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amela Shaw wants to come up with new solutions to old problems. As a senior manager, entrepreneur and public-policy analyst, Shaw is the seasoned and outspoken president and founder of P3 Strategies, a company that specializes in government relations, lobbying, management consulting and other services.

Shaw, who began P3 Strategies in 2012, has more than 20 years of experience in health, education and management training. She also works on behalf of children, families and service providers in vulnerable communities.

“I do what I do because I believe in bettering lives for under-served children in society,” says Shaw, who presented at TEDx Jackson.

She went to Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., where she received a bachelor’s degree in political science. After receiving her law degree from the University of Maryland, she ran a career-development organization called Inroads. “I grew up in Vicksburg during a period of integration,” Shaw, 55, says.

“Living in that kind of atmosphere, you get a sense that there’s something outside yourself that you should be doing.”

P3’s client base includes organizations and individuals in the public, private and nonprofit sectors, including South Forward, a progressive organization dedicated to electing African American Democrats in the South, and the Center for Education Innovation, a nonprofit that works with early learning institutions such

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as day-care centers to increase educational quality and aid in child development.

With offices in the mid-south and the northeast, P3 serves local, regional and national customers, and has teams of as many as 40 people across the country working on projects such as grassroots organization for education improvement and acquiring resources for schools.

One of P3’s major projects is the Mississippi Education Reform Collaborative, which has school superintendents across the state come together to help each other do what’s best for the children in their communities. Shaw says MERC facilitates reform for academic achievement. The program has a series of strategic staffing institutes that help schools with areas such as teacher recruiting and getting technology to early grade levels. MERC partners with business intelligence company Tableau to help schools with data management.

“We’re providing a tool that has the power to change public education,” Shaw says. “I have an entrepreneurial spirit for a host of things, and it’s easy to create your own job that fits you when you have that kind of spirit. I want to inspire that spirit in others, to educate and be an agent of change for my community.”

Shaw has two brothers, state Rep. Oscar Denton, D-Vicksburg/Warren County, and Harry Denton, as well as six nieces and nephews, and seven great nieces and nephews.

—Dustin Cardon

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Jackson officials say something stinks about a plan to build a wastewater treatment plant in Rankin County.

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30 A Bigger Pot

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EDITOR’S note

by Donna Ladd, Editor-in-Chief

Loving Beyond Fear

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y history with religion is not something I talk about often.

I grew up over in Neshoba County just as segregation was being forced out of our state amid racial hatred and distrust—and much of it was promulgated and excused in our churches, including the one where I was baptized and attended for several years as an adolescent and young teen. Not to mention the sexism I encountered there that wanted women to stay quiet, not to mention in a marriage, no matter what happened to her.

This twisting of religion to promote and excuse hate, separation and violence over love, togetherness and safety turned me off from organized faith for a long time, and I still don’t quite trust churches enough to attend any particular one regularly. Polls show that I’m not alone.

But as an adult, and especially in the years since I returned home to Mississippi, I have discovered what is so special about not only Christianity, but many other world religions when they’re not co-opted by people wanting to use them as weapons. I now enjoy lessons and inspiration from a variety of religions from the remarkable Sufi Muslim poet Rumi, to Christian monk Thomas Merton, to the rich tradition of tikkun olam (healing the world) that most Jews follow.

It is all about one word: love.

I’m not talking about a romantic or selfish love. This isn’t an easy love. It’s not just about loving your own family or those like you or even those you understand or those you approve of or who share your disdain for rap or country music. It’s about loving other people—gulp, even the ones who work hard to be your enemies—despite their shortcomings, not despising them because of them.

But as has always been the case, walking the love talk is hard, even in a state where faith is supposedly king.

I’ve pondered this conundrum more

than usual lately as I’ve watched another wave of crime hysteria sweep our city and the Legislature as it tries to roll back criminaljustice reforms that could help prevent crime and keep mamas and daddies at home.

I lie awake many mornings parsing questions I can’t ignore about my own neighbors, while telling myself to love them enough to prod them to ask new questions.

I wonder how many go on neighborhood websites and publicly demonize a person of color as “suspicious” when he’s there trying to

“Love your neighbor as yourself.”

—Mark 12:31 earn a living and take care of his children— for no reason but skin tone and the fact that his truck is more beat-up than ours.

I ponder how a beautiful progressive friend can say out loud without blinking that she called the police on someone at a gas station because he was begging for money.

I ruminate on why many residents of a poverty-soaked state believe that it’s OK for certain schools to be so under-funded that there are holes in the walls and underpaid teachers must buy their own supplies.

I cringe when I hear people of faith fingerpoint at “the family,” even as they support policies that continue to put black fathers in prison for lesser crimes than whites.

The same people then might go to church on Sunday, sing hymns and feel confident in their faith. The part of me that tries to “love despite” says it’s because they don’t

know what they don’t know, that they’re following the herd, that they reject the discomfort it takes to love beyond fear.

I often believe that God, however you picture Him or Her, is looking down at us right here in Jackson, Miss., saying, “No, you don’t get to move on until you fix what you did. It’s not all in your past. It’s here and now.” Imperfect, often brutal humans in our past planted the seeds for today’s suffering—essentially by dehumanizing a whole race of people in order to have free labor and to build their own wealth and power.

My people were a part of that, I’ve learned. I can no longer join the chorus of whites who claim, often erroneously, that their families “were too poor to own slaves.”

Mine did. If you’re white, many of yours did, too. (If you’re not, yours might have, too.)

But it’s actually not the owning-slaves part that He or She wants us to fixate on, I believe. We can’t actually change that now.

The pressing need today is to focus on what our ancestors’ tragic embrace of owning and abusing other people, and of breaking up families for that privilege, has sent forward for us to fix now. The alternative is continued division, distrust, fingerpointing, and the crime that results from ingrained poverty, hopelessness and poor education.

I really believe God wants us to fix this, folks, and as a team. It’s not like He or She is giving us a pass on this mess our families created, often from the moment that our immigrant came over in search of religious freedom and then, perhaps, sold it out to greed.

Until very recently (and perhaps still, in some pockets), religion including Christianity was used to justify the very things that created the poverty, division and crime of today. In my lifetime, it was preached from pulpits blocks from where I sit to promote segregation. The Ku Klux Klan considered themselves Christian soldiers, and biblical texts were weaved throughout their guide-

books and gatherings and rituals of hate.

People twisted the beautiful spirit of belief and spirituality to justify abject greed, division and fear. That replaced the love for all, especially the most vulnerable, that all of us know is at the heart of all actual faiths.

Christianity isn’t the only religion co-opted for hateful reasons—see how some people twist Islam, Judaism and even Buddhism today to justify horrifying violence—but it was the main one in these parts.

We must move past shame and fear into action and building faith in each other.

Imagine if each of us in Jackson applied our gifts to just one tiny piece of the puzzle; to each one, heal one. Maybe we show up for a Jackson 2000 (jackson2000.org) dialogue circle on race, and then plan and execute a shared project. We find a way to mentor a young person and show him or her what success, and respect of them, looks like.

We can speak up with love and compassion on social media or a neighborhood site and challenge the too-easy disparagement of “the other.” We can decide to eschew partisanship and demand at least adequate education resources for all our children because we know all of our futures depend on it, even if it hurts the prison industry.

We have much to take back and even do over if we’re serious about this faith thing.

Today’s problems can be tackled and, I believe, ultimately solved if we’re willing to choose love over fear and turn our pointer finger back on ourselves. Love starts with ourselves. We must learn to love despite, not just because. We must love all our neighbors despite even heinous actions that we can abhor even as we love and mourn for both the victims and the perpetrators.

Most of you know I’m not making this love-despite stuff up; there is clear religious instruction for it from well above my pay grade. Just look it up. Then let’s meet on the other side of the line between love and hate.

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Micah Smith

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Dustin Cardon

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Assistant Editor Amber Helsel is all about that bass, though she prefers some treble. She wrote a book, then threw it away, knowing that it would lead to a second and third Cold War. She contributed to the cover package.

Music Editor Micah Smith had a breakout role in the film “How Stella Got Her Groove Back” as Man Staring Awkwardly. He won 10 Oscars and a Daytime Emmy. He also performs with the band Empty Atlas. He contributed to the cover package.

Freelance writer Timothy Quinn is a family physician at Quinn Total Health who dedicates himself to giving his patients consistent, comprehensive and ethical medical care. He wrote about broken heart syndrome, which is a real thing. Really.

Freelance writer Patty Limatola is a chef and resides in California. She has two teenage children, teaches cooking classes and owns the blog MmGood. com. She is well travelled and loves exploring life. She contributed to the cover package.

Investigative Reporter Anna Wolfe, a Tacoma, Wash., native, studied at Mississippi State. In her spare time, she complains about not having enough spare time. Email her at anna@jacksonfreepress. com. She wrote a news story.

Web Editor Dustin Cardon is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. He enjoys reading fantasy novels and wants to write them himself one day. He wrote a food story and, basically, ran the whole office.

Marketing Consultant Brandi Stodard is a Baton Rouge transplant who loves Ole Miss football, which is constantly breaking all preconceived notions. She has a passion for networking, promoting and connecting local businesses.

