s life goal is to run a marathon in 50 states.

When he first began running, Legler would take pictures in each state he visited (he has visited 19 so far).

With encouragement from family and friends, he went further into the world of photography and later into the realm of mixed media. This use of photography still defines his work today.

“Everything I do is photography, albeit just modified and taken down a crazy rabbit hole,” he says.

Legler’s style and inspiration is exceedingly varied and never static, both in his images and composition.

On one of his pieces, “The Adventures of Chip Cooper,” he says: “This thing right here’s actually got mixes from just all over. ... There are a few main things that pop out, and when you look into it further, you can see more details,” including photos, travel stickers and even a few light paintings, he says.

Legler’s hodge-podge style is reflected throughout his craft.

“The interesting thing about my work is what I’ve done in one medium, I’m never done with. I mean, I’m throwing a whole image into another image and making a new image out of it, so nothing’s ever done.”

People can see his work in businesses such as Sneaky Beans and the chief financial office at St. Dominic Hospital—and now, a new gallery. Legler will be the first artist featured at the Mississippi Contemporary Arts Center. His exhibit, “Start the Fire,” is a collection of what he calls “light paintings.”

Legler feels the exhibit name is wonderfully appropriate: “Literally, this is fire, and this is the beginning of a new creative

era within the city of Jackson.”

His light paintings are multi-layer images of steel wool, set on fire and rapidly spun, using natural environments as a backdrop.

“With a light painting,” he explains, “you’re wanting to capture the whole trail of what you’re illuminating. … You have to wait until near dark. A lot of my best ones have come around twilight.”

Legler emphasizes the contemporary nature of his work. He views contemporary art as a building block, using styles and techniques from the previous generation to make something new.

“We’re not doing the same old, same old anymore,” he says. “It’s definitely something that can only be done in this day and age.”

In all aspects of his work, Legler tries to use new technology and new ideas. “I get pretty bored doing the same thing. …

I’m just always searching for new, crazy ways (to make art.)”

The majority of his compositions are done on phones—a fact that saves him the necessity of a studio space, and allows him to be completely mobile on the business end. He uses Instagram heavily as a branding tool and also for research. It was Instagram that brought his attention to light paintings in the first place.

“Literally, I learned by clicking on hashtags, looking at keywords, typing them into the Internet, and then just from there I did my first light painting this past February.”

T.J. Legler’s show for the Mississippi Contemporary Arts Center, “Start the Fire,” will be at Coalesce (109 N. State St.) from Nov. 10 to Jan. 7, 2017. For more information, find him on Facebook and Instagram.

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Travis Tritt Wednesday, Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m.

Travis Tritt has been on the country-music radar since the release of his debut album, “Country Club,” which earned him a Billboard Award for top new male artist in 1990. He followed that a year later with “It’s All About to Change,” which went triple-platinum and brought some of his most iconic songs, including “Anymore” and “Here’s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares).”

Over the course of the Georgia-native singer’s 27-plus-year career, he has earned two Grammy Awards and three Country Music Awards, among other accolades. His most recent release was the 2014 single, “That’s What Dreamers Do,” which appears in the Walt Disney biopic, “As Dreamers Do,” a film that Tritt also narrated.

While fans can expect some classics, Nathan Morris, Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman haven’t rested on past successes. The trio has released 11 studio albums to date, including 2014’s “Collide.” So if you haven’t heard how the group has evolved in recent years, it may be time to brush up on the new Boyz II Men.

Frank Foster Thursday, Oct. 6, 7:30 p.m.

Even for people who aren’t countrymusic listeners, Frank Foster may be a familNashville-based country act Old Dominion is one of the headlining performers iar name. The Louisiana native and former for this year’s Mississippi State Fair, which takes place Oct. 5-16. oil-field worker made several stops in Jackson in recent years, including a performance at Hal & Mal’s in June.

Foster has kept a pretty busy schedule on the road since releasing Old Dominion his fifth studio album, “Boots on the Ground,” in January, which Wednesday, Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m. debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard country charts, only three spots Despite its name, Nashville country band Old Dominion below his 2014 album, “Rhythm and Whiskey.” is very much a product of the here and now, peppering in elements of rock, pop and hip-hop. Old Dominion only has two releases thus far—a 2014 self-titled EP and debut album “Meat Alter Bridge and Candy,” which hit shelves in November 2015 and peaked at Monday, Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m.

