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hen Chicago native Jillian Romano graduated from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn., in 2008, she decided to get down to brass tacks.

She was 36 at the time, living in Franklin, Ky., near the Tennessee state line, and already married to husband Luca since 2004. While plenty of her younger classmates were considering what to do with their lives, Romano had a bachelor’s of fine arts degree and a plan.

“Going to school later in life, you go pretty much for what you enjoy,” she says. “Instead of thinking that you’re going to grow up to be a doctor or whatever, you go to school for what you love. I had that opportunity, and I’ve always been a good teacher, so it just kind of brought me in that direction.”

Immediately after graduation, Romano started teaching art classes for Austin Peay’s Continued Education program and working at Swirlz Art Studio.

When Luca took a job as a plant manager for the Airgas Corp. in Mississippi in 2012, the family moved to Jackson.

It wasn’t long before Romano found another use for her degree, though.

Only a few months after moving to Mississippi, Romano started Artful Hours, a homebased business that offers travelling art lessons for a variety of occasions from casual birthday get-togethers to upscale fundraising events.

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Romano says. “I go to whoever wants to have a good time.” She also makes regular monthly stops at six retirement communities around the area, including The Blake at Township and Emeritus at Ridgeland Pointe.

“It’s something that I truly enjoy,” she says. “The residents can’t really go out and do the things they like to do, so it’s really a pleasure for me to able to bring that to them. It’s a great experience every month … just building relationships with people who already have so much knowledge in life, and being able to spend time with them.”

While painting helps improve the residents’ motor functions, even those with signs of Parkinson’s disease, the activity is also therapeutic on an emotional and mental level. It provides an easy way for the seniors to relax, express themselves, and in many cases, try something new. “I get a lot of people that are 80 or 90 years old that have never picked up a paintbrush in their lives,” Romano says. “Now, a year into it, they feel like they’ve rediscovered themselves and their creativity for the first time in their lives. That’s very exciting.”

Outside her work with Artful Hours, Romano, 42, has a full schedule at home with her two daughters, Sofia, 6, and Lilly, 4. In what little spare time she has, she enjoys practicing yoga. “Wife, mother, yoga and art—yeah, that pretty much sums it up,” Romano says.

For more information, find Artful Hours on Facebook.

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Anna Wolfe explores the anti-vaccination movement, pp 14-22.

10 Red Meat

As expected, politics and policymakers collide as the legilsative session passes the one-third mark.

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PUBLISHER’S note

by Todd Stauffer, Publisher

Jackson Needs Talent, Technology and Tolerance

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’m something of a fan of Richard Florida and his “Rise of the Creative Class” thesis. (Don’t roll your eyes.) We wrote about the potential of the city’s creative class in the first issue of the Jackson Free Press back in 2002, and it’s come up again quite a bit since then in my columns.

I believed then, as I believe now, that there’s significant opportunity for Jackson to be a hub of creativity and productivity by connecting some important dots.

Those dots include the universities and medical centers; state government and the abundant nonprofits; the friendliness of our people and low cost of living; the “small city” possibilities that can bring people together to collaborate and innovate— and just kind of care about one another.

Just this month, I’ve started another foray into the creative-class universe. I enrolled in an online class called “Principles of Economic Development: Building Tomorrow’s Cities Today.” The class is part of a new certificate program offered by New York University under the auspices of the Initiative for Creativity and Innovation in Cities, which is directed by … Richard Florida.

So far, only a little more than a week in, I’ve already been introduced to a theme that will likely run throughout the course: “human capital accumulation.” It’s perhaps the most important thing to worry about if your goal is successful economic development in the 21st century, where so many new industries are “idea-intensive” (rather than, say, “capital-intensive”).

What does it mean? When human capital accumulates—when people cluster, come together, mix and discuss—great things happen. And it’s in urban environments where people can most easily cluster together around certain topics or art forms or technologies. Innovations can catch fire because one person’s ideas are soaked in the kerosene of other people’s reactions and im-

provements—clusters of folks working on similar projects who gather and discuss and criticize and cajole and encourage.

For the 12 years we’ve been publishing the Jackson Free Press, I’ve seen promising things happen along those lines here in Jackson. Fondren, of course, stands out as a huge beacon of creative-class success and the economic development that can accompany it. (Just think what it’ll look like in 18 or so months with sizable new residential options on two different corners of the Fondren business district.)

Needed: “Human capital” at the table and lots of ideas to cluster around.

It’s hard not to see the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s catalyzing influence for some of what’s happening in Fondren. The campus has opened up significantly to residents over the past decade, and that effect will become even more pronounced as UMMC continues developing to the west of its current campus and up into “north” Fondren when the telehealth center opens on Meadowbrook Road near the old McRae’s building.

Another significant step for Jackson’s creative class has been the development around Jackson State University and the university’s increasing relationship with its surroundings. Yes, there are beautiful new buildings and amazing innovations such as JSU’s cutting-edge approach to creating learning resources; their iPad initiative and Create lab are world-class programs.

Even more exciting to me is the way that Jackson State seems to be embracing the role of urban university in Jackson.

And Jackson is, in many cases, embracing JSU in return. From developments such as the JSU Institute of Government building opening soon on Capitol Street downtown to what generally feels like more services and programming for the community—talks, lectures, professors in the media, on local boards—JSU is another spark.

What doesn’t human-capital accumulation mean? Big, bold real-estate projects.

At least, not at first. Frequently, “economic development” is interpreted to mean something that ends up looking like “supporting real estate development.” It’s the tax incentives, the “redevelopment authority,” the “urban renewal” initiatives. And don’t get me wrong—that can certainly a part of it. But what the idea of human-capital accumulation tells us (as opposed to physical capital accumulation) is that we don’t have to wait on the big projects to get finished, and we don’t necessarily need a new building or annex or water feature before we can start (or continue) developing economically.

To my mind, Fondren proves the point.

It was never a “build it, and they will come” economic-development project. It happened much more organically than that. Sure, some developers got in early and took risks there.

But they were smart business people who were already on the ground and could see that people were coming. So, they built. And more people keep coming.

The “three Ts” of Richard Florida’s thesis in the “Rise of the Creative Class” are “talent, technology and tolerance.” Talent is what we’re already talking about—finding, connecting and attracting human capital; we know from the numbers confirmed in the revision to “Rise of the Creative Class” in 2014 that Jackson ranks fairly well (79th metro of any size) as a creative-class city in

terms of the percentage of our workforce in creative-class jobs.

