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s a little girl in the Episcopal church, Hailey Allin remembers one Sunday more than the rest. After the service, the priest asked her to close the velveteen rope that marked off the sanctuary. She remembers fastening it in the empty church and feeling like she wasn’t alone. “I was aware of a presence there that has stayed with me all my life in good and bad times,” she says. “And sometimes that presence feels like it’s far away, but I’ve never felt it to be gone.” Allin can’t remember what side of the rope she was on when she closed it, and she has found meaning in trying to figure out what side of the railing she is called to be on throughout her life. A Meridian native, Allin went to Vanderbilt University and graduated with her bachelor’s degrees in human and organizational development and English. Soon after graduation, she married Jack Allin, whom she met at an Episcopal summer camp in college. The couple married at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral in Jackson, which Jack’s family attended. Due to his work as an architect, the couple soon moved to New York City. Allin enrolled at New York General Theological Seminary from 2002 to 2005, but after graduating with her master’s degree in divinity in 2005, she held off ordainment—not a popular choice for recent seminary graduates. Ten years later, Allin is in the midst of completing a doctorate degree of theology in

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pastoral counseling at Emory University. The Allins moved back to Jackson in 2012 and now live in Belhaven with their two children (John Maury is 8, and Sarah is 5). Allin was ordained as a deacon at St. Andrew’s in June, and in January, she will be ordained as a priest. “When I started working as coordinator of lifelong formation (at St. Andrew’s) even though I wasn’t expecting it at all, working here has opened me back up to thinking about ordination again,” Allin says. Allin’s studies in psychology and counseling represent her strong suit in her ministry. Other St. Andrew’s staff members call her the “hovering glue” that holds the different pieces of the church and programs together. “Being in people’s lives in their joys but also in their struggles and sorrows and heartaches has always been something I’ve been drawn to,” she says. Allin sees people’s struggles as several states intervening: the spiritual, emotional and physical. Psychology and spirituality are two sides of the coin, but they need to be integrated in understanding, she says. The tension fascinates her and has led her down the road of her doctoral studies and now ordination. She is excited to be back in Jackson and wants to put her energy into connecting with the community, as she plans to stay a while. “There’s something about Jackson that gets in your soul whether you like it or not,” she says. —Arielle Dreher

cover painting of Gov. Phil Bryant by Anthony DiFatta

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The State of Mississippi is rethinking its policy for restraining and secluding students.

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“I know that sometimes I can think way too much, but it’s encouraging to hear people say, ‘Man, don’t stop. You cannot stop.’” —Stephen Brown, aka 5th Child, “Faith and 5th Child”

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ADRIENNE DOMNICK; COURTESY EMMI SPRAYBERRY; ARIELLE DREHER

OCTOBER 28 - NOVEMBER 3, 2015 | VOL. 14 NO. 8

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EDITOR’S note

by R.L. Nave, News Editor

Oppression and the Power of Elections

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few years ago, when I visited home for the holidays, I called a good friend so that we could hang out, see his family and catch up. When I couldn’t reach him over the course of the few days I was in St. Louis, I just assumed he was too busy doing the holidays with the wife and kids and hadn’t gotten a chance to hit me back. A few weeks later, he called me. A day or two before Thanksgiving, he’d been pulled over by the police and an old warrant popped up. It was for a relatively minor traffic offense, but with the fines and fees that built up over the years, the violation was then worth a few thousand dollars. It would be cheaper and ultimately more efficient, he reasoned, to just spend a couple weeks in the county jail to wipe out the “debt” and have peace of mind. I’ve recounted this story several times, and a lot of people wince at the idea that someone would choose jail over scraping up the cash. And I get the feeling that their bewilderment has less to do with what people know about the conditions of most American jails than the stigma of having gone to jail. So last year, when the U.S. Department of Justice issued its investigative findings that the City of Ferguson, where my grandmother lives and a white cop killed Mike Brown, was using black motorists as its municipal piggy bank, people around the country asked how African Americans in St. Louis could tolerate such oppression. Easy—we didn’t know we were being oppressed. On some level, there’s a sense that the system (i.e. police harassment of young black people and its progeny: tickets, court dates, bench warrants and jail time) is unfair, racist, oppressive. But as far as I was concerned, that’s just how our world works, and all we can do is to figure out how to survive. Survival goes something like this: Let’s say I get a $300 traffic ticket in a city—let’s call it Oppressionville—that has suggested

to its police officers to target motorists who look like me. I don’t have the money to pay or can’t make it to Oppressionville Municipal Court because I can’t get out of work or don’t have access to childcare. In the back of my mind, I think that I’ll scrape up the cash somehow, some day, but in the meantime, I figure out alternate driving routes so that I never have to pass through Oppressionville. I decide not visit friends or

I’ll be voting and hoping the election results in change. apply for jobs there because I know the fines are increasing, and there’s probably a warrant out for my arrest. Then one day, while driving through a nearby town that has an interlocal agreement with Oppressionville, I’m stopped, they find my warrant and hold me for the Oppressionville Police Department. I go to jail. Maybe I spend a few weeks in jail and get the fines wiped from my record, but for missing those few weeks, I might also lose my job and face eviction. A taillight goes out on my car, but I don’t have an extra $7 to replace it right away. You can see where this is going—right back to Oppressionville. Granted, I broke the law, but the only reason I got caught breaking the law is because cops ignored other scofflaws to target people who look like me. This is just one of many cycles that poor people in America spend their whole lives maneuvering. It is also one of the many

cycles that oppressors exploit to keep people in poverty for a tangible, economic benefit. Long before there was an America, feudal lords would imprison peasants for stealing chickens or poaching deer. When Europeans sailed to North America and invented the United States of America, the practice fell out of favor and debtors’ jails were ostensibly outlawed, at least for white people. A new opportunity emerged after the Civil War. Mississippi and other states in the former Confederacy needed ways to rebuild its economy and keep black folks subjugated, and started using vagrancy laws to compel African Americans to either work for white landowners or be thrown in jail. Black people were often then leased out from jail to white landowners who invented systems like sharecropping that kept tenant farmers in perpetual debt to white landowners. At some point, white supremacy no longer required fat cats in smoke-filled rooms throwing around the N-word to be self-sustaining. It became drug policy and disparate sentencing for crack and powder cocaine. It’s a vital part of the Southern Strategy. When the hard problems that come with poverty (e.g. crime, failing schools) in a city like Jackson sends people fleeing, it’s keeping Jackson Public Schools underfunded to benefit suburban schools. It’s the Legislature ignoring the City of Jackson’s budgetary requests. It’s Jackson having to shore up fiscal deficits with traffic and municipal court fines. It’s quality-of-life policing that presumes a person with a broken taillight might also not be able to show proof of insurance and, thus, more revenue. It’s the school-to-prison pipeline. It’s unequal pay for equal work. It’s denying poor women access to abortion and forcing them to have children they and their communities cannot afford. It’s using poor people as a piggy bank—and Mississippi, the nation’s most impoverished state, has been profiting off poor folks for too long.

You might be asking yourself what all of this has to do with the Nov. 3 statewide election, which is the focus of this issue. Well, oppression is on the ballot, y’all. I don’t beat the drum of “If you don’t vote, you can’t complain” or think my ancestors would roll over in their graves if I sat out on an election. However, I do think elections present an opportunity. First, I’ll make a general appeal for eligible voters in the next week to find something that makes it worth to go to the polls Nov. 3. If you like your local elected leaders and think they’ve done a good job representing the people, re-elect them. If you think it’s time for a change, vote them out. Secondly, for what it’s worth, I plan to vote for Initiative 42. Having covered state government for a few years now, I’m not naive enough to think that public schools will be transformed into palaces after Nov. 4. Whatever happens will be tied up in legislative and legal posturing for a long time, and will likely color other elections in the future. In the near term, the passage of Initiative 42 will be mostly symbolic. Yet, as we are witnessing in this historic debate over Mississippi’s troublesome state flag with the Confederate emblem and the University of Mississippi’s decision to lower the flag, there is power in symbols and a tremendous amount of power in people coming together to demand that symbols change. In Mississippi, that change can’t come under the banner of racist oppression. But it also can’t happen until Mississippi decides that public education is critical to our state’s future. We can achieve this by passing Initiative 42 and by electing leaders who are sick and tired of the belligerent maintenance of Mississippi’s suffocating status quo. On Nov. 3, I’ll be voting and hoping the election results in change. I hope you do, too. Email news tips to R.L. Nave at rlnave@ jacksonfreepress.com.

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Anthony DiFatta and his family just moved back to Mississippi from Massachusetts. He is a teacher and an artist. He did the cover art.

News Reporter Arielle Dreher is working on finding some new hobbies and adopting an otter from the zoo. Email her story ideas at arielle@jacksonfree press.com. She contributed to the cover package and wrote the Jacksonian.

Ad Designer Zilpha Young has dabbled in every medium she could get her hands on, from blacksmithing to crocheting. To see some of her extracurricular work, check out zilphatastic. tumblr.com. She wrote a Halloween DIY story.

Staff Photographer Imani Khayyam is an art lover and a native of Jackson. He loves to be behind the camera and capture the true essence of his subjects. He took photos for the cover story and many in the issue.