No. 3 on the country album charts—but country fans have likely

Some readers might remember Alter Bridge as the act that be- heard the members’ work before, with co-writes on songs for The gan from the breakup of Creed, which guitarist Mark Tremonti, Band Perry, Kenny Chesney and Dierks Bentley, to name a few. bassist Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips played in before More recently, group has received plenty of radio time with its joining with vocalist Myles Kennedy. own tracks, such as “Snapback” and “Song for Another Time.”

However, Alter Bridge has been a force in its own right for more than 12 years now, starting with the band’s debut album, “One Day Remains,” reaching gold status. Since then, all four American Authors of the band’s studio albums reaching the top 20 on the Billboard Thursday, Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m.

200, and the past three releases peaked at No. 2 on the hard-rock Brooklyn-based pop band American Authors has been all over charts. Alter Bridge’s performance in Jackson falls only three days mainstream music in the past three years, and that goes beyond after the group’s fifth studio album, “The Last Hero,” hits shelves. radio play. Commercials, movies, video games and all manner of media have featured the band’s singles, including No. 1 hit “Best Day of My Life” and “Believer” from debut album “Oh, What a Boyz II Men Life” in 2014 and “Go Big or Go Home” from their sophomore Tuesday, Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m. album, “What We Live For,” released in July 2016. The band per To many listeners, Boyz II Men will always be the R&B be- forms in Jackson two days before hitting the road to co-headline a hemoth that broke countless records with hits such as “End of the national tour with The Fray.

Road,” “I’ll Make Love to You” and “One Sweet Day,” the latter of which still holds the record for most weeks at No. 1 on the Bill- The Mississippi State Fair is Oct. 5-16 at the State Fairgrounds board Hot 100, with 16 weeks.

(1207 Mississippi St.). For a full list of performers, visit msfair.net.

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State Fair Superstars

hether you’re stoked about livestock or a carnival-ride enthusiast, the Mississippi State Fair brings plenty of entertainment to downtown Jackson each year. One of the fair’s biggest draws is its annual concert series, which has brought in major musical acts such as Ginuwine, the Charlie Daniels Band, Blue Oyster Cult, Shawn Mendes and Bell Biv Devoe in recent years. Here are the headlining acts that Jacksonians can catch at the 2016 Mississippi State Fair, which takes place Oct. 5-16.

Music listings are due noon Monday to be included in print and online listings: music@jacksonfreepress.com.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Fitzgerald’s - Barry Leach 7:30 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Cody Cox free Kathryn’s - Dylan Moss 6:30 p.m.

MS State Fair - Travis Tritt 7:30 p.m.

Old Capitol Inn - Jason Turner Pelican Cove - Doug Hurd 6:30 p.m.

Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7:30 p.m. free

OCT. 6 - Thursday Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Cups, Fondren - 360 Degrees, Coke Bumaye & Dolla Black 6 p.m. free Duling Hall - Bill & Temperance, Jeff Perkins & Lucky Hand Blues 6:30 p.m. $20 advance $25 door Fenian’s - Emerald Accent Fitzgerald’s - Larry Brewer 7:30 p.m.

Fondren Guitars - Alex Fraser & the Vagrant Family Band w/ Empty Atlas 6 p.m. free Hops & Habanas, Fondren - Mark Taylor & Jeremy Self 6 p.m. free Iron Horse Grill - Brint Anderson 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Travelin’ Jane 6:30 p.m. free MS State Fair - Frank Foster 7:30 p.m.

Old Capitol Inn - Chad Wesley Pelican Cove - Todd Smith 6 p.m.

Pig & Pint - Kerry Thomas & Scott Albert Johnson 6 p.m. free Shucker’s - Road Hogs 7:30 p.m.

Sneaky Beans - 5th Child & Dream Cult 6 p.m. free Table 100 - Charles Scott 5 p.m.; Andy Henderson 6-9 p.m.

OCT. 7 - Friday Burgers & Blues - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6-10 p.m.

Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

Duling Hall - The Hip Abduction & Great Peacock 9 p.m. $10 advance $15 door F. Jones Corner - Jamell Richardson midnight $10 Fenian’s - Eric Sommer Fitzgerald’s - Johnny Crocker 7:30 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Swing de Paris free Iron Horse Grill - Voo Davis 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7 p.m. free Kemistry - Black Water Boogie Trio 9 p.m.