From there we turn to technology: The hospitals and universities are leading the way, but here, I think we could get some in the hands of folks on the ground. What’s the next initiative for an incubator or innovation lab or something on the streets where people can get their hands on good technology?

This not-fully-developed thought has been bugging me. Any of you who attended the Best of Jackson party this past January enjoyed a fun little party in the Landmark Center downtown—formerly BellSouth/AT&T headquarters in Jackson.

It makes me wonder about the “wires” going into that building or buildings like it downtown that are now mostly unoccupied. Maybe there’s “good bones” there to support a co-working or innovation lab of some sort? Some cheap rents to get some human capital accumulating?

And then there’s tolerance, which is a nice “t” word, but I prefer something more active such as embracing our diversity. Our efforts at economic development in Jackson should be uniquely “Jackson” and fully diverse in their approach to both our challenges and solutions. That means lots of human capital at the table and lots of ideas to cluster around.

Jackson needs people to innovate not just on shiny tech topics, but also on the questions of poverty and job creation, crime prevention, food pathways, municipal infrastructure, transportation, entrepreneurship and wealth creation. Given our high concentration of creative class workers—and universities and teachers and business leaders and non-profit thought leaders—we should be able to pull this off. It’ll be worth it—and it might even be fun.

Todd Stauffer is the president and publisher of the Jackson Free Press and BOOM Jackson magazine. Email todd@jacksonfreepress.com.

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Anna Wolfe

R.L. Nave

Ronni Mott

Julie Skipper

Genevieve Legacy

Tommy Burton

Trip Burns

Kimberly Griffin

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 the cover story.

R.L. Nave, native Missourian and news editor, roots for St. Louis (and the Mizzou Tigers)—and for Jackson.

Send him news tips at rlnave@ jacksonfreepress.com or call him at 601-362-6121 ext. 12. He wrote a news story.

Freelance writer Ronni Mott has been a Mississippian since 1997. She’s an award-winning writer and a yoga teacher, just stumbling and fumbling toward bliss like everyone else. She wrote an arts story.

Freelance writer and attorney Julie Skipper works and plays downtown. Ask her about it if you want an earful. She hopes to learn to cook one day, but mostly thinks of the kitchen as additional closet space. She wrote a food story.

Freelance writer Genevieve Legacy is an artist, writer and community development consultant. She works at Hope Enterprise Corporation and lives in Brandon with her husband and youngest son. She wrote a music story.

Music Listings Editor Tommy Burton is keeping the dream alive, one record at a time.

You can usually find him with a pair of headphones on. He compiled the music listings.

Send gig info to music@ jacksonfreepress.com.

Staff Photographer Trip Burns is a graduate of the University of Mississippi, where he studied English and sociology.

He enjoys the films of Stanley Kubrick. He took many photos for the issue.

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

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Siemens, City Headed for Showdown?

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fter months of complaints from hoping they have something to us by early 40 percent loss of its treated water, and imresidents about uncharacteristi- this week. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to have people over- prove water revenue collections. cally large water bills, slow prog- billed unnecessarily,â&#x20AC;? Powell told reporters.

Siemens subcontracted with Atlantaress on the city-wide installation Jackson Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. re- based Mueller Water Products Inc., for of 65,000 new water meters and skepticism ceived approval from the city council to ink Mueller Systemsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 420 Remote Disconnect about the prudence of a $90 million deal with Siemens AG, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public works director has halted the project as city and company officials scramble to figure out what went wrong and who will pay for the mistakes.

Speaking to reporters at City Hall on Feb. 13, Public Works Director Kishia Powell said she had issued a stop work order upon the discovery that several residents received water meters calibrated to read in gallons instead of cubic feet. Because there are approximately 7.5 gallons to one cubic foot, a reading of a gallon meter can result in a water bill that Powell says is 648 percent higher than it should be.

Powell, who joined the city Kishia Powell, director of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Public Works, suspended the meterfrom Baltimore, Md., last suminstallation project that is part of a $90 million contract with Siemens. mer, explained that a Jackson public-works inspector had found one of the gallon meters last week and a review the deal with Siemens in late 2012. The con- Meter. Jackson-based MAC Consultants of 3,000 meters turned up seven gallon me- tract called for the installation of 65,000 new LLC is the subcontractor the installation of ters. Now, Siemens must prepare a corrective meters that could be read remotely, an up- the meters. Marcus Wallace, MAC Consulaction plan with the city that will include graded online billing and payment system, tantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; president, declined to comment and inspection of the 31,000 meters that crews and repair of water and sewer lines. The goal referred questions to the city. A representahave already installed. was to improve the efficiency of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s waPRUH :$7(5 VHH SDJH â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are working on it now, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m ter system, which the estimates suffers from

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Siemens will have to foot the bill for the review. In the meantime, Powell also suspended the launch of a new online billing system, which was scheduled to go live over the weekend. That process came under scrutiny in December, when members of the city council questioned why the billing system switchover was so far behind. James

Covington of iVision IT Consultants, also a Siemens subcontractor hired to oversee the implementation of the Oracle-based customer-care and billing software system, said at the time that the city was understaffed, which slowed the pace of implementation.

Similar problems have arisen with Siemens projects in McComb and Monticello, Ark., where city officials entered mediation to end the contract and seek repayment of funds that the city claims Siemens wasted.

Last fall, Jackson Mayor Tony Yarber’s administration hired a consulting firm to review the city’s water department and analyze

the Siemens contract, which came with a performance guarantee.

Yarber says he regrets having voted to OK the Siemens contract when he served on the council. That vote became the subject of a rumored federal investigation, which Yarber has publicly denied.

In a recent interview with the Jackson Free Press, Yarber said while he would not necessarily terminate the Siemens deal, he would like the city to realize the cost savings promised in the original contract.

Other city council members have been reluctant to suggest ending the contract as

well. Jackson’s newest member of the council, however, made no bones about where he stands on it.

Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes, who rejoined the council earlier this month after spending three years on the Hinds County Board of Supervisors, told WLBT that he planned to propose terminating the contract at the next city council meeting.