Assistant Editor Amber Helsel graduated from Ole Miss with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She is short, always hungry and was most likely either a sprite or a cat in a past life. She wrote a Halloween DIY story.

Freelance writer Danie Matthews is a Mississippi College graduate. She’s a fan of conscious hip-hop, neo-soul and classic R&B, and hopes to one day become a full-time music writer. She wrote a story about 5th Child’s new album.

Editorial Assistant Maya Miller is a senior psychology major at Jackson State University. She’s learned that adulthood means choosing her own bedtime, and she’s not equipped for that responsibility just yet. She did social media for the issue.

Publisher and President Todd Stauffer is the author of more than 40 technology books on Macs, HTML, blogging and digital video. He grew up in Dallas and is a Texas A&M graduate, but still manages to root for Mississippi State.

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school children ““To protect each child's fundamental right to educational opportunity, the State shall provide for the establishment, maintenance and support of an adequate and efficient system of free public schools. The chancery courts of this State shall have the power to enforce this section with appropriate injunctive relief."

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Alternative Measure No. 42 A, ““ Should the Legislature provide for the establishment and support of effective free public schools without judicial enforcement?”�

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Section 201, "The Legislature shall, by general law, provide for the establishment, maintenance and support of an effective system of free public schools." Legislative Budget Office Fiscal Analysis: There is no determinable cost or revenue impact associated with this initiative.

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Vote here to approve having Legislative Budget Office Fiscal Analysis: a constitutional amendment Because this proposed amendment shifts funding

decisions from the Legislature to the court system, it is impossible to provide a specific fiscal impact of Initiative 42. If the court system, acting under the new authority granted by Initiative 42, required K-12 Public Education to be funded at the amount called for by the statutory Mississippi Adequate Education Program, the Legislature would need to appropriate an additional $201,031,129 above the Fiscal Year 2016 budgeted amount. Fiscal Year 2016 revenues are not adequate to support this funding increase without the Legislature having to cut agency budgets or identify new sources of revenue (such as fees or tax increase) to comply with the court's dictate.

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Wednesday, October 21 Vice President Joe Biden announces that he will not run for president in 2016, finalizing the Democratic field of White House candidates and likely bolstering Hillary Clinton’s standing as the frontrunner. ‌ The Jackson City Council calls an emergency special meeting to reconsider the management contract for the mass transit system, JATRAN.

Friday, October 23 The Mississippi Religious Leadership Conference, Working Together Jackson and Jackson 2000 hold a press conference at the Capitol to encourage Mississippians to vote for Initiative 42 on Nov. 3. ‌ Hurricane Patricia makes landfall in Mexico as a monster Category 5 storm, the strongest ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere. Saturday, October 24 Hurricane Patricia dissipates into an ordinary low-pressure system, leaving surprisingly little damage after landfall.

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Sunday, October 25 Pope Francis closes a historic meeting of bishops in which he approved a policy of welcoming divorced and civilly remarried Catholics into the church.

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rystin Polk, a 14-year-old who lives in Southaven, has an autism-spectrum disorder. She has an IEP—an Individualized Education Program, for students with special-education needs— which serves as a reference for teachers and explains the extra attention Krystin might need at school. On Oct. 22, at a public hearing on the Mississippi Department of Education’s restraint and seclusion policy, Krystin’s mother, Krystal Polk, said Krystin’s IEP states that she runs when she gets upset and then often becomes nonverbal and unable to communicate at all. At school one day, Krystin had a meltdown and ran out of the classroom, and a school resource officer was called to help her. He restrained her, then threw her on the ground and handcuffed her when she failed to comply with the officer’s demands. The officer had obviously not read her IEP, Krystal told the crowd at the public hearing. Krystal said the officer drove her daughter around for an hour, and by the time he took her to the juvenile-detention center, the offices were closed and Krystin had to spend the night. Krystal had to wait until the morning to get her daughter. Officers told Krystal that Krystin was nonverbal at the detention center, and she spent the night with officers at the front desk because she did not understand how to undress herself or go into the cell. Krystin believes her daughter’s story illustrates the necessity of overseeing how a school district uses restraint and seclusion.

Monday, October 26 The University of Mississippi removes the state flag from its campus and sends it to the university’s archives, saying that the Confederate battle emblem on the banner serves as a painful reminder of slavery and segregation for many. Tuesday, October 27 Defense Secretary Ash Carter announces that the U.S. plans to step up its attacks against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, possibly escalating American action on the ground. Breaking news at jfpdaily.com.

“I have given my testimony in hopes that the laws will be changed so things can be done properly in the best interest of all,� she said at the public hearing.

Barb Trader, the executive director of TASH, said restraint and seclusion as a means of discipline are dangerous and don’t work.

In June, the Mississippi Department of Education drafted a restraint and seclusion policy. While most organizations fully support the creation and implementation of a policy, many are not satisfied with the policy as it is written now. Policy 4013, which affects all students regardless of disabilities, is seven pages long and outlines restraint and seclusion procedures, training and documentation requirements, and

Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, Speaker of the House Philip Gunn and Gov. Phil Bryant—Three Hinds County judges Robert “Silent Knight� Gray, truck driver and Democratic governor candidate—Optimus Prime

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Thursday, October 22 Activist Angela Davis speaks about the importance of intersectionality through race, gender, sexual orientation and nationality as part of the fall 2015 Presidential Lecture in Tougaloo College’s Woodworth Chapel. ‌ Mississippi’s congressional delegation sends a letter to the chief of the historic landmarks program for the National Park Service supporting an effort to have the state Capitol named a national historic landmark.

A Rework for ‘Restraint and Seclusion’

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how to strengthen the proposed policy at the second hearing on Oct. 22. They suggested eliminating seclusion, or regulating the practices, as well as standardizing certified training for all schools if restraint is necessary. In July, several organizations combined efforts to draft their own policy, and with the help of the ACLU were able to delay the policy’s progress and enforce the required hearings on the policy.

Joce Pritchett, candidate for state auditor—Supergirl Mike Hurst, attorney general candidate— Ghostbusters outfit with “Obama + Jim Hood� written everywhere in Sharpie

Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann— Oddly, he shows up in a Delbert Hosemann mask, but wearing a skin-tight shiny metallic bodysuit. State Auditor Stacy Pickering—Uncle Scrooge (“Tiny Tim,� not “Duck Tales�)

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City Roundup: Focus on Wastewater, JATRAN

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“Our primary goal is to have the City of Jackson as the provider,� Frelix said. “The county doesn’t want to be in (the

Of Honor and JATRAN The Jackson City Council was poised this week to reconsider an agreement with the new operators of JATRAN, the City’s

bus system, but held off on discussion amid a threat of litigation. On Oct. 1, an operations contract between the City of Jackson and U.K.-based National Express Transit Services became effective. The three-year contract requires the City to pay a monthly fixed fee for National Express to run most JATRAN operations, including salaries, overtime and other cost overruns. Previously, the City had a management contract with Lombard, Ill.-based Transdev North America, which did business locally as PTM of Jackson Inc. Under that agreement, the City was responsible for most costs, including JATRAN salaries. “We had people who didn’t get paid half their wages last week,� Alphonso Burns Jr., a JATRAN operator and president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1208, told the city council on Oct. 20. Burns told the Jackson Free Press that the snafu was the result of employees who were on vacation or had vacation time scheduled during the Oct. 1 switchover and are now caught in a sort of administrative limbo between the old company and the new company. In addition, Burns said many of his union members currently lack health insurance because premiums for the planned National Express offers went up from $35 per month to $135 for a single individual. Eric Jefferson, the City’s director of planning, said during a brief presentation that his department looked to switch to an

operations contract because costs fluctuated greatly under the previous management agreement with PTM. “There’s no real incentive for the contractor to save the City money,� Jefferson told the council, referring to management contracts. Ward 4 Councilman De’Keither Stamps said issues that have come up since National Express came onboard were not fully aired when the council considered the JATRAN operations proposal this summer. “We need to look at the feasibility of rescinding the whole contract,� Stamps said at the meeting. “It might cost us some money, but it’s a huge problem.� The council scheduled a special meeting for Oct. 19, but during the special meeting, City Council President Melvin Priester Jr. said that discussion of JATRAN would have to be limited because the City received notice of potential litigation, but did not specify. On Oct. 20, after a brief discussion, the council went into executive session but had not emerged by press time. Scott M. Crawford, a rider and frequent attendee of the JATRAN Fixed Route Advisory Committee, urged the City to fix what he called systemic problems with the bus system and to do the right thing with respect to the union’s contract. “It is vital to the City that we act honorably by union contract. It’s a matter of justice,� Crawford said. Comment at www.jfp.ms. Email R.L. Nave at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