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These people had been active back in the 1950s, in the 1940s. I learned so much,�

Harris recalled in Eric Etheridge’s 2008 book “Breach of Peace.�

After spending 23 days in Parchman, Harris became a field organizer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, in Laurel. Harris later recalled in “Breach of Peace� about organizing in Jones County: “In Laurel, I went down to the county clerk and said, ‘I’m here to encourage people to register

to vote.’ She said, ‘OK, but don’t bring no more than two at a time. I can’t handle but two at a time ‘cause I got other work,�

Harris remembered. “I said, ‘Oh, two at time? OK.’ I was there the next morning with about 150 people.�

He also spent time working with the Poor People’s Corporation and the Federation of Southern Co-Ops, and joined the Nation of Islam and lived briefly in Chicago, New York City and Florida.

A former longshoreman, truck driver, airplane engine mechanic and a community college golf coach, Harris retired in Jackson.

Alan Nunnelee, congressman When it comes to his principles, Gov. Phil Bryant can be as stoic as they come.

When it came to the death of U.S. Rep. Alan Nunnelee, Bryant, understandably, could barely hold his emotions together at his good friend’s funeral Monday. “Alan Nunnelee has been like a brother to me and was one of my dearest friends and companions,� Gov. Bryant told the Associated Press Feb. 6. “I will miss him greatly. He was the best man I’ve ever known.�

Nunnelee, 56 at the time of his death, had a stroke in June 2014 during an operation to remove a cancerous tumor from his brain and underwent chemotherapy as well as physical and speech therapy.

The week before his death, his office announced that the congressman had exhausted his treatment options.

After serving in the Mississippi Senate, including a stint as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Nunnelee won a seat in Congress over Democratic incumbent Rep. Travis Childers.

Nunnelee was born in Tupelo in 1958, but spent some time in Clinton, where he graduated from Clinton High School in 1976. Nunnelee graduated from Mississippi State University in 1980.

After his 1994 election to the state Senate, the senator was knee-deep in political activities, particularly when it comes to health care and business. He was a staunch tort-reform advocate.

The senator was vice chairman of the Health Committee of the National Con-

ference of State Legislators, and a member of the Health and Human Services Task force of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a corporate-funded group that helps legislators write probusiness laws.

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Jesse Harris, activist In 1959, a teenage Jesse Harris had an abundance of possible topics for a class assignment about current events: the admittance of Hawaii as the 50th state, the Cold War or America’s space race against the Soviet Union.

Instead, Harris wanted to write about the lynching of Mack Charles Parker in Pearl River County after he was accused of raping a pregnant white woman. Parker, who was initially taken to the Hinds County Jail in Jackson, maintained his innocence. Harris’ teacher rejected the submission, saying it was too controversial.

COURTESY VETRANS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Anne Moody, activist Known for participating in the Tougaloo-orchestrated sit-in at a segregated downtown Jackson lunch counter, celebrated civil rights activist Anne Moody died last week at the age of 74.

In her memoir, “Coming of Age in Mississippi,� Moody wrote about the violence that ensued as a result of the demonstration. “A man rushed forward, threw Memphis (Norman) from his seat, and slapped my face,� Moody wrote. “Then another man who worked in the store threw me against an adjoining counter.�

Moody moved out of Mississippi in the 1960s and didn’t return until the 1990s. In 2013, state officials commemorated the 50th anniversary of the sit-in with a ceremony that Moody did not attend.

On Feb. 14, the Homochitto Association Development Center will host a celebration of Moody’s life.

The murders of Parker and Emmett Till in Money were the catalysts for Harris’ lifetime of working for voting rights and social justice across the South. On Jan. 28, Harris passed away at age 75 at his Jackson home. “It is our esteemed honor to have been a part of his life, he a part of ours, and his legacy engrained in the civil and human rights we enjoy and continue to fight for today,� said Hollis Watkins, chairman of the Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement Inc., in a press release.

Harris worked on voter-registration drives around Mississippi and joined the Freedom Riders, which resulted in his arrest and imprisonment alongside activists such as James Forman, James Bevel, Stokely Carmichael, Diane Nash and Leon Diamond. It was during his time in jail at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman that Harris learned about nonviolent resistance. “I was picking up not only the philosophy of nonviolence, but the history.

Nunnelee continued to be a champion for conservative issues, including fights against Planned Parenthood and abortion. President Barack Obama called Nunnelee “a proud son of Tupelo.� “Alan never wavered in his determination to serve the men and women who placed their trust in him, even as he bravely battled the illness that ultimately took his life,� Obama said in a statement.

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Saturday, February 7 Workers at BP Plc. refineries in Ohio and Indiana join nine other refineries in a United Steelworkers union walkout that is the first nationwide strike at U.S. oil refineries since 1980.

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Sunday, February 8 Helen Gumpel, a former fashion model and actress who appeared on â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Cosby Showâ&#x20AC;? in 1988, joins the women accusing Bill Cosby of making unwanted sexual advances. ... Cosby postpones his February appearance in Jackson.

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Monday, February 9 Alabama begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite an 11th-hour attempt from the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief justice to block the weddings.

Tuesday, February 10 The United Arab Emirates launches airstrikes against the Islamic State group from an air base in Jordan.

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lthough City of Jackson officials are doing their best to appear collegial to entities they fear are attempting to force Jackson into a new regional wastewater authority, the city seems poised to play a little hardball of its own.

Last week, after Jackson City Council President Deâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keither Stamps made a conciliatory overture and vowed to provide better customer relations to the suburban wastewater-treatment customers, Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legal team laid the groundwork for what could become a fierce battle for the valuable prize of controlling the highly profitable business of treating sewage in the tri-county region.

Currently, Jackson, the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest municipality, operates a large wastewater facility that treats sewer water in the city proper as well as for towns in west Rankin County and Madison County.

Due to Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s declining tax baseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and factors that few people care to discuss on the recordâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the treatment plants have languished.

So, in 2011, the West Rankin Utility Authority asked state environmental regulators for a permit to construct a new wastewater-treatment plant.

Currently, WRUA is a customer of the City of Jackson, spending about $5 million per year to treat sewage from west Rankin County cities at Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Savanna

Street facility.

At a recent hearing of the Mississippi Department of Environmental

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Thursday, February 5 An Associated Press-GfK poll finds that Americans narrowly favor allowing gay and lesbian couples to legally marry and that most believe wedding-related businesses should be allowed to deny service to same-sex couples for religious reasons. â&#x20AC;Ś Health insurer Anthem says hackers infiltrated its computer network and gained access to personal information for tens of millions of customers and employees, including CEO Joseph Swedish.

Jackson: New Rankin County Wastewater Plant is Unlawful

Jackson Ward 2 Councilman Melvin Priester Jr. argued at a recent hearing that building a new wastewater plant in Rankin County goes against basic environmental principles.

Quality, which will review the application, Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attorneys urged MDEQ to reject WRUAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s application because state law encourages regionalization of wastewater treatment while a new plant would represent â&#x20AC;&#x153;deregionalization.â&#x20AC;?

Chris Pomeroy of Richmond, Va.based AquaLaw, whom the city freed

facility violates MDEQâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rules about avoiding new discharges and encouraging regionalism. Because Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s utility is a regional system, adding new plants would mean a move away from regionalism, in opposition to the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own regulations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a mistake, and it does

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Even if the state approves the application, the WRUA could also violate U.S. EPA for clean water and total maximum daily load allocations for nitrogen and phosphorous. In order to meet the federal standards, the WRUA would have to discharge neither nitrogen or phosphorous, which is unlikely, Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attorneys said.

Also, in its presentation, Jackson officials said losing WRUAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business would result in 25 percent higher rates for existing customers.

Additionally, Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slides show that building a new plant would cost $3.3 million, or 23 percent more, which WRUA would likely have to pass along to its customers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a pretty high price to pay because of egos of the past,â&#x20AC;? Stamps, the Jackson city council president and Ward 4 representative, said at a public hearing on the proposal in Richland on Feb. 5.

At times speaking directly to audience members, which mostly consisted of attorneys and officials with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, Stamps said approval of the application would â&#x20AC;&#x153;hang the nooseâ&#x20AC;? of higher sewer rates on both the citizens of Jackson and Rankin County.

Officials from Jackson included Public Works Director Kishia Powell.

In several recent conversations, Jackson representatives made no bones about what they believe is the motivation for the proposal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We believe this is a measure to strong-arm the city into ceding control of the facilities,â&#x20AC;? Powell said at a Jackson City Council meeting on Feb. 2.

Attorneys for WRUA did not make public comments at the MDEQ hearing.

In a statement, WRUA president and Pearl Mayor Brad Rogers responded to what he called â&#x20AC;&#x153;misinformation and incorrect statementsâ&#x20AC;? in media reports, including a recent story in The Clarion-Ledger that appears to conflate the

WRUA plan with a separate proposal of the Hinds County Board of Supervisors to build a wastewater facility to serve the Byram-Clinton Parkway.

The letter also stated WRUAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s official position, which the authority says is â&#x20AC;&#x153;to best serve the citizens of Rankin County.â&#x20AC;?

Rogers notes the 30-year agreement with Jackson allows the authority to opt out every 10 years, and the WRUA has decided to exercise that option. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The reasons for building our own wastewater treatment plant are many. These include a bill from Jackson that has more than doubled in the last year and will continue with such increases as Jackson attempts to fix the neglected 45-year-old Savanna Street Wastewater Treatment Plant. It also includes Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s position that only the City of Jackson is the correct entity to manage a regional wastewater plant,â&#x20AC;? Rogers wrote.