Martin’s - Zoogma & Dreamers Delight 10 p.m.

MS Museum of Art - Nellie Mack w/ Lonne’ George 11:30 a.m.

MS State Fair - Luckenbach 8 p.m.

Offbeat - The Genesis Party feat.

5th Child & PyInfamous 8 p.m.

Old Capitol Inn - Ron Etheridge Pelican Cove - Greenfish 6 p.m.

Shucker’s - Andrew Pates 5:30 p.m. free; Lovin Ledbetter 8 p.m. $5; Sasser 10 p.m. free Soul Wired Cafe - Vibe Doctors 10 p.m. $10 Soulshine, Flowood - The Neighbors 7 p.m.

Soulshine, Ridgeland - Jonathan Alexander 8-10 p.m.

Table 100 - Charles Scott 5 p.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6-9:30 p.m.

WonderLust - DJ Taboo 8 p.m.

OCT. 8 - Saturday Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Mike Zito & the Wheel 8 p.m. $10 Big Sleepy’s - Satan & the Sunbeams, Die with Nature, Joybomb & more 8-11 p.m. $5 Central City Complex - Grady Champion, Lady V & DJ 2Tall 8 p.m. $20

Oct. 9 - Sunday Char - Big Easy Three 11 a.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Fenian’s - Matt Nooe Kathryn’s - The Axe-identals 6 p.m. free MS State Fair - Harmony & Grits 2 p.m.; Delta Mountain Boys 4 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Ronnie Brown noon; Rocking the Keys 5 p.m.

Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 3:30 p.m. free Sombra Mexican Kitchen - John Mora 11 a.m.

Soul Wired Cafe - The Love Jones Best Hate/Best Love feat. Kerry Thomas 10 p.m. $10 Table 100 - Raphael Semmes Jazz Trio 11 a.m.-2 p.m.; Charles Scott 6-9 p.m.

Wellington’s - Andy Hardwick 11 a.m.

OCT. 10 - Monday Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Central MS Blues Society (rest) 7 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Barry Leach 6:30 p.m. free MS State Fair - Alter Bridge 7:30 p.m.

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F. Jones Corner - Jamell Richardson midnight $10 Fenian’s - Vibe Doctors Georgia Blue, Flowood - Larry Brewer 6:30-10 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Jon Hollywood free Iron Horse Grill - Robin Blakeney 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Rhythm Masters 7 p.m. free Lucky Town Brewing Co. - Arn Mait’n 11 a.m.

Martin’s - Spacewolf & Lisbon Deaths 10 p.m.

MS State Fair - Jesse Robinson Band 8 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Barry Leach 6 p.m.

Shucker’s - Travelin’ Jane 3:30 p.m. free; Lovin Ledbetter 8 p.m. $5; Ron Etheridge 10 p.m. free Smith Park - International Gumbo Festival feat. John Mayall, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Quaker City Night Hawks & Young Valley noon $10 advance $15 gate ardenland.net Table 100 - Carter Elliot 5 p.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6-9:30 p.m.

WonderLust - Drag Performance & Dance Party feat. DJ Taboo 8 p.m. free before 10 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Duling Hall - Anderson East & Brent Cobb 7:30 p.m. $15 Fitzgerald’s - Larry Brewer 7:3011:30 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Robin Blakeney 6:30 p.m. free Last Call Sports Grill - Top-Shelf Tuesdays feat. DJ Spoon 9 p.m.

Margarita’s - John Mora 6 p.m.

MS Museum of Art - Lester Senter Wilson & John Paul 5:45 p.m.

MS State Fair - Boyz II Men 7:30 p.m.

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Oct. 12 - Wednesday Big Sleepy’s - Mumblr, Primative & Surfwax 8-11 p.m. $5 Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Duling Hall - Amanda Shires & Lilly Hiatt 7:30 p.m. $15 advance $20 door Fitzgerald’s - Sonny Brooks, Rick Moreira & Chris Link 7:30 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - New Bourbon Street Jazz free Kathryn’s - Larry Brewer & Hunter Gibson 6:30-9:30 p.m. free MS State Fair - Old Dominion 7:30 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Stevie Cain 6:30 p.m.