The Mississippi Department of Education does not track which school districts have developed their own restraint and seclusion policies, and the department currently has no system to monitor the schools at all—hence the proposed policy. Restraint and seclusion are controversial and federally regulated in all publicservice institutions except public schools. The federal government told states to draft their own policies governing how schools use restraint and seclusion as punishment—if at all. Before this year, Mississippi was one of five states that did not have a statewide policy or voluntary guidelines. Barb Trader, executive director of the international organization TASH (which used to stand for The Association for the Severely Handicapped), came down from Washington, D.C., to Mississippi for the public hear-

ing. TASH’s focus is research and ensuring that evidence-based practices are used for those with complex disabilities. Trader said restraint and seclusion are no longer ethically tolerable for two reasons. “(Restraint and seclusion) cause pain and are dangerous, and they don’t work,� she said at the Oct. 22 public hearing. Hospitals, mental-health facilities, residential treatment centers and juvenile-justice centers all have serious limits on what they can and cannot do for punishment due to federal regulations, Trader said. “The only publicly funded service system where people are unprotected by federal law from restraint and seclusion use is public school,� she said. Restraint and seclusion should be used only in the case of imminent physical danger to self or others, Trader said, recommending

that it should not be included as a practice on any student’s IEP. Heather Rhodes has a 9-year-old son, Cade, who has autism. She has tried two different school districts for her son since a teacher secluded him in a box in one district and put him in a “safe room� during a fire drill at the other. Cade’s fight-or-flight response got so severe that he was diagnosed with psychogenic seizures from PTSD this year. Rhodes tried to put Cade back in public school in the Pass Christian School District this year, but after he was suspended for his behavior, she brought him back home. Rhodes urged the Department of Education to add oversight of the districts to its policy. “The bottom line is if the Mississippi Department of Education does not get something in place, then every school district is going to continue to do what they want

to do, how they want to do it,â€? she told the audience at the hearing. Bill Welch, the director of safe and orderly schools at the Department of Education, and Pat Ross, the chief school-performance officer, helped facilitate the final public hearing. Ross concluded the public hearings by saying he and Dr. Welch would review both hearing transcripts and work to strengthen the current proposed policy. Originally, the final policy was due in November, but Ross said that would be rushing the process and that it could take more time. “We’ve heard things we can improve and go through on our part ‌ ,â€? Ross said. “And (we will) pull that group together and hammer out the best policy we can get to protect our students and school employees.â€? Comment at www.jfp.ms. Email Arielle Dreher at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com.

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he City of Jackson is practically waistdeep in wastewater issues. First, the council rejected an agenda item that would have required a $1.25 million to United Water Co., which manages the City’s wastewater treatment facility, because the City is two months behind on payments—nearly $2 million in all. To boot, the contract expires Nov. 1, and a new management agreement has yet to be worked out. At a special city council meeting, council members were incensed that they had no prior knowledge about the difficulties with the United Water contract. They seemed further frustrated that neither Mayor Tony Yarber nor public-works Director Kishia Powell attended the Oct. 26 meeting to answer their questions. “The (Department of) Public Works has poorly served the mayor,� said Ward 1 Councilman Ashby Foote, who suggested a reassessment of the management structure of public works. After recessing the meeting until Tuesday morning, Oct. 27, the city council voted no on the proposed security deposit. Separately, the city council also received a briefing from an official from Hinds County, which wants Jackson to support the construction of a wastewater treatment facility to serve the $96 million dollar Byram-Clinton parkway, now under construction. Carl Frelix, the county public-works director, said the City would benefit because Hinds County would be a customer of Jackson’s.

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Green: Farming an Economic Future by Arielle Dreher

One of the things I want to do is to make sure (the state) establish(es) curriculum that allows our young people—future leaders of tomorrow—to be able to really learn about farming so they can open up their own market and be their own producers. That’s one of my pet peeves (and reasons) as to why I’m running is to allow this state to go back and revisit a curriculum that deals with farming, teaching our young people how to farm because ... once you get your education and you can use it in (multiple) areas. Agriculture I can appreciate because you can come from food, pulp wood, you can go to open up a factory in potatoes

Addie Lee Green, the Democratic challenger for the Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce seat, said she wants to bring farming back to young people.

cal communities, our churches, schools and nonprofits to give incentives on training. Don’t let me leave out the school boards, to allocate a budget that will start the process of Mississippi being able to grow fresh vegetables and start with our young people from a classroom perspective. What would your main focus be if you’re elected?

I would do more (agricultural) training. I think I would present my proposal before the state Legislature and the federal government (Congress), and I would allow not only the schools but (also) nonprofits to be able to start training and give them an incentive for our grant process. We’ve got Alcorn State University able to train (agriculture), but I would also look at the Mississippi state penitentiary so when those persons have done their time that they can come back and make a living instead of going back to prison, come back and have a job that is trained before they leave. So you would look at introducing agricultural training in prisons?

people, families and children in Mississippi. There’s no reason why we should be starving when God has blessed us with land, the Delta land, the free land (where) you can grow potatoes, peanuts, tomatoes and open up farmers markets. Our young people can have jobs during the summer, so that’s one of the reasons I am running. The mayors and city councils (should) put agriculture as a part of their budget so that they can open up farmers markets and so that their community and local towns will start growing gardens. If you start growing gardens that means you can formulate your farmers markets and eat healthy. So I want to be able to do all of that once I am elected. The Republicans think that they are moving the state forward, and in their minds they are, but having President Obama as the

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president of the United States, I don’t see the agricultural commissioner doing enough. The complaint is minority farmers did not get any of the farmers’ money (federal grant money). And that is the complaint (I hear) as I go around the district that they didn’t get the grant that was appropriated for what they call “Black Farmers.” So my announcement for them is to check with IMANI KHAYYAM

Why are you running to be the commissioner of agriculture and commerce?

or sweet potatoes and open up your own cooking area. We can (also) go back to canning. With the climate change approaching all of us, we need to teach our young people how to can fresh vegetables so that they can have something to feed their family before they get to go to the store and when (they) do not have any food at home. They are talking about 600,000 starving young

ississippi’s Voter ID law took effect last year, largely relying on research commissioned by the secretary of state’s office finding that 98 percent of Mississippi voters reported having at least one of eight possible forms of identification needed to vote. The demographics of the 98 percent who had IDs is: 60 percent white, 38 percent black and 2 percent “other.”

Congressman Bennie Thompson to find out why Mississippians, those that applied, why haven’t they got that farmers’ money? So if you were elected commissioner, how would you work to get that money?

We need this money, and everybody needs to be able to sit down around the table (and figure out) how they will fill that application out because I think that was the glitch—being able to prove that they were denied the opportunity of being able to get a grant or a loan by the bank. If you’re elected how would you stimulate a farming economy here?

Mississippi deals with the world and its regulations, so what I would do is I would first start with our legislators, our lo-

The 2012 research was conducted as an exit poll for voters, and the demographics match the Census population statistics of Mississippi. The 2012 survey estimated that 1.7 percent of Mississippians who voted in November of that year did not have a valid form of photo ID. That 1.7 percent was 68 percent black and 41 percent from households with less than $15,000 in annual income. The 2012 research surveyed almost 6,000 Mississippians, and if those percentages are translated to the voter population today, 31,500 voters (1.7 percent of registered voters) will not have a proper ID to present at the polls next week. Voters without a valid form of ID were allowed to apply for a Voter ID card, and so far (as of Oct. 9) 4,364 Mississippians have received Voter ID cards.

Yes. In my campaigning, a lot of young people have felonies, and they are just hustling. They are hustling, and sooner or later, they will be returning. So I would like to see Mississippi train them in the classroom, so they can see a future and work the future. How would you have handled the state fair security situation?

I would pay Jackson a big sum of revenue to house the Mississippi State Fair, so that they would not be in a crunch. This year, they had a glitch about security for the state fair, and I would work out the security and put monies back into Jackson because the fair makes money. Then I would have Mississippians bring down produce to the fair. I would make (the fair) more homegrown for whatever they were producing. Comment at www.jfp.ms.

About 82 percent of the state’s population that can vote are registered to do so—there are 1,856,533 registered and active voters in the state. The secretary of state’s office does not keep demographic information on voters. Harrison and Hinds Counties have the highest voter populations in the state. Hinds County has 146,522 active voters; Harrison has 109,288. Voter population is not relevant, however, unless the voter population turns out to vote. In the August primary election, only 28 percent of registered voters turned out to vote in Hinds County. Don’t forget your ID and head to the polls on Nov. 3. For poll locations in Hinds County, visit http://www.co.hinds.ms.us/pgs/apps/voter.asp.

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aised on a farm and the daughter of a sharecropper, Addie Lee Green remembers learning how to chop down trees for firewood as a child. Now she is running to become to the state’s commissioner of agriculture and commerce. Green grew up in Raymond, attending Southern Labor School and the JPS Career and Development Center. She volunteered with the Child Development Group of Mississippi in the 1960s as a teenager, working with the Head Start program during the Civil Rights Movement. Green also studied social work at Jackson State University through a program that enabled her to work in the local neighborhoods. She worked at General Motors in Clinton and with the AFL-CIO to help organize the local Packard Electric union. Green holds certifications in floral design, communication and CMO (public and elected official training) areas. Green has served as an alderwoman on the Bolton council. She has two adult sons (her third son died in 2006) and six grandchildren. She lives in Bolton with her German shepherd mix, Brownie.