Mayor Rogers argues that more than one-third of flows to the Savanna Street Plant are from outside Jackson, and he estimates that in two decades, it would

be closer to 50 percent, which the City of Jackson disputes.

Rogers goes on to write: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jackson refuses to consider any arrangement in the management of the Savanna Street plant where Jackson is not in complete control. Should future growth of Rankin County rely upon this arrangement? â&#x20AC;&#x153;A recently enacted U.S. EPA Consent Decree with the City of Jackson calls for repairs to the Savanna Street plant and Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wastewater collection system that may exceed $400 million. This is a reflection on Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to manage the plant,â&#x20AC;? Rogers continued.

Jackson Ward 2 Councilman Melvin Priester Jr. also testified against approval of the application, which he said violates basic tenets of environmentalism. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is better to reuse than go through the waste of building something new,â&#x20AC;?

Priester said.

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Development Catches Fondren Residents Off Guard

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ondren residents started noticing sev- the Jackson Free Press in January that he had to inform the community. eral rundown houses in January with not been notified of the demolition, though In late January, the neighborhood assiding missing and a big, red “X” it was taking place all around him. He is also sociation met with the developers and Scott painted across their doors. Each day, concerned over how the tenants were asked Spivey of the Mississippi Home Corporamore homes became vacant and began to dis- to leave. French did not return calls from the tion, which is helping to finance the project. appear. Debris from the buildings littered out Jackson Free Press by press time.

MHC, which aims to provide afonto the front yards and made a fordable housing to Jackson general mess of the area. residents, awarded housing tax A year from now, Jackson credits to King for his projects, developers will have cleared the which means that a standard debris and built a large apartone-bedroom apartment in the ment complex on a total of 30 new complex will cost about parcels of Fondren land. Bob $650.

King, developer and president of “It’s not the old HUD Triangle Construction Compahousing projects of the ’60s and ny, began working on the hous’70s. The housing tax credit proing project in 2013. He bought gram provides about 80 percent several properties on streets A project to bring affordable apartments to Fondren has of new affordable housing being Taylor, Oxford, Downing and been in the works since 2013, but the construction began developed around the country,” Lorenz—just west of the heart of last month and is causing concern for some residents.

Spivey said.

Fondren—and site work began King will build six apartin early January. ment buildings with amenities Alan French, president of Real Estate When OFNA started looking into like ceiling fans, perimeter fending, tankless Solutions, managed several of the properties the development, they were able to alleviate water heaters, and washers and dryers in each in the area, which he sold to King in 2014. concerns that the construction might not unit. Plans also include a business center, fitResidents were “caught off guard not have been in city compliance. King has been ness center, security cameras and 24-hour seknowing what they were doing or who was working on the $18.5 million project for the curity. LEDIC Management Group, based in doing it,” said Sara Weisenberger, a coordi- last two years, obtained required city permits Memphis, will manage the apartments. nator for Our Fondren Neighborhood As- and followed necessary procedures, includTriangle Construction Co. will also be sociation, or OFNA. ing posting signs, printing a notice in The using its own funding, King said, to improve Perry Davis, who lives on Lorenz, told Clarion-Ledger and holding a town meeting the infrastructure on the project land as well

as surrounding area.

“We all know about the city’s woes that they have right now with their infrastructure, their water and their sewer,” King said. “In front of our new areas here we’re going to be replacing the city’s water lines with new water lines.” Once Weisenberger heard the plans for the affordable housing, and the fact that King will have to follow strict rules to maintain the MHC tax credits, she became more comfortable with the development.

The confusion in the community regarding the mystery development, Weisenberger said, “should have never gone as long as it did.”

While the developers of the current project took the steps to post signs, print a newspaper notice and hold a public meeting, all of those took place in 2013, when the project was just getting started.

“Because the application process is so long and drawn out, there’s a lot of moving pieces, I think people didn’t notice it back then,” Spivey said. “People really started to notice when (King) had actually taken control of the site.”

King said he will change the way he communicates with the community regarding development projects to gather more input from residents in the future “especially since they expressed their concerns now.”

Prison Reform Target of Rollback

by R.L. Nave

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André de Gruy, who heads up the state’s public-defender office and served on the task force that drew up the recommendations that led to the passage of HB 585 last year, said some of this session’s bills go directly against what the task force wanted to accomplish.

For example, HB 600 gives judges up 180 days to hold revocation hearings for people accused of violating probation or parole. Current law gives 30 days to have such a hearing, which judges have complained is too little time.

“Maybe we do give them a little more time, but not 180 days. It’s a big cost to have somebody who’s just messed up a little and sitting in a county jail for six months,” de Gruy said.

Several sources tell the Jackson Free Press that the Mississippi Prosecutors Association is pushing the legislation.

In addition to the probation measure, one bill adds “using an object to molest children and vulnerable people” to the definition of gratification of lust; another requires clerks to order criminal orders of protection to a state registry within 24 hours even on weekends; and another adds electronic-funds transfers to the state’s bad check law.

Grace Fisher, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections, said it’s not unusual for lawmakers to want to make adjustments to laws.

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n March 2014, in an uncommon show of unity, the state’s three top Republican leaders celebrated the passage of gamechanging legislation.

House Bill 585 had nothing to do with the normal issues over which Mississippi conservatives typically beam. It wasn’t about abortion, guns or tax cuts, at least per se, but over lowering the state’s incarceration rate, which has the dubious distinction of being among the highest in a nation with the world’s highest rate of locking people behind bars.

Conservative budget writers and socialjustice advocates alike celebrated the progress the law would bring. For bean counters, they could tout the reduction of the state prison department budget, which for a time swelled $30 million because of rising prisoner populations. Prison reformers celebrated the bill for its potential to keep poor and communities of color intact by eliminating the harmful social effects of serving unnecessarily long prison sentences.

But now that progress is in jeopardy.

About a dozen bills, some of which could endanger that progress have cleared a key House committee and are headed to the full body for a vote.

Rep. Andy Gipson, R-Braxton, who chairs a key judiciary committee, is helping move a legislative effort to undo last year’s landmark prisonreform legislation.

old, its true effect is pending. The Mississippi Department of Corrections doesn’t make the laws. We follow them,” Fisher told the Jackson Free Press in an emailed statement.

Other bills increase the penalty for illegal sale of controlled substances near a drugrehab facility and make habitual shoplifting a felony. Patricia W. Burchell, the district attorney for Forrest and Perry counties and the president of the prosecutors’ association, could not be reached by press time.

The latest legislative effort comes as the MDOC reports declining numbers of incarcerated people in the agency’s custody.

From January 2014 to last month, the number of prisoners in MDOC prisons fell from 25,760 to 21,835. The reduction was limited to state-run facilities; at Mississippi’s five privately run correctional facilities, the population remained the same at around 6,000 in the same time period. Meanwhile, the number of people on probation and parole rose to 43,793 in January 2015 from 37,561 a year ago in 2014.

De Gruy said some of the new proposals attempt to rehash arguments that took place around the passage of HB 585, but backers have no new evidence to support beefing up penalties. “(HB) 585 hasn’t been around long enough to say we just need to roll back this law,” he said.

LEGISLATURE: Week 5

Revving Up for the Big Fights

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Checks and Balances ing for the big fights that come later The state attorney general would have in the session, now that the Senate False Child-Abuse Reports needed approval from the Outside Counsel and House cleared most routine, One of Fillinganeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s constituents called Oversight Committee in certain lawsuits unnon-controversial items off their calendars in him before the session with a disturbing der a proposed bill that failed on the House this fifth week of the session. Always-contro- story about how an angry ex-friend anony- floor 66-49 Feb. 4. The effort was another versial legislation to prohibit texting chapter in the long-running effort of while driving caused much buzz. state Republicans to curb the power State leaders and lawmakers even of Attorney General Jim Hood, the fought with each other over â&#x20AC;&#x153;checks stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only statewide elected Demoand balancesâ&#x20AC;? in state government. crat, who has used outside counsel Sen. Joey Fillingane, R-Sumto bring successful lawsuits against rall, whose bill aimed at penalizing defendants, including Kior and Lopeople who file false child-abuse allerillard Tobacco Company. gations passed the Senate Feb. 5, said It was not without heated debate. lawmakers didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t discuss most of the More than 10 Republicans crossed contentious bills last week on orders over to defeat House Bill 1201, a law from the state leadersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but they will Rep. Steve Holland, D-Plantersville, soon, suggested the Senate Finance described as â&#x20AC;&#x153;rancid.â&#x20AC;?

Committee chairman.