“The Siemens contract seems to be a never-ending nightmare. The citizens are asking for help,” Stokes told WLBT. Comment at www.jfp.ms. Email R.L. Nave at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

Beyond Crime and Punishment

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illie Jerome Manning and Michelle Byrom were the last two people the state of Mississippi attempted to execute.

In each case, after the condemned prisoners seemed to exhaust their appeals

Mississippi trails on Louisiana for overall rate of imprisonment.

Belying these trends of being hard on criminals was another trend: a steadily declining crime rate in Mississippi and around the nation. A new report from

the State Public Defender. For a long time, Mississippi was going in the wrong direction, he argues.

“We were locking up too many of the wrong people,” de Gruy said.

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Locking up people up has had a negligible affect on dropping crime rates around the country, a new report finds.

in state and federal court, the attorney general’s office requested a date to carry out the execution at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. And in each case, the state Supreme Court found enough constitutional issues, including possible prosecutorial wrongdoing, to issue stays of execution and order both to receive new trials.

Until the state tried to execute Manning, Mississippi had the reputation as one of the toughest-on-crime states in the U.S. In 2012, when Mississippi executed six prisoners, the last coming that June with Gary Carl Simmons, Mississippi ranked second among the states for the death-penalty rate. At the same time,

the New York-based Brennan Center for Justice concludes that crime deterrents on which law-enforcement officials and policymakers have leaned for decades have had no significant effect on declining crime rates.

The report contains three main findings. First, its authors write that increased incarceration has a negligible crime-control benefit—only about 6 percent. As evidence, researchers cite prison population reductions in California, Michigan, New Jersey, New York and Texas that have taken place as crime continued to fall.

The findings do not surprise Andre de Gruy, who directs Mississippi’s Office of

ing prison-reform bill designed to keep low-level minor drug offenders out of prison. Currently, lawmakers are considering several amendments to that law that would increase certain penalties and sentences.

But the Brennan Center finds that today, crime rates are half what they were in 1991. In Jackson, for example, information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation show Jackson had a violent crime rate of 1,204 per 100,000 residents in 1991.

As of 2012, the most recent year for FBI data, Mississippi’s capital had a violent crime rate of 948 per 100,000 people.

“What was once seen as a plague, especially in urban areas, is now at least

manageable in most places. Rarely has there been such a rapid change in mass behavior.

This observation begs two central questions: Why has crime fallen? And to what degree is incarceration, or other criminal justice policy, responsible?” authors write.

“Social scientists and policy experts have searched for answers. Various explanations have been offered: expanded police forces, an aging population, employment rates, and even legalized abortion. Most likely, there is no one cause for such widespread, dramatic change. Many factors are responsible.”

In the meantime, local, state and federal governments have spent $80 billion each year on crime reduction, including more police and bigger jails and prisons.

However, tools such as CompStat, a computerized targeting tool that has grown in popularity and are used by departments including Jackson Police Department, played a role in bringing down crime anywhere from 5 to 15 percent decrease in crime in those cities that introduced it.

Additionally, social, economic, and environmental factors also played a role in the crime drop. They include an aging population, positive changes in income, decreased alcohol consumption, increased consumer confidence and even inflation.

De Gruy adds that the introduction of alternative programs such as drug courts, which Mississippi introduced 25 years ago, and mental health courts, which are newer but growing in use around the state, are helping reduce crime.

“I don’t think thinks it’s a coincidence,” de Gruy said. “So much crime is tied to drug addiction and drug abuse.

When you reduce that number you have to start reducing crime.”

Comment at www.jfp.ms. Email R.L. Nave at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

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LEGISLATURE: Week 6

Common Core Rollback Leads a Week of Capitol Politics

by Anna Wolfe

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ning for the Democratic nomination.

All this is to say, this election season could get wacky in the same way last year’s did. Still, legislators are getting some stuff done despite the political theatrics.

In the Senate, over six hours of debate on Feb. 11 resulted in lawmakers’ moving to: repeal the motor vehicle safety inspection law, ask the federal government to balance its budget, enact the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs and create a commission to replace Common Core standards.

Exchange Council bill, considering that it is nearly identical to a bill ALEC drafted.

When Blount asked why Mississippi would need to take measures to balance the federal budget instead of letting the U.S. speaker of the House of Representatives handle it, Fillingane said, “We all need encouragement.”

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hile the Mississippi Legislature advances several pieces of substantial legislation, some lawmakers appear to be gearing up to seek higher office. And voters this year will be subjected to new party primary rules due to a bill that the House passed Feb. 12.

After state Sen. Chris McDaniel’s messy Republican primary race against U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, politicians questioned the strength of Mississippi’s election law, which prohibits voters from crossing party lines to vote in a runoff.

One notable moment of the U.S. Senate race involved McDaniel gathering Facebook posts showing that some people who voted for Cochran intended to vote for Travis Childers in the general election—which McDaniel claimed proved illegal voting activity. House Bill 1069 would remove the law’s requirement that a person have the “intent” to vote for the same party’s candidate in both the primary and in the general election.

The bill could alleviate these concerns and eliminate politicians’ ability to make these difficult-to-prove accusations, House Elections Chairman Bill Denny, R-Jackson, suggested.

Voting in one party primary, then crossing party lines to vote in the opposite party’s primary runoff is already illegal, and remains illegal under this bill.

The bill would also create criminal penalties and a fine up to $200 for people who attempt to cross party lines to vote in a runoff.

Currently, the law only creates penalties for voters who try to vote more than once or in both party primaries on the same day. Rims Barber, a civil-rights veteran, said he is worried the new law might penalize voters even if they came to the wrong poll mistakenly.

Another heated McDaniel-led battle between the Tea Party and the GOP establishment may occur this election year, because McDaniel’s support group Facebook page changed its name to “Friends of Chris McDaniel for Lieutenant Governor.”

Scott Brewster—Facebook page moderator, former McDaniel campaign staffer and one of the Tea Party members officials found locked in the Hinds County Courthouse the night of the June 3, 2014, U.S. Senate primary—changed the group’s name a few hours after McDaniel’s political page published a post asking its followers if they supported Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves for reelection.

While McDaniel hasn’t released an official statement of intent to run for higher office, his super PAC, United Conservative Fund, is raising money and support. If he runs for lieutenant governor, he will be running against incumbent Reeves in the Republican primary. Former Republican and Elvis Presley impersonator Tim Johnson is run-

He’s back! Or is he? Clues suggest that state Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ellisville, may be planning a run for lieutenant governor this year.