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obert Gray, the Democratic nominee for governor, says he draws some odd reactions from people. People he encounters sometimes ask whether he’s going to do any campaigning for the state’s top office—even while he and his team are out pressing the flesh and passing out campaign literature. Gray,

Since the Aug. 4 party primaries, most local news outlets, as well as The New York Times, have interviewed Gray, who is 46. NBC sent a crew that interviewed Gray in Smith Park, just north of the governor’s mansion, and the interview aired on “The Today Show” and MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Plus, Gray recorded a segment for Al IMANI KHAYYAM

Robert Gray, Democratic candidate for Mississippi governor, ignores the narrative that he cannot compete with Gov. Phil Bryant’s $1.8 million campaign fund because of the free advertising that came with winning the Democratic primary in August. Plus, this time, his mother knows he’s running.

who won the Democratic nomination over two more active candidates by spending no money and not even voting for himself, said another hot topic of conversation out on the trail is incumbent Gov. Phil Bryant’s $1.8 million fundraising advantage. “When I won the primary, I probably got $1 million of campaign exposure from that win,” Gray told the Jackson Free Press during a recent interview at Smith Park. “Being on nationwide news like that can’t do anything but help.”

Jazeera at the Mississippi Education and Research Complex. “There’s a distinct difference in how people receive him compared to the last four campaigns I’ve worked on,” said Dwight Utz, an engineer who has volunteered on several local races and is working on Gray’s campaign. Gray’s sister, Angela, is his campaign manager. In Gray’s mind, that free advertising has helped attract donations enabling him to crisscross the state to meet voters and talk

to small groups of voters, who are still trying to figure him out. Gray grew up in Jackson, where he attended Raines Elementary, Hardy Middle School and Provine High School. He later worked as a courier for Trustmark and, for a time, sold insurance. He then attended Southern Drivers’ Academy in south Jackson and started driving a rig in 1992 or 1993, sometimes hauling loads as far away as California. Gray is unmarried and has no children; his own mother thought she was just voting for a man with the same name, not her own son. (She now knows that he is the Democratic nominee, he said). Despite Gray’s failure to do much campaigning, he shocked the political world by finishing in first place in the August Democratic primary, ahead of two women—Vicki Slater, an attorney, and Valerie Short, a retired physician—who actively campaigned for the nomination. Gray’s camp says resentment from Democratic officials has been palpable, which might have stymied Gray’s fundraising efforts. To date, Gray had raised approximately $3,300 through the end of September, money he has used to spread his message and slam Bryant’s policies, including the governor’s resistance to Medicaid expansion and supporting Initiative 42, which would require the state to fund public schools to adequate levels. “Basically, he’s choking the life out of the state of Mississippi by not taking (up) these issues,” Gray said about Bryant’s refusal to support expansion of Medicaid, which the Affordable Care Act permits states to do, with the federal government paying for the bulk of it. Bryant has said that he does not believe the Obama administration will pay for the feds’ end of Medicaid expansion and, thus, in his logic, leaving Mississippi taxpayers on the hook for the cost of providing health

insurance for 300,000 people. “By expanding Medicaid and starting the health-care exchanges in Mississippi, (it) would create jobs. It would take people off the need for government subsidies. We’re losing money and making things worse by not doing anything,” Gray said. The Democratic nominee believes the time has come for lawmakers to start spending from the so-called “rainy day fund.” Bryant and the GOP leadership tout filling up the fund as symbolic of their party’s championship of conservative fiscal principles. Gray wants to spend some of the roughly $400 million in the account in order to grow and strengthen the state. “Every penny from that rainy-day fund, if he invested in the state, it would make money,” Gray said. “If we spent it on infrastructure, people from the materials (industries) are going to make money, The trucking industry is going to make money because you need trucks to haul it. The food industry is going to make money. Every penny we invest in our state is going to come back to us as profit.” Likewise, Gray views full education funding also as a form of economic development. “I think the people of Mississippi already know that it’s a win-win situation in passing Initiative 42,” Gray said. Should he defeat Bryant, he said, “I can explain how it’s going to help our economy and make them look better.” Rickey Cole, the chairman of the Mississippi Democratic Party, said he won’t make any prediction in any race but expects Democratic candidates to deliver some upsets on Nov. 3. “He’s doing exactly what he’s supposed to do,” Cole said of Gray. “I think he’ll do alright.” Comment at www.jfp.ms/2015elections. Email rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

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Be True to Initiative 42’s Calls for Accountability

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nitiative 42 has been the talk of the political world in Mississippi for months now. As an educator in this state, it has been difficult to form an opinion. Nevertheless, it is my responsibility, like other citizens of Mississippi, to analyze all the given information about the initiative and come to a sound conclusion before casting a vote. After reading more than a dozen opinion articles from numerous outlets, one thing is clear: Initiative 42 does not simply fall under a catchall category. Its potential implications merit intense research from all the stakeholders. In an opinion piece from The Hechinger Report, “The Potentially Devastating Impact of Mississippi’s Initiative 42,â€? author Grant Callen, a charter-school advocate, essentially argues that Democrats claim that “Mississippi is not spending enough money on education and should ‘fully fund’ the Mississippi Adequate Education Program.â€? He says a Democratic-controlled Legislature passed MAEP, and that the Legislature has only fully funded the formula twice since its creation. “Now that Republicans are in control, it is suddenly a critical issue to Democrats,â€? he concludes. A couple of aspects of Callen’s thinking are flawed. The issue’s framing is a distraction, a red herring fallacy. The real issue is not Democrats versus Republicans, but rather sufficient funds versus insufficient funds. His column also argues that two wrongs make a right, another fallacy. In other words, because Democrats failed to get the formula fully funded, it is OK for the Republicans to not have done so as well. It should not be about finger pointing over who has done it wrong, but rather focusing on individuals who will make the decisions to do it right. Callen also cites the recent failure of the Tunica County School District as a demonstration that “[m]oney alone cannot solve Mississippi’s education woes.â€? But it is dangerous to form such a strong opinion based off the failure of one school district. A recent Forbes article looked at Initiative 42 from a judicial and economic perspective. “Putting a single judge in charge of dictating education funding is no way to run a state. ‌ Nor is it a way to attract new employers, residents, and investment,â€? Patrick Gleason wrote. The murky language of Initiative 42 does raise a bit of concern for me as I am unsure whether or not the constitutional amendment would be “putting a single judge in charge of dictating education fundingâ€? as many opponents of the initiative have suggested. But it doesn’t seem to be true. Recently, in an “Open Letter to the People of Mississippi,â€? 19 law professors from the University of Mississippi School of Law, along with several practicing attorneys, utterly refuted this notion of “a single judgeâ€? deciding the fate of education funding. They wrote, “[C]ertain legal arguments regarding Initiative 42 are unsound and exaggerated misstatements about how the legal process actually works.â€? The letter then explains that in the event of a lawsuit against the State of Mississippi, either side could appeal the decision and send it to the Supreme Court of Mississippi, which is accountable to the people who elect its members. They end the letter by saying, “If we were grading this legal argument, it would fail.â€? The Forbes article contends that the passage would scare off potential employers because they would not want to bring a business to a state “where one Judge supersedes the Legislature and has the ability to (effectively) force lawmakers to raise taxes on in-state employers and residents.â€? I would argue the passage of Initiative 42 would lead to better-funded schools that can create a more educated populace, which would entice business owners to come to the state. In summation, I offer two points. First, Initiative 42 seemingly creates a mechanism that would hold our Legislature accountable to the citizens of Mississippi in sufficiently funding our schools. Second, the rhetoric about giving one judge unchecked authority does seem daunting, but from what I have read, there simply isn’t way to prove that this is how the law will play out. I urge all the citizens of Mississippi to research all the available information before deciding to vote for or against the initiative. It is our collective responsibility. Timothy Abram is a United States history teacher at West Tallahatchie High School in Webb, Miss. All opinions are his own and are not reflective of the West 12 Tallahatchie School District. "VĂŒÂœLiÀÊÓnʇÊ ÂœĂ›i“LiÀÊÎ]ĂŠĂ“ä£xĂŠĂŠUĂŠĂŠÂ?v°Â“Ăƒ

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bout 82 percent of eligible voters in Mississippi are registered to do so—there are 1,856,533 registered and active voters in the state. That’s good news. But being registered to vote is meaningless unless you wield your power as a citizen and actually head to a polling place. The importance of non-federal elections cannot be understated. It’s easy to believe that the federal government can swoop in and provide a safety net, even for people that bad state policy has hurt, but that false sense of security and over-reliance on national elections tends to lead to low voter turnout in statewide and local elections. In recent years, voter excitement has increased in national elections amid the clamoring over social and wedge issues, from abortion rights to Medicaid and immigration issues to Second Amendment and gun control. These causes are obviously important and worthy of passionate debate. This passion is needed just as much in state elections as in federal elections. The disconnect between state and national elections is dangerous for several reasons. For starters, Mississippi sits in 50th place on innumerable national scales for issues ranging from health to child wellness. That’s not going to change unless people get more active in state elections. If you’re concerned, for example, about crime and potholes in Jackson, you have an opportunity to consider which candidates you

think will help the capital city draw legislative appropriations from the state. If economic development in rural areas is your bailiwick, county board of supervisor races are also on the ticket. Suspect that employees down at city hall might be up to no good? Decide which state-auditor candidate will put an end to it. When we’re talking about the sheriff that responds to a burglar-alarm call at your house or the nagging traffic slowdowns on the interstate, you have a chance to say something about it on Nov. 3. If you live in Mississippi and are proud to call it your home, if you want to hang a state flag outside your house that represents all people and send your children to functioning public schools, you have to vote for the people who think like you do, so that your conception of Mississippi life at its best can stay or become a reality. That’s why voting matters; that’s why Election Day is important. It’s easy to complain for four years about policies that hurt people in this state, but voting is just as easy. Less than one-third of registered voters in Hinds County voted in the August primary elections. Even though the primaries decided the outcome of many races, we encourage all registered voters to read up on the issues and the candidates (www.jfp.ms/2015elections is a good place to start) and find something that sparks your passion. Find something important enough to get you to the voting booth. The future is at stake.