During the debate, Speaker Philâ&#x20AC;&#x153;The lieutenant governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of- House Transportation Committee Chairman Rep. ip Gunn, R-Clinton, acted â&#x20AC;&#x153;like a Robert Johnson, D-Natchez, supports a bill to ban fice told all the chairmen, including texting and driving, considering how dangerous it is. schoolyard bully,â&#x20AC;? Rep. Cecil Brown, me, that if there was anything that D-Jackson, said when he tried to imwas slightly controversial, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skip pose a new rule on legislators, limitover it and just get to the non-controversial mously accused his or her family of child ing them from accessing staff attorneys to stuff first and get it off the calendar. And then abuse. The Department of Human Services help write legal briefs. starting this week â&#x20AC;Ś weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll start picking up report prompted an investigation, which â&#x20AC;&#x153;In an unprecedented move, Speaker the controversial matters,â&#x20AC;? Fillingane said. led to the state finding no legitimacy in the Gunn made up another rule to prevent the anonymous callerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s claims. peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business from being handled in a fair Dangers of Texting Fillingane hopes to deter people who way,â&#x20AC;? Rep. Bo Eaton, D-Taylorsville, stated Texting, using social media or emailing are â&#x20AC;&#x153;just trying to create problems, stress in a press release. while driving would be illegal under a bill the and aggravation,â&#x20AC;? from making frivolous â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a farmer. I know about the soil and House passed last week. Though legislators child-abuse reports with Senate Bill 2047, the things that feed the families of my fellow admit the law would be hard to regulate, the which passed the Senate Feb. 5.

Mississippians. When it comes to writing penalties include a $25 fine, which would Senate Bill 2047 would create crimi- legal documents, well, that is the reason we increase to $100 in 2016. nal penalties for falsely reporting a crime have lawyers on staff.â&#x20AC;?

House Transportation Committee that the person knows is not true, includChairman Rep. Robert Johnson, D-Nat- ing a jail sentence up to one year and a Prohibition 2015 chez, supports the bill, considering how $5,000 fine.

The annual alcohol permit fee for dangerous texting and driving is.

Calls to DHS will remain anonymous, restaurants and package stores that exceed A person is six times more likely to â&#x20AC;&#x153;but a field record will be kept of who the $5,000 in sales could go down under a bill have a vehicle accident while texting than reporter is,â&#x20AC;? Fillingane said. the Senate passed 34-8. while drunk, the National Highway Traffic The standards for prosecution based Kathy Waterbury, spokeswoman for Safety Administration reports. on this law are high. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If they have any shred the Department of Revenue, said the curThe Advocates for Highway and Auto of credible evidence, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re completely in rent cost of liquor sale permits are higher the Safety rated Mississippi as one of the nine the clear,â&#x20AC;? Fillingane said. more a restaurant or store sells.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;What this bill does is eliminates the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alcohol purchase fee it only maintains the local municipal fees,â&#x20AC;? Waterbury said.

Waterbury said eliminating the additional tax would cost the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s General Fund $1.8 million. Meanwhile, the House is sitting on a bill, House Bill 1108, that would prohibit powdered alcohol. It passed the House Judiciary B committee Feb. 2.

A Repetitive Law Abortion-rights opposition showed up again Feb. 5 with Senate Bill 2043, which would establish the Maternal Mortality Review Committee, but not before the body amended the bill to require the state to record all deaths that happen as a result of abortion.

But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already the law, and has been since 2004. The established committee would keep track of statistics about pregnancy-related deaths and develop strategies that would help prevent those deaths.

The most recent state Health Department report in 2012 shows no deaths and only two complications occurred that year as a result of abortions.

Target: Sharia Law State courts would be prohibited from using or enforcing foreign law under House Bill 177 116-1, which that chamber passed.

It also voted 78-37 on House Bill 490, which would ban any Mississippi governments from participating in sustainable-development efforts outlined by the United Nations in Agenda 21.

Republican lawmakers apparently believe HB 177 will protect against their fears associated with Sharia, the collection of Muslim religious law. Opponents of the bill say the ban is biased against Muslims.

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The Greatest of These Is Love

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â&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thinking a lot about love these days. As of Feb. 9, in my hometown of Birmingham, Ala., same-sex couples can go to the same courthouse office that my husband and I went to in 2008 to fill out some paperwork, pay a fee and get legally recognized as a married couple. There has been a great deal of pushback to this ruling, as one would expect from the state that gave us the unforgettable image of George Wallace blocking the schoolhouse door to defend segregation.

People are understandably riled up on both sides. But with every article I see about Judge Roy Moore or protesters with hateful signs, I just keep thinking about my 4-year-old sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definition of God. If you ask him (and you should, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty sweet to hear him talk about it), he will tell you that when you have love in your heart, you have God with you, because love comes from God. And when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re angry, or feeling mean or afraid, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only because you forgot that the love is there.

All you have to do is remember it, because it never really goes away. All love comes from God. This is his understanding.

Simple though it may be, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but agree with him. In the absence of knowledge, there is fear. In the absence of love, there is anger and hatred. In the end, I want to believe that love wins, mostly because I want my children to live in a world where that is true.

I remember the day I went into labor with our daughter. As I was waiting for the in-laws to come get our son so we could go to the hospital, I read that the U.S. Supreme Court had struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, which made same-sex marriage illegal.

My first thought was, what a wonderful day to be born. I can tell her one day that she came into the world on a day when people across this nation were finally able to celebrate official acknowledgement of their love for and commitment to each other.

And for those who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet understand, for those whom fear and anger have squelched the love that still exists within their hearts, I can only feel compassion and think of the words read at my own wedding: â&#x20AC;&#x153;And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.â&#x20AC;?

Love wins.

Julia Weems is a social worker, musician, Episcopalian and stubborn optimist who tries very hard to see the good in everyone. She lives in Jackson with her husband and two children.

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Why It Stinks: State Rep. Adrienne Wooten, D-Jackson, a criminal defense attorney, informed Barker, an advertising executive, during debate that she rarely encounters repeat offenders from the Regimented Inmate Discipline program.

Wooten even pressed Barker to provide data that RID program participants had high recidivism rates, which Barker admitted he could not furnish. As Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prison system, which has been plagued by scandal, remains under a microscope for the alleged misdeeds of its former commissioner, it would be nice if the agency could at least keep all the tools at its disposal to close the revolving door at prisons. But maybe thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too much to ask.

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t really doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come as a big surprise that an effort is now under way to scale back last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s package of sweeping criminal-justice reform bills.

We got a glimpse of what was to come at the end of the 2014 when state Rep. Andy Gipson, R-Braxton, pushed an amendment to House Bill 585 to stiffen penalties for drug trafficking.

Gipson said at the time that the change would target drug kingpins, who cause â&#x20AC;&#x153;pain, misery and sufferingâ&#x20AC;? through the sale of drugs.â&#x20AC;?

Ironically, the intent of HB 585 was to alleviate the pain, misery and suffering of families and communities who lost loved ones to hard time in Mississippi in some of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s toughest and most populated prisons. The idea had wide support from liberals and conservative Republicans. The latter group was happy to have a mechanism to deflate the Mississippi Department of Correction ballooning budget. Putting people with low-level drug offenses through alternative sentencing programs, requiring drug testing and electronic monitoringâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all of which the accused, not the state, would pay forâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;was a good way to hold costs in check while not appearing to be going soft on criminals.

The scuttlebutt was that judges and prosecutors, who are elected in Mississippi, opposed the changes because their political bread is buttered on the ability to throw the book at

defendants. Now, lawmakers are going back to the drawing board and adding harsher penalties for some crimes. Not all of changes appear unreasonable on their faces, such as updating the definition of what constitutes a sex crime against children and vulnerable people.

Others, however, seem to directly undermine the spirit of the original legislation. One such bill gives judges 180 days to hold a revocation hearing for people accused of violating parole or probation.

In other words, an individual could be picked up on a violation and sit in a jail cell for six months until a judge feels like holding a hearing on their guilt or innocence. For anyone who has followed the situation at the Raymond Detention Center, which has been quiet lately, they know that the longer people languish in jail, the more likely that something bad will happen to them (or that they might do something bad to a fellow prisoner).

The promise of HB 585 was that it would give people a chance to avoid prison and become productive, law-abiding, taxpaying members of society. After not even a full year after implementation, the people on all sides of the political aisle and, most importantly the people who would benefit from it, deserve a chance to see if the law can in fact change lives and our state for the better.

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ou struggled with taking pills. I tried putting your pills with bread to swallow.

I tried throwing the pills to the back of your throat. You were disgusted with taking pills. It was a frustrating chore to get you to swallow them.”

This is the response my mother gave me when I asked her to recall the struggle I had with taking pills in my early childhood through my mid-adolescent years.

She later added, “Don’t forget to add in gagging at every try.”

My difficulty with taking pills could be used as a metaphor to describe another difficult process I am currently undergoing. We often take pills to alleviate our bodies from

truly considered or faced.

For example, she talked about how colleges respond to the problem of rapes by posting signs warning female students to not be out past a certain time for their safety. My honest initial thought was, “Well, what’s the problem with that?” As the sentences unfolded before my eyes, I quickly realized the problems, though: 1) Instead of warning women to not be out past a certain time, how about we demand our men to not rape women? 2) I could imagine the uproar if men were asked to be inside at a certain time to curtail the chances of raping a woman. Same logic applies to men, right? Wrong! Asking women to be inside to avoid rape would be considered a courtesy toward women, and

“And since we all came from a woman Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman I wonder why we take from our women Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?

I think it’s time to kill for our women Time to heal our women, be real to our women And if we don’t we’ll have a race of babies That will hate the ladies, that make the babies” —Tupac Shakur pain or to completely rid our bodies of a foreign ailment. The illness I am currently dealing with is a perplexing one. It is one that I simultaneously suffer from and benefit as a result of its presence.