Simultaneously, the House passed a bill that could greatly affect the future of third-grade students in the state.

Safety an Inconvenience?

Lawmakers passed Senate Bill 2518 with few voting in opposition to getting rid of the vehicle-inspection sticker requirement for Mississippi drivers.

The law, which Sen. Giles Ward, RLouisville, described as having “outlived its usefulness,” required vehicle owners to pay $5 to have their vehicles inspected each year.

Some senators, including Sen. Perry Lee, R-Mendenhall, expressed concern that freeing drivers from their duty to have their vehicle annually inspected may be dangerous and cause the roads to be filled with more unsafe vehicles. “ “We’re talking about human life,” said Sen. David Jordan, D-Greenwood.

Above Their Pay Grade With a 29-18 vote, the Senate passed SB 2389, which is a symbolic move for those who want a balanced federal budget. Sen. Joey Fillingane, R-Sumrall, introduced the bill, saying that it essentially just sends a message to the federal government, urging it to limit its spending, even as Mississippi is one of the biggest beneficiaries of federal dollars.

Democrats pressed Fillingane, worried that the bill would prevent Mississippi from getting needed federal dollars.

Sen. David Blount, D-Jackson, noted that SB 2389 is an American Legislative

and whether or not to hold back children who are not reading on grade level.

Amidst the passage of legislation supposedly geared toward tackling education issues in the state, some Mississippi lawmakers are highlighting the struggle around race in the state’s education system—and showing their true colors.

In an interview with The ClarionLedger, Rep. Gene Alday, R-Walls, said the state doesn’t need greater education funding.

Then he began to describe the problems in the districts with poor-performing schools. “(A)ll the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call ‘welfare crazy checks.’ They don’t work,” Alday said, repeating falsehoods that Mississippi racists have long repeated about African Americans.

Privatizing Special Education The Senate passed Senate Bill 2695, which would give a $7,000 scholarship account to parents of students with special needs, 27-21. The program, which is similar to one proposed in a bill that failed in the House last year, has been the point of much controversy, as it has been labeled a voucher.

The parent could spend the money on a number of approved services and tools, including tuition to private school.

Sen. Nancy Collins, R-Tupelo, presented the bill to her colleagues, assuring them that the money used for the scholarships will not be taken out of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program or the district. Democrats, again, pressed her, noting that the bill

serve only a small fraction of the 63,000 students with special needs in the state.

Collins repeated many times that she had Mississippi children in mind when authoring this bill—especially the disadvantaged ones. “The poorest children have the fewest options,” Collins said, whereas wealthy parents can sue the school district to try to get services.

Democrats noted, however, that the scholarships are first-come first-serve, and that disadvantaged parents probably won’t have the same knowledge and accessibility of the scholarships as wealthy parents.

Getting Rid of Common Core A new commission, made up of educational professionals and parents, would create new standards to replace Common Core under a bill the Senate passed. The body spent upward of one and a half hours discussing an amendment to the bill proposed

by Sen. Angela Hill, R-Picayune, that would bind the state to following the commission’s recommendations.

Conservative caucus members Sen. Michael Watson, R-Pascagoula, Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ellisville, and Sen. Melanie Sojourner, R-Natchez, all got behind Hill’s amendment and all vehemently claimed that if lawmakers didn’t vote for the amendment, they could not leave the Senate floor and claim to be against Common Core.

“Without implementation of this amendment, we’ve done nothing,” McDaniel said. The amendment failed 37-13. The Senate then passed SB 2161 to replace Common Core with only 14 voting against it.

Future of Fourth Grade Students with special needs, who have an Individualized Education Plan, would be exempt from being held back a grade due to the third-grade reading gate under the Literacy-Based Promotion Act, which the House passed last week.

Rep. Lataisha Jackson, D-Como, introduced a successful amendment to the bill, HB 745, to delay the gate one year for all students, which the House passed.

The third-grade gate, a keystone of Gov. Phil Bryant’s education reform last year, could have held back around 6,500 students who are not ready to pass the literacy test, she said when asking for a ramp-up period.

Gov. Phil Bryant responded to the House’s decision to delay the gate with a statement that read, “With votes like this, it is little wonder that Mississippi’s public education system has been an abysmal failure.”

The House also advanced legislation to raise teacher assistant pay to $15,000 annually, a $2,500 increase.

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bill with few voting in opposition, but it died on the calendar after a motion to reconsider.

But the House version is still alive.

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ith the same gusto as with last year’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Mississippi lawmakers are advancing new laws that appear to have little real effect. In the past week, legislators passed bills to prohibit courts from applying foreign law and two bills to prohibit the state from entering contracts with companies who have ties to Iran.

“We do not want to support a terrorist regime that is building weapons,” Sen. Nancy Collins, R-Tupelo, said on the floor in support of the act that died on the calendar.The House passed its version of the Iran Divestment Act of 2015, which now goes to the Senate.

Dan O’Flaherty, vice president of the National Foreign Trade Council, said the state legislators are doing work “above their pay grade.” Bill Chandler, executive director at the Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance, said these kinds of bills come as a result of exaggerated fear of terrorism.

“The Mississippi Legislature has plenty of important things to do,” said state Sen. David Blount, D-Jackson. “We’re not experts, however, in foreign policy or in other issues that are the responsibility of Congress.”

The Senate passed the Iran-divestment

Sen. Nancy Collins, R-Tupelo, pushed a bill that could forbid the state from doing business with Toyota.

have negative blowback because it could prevent the state from doing business with companies like Toyota Tsusho Corporation.

The company is the trading arm of the Toyota group, which encompasses Toyota Motor Company. Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi opened in November 2011 and employs 2,000 people.

It is unclear whether Sen. Collins knew that the legislation could affect the state’s ability to work with Toyota, which has a plant in Blue Springs, Miss. Calls to two Toyota representatives were not returned.

Other than putting a major vehicle plant in the state at risk, NFTC argues that the law violates the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Crosby v. NFTC, in which judges said that the law “undermines the President’s capacity for effective diplomacy.”

“There are obvious and valid reasons for concern about Iran’s nuclear program and human rights record. The United States must, however, act and speak with one voice to conduct an effective foreign policy,” William Reinsch, president of NFTC, wrote in a letter to Gov. Phil Bryant.