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fied in economic terms because it’s already justified in moral terms. I find them inspiring for the same reason pundits laugh them off: However pragmatic they may be about their means, they’re more visionary about their objectives. In Mississippi, the vast majority of category-three politicians can be found in the Legislative Black Caucus or in local government; they don’t tend to do well in statewide races. They’re not all that common in the rest of the country, either. Every now and then, a national figure seems to come out of category three and promise a new approach to politics based on fundamental moral concern rather than economic pragmatism: Howard Dean in 2004, Barack Obama in 2008, Bernie Sanders this year. The trouble is that one of two things always seems to happen to them: They lose, or they win and shift right over to category two. It seems that a candidate can be an inspiring moral visionary, but an elected official—beyond a certain rank, at least—can’t. In order to get and keep the power to make incremental, pragmatic change, they have to put aside their commitment to the big picture and dissolve into the power structure they’ve joined. In other words, it’s not just that power corrupts. It’s that, in a very real way, power dilutes. This is why activism is about changing cultural values and social systems, not just changing laws and the people who make them. “For we wrestle,â€? the Apostle Paul writes, “not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.â€? At least one former president seems to be echoing those words. When asked if he regretted serving only one term, Jimmy Carter said: “If I had to choose between four more years and the Carter Center, I would’ve chosen the Carter Center.â€? As this increasingly strange election season draws to a close, let’s be conscious of where we draw our inspiration. And let’s acknowledge that while good leadership is important, and bad leadership can be fatal, the kind of visionary change that inspires us can’t just come from leaders; we must primarily draw it from each other. It’s not enough to elect, or become, great leaders. If we’re really going to repair the world, it’s the ĂƒÂœVˆ>Â?ĂŠVÂœÂ˜ĂŒiĂ?ĂŒĂŠÂˆĂŒĂƒiÂ?vpĂŒÂ…iĂŠºĂ€ÂˆÂ˜VÂˆÂŤ>Â?ÂˆĂŒÂˆiĂƒĂŠ>˜`ĂŠ powersâ€?—that we need to change. Tom Head, Ph.D., is a Jackson native. He is the author or coauthor of 28 nonfiction books, including the forthcoming “What the Slaves Believed.â€?

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An inauguration parade scheduled for a week and a half later was also rained out; the event never took place. No-Frills Leader Now, four years later, Gov. Phil Bryant is in a favorable position to finally consummate his governorship with all the pomp and circumstance of a proper inaugural. Bryant’s opponent in the Nov. 3 general election is Robert Gray, a long-haul truck driver who shocked the political establishment in August, winning the Democratic primary by, in his own words, doing nothing.

actly what he’s supposed to do,” Cole told the Jackson Free Press. In any case, the strategy for Cole and other Democrats is to hammer away at Bryant for playing it safe and strictly by playbooks handed to him by national Republicans and Mississippi tea-party conservatives who tout Bryant as one of their first gubernatorial successes. Their hope is that Mississippi Republican policies, including Bryant’s, will motivate the Democrats’ base of African Americans along with enough poor, working class and rural whites to help Democrats regain control of the state House of Representatives. R.L. NAVE

orkers spent more than a week erecting scaffolding and building a platform for the first inauguration of Phil Bryant on Jan. 10, 2011. By the start of the week, the patriotic red-white-and-blue bunting was draped from the stage, and plastic white folding chairs were neatly arranged in rows on the south side of the state Capitol, where governors have historically taken the oath of office. Within a day, the event had to be called off because of rain and moved inside the building to the House of Representatives chamber out of concern for “the safety of the people attending the ceremony,” a campaign spokesman at the time. The threat of thunderstorms also postponed the planned inaugural parade, where marching bands from high schools around the state as well as Hinds Community College and University of Southern Mississippi, both colleges Bryant attended. Other groups scheduled to attend, the Associated Press reported, included “military units, a Confederate heritage group, the Mississippi Choctaw princess and Little Miss Rankin County.” The incoming governor himself was directly involved in the logistics of the party. “I have consulted with forecasters, and based on available information, have decided to exercise caution and cancel the parade. ... I was so excited to see the enthusiasm surrounding this event and appreciate everyone’s hard work and preparation,” he announced. In the background, a different kind of storm brewed. Overshadowing the soggy inauguration plans was the story of more than 200 pardons Bryant’s predecessor, Haley Barbour, issued days before he left the office. With Barbour’s national stature as a powerful Washington, D.C., lobbyist and former Republican National Committee chairman who flirted with the idea of running for president, the pardons eclipsed Bryant. On inauguration day, reporters were more intent on getting a quote from Barbour about the pardons than from the 64th gover14 nor of the state.

Speaking at the 2012 Mississippi Economic Council’s annual Hobnob event, Gov. Phil Bryant touted international trade with Canada and charter-school legislation, which passed a year later.

It made Gray a bit of a media darling and thrust him into the folklore of American politics, but with Gray’s campaign treasury just .001 percent of the size of Bryant’s $1.8 million war chest, evening the odds will require some combination of apathy, arrogance or anti-Bryant sentiment among Republicans and a groundswell of historic proportions for Democratic-leaning voters. Rickey Cole, the chairman of the Mississippi Democratic Party, predicts higher-than-expected Democratic turnout for the public-school funding referendum known as Initiative 42, which will help the party’s nominee. “I think he’ll do alright. He’s doing ex-

Those policies include failure to provide adequate public-school funding, through the Mississippi Adequate Education Program formula, as well as the GOP leadership campaigning against the proposed constitutional mandate known as Initiative 42. At the same time, Bryant has thrown just enough red meat to his right-wing friends to stave off a serious primary contender. In addition to publicly critiquing President Barack Obama’s immigration policy, Bryant called for outlawing abortion in Mississippi. When Bryant signed the controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 2014, which civil-liberties groups believed could open the door to wider discrimination of les-

bian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, Bryant invited a group of conservative religious leaders, including Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, to the ceremony. Bryant’s bank account notwithstanding, dislodging him will prove challenging because political observers agree that the incumbent hasn’t done anything to make enough people mad enough to vote him out of office or to sit on the election’s sidelines in protest. Hayes Dent, a lobbyist and former chief of staff to Republican Gov. Kirk Fordice, who has known Bryant for four decades, describes the governor’s political and leadership style as slow and steady. “Phil has just been a steady hand. He’s a guy who’s been in the Legislature. He’s run a state division of audit. He knows the craft. I know all these guys and have to work around all these guys, and he’s been able to ably lead agencies,” Dent said. “I don’t see a lot of showboating with Phil Bryant.” Right Place, Right Time The running joke in Jackson political circles is that Phil Bryant is just three handshakes away from being a Hinds County sheriff’s deputy. In other words, Bryant’s career is largely the result of being in the right places at the right times and just likable enough to move up the ladder. Born Dewey Phil Bryant, named after his father, a diesel mechanic, in Moorhead (current population: 2,327), Bryant attended Hinds Community College and got his bachelor’s degree at the University of Southern Mississippi. Bryant has said he was dyslexic as a child and had to repeat the third grade, which colored many of the educational policies for which he would advocate during his gubernatorial tenure. In the mid-1970s, he became a Hinds County sheriff’s deputy. In 1991, Bryant won a seat in the state House of Representatives representing Rankin County. Five years later, after state Auditor Steve Patterson resigned and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of filing a false affidavit to avoid paying back vehicle taxes, Gov. Fordice appointed Bryant to fill in as auditor. Calling Bryant his “best ally in the House of Representatives,” Fordice said

then he believed Bryant’s experience in lawenforcement investigations made him the “ideal candidate for this job.� David Hampton, editorial director at The Clarion-Ledger in the early 2000s, calls Bryant “the being there candidate� for his serendipitous ascent in state government, but he gives him high marks as state auditor. “I think he’s a well-liked guy, he’s a nice guy. He has integrity, was involved in local politics and knew all the right people. Being appointed state auditor, I think he did a good job. I think he was independent—that’s more of a nonpartisan position—but he was really independent, and it helped him get known in the public’s mind,� Hampton said. As auditor, Bryant made all the usual demands on local officials accused of embezzling or mishandling public funds and property to make restitution to taxpayers. Then, in 2006, Bryant commissioned a report that concluded that undocumented immigrants cost state taxpayers millions of dollars based on “significant education, law enforcement and health care costs, as well as substantial lost tax revenues and other economic losses.� Even though the report’s preface states that its findings represent only a snapshot of the impact of illegal immigration rather than a comprehensive study, the document has been widely cited and criticized in the

state as the basis for every attempt at immigration crackdowns for the past decade. In 2007, Bryant defeated then-state Rep. Jamie Franks, the Democratic nominee, to succeed Amy Tuck as lieutenant governor. The same year, Barbour won election to a second term as governor. Barbour had a way of overshadowing everyone, including the next in line to the governor’s seat, Bryant. “Anybody in the shadow of Haley Barbour would have been secondary and I think that has been his role and continues to be his role. Haley Barbour was such a strong governor,� Hampton said, adding of Bryant: “He’s been sort of in the background.� In Barbour’s Shadow Where Barbour was the consummate pragmatist albeit politically conservative, observers say Bryant is pragmatic but still a dyed-in-the-wool conservative. In fact, Bryant is credited for his ability to finesse the line between mainstream, oldguard Republicans and the emerging activist tea-party wing of the party. Dent, the lobbyist, said when he became active in politics as a teenager in the 1970s, the GOP was building itself up in Mississippi. At the time, only a handful of regulars were at 555 Tombigbee St. in Jackson, the former state Republican Party headquarters. Along with figures from the first generation