Shucker’s - Lovin Ledbetter 7:30 p.m. free

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54 “Where the Wild Things Are” author Maurice 57 Highbrow highlights of some festivals 62 One of four of 52 63 Orman who played Gordon on “Sesame Street” for over 40 years 65 Osso buco meat 66 Dispenser that might have a headphone jack for the blind 67 Priced to move 68 “Como ___ usted?”

69 Jeer from the crowd 70 Had to have 71 Appear (to be)

33 Ethereal author of “Honor Thy Father”?

34 Piercing look 35 Mary-Kate or Ashley 37 On a cruise liner, e.g.

48 Hulk Hogan’s ‘80s-’90s org.

51 “Fanfare for the Common Man” composer Copland 53 Places that are all abuzz 54 GM’s Swedish subsidiary 55 ___ Cooler (“Ghostbusters”themed Hi-C flavor) 56 ___ : 2003 :: Dory : 2016

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1 Change cities, in realty-speak 5 Some Volkswagens 11 Blackberry byproduct, maybe 14 “Pictures ___ didn’t happen!”

15 Patton of the “Comedians of Comedy” tour 16 Disc in a tabloid photo 17 Like a piccolo’s range 18 17-mission space program 19 Min.’s opposite 20 Levels of command 22 Rookie’s teacher 24 Quattro minus uno

25 Setting for many movies, for short 26 Rapper/actor ___ Def 28 Adjusted letter spacing, in printing 32 Bubble tea thickener 36 Rio Grande stuff 38 Auto dealership offer 39 Dosage unit 40 Flippant 41 Pumpkin spiced beverage, usually 42 Noteworthy times 43 “Take ___ Church” (Hozier song) 44 “___ Witch” (2016 horror sequel) 45 Muse’s instrument 46 Geometry class calculation

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1 Le Corbusier contemporary Mies van der ___ 2 “Change the World” singer Clapton 3 Honeymoon quarters that lets the sun in?

4 Last check box, often 5 Bossa nova legend ___ Gilberto 6 Sister network of ABC 7 Counting by ___ 8 Jazz guitarist ___ Farlow 9 Permit tractor pioneer John?

10 Absolut rival, familiarly 11 Get visibly startled 12 “Bearing gifts, we traverse ___” 13 Psychobilly rocker ___ Nixon 21 Albanian currency 23 Put to rest, as a rumor 25 Hyatt alternative 26 Igneous rock’s source 27 Lascivious looker 29 Kay, if you do the math?

30 “Is that so?”

31 Birth-related

57 Annapolis inst., e.g.

58 Part of the theater industry?

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

“It isn’t normal to know what we want,” said psychologist Abraham Maslow. “It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.” He wasn’t referring to the question of what you want for dinner or the new shoes you plan to buy. He was talking about big, long-term yearnings: what you hope to be when you grow up, the qualities you look for in your best allies, the feelings you’d love to feel in abundance every day of your life. Now here’s the good news, Libra: The next 10 months should bring you the best chance ever to figure out exactly what you want the most. And it all starts now.

Practitioners of the Ayurvedic medical tradition tout the healing power of regular self-massage. Creativity expert Julia Cameron recommends that you periodically go out on dates with yourself. Taoist author Mantak Chia advises you to visualize sending smiles and good wishes to your kidneys, lungs, liver, heart and other organs. He says that these acts of kindness bolster your vigor. The coming weeks will be an especially favorable time to attend to measures like these, Scorpio. I hope you will also be imaginative as you give yourself extra gifts and compliments and praise.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

The coming weeks will be one of the best times ever for wrestling with God or tussling with Fate or grappling with karma. Why do I say that? Because you’re likely to emerge triumphant! That’s right, you lucky, plucky contender. More than I’ve seen in a long time, you have the potential to draw on the crafty power and unruly wisdom and resilient compassion you would need to be an unambiguous winner.

A winner of what? You tell me. What dilemma would you most like to resolve? What test would you most like to ace?