The House also passed an act to prohibit Mississippi courts from applying foreign law—like Sharia, the collection of Muslim religious law—in its cases. Only one lawmaker—Rep. Credell Calhoun, D-Jackson—voted against House Bill 177.

Antonia Eliason, an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law and international law expert, said any law that refers to banning Sharia law does

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not have any purpose but to express a “vague, anti-Muslim sentiment” and to fear monger.

“It does not actually express any understanding of what Sharia law is,” Eliason said.

“Sharia is mostly not what people think of.

It’s not chopping people’s hands off or beheading. A lot of it is financial, actually.”

Under Muslim law, for example, banks cannot charge interest.

“It’s not something that would ever go into our court system,” Eliason said.

While the law would prohibit something that’s not actually taking place, Chandler said it can have a negative impact on the Muslim community.

“Those kinds of (laws) give license to the attacks like what occurred in North Carolina,” Chandler said, referencing the Feb. 10 murder of three Muslims in the state that may have been racially motivated.

And Chandler said the bill illustrates a larger trend within the Legislature: “This whole direction they’re going in, along with the xenophobic bills that have been introduced, to me it’s a whole pattern of racism that has emerged now that the so-called conservatives have taken over both sides of the Legislature and the governor’s office.”

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Why It Stinks: Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public-education system may be challenged by chronic generational poverty and woeful underfunding, among other things, but one would be hard-pressed to say the state of education is abysmal in the face of so many success stories, which include Bryant.

Even if one were to concede Bryant on the point, the so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;3rd grade reading gateâ&#x20AC;? is hardly a solution to that failure. Like the public schools themselves, the 3rd grade reading program was essentially an unfunded mandate because implementation would have amounted to a tax increase for local schools. Pushing back full implementation seems like a sensible enough compromise with bipartisan support. The governor should embrace that spirit of cooperation instead of whining about not getting his wayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and tarring all schools.

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hankful that we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a measles outbreak in the state that is usually on the bottom of every healthcare indicator? We are. And weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re grateful that, at least on the vaccination front, conspiracy theories and pseudo science havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t kept the state from requiring sensible vaccinations for children, while allowing some room for exemptions. And cheers to the Legislature for turning back the anti-vax efforts so far.

But if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up to some of our anti-government politicians, that could change. If Tea Party members and the Republicans who are trying to woo their votes end up getting their way on vaccinations, our state could suddenly be much more dangerous for childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all children.

We understand parents wanting to be sure that vaccinations are safe for their kids and raising that issue. We can even see how the line between parental rights and the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fear of epidemics is a difficult one, especially for families.

But what is not in serious dispute is the science behind vaccinations. Neither is the willingness of some politiciansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from Sen. Chris McDaniel locally to U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and Gov. Chris Christie nationallyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to irresponsibly follow an anti-science movement because they see an opportunity to rally people against the government, much as many Republicans did with tort reform in past years. This time, though, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s simply children staring back from the other side.

Just like politicians who ignore the clear science of climate change, or the legislators who ignore the dangerous outcomes of many supposedly

tough-on-crime policies, they choose the easy votes over actually doing the homework and standing up to keep Americans and Mississippians safer.

Choosing simplistic politics over science and evidence-based policies is pushing the kind of antiintellectualism that many adults accuse young people of doing in schools to their classmates: basically belittling people who have bothered to do the hard work of homework and study in favor of sensationalistic and dangerous fear mongering.

Such anti-science rhetoric is irresponsible.

And in this case, the lives of all the children in our state, and nation, are on the line.

You can make the same argument for lawmakers who are trying to roll back smart criminal-justice reformsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that may actually keep minor criminals from becoming more dangerous onesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to respond to uninformed community calls for tougher laws and policing to curb crime. The sometimes-unpopular truth is that mass incarceration is a huge part of our crime machine, helping churn out more hardened criminals without stopping crime (see page 9).

But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy for politicians to pretend theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re being â&#x20AC;&#x153;tough on crimeâ&#x20AC;? by ignoring the data and research and just feeding some people the red meat they crave while making fun of those who bother to do the homework. Maybe this playground logic will help draw them a certain vote, but why be elected to serve the people if you choose to sell out science and data in order to be reelected?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a cycle we will never understand. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dangerous and needs to stop.

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nita Bryant took her place behind the microphone, seated next to her husband before a throng of reporters. In 1969, she had become the spokeswoman for the orange-juice industry and, by some opportunistic posturing, the public face for the anti-gay religious right in America.

She and her entourage had come to Des Moines, Iowa, after a successful campaign to repeal the Dade County ordinance banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. It was June 7, 1977.

Bryant, former beauty queen and pop star, had ascended to become the voice of decent God-fearing folks everywhere, and she was leading the charge against homosexuals and their wicked ways with the “Save Our Children” campaign.

“What these people really want, hidden behind obscure legal phrases, is the legal right to propose to our children that theirs is an acceptable alternate way of life,” she warned.

“As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children,” she said, adding, “If gays are granted rights, next we’ll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.”

Decades later, these words still conjure the specter of the sexually depraved homosexual agenda and the never-ending threat to American life and families.

There is, as the Bible tells us, nothing new under the sun.

The hours of sound bites and transcripts from hearings in state after state since the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 were struck down in June 2013 prove the anti-LGBTQ proponents have no new or legitimate arguments— only fear mongering and intentionally false statements about who we are and how we love.

In footage now on YouTube, Bryant spoke with pride about quelling the perceived tidal wave of gay rights across our nation. Her face practically radiated that Florida sunshine she peddled for America’s citrus lobby, and it’s easy to see why she was the face that America trusted— even loved. A face that, in one second, was smug in the knowledge that she was leading the charge and winning, and the next second struck silent when a gay man made his way through the crowd and delivered a pie to her face with the accuracy of a sidewinder missile. There were audi-

ble gasps as she picked away pie crust and meringue, then quipping, “At least it’s a fruit pie!”—a comment that whispered of stereotypes of gay men everywhere.

In the aftermath, the gay community led a national boycott of orange juice, endorsed by celebrities such as Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler and Mary Tyler Moore, proving to Florida’s citrus growers that the gay community had financial clout. By 1979, Anita’s contract as spokesperson was allowed to run out.