Fire-Breathing Ideologue? David Hampton does not believe Phil Bryant is a fire-breathing ideologue but says the governor is reactive to the right flank of the GOP, perhaps out of fear. “I think he’s scared to death of the tea party,� he said. “He’s reactive to that wing of the party to his own political detriment sometimes and certainly to the state’s.� Bryant’s allegiance to tea-party conservatism has shaped his governorship. Bryant, who co-chaired the failed Initiative 26 for so-called “personhood� rights for embryos, joined Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves in backing 2012 legislation to require abortion-clinic doctors to be board-certified OB-GYNs with local admitting privileges. “I think it’s historic,� Bryant said during the signing of the bill. “Today you see the first step in a movement I believe to do what we campaigned on—to say we’re going to try and end abortion in Mississippi.� Opponents of the law would later use that admission as a legal argument that state

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leaders crafted the measure specifically to undermine women’s constitutional right to an abortion, guaranteed by Roe vs. Wade. A federal lawsuit over the law’s constitutionality is before the U.S. Supreme Court, which will rule on the law this term. Bryant has embroiled Mississippi in other ideological battles, including joining a lawsuit against the Obama administration for its decision to stop deporting children brought to the U.S. illegally as children. However, no issue has loomed as large as Bryant’s strident opposition to the Affordable Care Act. In summer 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the linchpin of the act but said states were not required to expand Medicaid, the joint federal and state health-care program for low-income people. Bryant attempted to strong-arm the state’s insurance commissioner and fellow Republican, Mike Chaney, into killing the state insurance exchange for people to shop online for plans. Chaney refused, touching off a Republican civil war over health care with Bryant, who oversees the Division of Medicaid. In the end, the federal government put the kibosh on the idea of state exchanges and developed a portal on the state’s behalf. It was a loss for state Republicans, but Bryant fought on. During the 2013 legislative session, when Democrats demanded an up-or-down debate on

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of white Republicans in Mississippi, such as Billy Mounger and Clarke Reed, were Haley Barbour and Phil Bryant, Dent said. In 1991, Kirk Fordice became Mississippi’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction and helped the party establish a foothold in statewide politics. Two governors later, Barbour, a Republican power player from Yazoo City who had helped cement the “southern strategy� of targeting southern whites into the new Republican Party, returned to run for governor and, subsequently, reshaped the office. Thanks largely to Barbour’s D.C. connections and their checkbooks, he was able to strengthen the office of governor, which was set up in 1890 to be weak in case the state’s numerous African Americans succeeded in electing a governor. Cole, the Democratic chairman, points to a story Bryant likes to tell about luring Japan-based tire manufacturer Yokohama to Clay County by giving Japanese executives cowboy boots. Bryant, who often wears boots monogrammed with his initials, once joked that the gift was representative of innovation in economic development. “That’s as intellectually sophisticated as you’ll ever hear from Phil Bryant,� Cole deadpans. But Bryant’s folksy everyman persona drew the attention of the tea party in Mississippi. After defeating Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree in 2011, one year after the national tea-party helped Republicans regain control of the lower house of Congress, the tea party began touting Bryant’s election as one of the movement’s first gubernatorial successes. Bryant was proud to have the moniker, telling TV reporters at the time: “(The tea party is) asking for illegal immigration to be stopped by the states. There’s nothing wrong with that. That’s violation of state law. They’re talking about fair taxation for everyone here. I just enjoy talking to them. They’re good, faithful people, very patriotic.�

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lmost a month before the upcoming elec- increases in the general fund, the same approach written in the tion, on Oct. 2, Tim Johnson, the Demo- Initiative 42 filing. MAEP, the Mississippi Adequate Education cratic candidate for lieutenant governor, held Program, is the state’s formula to allocate money to schools that a small press conference to announce he was has only been fully funded twice since its creation in 1997. Inichallenging the incumbent Republican Lt. tiative 42, a citizen-driven ballot initiative on next week’s ballot, Gov. Tate Reeves to several debates before proposes a Constitutional amendment to force the Legislature November. Johnson rode the Capitol eleva- to fully fund the formula. tor up to the third floor with one supporter in a wheelchair, Aside from Initiative 42, Johnson sees collaboration and hand-delivering the written request to Reeves’ office. communication as a key strategy to improving public educa“The people deserve more than paid advertisements, junk tion in the state. mail and automated phone calls,â€? Johnson’s letter said. “They “If we want to get off the bottom, you don’t need a need straight answers to tough questions.â€? bunch of legislators talking amongst themselves,â€? he told the With a week until the elections, no debates between the Jackson Free Press in an interview. “We need to bring the sutwo men have occurred. perintendents, the educators The race for Mississippi (together)—let’s figure out lieutenant governor is techniwhat needs to be done to get us cally between four candidates: off the bottom.â€? incumbent Republican Tate Reeves says he supports Reeves, Republican turned public-education funding, but Democrat and former state not necessarily funding the Sen. Tim Johnson, Reform ParMississippi Adequate Educaty candidate Rosa B. Williams tion Program formula first. and Libertarian candidate Ron “We’re going to spend Williams. over $285 million more on If campaign publicity is a K-12 education this year than measure, the stage is set for a was spent four years ago,â€? showdown between Reeves and Reeves said at a press conferJohnson—although it has been ence against Initiative 42. a relatively quiet race thus far. This money, however, Both candidates have statewide did not go directly to MAEP presence via large campaign and instead was spent on signs and other advertisements. reading coaches and teacher Johnson has blazed a campay raises. The third-grade paign trail around the state reading program is a part documented with social media of the “General Education: and occasional press conferOtherâ€? part of the Missisences, and while Reeves has sippi Department of Edugarnered support from several cation’s budget that makes businesses, his personal lieutenup 6.6 percent of its total Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves (above) joined Gov. ant-governor campaigning has budget. (MAEP draws 88.2 Phil Bryant, House Speaker Philip Gunn and seemed limited. (The Reeves percent of the department’s Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney in a press conference encouraging voters to vote against campaign did not respond to budget). Reeves acknowlInitiative 42 to require fully funded education. interview requests from the edges that this money could Jackson Free Press). have gone toward the formuThe main issue both canla and fully funded it by now, didates have talked about prominently is Initiative 42, which but was not directed there purposely. would amend the state constitution to mandate an adequate “If all we cared about was the politics, we would have allevel of public-school funding. ready funded it,â€? Reeves said after a press conference in HatJohnson made his first public endorsement of Initiative tiesburg on Oct. 22. “But instead of investing every penny 42 in July at the Neshoba County Fair, while Reeves touted the we’re investing on K-12 in the formula, we’re actually doing Republican leadership’s allocation of $400 million more this things to help kids.â€? year on public education than was spent four years ago (which Reeves said he plans to continue to push full funding of includes funding for the Mississippi Institutions of Higher MAEP in the upcoming legislative session if he is re-elected Learning and public universities). anyway because he wants to take the “excuse off the table.â€? As Election Day nears and the possibility of Initiative 42 Johnson has a different approach: fully fund MAEP actually passing goes down to the wire, Reeves emerged with first, then work on the additional problems that the forother Republican state leaders—Gov. 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Medicaid expansion, Bryant interjected. “In Mississippi, as in many other states, a particular subject of debate is whether or not to expand the Medicaid program, our state’s largest and most costly entitlement program,� Bryant wrote in an open letter. “In our own Legislature, the issue has become so heated that many Democrat [sic] lawmakers are choosing to suspend the current Medicaid program that cares for the blind, aged and disabled in order to force a decision on Obamacare expansion. Cooler heads must prevail.� Democrats are seizing on the Republican leadership’s rejection of the Medicaid expansion, which they say would bring 20,000 jobs and improve health for 300,000 Mississippians at minimal cost to the state. Brandon Jones is a former state representative from Pascagoula who lost his seat in 2011 when Republicans took the state House of Representatives, and thus control of the Legislature. He is now the executive director of the Mississippi Democratic Trust, which is working to help Democrats recapture the House, partly by advocating for rural hospitals. Rural hospitals nationwide and Mississippi have struggled in recent years in part due to reduced congressional appropriations for Medicare, the health insurance program for the elderly, who tend to make up a larger share of patients at rural hospitals. Medicaid expansion would stem the tide, Democratic proponents say. “At a time when states are seeing their healthcare infrastructure boom and all kinds of innovations,� Mississippi is falling behind, Jones said. For now, Bryant is sticking to his guns. His campaign declined requests to make the governor available for an interview. However, when pressed by the JFP about Medicaid expansion at a Hattiesburg press conference Oct. 22, Bryant said: “If you look at where we’re at talking about the budget earlier, we’re (at) over $1 billion with just the state funds with Medicaid alone. If you expand that to another 300,000 Mississippians, which is the proposal, there’s no way to fund that additional cost that will be a burden upon the state not only beginning in 2017 but for the rest of the lifetime of the program,� Bryant said. He added that he hopes a Republican president will roll back some provisions of the ACA. “I think you’re going to see a newly elected president, and I think you’re going to see dramatic changes in that program into the future, so for us to go into that and assume that debt from this point forward, knowing that there’s a very important, a very good possibility that that important piece of legislation could be changed, I think would be ill-advised for us,� Bryant continued. Yet, Cole said Bryant’s opposition to Medicaid undermines the governor’s own agenda, laid out in his first state of the state address, to build a medical corridor along Woodrow Wilson Avenue in Jackson, from 1-55 to the Jackson Medical Mall. Cole believes the corridor would have injected enough energy into the economy to overcome any short-term tactical advantage to be gained with denying Obamacare—a fact he expects to reap his party rewards on Nov. 3. “He cut off the health-care industry’s nose to spite Barack Obama’s face,� Cole said. Comment at www.jfp.ms/2015elections.