Patient: Timothy O. Abram II Diagnosis: Male Privilege Symptoms: Earning more money than my female counterparts, never having my opinion dismissed due to the lack of a Y chromosome in my genome, not being asked to give up my last name when entering a marriage, etc. (The list had to be truncated because the symptoms of this disease are rampant and virtually omnipresent in all aspects of life.)

Prescription: The patient should swallow the “pill” that denotes that he is a contributor to and a beneficiary of the problem.

This pill comes with many side effects—ones that many men do not care to experience. Acknowledging that one benefits from a privilege of any sort automatically challenges the deeply rooted meritocratic notions that dictate that all my successes come from my ability and my ability only.

What?! I have a built-in advantage? Mom, where is the bread? I need it.

I have recently begun reading Rebecca Solint’s “Men Explain Things to Me.” She eloquently and sometimes humorously writes about her interactions with men. In the midst of the humor, there is seriousness laden with societal occurrences that reek with the male privilege that I had not

asking men to be inside to avoid potentially raping a woman would be an assault on individual freedom. At this point, Solint is throwing the “pill” to the back of my throat to help me get it down.

That is just one of the numerous examples of how male privilege plagues our society, yet it is a frustrating chore for me to continue to write about. I am frustrated that I am a contributor to this problem and frustrated (and frankly disappointed) that I did not realize this problem sooner.

My mom ended the message by saying, “Don’t forget to add in gagging at every try.”

Though she was referring to my inability to take pills, her statement can be applied in a greater context. As men, some of us are likely to “gag” every single time the issue of male privilege comes up. Though we gag, that still doesn’t negate the fact that we are “sick” and need to swallow the “pill” that we are a contributors to and beneficiaries of the deeply rooted male privilege in our society.

Just remember that once we finally stop gagging and swallow the pill, only then will the healing process begin.

Don’t ask me for a prescription of pills.

Open your eyes: The examples are staring you in the face. Need some bread to help you swallow the pill? Go through your contacts and press the name “Mom.” Timothy Abram is a U.S. history teacher at West Tallahatchie High School in Webb, Miss. He is a recent graduate of the University of Mississippi. All opinions expressed here are his own.

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When the break-up happened, I wanted to crawl into a hole and stay there. Luckily, I had too many things to get done and other areas of my life to focus on. I never really gave myself a chance to wallow, which Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say is the best thing I ever did. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not to say that I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t grieve.

evening, Hal & Malâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has pub quizzes, concerts and karaoke throughout the month, and Underground 119 has new music every Tuesday through Saturday night, along with plenty of food and drink specials to occupy you during each musical act.

Go to a museum.

In general, museums are pretty cheap and allow you to learn new things. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re feeling social, tag along with family or friends to the Mississippi Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd., 601981-5469, mississippichildrensmuseum.com) when they go. Visit the alligator snapping turtle at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Dr., 601-354-7303, museum.mdwfp. com) or see some cool artwork at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St., 601-960-1515, msmuseumart.org). For those short on cash and big on free time, the exhibit at the front of the art museum, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Mississippi Story,â&#x20AC;? is free.

Go walking by a body of water.

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know about you, but sometimes I get really tired of hearing myself think. When I need to clear my head a little bit, I like to find a walking track near water. It calms me down, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a great way to comb through any grand ideas.

Bars and restaurants such as Hal & Malâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s have many great things to eat (including fried pickles) and things to keep you occupied.

Go see a movie.

Contrary to popular belief, going to a movie by yourself is probably the best thing you can do for yourself. You wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fight over the snacks youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get or listen to somebody talk to you while the movie is going on. (This is also helpful if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the chatty one.) You get to enjoy the movie without feeling like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bust if someone else didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enjoy it.

You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to listen to anyone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opinions. When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying on clothes, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about you and what you want.

If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have money for major retail therapy, try some thrift shopping at places stores such as N.U.T.S. (114 Millsaps Ave., 601-355-7458; 3011 N. State St., 601-366-9633, goodsamaritan.org,), Orange Peel (422 Mitchell Ave., 601364-9977, visitfondren.com/theorangepeel) or Repeat Street (242 Highway 51, Ridgeland, 601-605-9123). They each have a wide selection of items and can help you if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve decided to revamp your look.

Go shopping.

Do you know the best part of shopping on your own?

Take the time to heal.

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s be honest. Rebound relationships are bad for both parties. In retrospect, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say my relationship was probably doomed from the start because when we first started dating, I was essentially his rebound.

Remember to forgive yourself.

I admit that I probably aided in the demise of my relationship. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a perfect person, and I did some things Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not proud of. But the best thing I could do to finally start moving forward is to forgive myself and make an effort to address my issues.

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If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the one who got dumped, I challenge you to remember that you deserve better. I knew that on the day my relationship ended, and I still believe it today. Everyone deserves better than someone who treats you like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re second best.

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Go to a bar.

Drinking alone may sound boring and even counterintuitive, but think about it: You get to sit at a bar and be by yourself, but also be around people without the hassle of someone constantly yapping in your ear. Bars are perfect for people-watching. And if you want spend your single life actually doing something amazing, bars are a great place for coming with new ideas. Some of Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best choices are Saltine Oyster Bar (622 Duling Ave., Suite 201, 601-982-2899, saltinerestaurant.com), Babalu Tacos & Tapas (622 Duling Ave., 601-366-5757, babalutacos.com), Underground 119 (119 S. President St., 601-352-2322, underground119.com) and Hal & Malâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (200 S. Commerce St., 601-948-0888, halandmals.com). Babalu has happy hour Monday through Friday from 4 to 6 p.m., with $1 off draft beers and $4 sangrias. At Babaluâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Taco Tuesday, all tacos are $2 tacos, while Saltine has an oyster special on Mondays. For an eventful

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reaking up with someone sucks. I have no doubt about that. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even worse when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been with the same person for five years and, one day, he decides he needs to go find himself.

It can leave you feeling like an asteroid went straight through you and left a gaping hole.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re alive, but barely.

After my breakup, I quickly realized something: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a single adult. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an obvious statement, but for me, it made all the difference. I spent most of my teenage years single, mainly because I just couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t handle myself around potential significant others. But for half of my 20s, I was with one person. So now, at 25, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m essentially trying to reinvent myselfâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and also finding ways to occupy my time.

Up until a year ago, I complained that there is nothing to do in the Jackson area. What Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve discovered, though, is that there is a lot more to do than I thought, especially since Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m single. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve found yourself part of a breakup, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fret. Jackson can keep you occupied.

Here are a few ways to get over a breakup in a city.

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Taking up a sport, such as fencing, can help you get over a breakup.

Treat yourself to a nice dinner.

Whether you’re going alone or with friends, make sure to give yourself plenty of chances to just relax and have fun. Eat things you wouldn’t around your ex. My favorite restaurants are Burgers & Blues (1060 E. County Line Road, Suite 22, Ridgeland, 601-899-0038; 960 N. State St., 601-709-5171, burgersblues.com) and Broad Street Baking Company (4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 101, 601-362-2900, broadstbakery.com).

Find a sport.

I’ve been fencing for about a year, and for the few months before Jon and I broke up, I had been losing interest in it. When we broke up, I threw myself back in. The beauty of sports is that they help you regain your confidence (I feel absolutely unstoppable when I fence) and the fact that I’m hitting stuff helps. I’m not saying to go out and play football (though if you want to, more power to you), but find something physical to occupy yourself with.

My next objective in my apparent quest is to learn archery and kickboxing. It’s not hard to find classes and people who can help you with this. Along with the Mississippi Fencing Club, which meets at the Baptist Healthplex on Thursdays and Saturdays, find an archery class or take up a martial art.

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Do the things you want to do.

I didn’t notice how many things I felt I wasn’t able to do when I was with Jon until I stepped back. I always said I would do things such as archery, but I never followed through because I was so focused on the relationship. Now, I have time to do some of those things, including baking and getting back into art. Make time to follow your heart. As Jill Conner Browne said at TEDx Jackson, “Do the thing that makes your heart sing.”

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Change your look.

Whenever something drastic happens to me, my first reaction in the aftermath is to change my look. A week after we broke up, I went to my friend Jamie and asked her to cut and dye my hair. I briefly considered permanently straightening my naturally curly hair, but decided to do it the old-fashioned way because my hair is too thin for major chemicals. I did something I haven’t done in probably a year: I put on makeup, and I discovered that I’m not half bad at it. I even wore black eyeliner, though I had some issues with it on my sister’s 21st birthday weekend. I went shopping and bought a floral-patterned skirt that I would normally never buy. I finally bought the high-top Chuck Taylors I’ve been wanting.

Take a spa day.

It’s hard to relax when you feel like your entire life is spiraling out of control (and for a brief period of time, you’ll probably feel like it is). But when the crossfire stops (or even before then), take a day to pamper yourself. Go for a massage, facial or mani-pedi at spas such as Aqua The Day Spa (1000 Highland Colony Pkwy., Ridgeland, 601-898-9123).

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Take a mini vacation.