Eventually, bankrupted and divorced and having lost her national appeal due to the political controversy, she was quoted: “I’m more inclined to say live and let live; just don’t flaunt it or try to legalize it.”

Now, with marriage equality poised

the Legislature last week passed a state law to ban any of its towns from prohibiting discrimination against LGBTQ citizens.

Not unlike Anita Bryant back in the 1970s, today’s conservatives are using antiquated ideology about the LGBTQ community, the way we love and our ability to parent. Unlike Anita Bryant, scores of celebrities and sports figures are coming out as LGBTQ individuals or simply in support of full equality under the law. These days, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find a mainstream pop-culture figure willing to propagate the hateful rhetoric used in the past. It seems to me that the last frontier for vocal support of full rights and protections is for the everyday folks to speak up.

Over the weekend, Justin and I watched a documentary titled “For The Bible Tells Me So.” The film follows different families as they face the comingout process of family members. From the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, Gene Robinson, to former U.S. House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt’s loving inclusion of his lesbian daughter, the documentary shows what happens when the people we love stand up for us, fight for us, thus teaching the world that God’s love—and ours—is and should be unconditional.

I was especially touched by the mother whose lesbian daughter committed suicide before the pair could reconcile and by the 19-year-old who came out in high school, inspiring his parents to exhaust every avenue to understand the struggle of LGBTQ individuals and to become vocal advocates for change.

Evangelical conservatives like Bryan Fischer and Anita Bryant who, along with scores of others, are working to marginalize my community, deserve to hear from our friends and family who love and embrace us and our struggles—if not through a pie in the face.

These people may believe they are right in their words and actions, but the reality is they’re splitting families apart.

If you care about and truly love your neighbor, the time is now for you to stand up and let your voices be heard. There are too many of these fear agents at work today, and let’s face it, there’s not enough pie in the world for all of the smug faces still pushing hateful rhetoric.

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Same-sex couples could be fired as soon as they return from their honeymoons. to become the law of the land when the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the cases coming out of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, many of us have begun to raise awareness of the dangers of being a member of the LGBTQ community. In the days after couples across our nation could marry, they could also be fired as soon as they return from their honeymoons. Lawmakers and judges might be forced to accept same-sex marriage as the new status quo, but everyday folks that employ us can still conduct business as usual in a majority of states.

When Starkville passed an ordinance proclaiming the value of every citizen, including those from the LGBTQ community, many saw it as an opportunity to continue the push for full equality—a toe in the door, if you will.

A year later, in closed-door meetings, the Starkville Board of Aldermen voted to repeal the proclamation—an act of bull-headed defiance to a symbolic gesture of inclusion. But nobody flung pies on that day in Starkville, regrettably.

Many conservatives want to limit or completely roll back any and all protections for the LGBTQ community in the face of impending marriage equality, as we’ve seen recently in Arkansas, where

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ebecca Estepp is a San Diego mother whose son Eric developed a fever after his Hepatitis B shot when he was 9 months old. Estepp blames vaccinations for her son’s eventually di-

agnosed autism.

Two Oregon mothers—Jennifer Margulis and Lynn Barton—do not vaccinate their children by the federally recommended schedule in a state with one of the highest rates of vaccine exemptions in the country. “I think there are too many,

and they’re given too early,” Barton said in a CNN interview.

Mary Jo Perry, a Mississippi mother of three, fought for years to obtain a medical exemption for her middle son, John. He had seizures within days of being vaccinated eight years ago, when he was 5 years old. Her oldest son, who was vaccinated on schedule, “wound up with some autism-like stuff going on,” Perry told the Jackson Free Press.

National media outlets have produced myriad stories about vaccinations and preventable diseases in recent weeks, prompting heated debate. The media

have engaged conservative politicians, including U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who are supporting families resisting government-mandated vaccinations. They’ve told stories about parents of children with autism, parents of children with vaccine injuries, and parents who simply don’t want to subject their children to multiple shots before they’re 2 years old.

Locally, though, the media have not been able to report a story of a Mississippi mother with a child who has been infected with measles, mumps, rubella or any number of diseases that modern

medicine has helped to prevent and, in some cases, eradicate.

That is because Mississippi has the highest rate of vaccinations in the country—nearly 100 percent of its kindergarteners are up-to-date on their shots.

Mississippi is one of only two states in the country—the other being West Virginia—that only allows vaccine exemptions for medical reasons, not religious or philosophical. While other states are seeing a resurfacing of diseases, Mississippi children remain protected against them.

Perry, a Pelahatchie resident who is co-director of Mississippi Parents for

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Vaccine Rights, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see this as positive, because the high rate of vaccinations are due to the Mississippi Department of Healthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strict vaccination requirements.

She is leading the fight for more lenient vaccination laws in the state.

The timing of the anti-vaccination movement gaining political traction is interesting, coming soon after an outbreak of a disease once thought long gone in the United States.

Since December 2014, a measles outbreak across 14 states has infected more than 120 people nationwideâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;many of whom did not receive the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, referred to as MMR. The initial measles exposure occurred at Disneyland in California, a state where some areas have a vaccination rate as low as 50 percent.

Perry thinks the outbreak in places like California is more about illegal immigration as opposed to lenient vaccination laws in the states that are seeing a reemergence of preventable disease. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As far as outbreaks go â&#x20AC;Ś my question is, what is their vaccination status? And what is their citizenship status?â&#x20AC;? Perry said.

Regardless, Perryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts have made their way to the Mississippi Capitol, where childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health has become a political issue.

current national outbreak.

In 2000, the United States declared that vaccinations had effectively eliminated measles throughout the country.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The state doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t own your children.

Parents own the children.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sen. Rand Paul Victim of Success Dr. Thomas Dobbs, state epidemiologist district health officer, said any child who has adverse effects as a result of vaccines and hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t finished his or her schedule can get a medical exemption, the only kind of exemption the state allows. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are now saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;OK, this is what can happen,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Dobbs said of the

But the growing opposition to vaccines is beginning to dial back the achievement.

Some people believe the risks associated with vaccinations outweigh the risk of the diseases they are designed to prevent.

The medical community, which reports that the risks associated with vaccinations are lower than that of aspirin, couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t disagree more.