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State Flag Reeves: “If the citizens of our state want to revisit that (2001) decision, and I am sure at some point we may, it will best be decided by the people of Mississippi, not by outsiders or media elites or politicians in a back room.” –June Press Release Johnson: “In 2001, my vote was to keep the flag. But now move forward to 2015, my vote would be to take it down because I think most Mississippians want us to move forward.” –JFP interview Abortion Reeves: “pro-life” according to campaign website. Reeves “improved tax credits for child adoption, enacted a ban on abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, passed a Religious Freedom Restoration Act to protect businesses and required drug testing for TANF government benefits recipients.” –tatereeves.com The Democratic challenger for lieutenant governor, Tim Johnson, changed political parties in early 2015, largely due to his desire to expand Medicaid.

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‘Putting Party Politics Over People’ Medicaid expansion is the other noteworthy issue in the lieutenant governor race—the one that led Johnson to switch parties. Johnson was a Republican senator, representing Kosciusko and Madison County for eight years, then served on the Madison County Board of Supervisors and as a Madison alderman. He switched parties in early 2015 after his experience with Medicaid got personal. His mother suffered a stroke and was rushed to Montfort Jones Memorial Hospital, which was so underfunded that it required emergency funding from the Legislature this past session—money that would not be necessary if Mississippi had taken the Medicaid expansion, Johnson said. A June White House report said that expanding Medicaid would provide 139,000 uninsured Mississippians with health insurance. Mississippi is one of 22 states that have not expanded Medicaid. Medicaid expansion would allow greater access to health care as well as create job opportunities, Johnson said. He believes the current leadership missed out on an opportunity by not accepting the expansion. “I view what they are doing as putting party politics over people and over my mama,” Johnson said. The Republican leadership, including Lt. Gov. Reeves, have not been willing to expand Medicaid or displayed interest in working with the Obama administration. Instead, various proposals have included appropriating funds directly to health clinics and hospitals that are in need of funding (like Mrs. Johnson’s hospital). Besides education and Medicaid, Johnson also plans to increase funding for infrastructure in the state, using and spreading federal Mississippi Department of Transportation dollars to multiple routes across the states. Reeves said last week that he is running on 20 his record, a line most of the top GOP candi-

dates, including Bryant, Pickering and Gunn, are using this cycle. At a press conference in Hattiesburg, Reeves said because he has been in state politics for 12 years, he has developed a “reputation for being fiscally responsible.” “I have been fortunate enough over the last four years to create a record of conservative governance, of balancing our state budget,” Reeves said. Reeves’ political career started in 2004, when he was elected state treasurer. He served two terms before making the jump to run for lieutenant governor and is the odds-on favorite to succeed the next governor in four years. Johnson’s political career started much earlier than Reeves’ did. He was elected as a state senator in 1993 and served until 2005. Johnson was in the state Senate for two terms and on the Madison County Board of Supervisors for two terms. Before deciding to run for lieutenant governor, Johnson worked as an independent marketing consultant and insurance agent. Johnson maintains that he is a “two-term guy” and said he is not out to be governor. Johnson said he has heard on the campaign trail that everybody is scared to death of Tate Reeves, but pushed by lobbyists to support the incumbent. If elected, Johnson said he would work to change that mentality of fear in the Legislature and let senators be senators again. “I am running for lieutenant governor, not so I can run for governor, but I want to get these things done for this state,” Johnson said. “You don’t lead with fear—you lead with ideas and enthusiasm to help people.” So far, Reeves has the support of several industrial and business PACs, with $3.5 million on hand from his campaign coffers. Johnson has loaned his campaign $149,000 and has $2,700 on hand (both values as of Oct. 9). Comment and see more election stories at www.jfp.ms/2015elections. Email Arielle Dreher at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com.

Johnson: “pro-life.” “I’m pro-life, but the Supreme Court made that decision, (and) I’m not a woman. I know that you can’t legislate morality. I’d love to make adoption easier in this state, but if they choose to get an abortion, I want to make sure it is safe and (that they are) qualified in their decision to know the ramifications of it, but I’ve never been pregnant and never will be pregnant.” –JFP interview Gun Control Reeves: Fights for Second Amendment Rights according to campaign website. Reeves “lowered fees on concealed carry permits, recognized military service and training concealed carry permits, enacted a law providing support for more law enforcement officers in schools.” –tatereeves.com Johnson: Strong supporter of Second Amendment; member of the NRA. Advocates for having counselors in schools to evaluate children and giving mental health agencies proper resources; believes the main priority of government is protection of citizens. “We don’t have a gun problem; we’ve got some mental health issues out there.” –JFP interview Initiative 42 Reeves: Against Initiative 42. “If you look at the changes in the Constitution in Section 201 as they propose it (in Initiative 42), the word MAEP is nowhere to be found. You know why? It’s really pretty simple. It’s not about funding, it’s about power, it’s about control, and it’s about vesting that control in a jurisdiction they feel they can get more of what they want, and that’s behind one single Hinds County judge.” –Reeves at a press conference in Hattiesburg Oct. 22 Johnson: Supports Initiative 42. “If you want better jobs, if you want a thriving economy, if you want to see Mississippi’s children go up, then we have to pass Initiative 42. Because if we truly value public education, then we should fully fund it.” –Johnson at Sept. 18 press conference at the Capitol Medicaid Expansion Reeves: Against expansion. In June, Reeves said the 15 percent state-wide failure rate of third graders who took reading tests (after 2014 results) was no reason to rethink his opposition to Medicaid. (Medicaid expansion would have provided free vision tests to those students who failed—a service that nonprofits have picked up, instead). Johnson: For expansion. Johnson switched parties largely because he believes Medicaid expansion would greatly improve the lives of Mississippians as well as create jobs. Johnson said health-care providers across the state “wouldn’t be in (financial) trouble if Medicaid had been expanded—the decisions they are making are affecting people.” –JFP interview

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La Brioche Patisserie (2906 N. State St., 601-988-2299) For Halloween, La Brioche will have two special macarons—bloodmoon chocolate and almond, and blood-orange chocolate and orange—as well as creepy eyeball vanilla mousse-and-green apple cakes, and raspberry filling on chocolate cookies. For more information, find La Brioche on Facebook. Campbell’s Bakery (3013 N. State St., 601-362-4628) For scary treats, Campbell’s has Halloween-themed iced-tea cakes, candy-corn petit fours, Halloweensprinkle cupcakes, finger-shaped tea cakes, and spooky-themed whole cakes and cookies. For more information, find Campbell’s Bakery on Facebook.

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Broad Street Baking Co. (4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 101, 601-362-2900) In a world where King Cakes are king, Broad Street is bringing back its Death by Candy king cake for Halloween. The ring of brioche dough is forged in the fire of Broad Street’s ovens, which its website says are powered by Mount Doom, and once it’s done baking, the dough is filled with cream cheese and crushed candy bars and topped with chocolate and sprinkles. The cake is available until Oct. 31. Broad Street will also have Halloween treats such as themed sugar cookies. Just Kaking Custom Cakes & Catering (418 Roberts St., Pearl, 769-226-5253) This Halloween, Just Kaking will have cake pops, dipped berries, and custom apples and cupcakes. Primos Café (2323 Lakeland Drive,

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Nitrogen-Infused Coffee Comes to Jackson Trey Malone is bringing a new kind of cold-brew coffee process to Mississippi Friday, Oct. 30, during the Brewing Bad event at Deep South Pops (1800 N. State St.). Malone’s new brew, called Cascade on Tap, is a cold-brew coffee infused with nitrogen, chilled in a keg and served with a foamy head, similar to a stout beer. The nitrogen infusion process used to brew Cascade gives it a creamy, smooth, fullbodied and less acidic taste than traditional cold brews. Nitro coffee also has double the caffeine of a traditional cup of coffee. Cascade on Tap is also applying this special process to more than coffee, offering a nitrogen-infused take on chai tea and a variety of other drinks. Deep South will use Malone’s nitrogen-infusion process to make infused popsicles when his company, located inside the Deep South Pops building, officially opens after the launch party. Deep South Pops will be the first to distribute Cascade during Friday’s event. Brewing Bad starts at 6 p.m., and will 22 feature eight local craft beers, seven types

Sweets by CeCe (307A Clinton Blvd., Clinton, 601-906-1583) Sweets by CeCe will have treats such as Halloweenthemed marshmallow pops, Rice

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Flowood, 601-936-3398; 515 Lake Harbour Drive, Ridgeland, 601898-3400) Primos Café has ghost and pumpkin iced cookies and fall-themed petit fours, cookies, cupcakes and other desserts. Nandy’s Candy (1220 E. Northside Drive, Suite 380, 601-362-9553) This Halloween, Nandy’s Candy will have a variety of treats, including caramel apples, Halloween apples (caramel, chocolate and decorated), chocolate pumpkins, milk- and whitechocolate skulls, and Halloween Nutterbutter spooky-eyed ghosts. For more information, find Nandy’s Candy on Facebook. Beagle Bagel (multiple locations, thebeaglebagelcafe.com) For Halloween, Beagle Bagel will have Halloween-themed cookies and cakes. For more information, find Beagle Bagel on Facebook. Add more at jfp.ms/food.