At what game would you most like to be victorious? Now is the time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Are you grunting and sweating as you struggle to preserve and maintain the gains of the past? Or are you smooth and cagey as you maneuver your way towards the rewards of the future? I’m rooting for you to put the emphasis on the second option. Paradoxically, that will be the best way to accomplish the first option. It will also ensure that your motivations are primarily rooted in love and enthusiasm rather than worry and stress. And that will enable you to succeed at the second option.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Do you believe that you are mostly just a product of social conditioning and your genetic make-up? Or are you willing to entertain a different hypothesis: that you are a primal force of nature on an unpredictable journey? That you are capable of rising above your apparent limitations and expressing aspects of yourself that might have been unimaginable when you were younger? I believe the coming weeks will be a favorable time to play around with this vision. Your knack for transcendence is peaking. So are your powers to escape the past and exceed limited expectations.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

In one of your nightly dreams, Robin Hood may team up with Peter Pan to steal unused treasure from a greedy monster—and then turn the booty over to you. Or maybe you’ll meet a talking hedgehog and singing fox who will cast a spell to heal and revive one of your wounded fantasies. It’s also conceivable that you will recover a magic seed that had been lost or forgotten, and attract the help of a fairy godmother or godfather to help you ripen it.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

At a recent party, a guy I hardly know questioned my authenticity. “You seem to have had an easy life,” he jabbed. “I bet you haven’t suffered enough to be a truly passionate person.” I didn’t choose to engage him, but mused to myself, “Not enough suffering? What about the time I got shot? My divorce? My five-year-long illness? The manager of my rock band getting killed in a helicopter crash?” But after that initial reaction, my thoughts turned to the adventures that have stoked my passion without causing pain, like the birth of my daughter, getting remarried to the woman I divorced and performing my music for excited audiences. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect that you, too, will soon have experiences that

refine and deepen your passion through pleasure rather than hardship.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

It’s the Frank and Focused Feedback Phase, Taurus— prime time to solicit insight about how you’re doing. Here are four suggestions to get you started. 1. Ask a person who loves and respects you to speak the compassionate truth about what’s most important for you to learn. 2.

Consult a trustworthy advisor who can help motivate you to do the crucial thing you’ve been postponing. 3. Have an imaginary conversation with the person you were a year ago. Encourage the Old You to be honest about how the New You could summon more excellence in pursuing your essential goals. 4. Say this prayer to your favorite tree or animal or meadow: “Show me what I need to do in order to feel more joy.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

Many of my readers regard me as being exceptionally creative. Over the years, they have sent countless emails praising me for my original approach to problem-solving and art-making. But I suspect that I wasn’t born with a greater talent for creativity than anyone else. I’ve simply placed a high value on developing it, and have worked harder to access it than most people. With that in mind, I invite you to tap more deeply into your own mother lode of innovative, imaginative energy. The cosmic trends favor it. Your hormones are nudging you in that direction. What projects could use a jolt of primal brilliance? What areas of your life need a boost of ingenuity?

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CANCER (June 21-July 22):

Love wants more of you. Love longs for you to give everything you have and receive everything you need. Love is conspiring to bring you beautiful truths and poignant teases, sweet dispensations and confounding mysteries, exacting blessings and riddles that will take your entire life to solve. But here are some crucial questions: Are you truly ready for such intense engagement? Are you willing to do what’s necessary to live at a higher and deeper level? Would you know how to work with such extravagant treasure and wild responsibility? The coming weeks will be prime time to explore the answers to these questions. I’m not sure what your answers will be.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

Each of us contains a multiplicity of selves. You may often feel like there’s just one of you rumbling around inside your psyche, but it’s closer to the truth to say that you’re a community of various characters whose agendas sometimes overlap and sometimes conflict. For example, the needy part of you that craves love isn’t always on the same wavelength as the ambitious part of you that seeks power. That’s why it’s a good idea to periodically organize summit meetings where all of your selves can gather and negotiate. Now is one of those times: a favorable moment to foster harmony among your inner voices and to mobilize them to work together in service of common goals.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

Pike’s Peak is a 14,115-foot mountain in Colorado. It’s not a simple task to trek to the top. Unless you’re well-trained, you might experience altitude sickness. Wicked thunder storms are a regular occurrence during the summer. Snow falls year-round. But back in 1929, an adventurer named Bill Williams decided the task of hiking to the summit wasn’t tough enough. He sought a more demanding challenge. Wearing kneepads, he spent 21 days crawling along as he used his nose to push a peanut all the way up. I advise you to avoid making him your role model in the coming weeks, Virgo. Just climb the mountain. Don’t try to push a peanut up there with your nose, too.

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