Health professionals such as Dobbs

conclude that vaccinations have become a victim of their own success. Young parents today havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lived through the devastation of the diseases that vaccinations have nearly eliminated.

Vaccinations have completely eradicated polio, smallpox and diphtheria in the United States, reduced the number of cases of measles, mumps and rubella by 99 percent, and greatly decreased the frequency of several other infectious diseases, such as flu and pneumonia.

But immunization is a collective effort, a fact that seems lost on many of those fighting against vaccines. For example, 95 percent of children must be vaccinated against measles for the vaccine to be effective in preventing the spread of the disease.

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reacting initially is more out of fear and not out of reason and logic,” McDaniel said. “Now, me personally—I’ve got two kids—we chose to vaccinate. But I believe ultimately that’s a parental choice.”

‘No One Has To Be Immunized’ Instead of responding to the theme park-centered epidemic by taking measures to ensure children are protected,

Now, the effort in Mississippi centers on giving parents the ability, by way of state-granted vaccine exemptions, to send their unvaccinated children to school.

McDaniel authored Senate Bill 2800, a vaccine-exemption bill, which would have allowed unvaccinated children to attend school if the parent signed an affidavit claiming the vaccination is “contrary to their beliefs.”

The bill died in committee.

But House Bill 130—which, in its

ment of Health—which grants all legitimate medical exemptions it receives, Dobbs said—and MSDH notifies the school. HB 130 would have cut MDH out of the process: Doctors would send medical exemptions directly to the child’s school.

But Dobbs believes that the Department of Health should remain in the exemption process because it has an obligation to prevent the spread of diseases among Mississippians. “We think it’s im-

original form, would have done the same thing—remained alive until Feb. 12. It died on the calendar, but like many lawmakers say, a bill isn’t dead until it’s dead, dead, dead. Author Rep. Mark Formby, R-Picayune, along with 23 additional authors, supported an exemption from vaccinations for “conscientious beliefs.”

After the House Public Health Committee made amendments, HB 130 remained just a carcass of what it once was—a “parental choice” bill.

The committee scrapped language that would have created a philosophical vaccine exemption and the ability for parents to get exemptions from doctors anywhere in the country.

Instead, the bill would have made technical changes to the way the state processes medical exemptions from vaccines. Today, when a doctor grants a medical exemption, the doctor sends the request to the Mississippi State Depart-

portant for public health (authorities) to remain in the mix,” Dobbs said.

The bill would also allow parents to receive medical exemptions from doctors in bordering states, not just from Mississippi doctors, as current law requires.

Perry said she thinks the bill died partly because it’s an election year, but that HB 130 isn’t the end of MPVR’s fight to change vaccination law in the state. “We’re making plans to start preparing for next year,” she said.

“We’re not quitting.”

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Mary Jo Perry, co-director of Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights, fought this year for a more lenient vaccination law.

Mississippi politicians are jumping at the chance to get behind what some see as an anti-government political wedge issue—one that may have more currency than the wedge issues of the recent past.

With LGBT rights gaining momentum nationwide and federal decisions knocking down recent attempts to limit a woman’s right to access abortion, the far right is losing some ground in the culture wars. But the “vaccine choice” movement could be exactly what conservatives need to prove their dedication to “family first” values—and convince voters of their hearty distrust of the government.

Of course, parents in the U.S. already have the option to vaccinate or opt out of vaccinating their child. But opting out in a state such as Mississippi means limiting other privileges. “No one has to be immunized,” Dobbs said. “You have to be immunized if you’re going to enter the public space and put others at risk.”

Persuasive, Discredited Report A great deal of today’s vaccine controversy stems from a discredited study

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violate the Constitution.

Twenty states give exemptions for philosophical reasons and the rest—excluding West Virginia, which only has medical exemptions—give exemptions for religious reasons.

The anti-vaccine movement is rooted in states such as California, Washington and Oregon, with combinations of liberal and so-called “crunchy” cultures with a general desire to live naturally, with pockets of anti-government residents who oppose vaccinations for more political reasons.

Dobbs said he gets the health concerns: He eats whole foods and hates preservatives.

“I understand the compulsion to be natural,” Dobbs said. “But to some level, what has been natural historically is not good for people. What’s natural is for people to die before they’re 40. What’s natural is for 50 percent of women to die in childbirth. What’s natural is for the majority of children to die in infancy.”

Somewhat disconcerting in this “debate” is that the media haven’t just given the vaccine pulpit to parents, but to public officials, who have offered their opinion without using any scientific evidence to back it up.

With politicians like Rand Paul and Chris Christie speaking out in favor of parental choice in regards to vaccinations, the movement expanded to include more than hippies—now it’s got libertarians and the Tea Party in its ranks.

“I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines,” said Paul, who is a trained ophthalmologist.

“I’m not arguing vaccines are a bad idea. I think they are a good thing, but I think the parent should have some input. The state doesn’t own your children.

Parents own the children. And it is an issue of freedom and public health.”

The day after Paul made that statement, he walked it back somewhat, even making his own vaccine booster shot public. But the damage was done.

Christie touted parental choice after offering up, “We vaccinated ours.”

“Parents need to have some measure of choice in things as well, so that’s the balance that the government has to decide,” Christie said.

Mississippi’s own Tea Party darling, Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ellisville, echoed these sentiments and filed his own vaccine-exemption bill—which drew outrage from citizens who are proud of the state’s strong public health policy regarding preventable diseases.

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about their children’s health, can connect and reinforce each other on the Internet.

David McRaney, a Hattiesburg science journalist and author of the book “You’re Not So Smart,” said the Web is not the Star Trek-esque knowledge repository people thought it was going to be.

Instead, the Internet can be a “very, very dangerous tool” within the anti-vaccine movement, McRaney said, because it allows people to confirm “times a billion” what they already believe, regardless of whether those beliefs are misinformed or just dead wrong.

The Internet, McRaney suggests, has taught laypeople that scientific studies are “up for interpretation.”

The Power of Anecdote Members of MPVR, Perry said, read and share articles—from conspiracy blogs to peer-reviewed articles regarding vaccines—with each other. “Doctors always tell you, ‘Stay off the Internet,’ but that’s where all that stuff is published,” Perry said.

But mostly, MPVR members share their stories. And out of everything they do, it’s the stories that are most persuasive.