Johnny T’s 540 Lounge Opens 540, a lounge venue located upstairs from Johnny T’s Bistro and Blues (538 N. Farish St.), officially opened for business on Saturday, Oct. 24. The 540 lounge features a full bar, a performance stage, VIP seating, wall-to-wall mirrors, modern black and chrome furniture, and a large hardwood dance floor. The newly opened club serves as both a live music destination and a venue for wedding receptions, charity fundraisers, corporate events and other occasions. Johnny T’s Bistro and Blues, 540’s host restaurant, offers steak, pasta, seafood, finger foods, shareable items, and more, all made from scratch. 540 is open Friday and Saturday from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., and is available for private events by reservation on Sundays and Thursdays. Johnny T’s Bistro and Blues is open Monday through Wednesday from 6 p.m. to midnight and Thursday through Sunday from 6 p.m. until 2 a.m. For more information on 540 or event hosting, or to make a reservation, call 601-954-1323 or email johnnytsbistroandblues@gmail.com. Send food and drink (and other business) news to dustin@jacksonfreepress.com.

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Step One: Draw Draw a skull on your face, following your bone structure. Draw in the eye sockets, upper and lower jaw lines, teeth (I did mine around my lips), and nasal cavity, and put a small line on your temples to define your zygomatic arch. (Using a reference picture will help.) Now for decoration! Feel free to experiment here. I went with a simple scalloped design around my eye sockets and a spider web-inspired design on my forehead.

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Sand the plastic mask down to create a surface for the paint to stick to. Using the silver, paint one coat on the mask, let it dry and then add another. Keep adding more coats of paint until the surface is evenly colored. Draw a design on your mask with a pencil. You can find Death Eater designs online, or you can make your own. Paint the design with a fine-point paint brush. You can go back when you’re done and touch it up. Punch holes and attach ribbon or string to the mask, if that’s not already done.

Step Two: Shade Working in sections, apply eye-shadow primer, and then brush on eye shadow in your eye sockets and in the cavity between your upper and lower jaws. It helps to create a “shadow� effect by using darker colors around the top and fading into a lighter color at the bottom.

Step Three: Finishing Touches Put on some lipstick (if you didn’t draw teeth on your lips, which you totally can, but I find that look is hard to maintain through the night so I just wore lipstick) in whatever color goes with your look. Apply mascara and false eye lashes (optional).

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WEDNESDAY 10/28

FRIDAY 10/30

SATURDAY 10/31

The Autumn Cocktail Dinner is at Sombra Mexican Kitchen in Ridgeland.

Park After Dark is at the LeFleur Museum District.

Halloween ComicFest is at Offbeat.

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Poland.” Free; call 601-974-1061; email kenneth.townsend@ millsaps.edu; millsaps.edu. … The Jackson Touchdown Club Meeting is at 6 p.m. at River Hills Club (3600 Ridgewood Road). Southern Miss coach Todd Monken speaks. $30 nonmembers; call 506-3186; jacksontouchdownclub.com.

TUESDAY 11/3

Dine Against Darkness is at 6:30 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Includes a cash bar, silent auction, music from Larry Stewart, a three-course dinner, videos and guest speakers. Benefits Hard Places Community, a anti-child trafficking organization. $75; call 292-7121; email arden@ ardenland.net; hardplaces-community.org/dineagainstdarkness. … MJB Live is at 7:30 p.m. at the Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). Xperience Jxn Entertainment presents Mary J. Blige. $48.6-$81.6; call 800-745-3000 (tickets) or 678-322-8098 (information); ticketmaster.com.

The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra presents pieces from Aaron Copland, Ben Williams and Carl Nielsen in “Bravo II: Perpetual Motion” on Saturday, Oct. 31, at Thalia Mara Hall.

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THURSDAY 10/29

Present Meets Past is from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.). In the living history program, come face-to-face with key figures that shaped the history of the Old Capitol and the state of Mississippi. Free; call 601-576-6920; email info@oldcapitolmuseum. com. … The New Mastersounds perform at 7:30 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The funk, soul and jazz four-piece band from Leeds, U.K., performs in promotion of its 10th studio album, “Made for Pleasure.” Doors open at 7:30 p.m. $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

FRIDAY 10/30

“A Time to Kill” is at 7:30 p.m. at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The play about racial tensions in a small Southern town is based on John Grisham’s novel. Additional dates: Oct. 28-31, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 1, 2 p.m., Nov. 3-7, 7:30 p.m., and Nov. 8, 2 p.m. $28, $22 seniors and students; call 601-948-3533, ext. 222; newstagetheatre.com.

SATURDAY 10/31

State Street Concert Series, No. 4: Halloween Edition is from 5 to 11 p.m. at Sneaky Beans (2914 N. State St.). Includes food vendors, costume contests and kid’s activities. The Vibe Doctors, Furrows and Young Buffalo perform. Free; call 487-6349; find it on Facebook. … Bravo II: Perpetual Motion is at 7:30 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra presents works from Copland’s Rodeo, Ben Williams and Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4. $23 and up; call 960-1565; msorchestra.com.

SUNDAY 11/1

The Colors of Music is at 7:30 p.m. at St. Columb’s Episcopal Church (550 Sunnybrook Road, Ridgeland). The Mississippi Chorus presents a selection of American standards. Pre-concert talk at 7 p.m. $20, $5 students; call 601-278-3351; mschorus.org.

MONDAY 11/2

The Millsaps Forum is at 12:30 p.m. at the Millsaps College Ford Academic Complex (1701 N. State St.) in room 215. Rabbi Jeremy Simons of the Institute for Southern Jewish Life speaks on the topic, “Jewish Culture in Post-War

Grammy Award-winner Mary J. Blige performs Tuesday, Nov. 3, at the Mississippi Coliseum.

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Networking in the Neighborhood Oct. 29, 5 p.m., at King Edward Hotel (235 W. Capitol St.). The Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership and the Leads 1 Group host. Open to all metro-area professionals. Includes appetizers, and beer and wine specials. Free; call 601-948-7575; dgreen@ greaterjacksonpartnership.com. Mistletoe Marketplace Preview Gala: A Carnival Ball Nov. 4, 7-11 p.m., at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). In the Mistletoe Special Events Pavilion. Includes food from Fresh Cut Catering and Floral, live and silent auctions, music from The Krackerjacks and a preview of products for sale at Mistletoe Marketplace. Black tie optional. $100 (includes admission to Mistletoe Marketplace Nov. 5-7); call 601-948-2357; mistletoemarketplace.com.

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&//$ $2).+ Autumn Cocktail Dinner Oct. 28, 6:30 p.m., at Sombra Mexican Kitchen (Township at Colony Park, 140 Township Ave, Suite 100, Ridgeland). Enjoy a four-course meal and cocktail pairing. Reservations required. $40 per person; call 601707-7950; sombramexicankitchen.com.

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Quarterback Nick Mullens gets some of the credit for helping the University of Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles get back on their feet.

Mississippi State University, but as the season has gone along, it feels safe to say that it’s the rebirth of USM football. By no means are the Golden Eagles back to what they once were, but game days don’t feel so morose anymore. Instead, they feel hopeful. The program is in its new infancy, and the team has learned to roll over and sit up and is taking its first baby steps. The Golden Eagles are still not ready to run, but they no longer need to hold on to the furniture just to get around. The credit for this rebirth starts with head coach Todd Monken, who has added a nice mix of youngsters, which includes junior-college transfers, to jumpstart the rebuilding process. He has gotten every single player on the roster to buy into his philosophy and vision of he wants the program to be moving forward. But as much credit as Monken should get, a ton has to go to Southern Miss quarterback Nick Mullens. After taking a beating for two straight years, he is now staying upright and rewarding his coach with good decisions and solid play in his third year as the starter. The Southern Miss offense has gone from near the bottom of the conference in every statistical category to near the top. Last season, the school was No. 12 in scoring offense (19 points per game), No. 8 in total

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