Even if you’re just vacationing in the city, it’s nice to have a break from work and everything else in your life. See Jackson with a tourist’s eyes. Go to a concert at local venues such as Duling Hall. Stroll around the different areas of Jackson and look at the incredible and varied architecture. Get a different perspective on where you live, and you may just get a different perspective on your situation.

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Cups Espresso CafĂŠ Multiple locations, cupsespressocafe.com While some claim coffee shops are better as a break-up spot, there are few places in Jackson as instantly relaxing as Cups Espresso CafĂŠ. You and your soon-to-be significant other can grab a coffee and a couch, and start a fun, friendly conversation. With so many locations, just make sure you specify which Cups for your date!

Babalu Tacos & Tapas 622 Duling Ave., 601-366-5757, babalutacos.com Babalu Tacos & Tapas has the three tenets of any good first-date choice: great service, excellent drink specials and smaller portion sizes so the food wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stuff you beyond repair. With dozens of lighter dining options,

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Babalu offers many dishes worth sharing before you hit the town. Then, of course, it also won the Best Place for a First Date this year.

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Saltine Oyster Bar 622 Duling Ave., Suite 201, 601-9822899, saltinerestaurant.com In its first year of business, Saltine Oyster Bar blew into town and beat plenty of established contenders for both the Best New Bar and Best Seafood awards. With its imaginative menu and much-praised craft-beer infuser, Saltine screams â&#x20AC;&#x153;table for two.â&#x20AC;? Even if your date isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as keen on deep-sea delicacies, Saltine can cook up non-seafood options, such as spaghetti and meatballs and the Saltine Burger. But, of course, the restaurant offers a wide selection of oysters, some of which have come from as near as the Gulf Coast or as far away as New Zealand. You can even sit on the oyster-bar side and watch as chefs shuck the bivalves. Romantic, no?

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illy Ray Cyrus sang a song about a topic that is also a medically recognized syndrome commonly called broken heart syndrome. Also known as takotsubo cardiomyopathy, the name comes from â&#x20AC;&#x153;tako subo,â&#x20AC;? meaning â&#x20AC;&#x153;octopus potâ&#x20AC;? in Japanese. This common abnormality, when the apex of the heart balloons, appeared to the Japanese doctor who coined its name to closely resemble a Japanese octopus trap (which looks like a pot).

The patients had normal coronary arteries without a significant build-up of plaque, which is common in the typical heart-attack victim.

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy affects females more often than males, and most have a recent history of traumatic life stressors, often emotional in nature. These may include a recent break-up or divorce, death of a loved one or a significant financial loss. The syndrome has also been reported in people experiencing an overwhelming shock such as winning the lottery.

The consequences of broken-heart syndrome are similar to a common heart attack: It significantly damages the heart. This damage can cause sudden cardiac death or long standing heart failure.

Healthier patients can often recover normal heart function.

Most people have some level of heart disease that, in large part, is due to our genetics. The good news is that we all have some control of the progression. As stated earlier, improved diet, exercise and smoking cessation have a significant positive impact on heart disease. The American Heart Association, approximately 80 percent of heart disease is preventable by implementing the positive lifestyle changes listed.

This is the 51st year that the American Heart Association has recognized the month of February as American Heart Month in an effort to raise awareness of heart disease. Heart disease is the number-one cause of death in the United States, and 80 percent of the cases can be prevented with lifestyle changes that include healthier diets, smoking cessation and increased exercise, along with compli-

ance with medical treatment when necessary.

As a family physician, I urge my patients to maintain compliance with their medications and follow-up appointments.

I often educate my patients on â&#x20AC;&#x153;whyâ&#x20AC;? as opposed to â&#x20AC;&#x153;what.â&#x20AC;?

A couple of weeks ago, I asked a patient to pretend that the average life span of an 18-wheeler is six years. I told him that the truck would last four to eight years in this scenario, with six years being the average. I then asked to give the human a 60year average life expectancy.

That average would mean that most people would die within a range of 40 to 80 years. I asked him if he would he agree that the motor would end the life of the truck as the heart would end the life of the human in most cases. He agreed.

I then asked him to imagine that his truck carried bricks daily, and my truck carried cotton balls daily. We then discussed that trucks are designed to carry heavy loads such as bricks and would still be able to perform with a heavier load. I asked him which truck had the best chance of making it to eight years as opposed to four years.

I reminded him that taking his medication as prescribed lowered his blood pressure. We both agreed that when he did not take his medication, his heart had to work harder like the truck carrying the heavier load. We concluded that by taking his medication, his blood pressure was lower, which caused less stress on his heart. Maintaining his regimen gave him a better chance of living to 80 years, similar to the truck carrying the lighter load, which is able to preserve its motor to the ripe age of eight years.

For heart health, prevention is key. Billy Ray Cyrus sang it well in his song â&#x20AC;&#x153;Achy Breaky Heartâ&#x20AC;?: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can tell the world you never was my girl / You can burn my clothes when Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m gone / Or you can tell your friends just what a fool Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been.â&#x20AC;? Later, he pleaded, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell my heart, my achy breaky heart.â&#x20AC;?

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that he is loved by making a special dinner.

In the past, I would always prepare the same menu of cheese and chocolate fondue for Valentine’s Day, but now that I have my children, I try to make Valentine’s Day a fun family festivity.

For this holiday, just remember, in the end, all that matters is love.

1 clove garlic, halved 1 cup dry white wine 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 pound Gruyere or Swiss cheese, shredded 3 tablespoons flour 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg dash of black pepper Sourdough bread, cubed Pumpernickel bread, cubed (optional) 1 green apple (optional) 1 stick hard salami (optional) 1/2 pound grapes (optional) Fondue pan (or a four-quart saucepan) Directions:

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t the beginning of a relationship, love is flirtation and the anticipation you feel every time you spend time with your special someone. The laughter and passion is where the love begins.

For Valentine’s Day, there seems to be so much stress with expectations for the exchanging of gifts, when really the holiday is about celebrating love and relationships.

I think it is important to let my loved one know that he is important every day of my life.

When Valentine’s Day comes, I don’t feel so much pressure about giving a gift such as chocolates or flowers, but I like to remind my significant other

In a large bowl add your shredded cheese with the flour and toss until the cheese is coated. Set aside.

Rub the inside of a fondue pot with the halved garlic clove. Prima-

Marbled Red Velvet Cheesecake Bars

I like to experiment with recipes and have different options for dessert on Valentine’s Day. I love the way these marbled red velvet cheesecake bars look and taste. While they require a little more work because of the double layers and the marbling effect, they are well worth every bite. Your loved one will love the effort you put into making them, I promise! You can make the hearts one to two days prior to Valentine’s Day. If you are making them in advance, they should be kept in the refrigerator and pulled out one hour prior to eating them.

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Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 13-inch by 18-inch jellyroll pan.

In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, instant coffee, salt and baking powder and set aside. In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs, vegetable oil, 2 tablespoons milk, vanilla extract, red food coloring and white vinegar.

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wet ingredients and stir until completely combined. The batter will be really thick and have the texture of moldable clay. Remove 3/4 cup of the batter and place it in a medium bowl. Add two tablespoons of milk to the removed batter you removed and set aside.

Pour the remaining batter into the prepared jellyroll pan. Using a spatula, smooth out the batter to cover the bottom of the jellyroll pan.

Cheesecake Layer:

2 8-ounce packages cream cheese, softened 3/4 cup granulated sugar 2 large eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/4 teaspoon almond extract

Cheesecake Layer In a stand mixer, beat the cream cheese and sugar until fluffy, about two to three minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time making sure the egg is well incorporated. Then add vanilla and almond extracts and beat until combined.

Pour this cream cheese mixture on top of the red velvet layer and smooth the mixture to the edges.

Using the 3/4 cup of

the red-velvet mixture you set aside earlier, drop it by spoonfuls onto the top of the cheesecake layer. Drag the tip of a knife through the red velvet and the cheesecake layers and create your swirl.

Bake for 30 minutes or until the center is set, and it no longer jiggles. Let it cool completely on a wire rack before cutting. Have some fun and use a heart shaped cookie cutter for Valentines Day Makes 12 large hearts.

rily do the bottom and lower half of the pot.

Pour the wine into the fondue pot and heat on your stovetop until hot but not boiling. Then add the lemon juice.

Add the cheese, in handfuls, to the hot wine and stir constantly until the cheese is completely melted. Doing this in small batches keeps the cheese creamy and keeps it from clumping. Add the pepper and nutmeg and serve with cubed sourdough bread.

Serve immediately on a fondue stand. If you are not using a fondue pot, I would recommend warming the cheese on low heat on your stove top as you notice it hardening.

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Love Martini

This is a special recipe from my friend Susan, who is known for her Valentine’s Day parties. The key to a perfect martini is making sure it is properly chilled. If you have room in your fridge, place the vodka and cranberry or raspberry in prior to assembling this drink. Make sure you have plenty of ice for the shaker!

Ingredients 2 ounces vanilla Vodka 2 ounces cranberry or raspberry juice 1 1/2 ounces of Triple Sec Juice from 1/2 of a lime Fresh raspberries 2 tablespoons sugar (for rim of glass) Ice Directions:

Wet the outside rim of a glass with a lime wedge. Place your sugar on a saucer plate. Take the glass and lay the rim on top of the sugar. Fill a shaker with ice, add vanilla vodka, cranberry or raspberry juice, triple sec and juice from 1/2 of lime. Shake vigorously for 10 seconds. Pour the drink into your prepared glass. Place two to three raspberries in the drink.

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CAET Wine Bar (3100 N. State St., Suite 102, 601-321-9169) CAET will serve up a four-course Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day dinner with optional wine pairings. The restaurant will take reservations but will have a roped-off section of the restaurant just for couples wanting to come in for a drink. All items on the menu will be available a la carte and menu details are pending.

Some regular menu items will be available. The dinner starts at 5 p.m. and is $65 per person.

This Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day and Mardi Gras, celebrate with local restaurants.

Campbellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bakery (3013 N. State St., 601-362-4628) Campbellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will have heart-shaped iced teacakes by the dozen, petit fours and caramel blondies in a jar for Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day, and King cake for Fat Tuesday.

La Brioche (2906 N. State St., 601-988-2299) For Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day, La Brioche will have Valentine-themed raspberry, chocolate and coffee macarons, as well as special Valentine chocolates. For Mardi Gras, try the mini Sophia cake, made with white chocolate ganache, vanilla mouse, black currant gelĂŠe and chocolate cake. The patisserie also has Mardi Gras-themed lemon macarons in purple and green colors.

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Saltine Oyster Bar (622 Duling Ave., 601-982-2899) This Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day, Saltine will have a special menu that includes dishes such as lobster cavateli, poached oysters, Saraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;mores Cake and a lovers shellfish tower.

You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to make a reservation, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first come, first served.

Broad Street Baking Company (4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 101, 601-362-2900) For Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day, Broad Street Baking Company offers a chocolate-covered strawberry Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day King cake. The bakery will only have 200, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best to preorder yours.

For Mardi Gras, Broad Street will offer its famous almond- and cream-cheese King cake along with a specialty crawfish and jalapeno-cheddar-brioche King cake with cream cheese. The bakery will also have Mardi Gras-themed sugar cookies shaped like masks, fleur-de-lis and crowns.

Sal & Mookieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizza & Ice Cream Joint (565 Taylor St., 601-368-1919) Sal & Mookieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is hosting its annual Lundi Gras Beer Dinner with Bayou Teche Brewing Monday, Feb. 16 at 6 p.m.

The dinner is $65 per person. The pizzeria will have a NOLA-inspired menu paired with Bayou Teche brews.

The menu includes grilled chuck burger sliders with smoked Gouda cheese, honey-pepper bacon and chipotle barbecue sauce, paired with Loup Garou; pizza topped with fried crawfish tails, ricotta, mozzarella, andouille sausage, green onions and Creole seasoning paired with Saison Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ecrevisses; and Broad Street Baking Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s King cake paired with Persimmon Sour. For more information, visit salandmookies.com Shuckerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the Rez (116 Conestoga Road, Ridgeland, 601-853-0105) On Feb. 17, Shuckerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will host a Fat Tuesday featuring free beads, masks and King cake. Plenty of Cajun cooking will be on the menu, including red beans and rice, jambalaya, muffalettas, grilled oysters, shrimp Creole and seafood gumbo. Snazz will perform on the main stage starting at 7 p.m., and Brewer & Herd will be on the deck. No cover charge required to attend.

Underground 119 (119 S. President St., 601-352-2322) Jesse Robinson and His Legendary Friends will perform at Underground 119 Feb. 17 for the Mardi Gras Bash. Underground 119 will be giving out free King cake to all attendees. The evening will also honor two local musiciansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Bruce Howard and Bob Pieczykâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for everything theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done for Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music scene. For more information, visit underground119.com.

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by Micah Smith

After a successful stint on “The Voice” and several radio hits, Zach and Colton Swon perform at the Mississippi Coliseum Tuesday, Feb. 17.

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elevision might have taken the wind out of radio’s sails, but these days, it’s giving it back. There’s perhaps no clearer evidence of that than Muskogee, Okla., musicians Colton and Zach Swon. Since fighting their way to third place on NBC’s “The Voice” in 2013, the Swon Brothers’ singles, “Later On” and “Pray for You,” have climbed the country radio charts.

Throughout the show’s fourth season, coach and country superstar Blake Shelton praised the brothers’ talents, and voters tuned in to watch them put a personal spin on classics such as Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down” and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s “Fishin’ in the Dark.” But, as any artist who’s seen success on a TV competition can tell you, that doesn’t mean the work is done.

“I think, for the most part, we lucked out in where we landed with that show and with Blake,” Zach says. “I mean, Blake Shelton has got a lot to do with it because he kind of prepared us for what was coming next. I think we connected with a lot of people that have stuck by us and really latched onto our music, and we’re lucky for that.”

More than anything, Zach says, the secret to capitalizing on TV success is to not waste any time. The Swon

Brothers signed with a booking agent immediately after “The Voice,” before considering any contract offers, and they began performing.

“I think we spent two days at home when the show ended, did some laundry, said hi and bye to Mom and Dad and went straight to Nashville and got to work,” Zach says.

While they’ve collected a majority of their fans over the past few years, the Swon Brothers’ musical history goes much further back. As children, Colton and Zach performed as part of their family’s southern gospel band.

The family travelled in a regular coach bus that they outfitted with bunk beds and couches.

“We rode that thing from town to town, and any chance we could, we’d get on stage,” Colton says. “That kind of developed into a little variety show. We’d do everything from Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson.”

When the family stopped touring around 1998, the brothers started performing as a duo and began making trips to Nashville in order to earn a record deal.

For 17 years, the Swon Brothers wrote original music and performed at everything from fairs and festivals to coffee shops and casinos. While they independently re-

leased three previous albums, they weren’t able to fully realize their music in studio until their self-titled record hit shelves last October.

“This is something we’ve waited our whole lives to do: to have a real producer and a budget and just free reign to make a record on that level,” Zach says. “… We got to meet a lot of great songwriters and learned really (quickly) that there are guys in Nashville that are way better writers than we are. … I think every album from here on out is just going to be growth, and that’s exciting.”

While the Swon Brothers agree that there’s a lot more work to be done offstage than they realized, being able to perform songs that they wrote for fans and new listeners alike is everything that they hoped it would be.

“Even out doing concerts and seeing people sing back songs that aren’t even on the radio yet, that is the best feeling in the world,” Colton says. “… We’re just ready to get back out there. It’s what we do.”

The Swon Brothers perform 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17, at the Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St., 601-9614000). Visit dixienational.com. Follow the Swon Brothers on Twitter and Instagram.

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Pearl McHaney Book Signing is from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Eudora Welty Education and Visitors Center (1109 Pinehurst Place). The author reads from and signs her book, “A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty’s Nonfiction and Photographs.” Free; call 601-353-7762.

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Breaths, Bites & Beats is from 7-10 p.m. at Highland Village (4500 Interstate 55 N.). The event featuring wine, food, music and a silent auction benefits the Mississippi chapter of the American Lung Association. $50 advance, sponsorships available; call 601-420-9330; email kashea.johnson@ lungse.org. … “The Book of Negroes” Screening is at 6 p.m. at Tougaloo College (500 W. County Line Road, Tougaloo) in the Bennie G. Thompson Center. Actress and Tougaloo alum Aunjanue Ellis is the special guest. The mini-series airs on BET Feb. 16-18 at 7 p.m. Free; call 601-977-7870.

Clinton indie-rock quartet Fides performs to celebrate the release of its debut album, “Olive Branch,” at Hal & Mal’s Friday, Feb. 13.

event is a fundraiser for St. Richard Catholic School. $100 admission for two; call 359-9000; krewedc.com. … Fides’ Album Release Show is at 9 p.m. at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The indie-rock quartet performs to promote its first full-length album. Mississippi Shakedown and the Tallahatchies also perform. Cocktails at 8 p.m. $5 in advance, $8 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7999; email jane@halandmals.com; ardenland.net.

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The Millsaps Arts and Lecture Series is at 7 p.m. at the Millsaps College Ford Academic Complex (1701 N. State St.). Author Polly Dement talks about her book, “Mississippi Entrepreneurs.” $10; call 601-9741130; millsaps.edu/conted. … “One Man, Two Guvnors” begins at 7:30 p.m. at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The play is an adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s Servant of Two Masters.” Show runs to March 1. $28, $22 seniors and students; call 601-948-3533, ext.

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BY MICAH SMITH is from 5-8:30 p.m. at Gallery1 (One University Place, 1100 JACKSONFREEPRESS.COM John R. Lynch St., Suite 4). Poets and musicians are welcome FAX: 601-510-9019 to participate in the open-mic DAILY UPDATES AT event. Includes music from 5th JFPEVENTS.COM Child. All ages welcome. Free; call 601-960-9250. … Marcel P. Black’s “Black Collar” Album Release Party is at 9 p.m. at OffBeat (151 Wesley Ave.). Includes performances from Renee Lee, Tira D and Skipp Coon. Free; call 601-3769404; offbeatjxn.com.

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Actress Aunjanue Ellis hosts a screening of her new BET mini-series, “The Book of Negroes,” at Tougaloo College, Thursday, Feb. 12.

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St. Richard Krewe de Cardinal is from 7-11 p.m. at Old Capitol Inn (226 N. State St.). Includes food, an open bar, a silent auction, and music from DJ Young Venom and the Southern Komfort Brass Band. The

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The Mississippi Old Time Music Society performs from 2-4 p.m. at Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland). Enjoy traditional Mississippi fiddle tunes on third Sundays. Free; call 601-942-7335.

The Lundi Gras Beer Dinner is at 6 p.m. at Sal & Mookie’s New York Pizza and Ice Cream Joint (565 Taylor St.). The annual dinner includes special entrees and craft beers from Bayou Teche. RSVP. $65 per person; call 601368-1919; email webb@salandmookies.com.

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History Is Lunch is from noon-1 p.m. at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building (200 North St.). Rick Cleveland talks about people profiled in his book, “Mississippi’s Sports Heroes.” Book sales and signing to follow. Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.state. ms.us. … Author Jeffrey Stayton signs and reads from his new book, “This Side of the River,” at 5 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202).

Jeffrey Stayton signs books. Free; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

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Breaths, Bites & Beats Feb. 12, 7 p.m.-10 p.m., at Highland Village (4500 Interstate 55 N.). The event features wine, food, music and a silent auction, is a fundraiser for the American Lung Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mississippi chapter. $50 advance; call 601-420-9330; email kashea.johnson@lungse.org.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;One Man, Two Guvnorsâ&#x20AC;? Feb. 17-21, 7:30 p.m., Feb. 22, 2 p.m., Feb. 24-28, 7:30 p.m., March 1, 2 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The play is an adaptation of Carlo Goldoniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Servant of Two Masters.â&#x20AC;? $28, $22 seniors and students; call 601-948-3533, ext. 222; newstagetheatre.com.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Love Jonesâ&#x20AC;? Poetry Edition: Vol. 8 Feb. 12, 8 p.m., at Soul Wired Cafe (111 Millsaps Ave.).

Includes poetry readings about love and hate, and music from Cleopatra Jones and DJ Cannon. Free food and wine. $10; call 601-863-6378.

Love & Laughter Edition Concert Feb. 14, 8 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.).

Includes music from Monica, stand-up comedy from Shawty Shawty and special guests. Doors open at 7 p.m. $45; call 800-745-3000.

Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day Boogie Feb. 14, 9 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Performers include Buddy and the Squids, Bone Jugs â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Harmony, Vibe Doctors and Ole Dashing.

All-ages show. Adults must accompany children. $5 advance, $10 door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

#/--5.)49 Metro Jackson College Fair Feb. 11, 8 a.m., at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). High school students explore post-secondary education options. Open to the public. Free; call 601-366-0901; parents-kids.com.

At Home on the Farmstead Feb. 12-18, 10 a.m.3 p.m., at Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive). Experience living history through demonstrations based on the 1860s Fortenberry-Parkman Farmstead. $4-$5; call 601-432-4500; msagmuseum.org.

Back in the Day Black History Celebration Feb. 12, 6 p.m., at New Hope Baptist Church (5202 Watkins Drive). The theme is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Showcasing Our African Roots,â&#x20AC;? and the guest speaker is Pamela Junior of the Smith Robertson Museum.

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Free; call 601-981-8696.

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30/243 7%,,.%33 HIV Screenings and Tobacco Assessments Feb. 13, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., at Hinds Behavioral Health Services (3450 Highway 80 W.). The health event is open to the public. Free; call 601-321-2400. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do It for the Ones You Loveâ&#x20AC;? Health Fair Feb. 14, 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m., at Ascension Lutheran Church (6481 Old Canton Road). Includes assistance with health insurance enrollment, health screenings, vaccines, snacks and information on nutrition and skin care. Free; call 601-956-4263; email ascensionluthnews@gmail.com.

Fools in Love II Feb. 14, 8:30 p.m.-2:30 a.m., at Kemistry Sports Bar and Hookah Lounge (3716 Interstate 55 N., Unit 2). Enjoy electronic and dubstep music from Tomfoolery, Dekane, DJ Tam, Chance4Life, and Imprince versus Radiologix. For ages 18 and up. $10 until 10 p.m., $15 patrons under 21; call 601-713-1500.

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Eudora Weltyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Short Stories Feb. 12, 10 a.m.11:15 a.m., at Millsaps College, Ford Academic Complex (1701 N. State St.). In room AC 215.

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February Opening Reception Feb. 12, 5 p.m.-8 p.m., at Fischer Galleries (Dickies Building, 736 S. President St., fourth floor). See works from Jack Spencer and Andrew Cary Young. Free; call 601291-9115; fischergalleries.com.

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Mississippi State University womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball is No. 13 in the AP Top 25 poll after a home win over Texas A&M. Morgan William picked up SEC Freshman of the Week honors.

Holmes Community College basketball leads the MACJC North division with a 15-5, 8-1 record.

Jackson State University menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball defeated Alcorn State 64-61 on Saturday and three out of four games.

Millsaps College womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball suffered its second conference loss of the season to Berry but still ranks high in the SAA with a 16-4, 8-2 mark.

Lanier High School great Monta Ellis leads the NBAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dallas Mavericks with 20 points per game, helping Dallas to a 35-18 record in the first half of the season.

The University of Southern Mississippi will host a free kids basketball clinic on Monday, Feb. 16 from 3 to 5 p.m. at Reed Green Coliseum in Hattiesburg.

Mississippi College opened the baseball season with a three-game sweep of Tougaloo College by a combined score of 51-9.

No. 14 Belhaven University baseball lost to St. Catharine College 3-4 on Monday to move to 6-2 on the year. Blazers softball starts the season ranked No. 11.

NJCAA by Collegiate Baseball ranked Hinds Community College baseball No. 2. The team started the season with a 4-0 weekend sweep.

Jackson Preparatory School holds its annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;Media Day Home Run Derbyâ&#x20AC;? on Thursday, Feb. 12. Last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s winner? WAPT sports director Aslan Hodges.

Ole Miss womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis is ranked No. 24 in Division One and has started 6-1.

Northwest Rankin High School has named former Itawamba AHS coach Toby Collums as its new head football coach.

University of Southern Mississippi will hold open football tryouts for all eligible students on Wednesday, Feb. 11.

Madison Central High School won the boys and girls 6A soccer state title. Pearl High School claimed the boys 5A crown for the second straight season. St. Joseph Catholic High School in Madison took home its second state title on the girls side.

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t was supposed to be the showcase at the Athletic Activities Center at act for the main event in Jackson Jackson State University, a venue Public Schools athletics: big-time roughly four times the size of Forest high school basketball. UnfortuHill. But the move was deemed exnately, the actual stage used wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cessive and costly in recent years so nearly big enough. the district moved the games back to Led by senior Malik Newman, the high schools. three-time defending state champion Friday nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incident proved Callaway High School faced arch-rithat they need to be moved again to a val and tradition-rich Provine High larger alternative.

School on the Chargersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Senior Night.

Certainly, it rests with the fans to The game had been moved to Forest make better decisions and calls for betHill High Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the largest of the ter policing. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s simply too exploJackson Public Schools gymsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in an sive of an environment to withstand. attempt to accommodate the crowd.

Why continually risk spilling a caulOne might as well house an dron when you can use a bigger pot? army in an outhouse. Hundreds of It may be costlier, but the district Malik Newman led the Callaway High School fans couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even get in. The ones can ill afford the embarrassment from Chargers as they faced Provine High School in the packed Forest Hill High School gym Feb. 6. who did were packed to the ceiling the incident that happened Friday at and sprawled out on to the floor, with Forest Hill. And the student-athletes coaches, college scouts and media lindeserve to play. After all, the show ing every spot on the baseline walls. induced stampede outside Murrah High must go on. We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even get to see the end It was every bit the famed high-school School in the early 2000s that led to the de- of the headline act. hoops atmosphere you hear about in barber- cision to move games of this magnitude to a Listen to writer Jon Weinerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Home shops and read about in booksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a cauldron bigger venue.

Cookinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? sports talk on ESPN 105.9 The Zone of boiling intensity.

Initially, the teams played the games 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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ven before the Super Bowl, a battle that could affect the Saintsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; offseason began in New Orleans. Things turned extremely ugly and public after the family of Saints owner Tom Benson, 87, filed a lawsuit claiming that he was unfit to run his NFL and NBA franchises.

Recently, Benson changed his succession plans regarding who would take over the team should he die or be unable to lead the franchise. Out are grandchildren Rita Benson-LeBlanc and Ryan LeBlanc and daughter Renee LeBlanc. In is his current wife of 10 years, Gayle Benson.

At one point, Benson-LeBlanc was a shoe-in for the public face of the post-Benson Saints. That changed in January of this year when Benson cut Rita and the others

out of the ownership circle.

San Antonio Judge Tom Rickhoff ruled that the elder Benson would need assistance managing his assets on Monday, Feb. 9. Meanwhile, key dates for the team loom only a few weeks away. The biggest of those key dates is March 10 when free agency begins. If the Saints are going to chase one big-name free agent, they will need to clean up the ownership situation to OK spending a big chunk of change.

Due to the Saintsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cap situation, they were nearly in the same spot last season when they signed safety Jairus Byrd. The team must also be under the cap by March 10 when the new league year begins.

Next on the docket, the NFL draft starts on April 30. Luckily, New Orleans

hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really needed the ownershipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blessing before making picks in the past. However, if they want to make a big trade during the draft, they might need an owner to sign off.

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