Uri Hasson, a psychology professor at Princeton University, studied the effects of storytelling and found that telling stories actually shapes a person’s thinking and connects listeners to tellers.

“By simply telling a story, the woman could plant ideas, thoughts and emotions into the listeners’ brains,” Hasson stated in his study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Stories force the brain to find causeand-effect relationships, Hasson found, and activate parts of the brain that causes a listener to integrate the story with his or her own idea and experience.

But scientists and medical professionals can’t necessarily tap into that medium.

While doctors who vaccinate young patients help protect them against serious illnesses, it is impossible to determine which patient would have gotten sick had he or she not been vaccinated.

Thus, doctors have no personal story and no emotional anecdote to back up the science. “It makes it very difficult. …

You have to use statistics,” Dobbs said.

“Medical concepts are complicated, and it’s difficult to boil anything down to a simple black-and-white scenario.”

Usually, statistics are hardly compel-

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conducted in the United Kingdom that two of them are going in together and fil- problems prove that the fear is warranted, the respected medical journal, The Lan- ing a formal complaint.” he said. While science definitively shows cet, published in 1998.

On Feb. 3, the Daily Caller, a D.C.- the safety and benefits of vaccinations, Dr. Andrew Wakefield conducted based conservative news publication, re- McCarthy is spreading fear of them simthe study, which he claims draws a link ported that Thompson has whistleblow- ply based on her instincts. between the Measles, Mumps and “Evan is my science,” McCarRubella, or MMR, vaccine and authy told Oprah Winfrey in 2007. tism. He blamed the vaccination In November, the Jackson Free for the increase in autism diagnoses Press published a short feature in the last half of the 20th century. about Mississippi’s stringent vacA panel from the General cination laws and the fact that the Medical Council in Great Britain state does not allow vaccine exempfound that Wakefield’s study was tions based on philosophical or relifraudulent and barred him from gious reasons, as 48 other states do. practicing medicine in the United It highlighted MPVR co-director Kingdom in 2010.

Perry’s experiences with vaccinatIn 2004, the U.S. Centers for ing her young children, but gave Disease Control and Prevention reminimal context of the effect vacleased a study showing that no link cinations have had in the history Dr. Thomas Dobbs, state epidemiologist district between the MMR vaccination of the United States by eradicating health officer, believes Mississippi’s vaccination and autism. The journal Pediatrics infectious disease. law, which only allows for exemptions based on published the report.

At that time, the mainstream medical reasons, keeps Mississippi children safe.

“The combination of the news was yet to be overwhelmed clearly fraudulent document and with reports of the measles outthe overwhelming scientific evidence ing immunity and that the researcher break or politicians calling vaccinations that there’s no association with autism, “is working closely with a congressman’s an “issue of freedom,” as Rand Paul did in every scientist’s mind, have removed office to tell his story to lawmakers on Feb. 2. the doubts around (the MMR vaccine),” Capitol Hill.” No major news outlets The JFP article received almost 600 Dobbs said. have verified this information. comments—from leery parents and medLater, U.K. journalist Brian Deer After the Lancet initially published ical experts—before the moderator closed uncovered that Wakefield accepted mon- Wakefield’s paper, the U.K. media had a the forum due to personal attacks. The ey from a lawyer who was suing vaccine field day, helping spread the misinforma- commenters who applauded Mississippi’s makers. The Lancet distanced itself from tion into the homes of well-meaning par- high vaccination rate spoke condescendWakefield’s study in the decade after its ents throughout the early 2000s. ingly to the “anti-vaxxers,” calling them publication, and the journal finally reDobbs said the Lancet article ignorant. Those who believe parents nounced the paper in 2010. “poured kerosene” on an already stirred- should have more choice in vaccinations “But certainly, some people will al- up issue. “It lit a fire that hasn’t been put ways choose to believe, regardless of the out, unfortunately,” Dobbs said. Though overwhelming evidence, if it fits their be- no study has ever repeated the findings lief structure,” Dobbs said. in Wakefield’s study, Dobbs said, “there’s Since the allegations of fraud against still a lot of leftover effect.”

Wakefield surfaced, and the U.K. medical community ostracized him, the doctor has served as a martyr in the anti-vaccination ‘Science, Shmience’ community. Perry referenced Wakefield’s work to the Jackson Free Press, suggesting An uptick in vaccine fear came in that the medical community may have 2007, when actress Jenny McCarthy been trying to silence him. announced that her son, Evan, was di“Where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” agnosed with autism. She claimed she Perry said. immediately noticed a difference in her Recently, an alleged CDC whistle- son’s personality after his doctor vaccinatblower, William Thompson, threw a bone ed him, which she believed triggered his to those already skeptical of the safety of condition. Over the following years, Mcvaccines. In August 2014, he claimed that Carthy appeared on numerous talk shows U.S. Sen. Rand Paul joined the vaccine discussion when he called vaccination researchers omitted data from the 2004 to tell Evan’s story. requirements an issue of freedom.

CDC report. Thompson, another hero in In a Feb. 1, 2015, New York Times the anti-vaccine movement, alleged that story, Seth Mnookin, co-director of MIT’s he and the other researchers purposefully Graduate Program in Science Writing, responded by invoking their children and limited the number of African American stated that McCarthy “has had more to dismissing hard evidence with responses children used in the study, and that the do with popularizing the notion that vac- such as “science, shmience.” omitted data could have proved a link be- cines are dangerous than any other single This isn’t unusual. Hostile Internet tween autism in African American chil- person in the United States.” exchange is currency for the anti-vaccine dren and vaccinations.

McCarthy didn’t just create an at- movement.

“He’s getting together with Andrew mosphere of fear around immunizations One reason the rhetoric has become Wakefield, who was labeled a quack back across the country, she promoted the idea so strident in the last few years is because in 2000 for his study,” Perry said. “The that the stories of children with medical parents, who have genuine concerns

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ling. And, over the course of the antivaccine movement, the media have fed into the sensationalism. “Reporting fell into this on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand fallacy—this notion that if you have two sides that are disagreeing that means you should present both of them

not well understood and often misinterpreted.

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a study to see how parents reacted after reading in a CDC notice that the MMR vaccine does not cause autism. Nyhan wanted to see how different messaging regarding vaccines influence a parent’s decision to vaccinate.

Participating parents were actually less likely to say that they would vaccinate

to a highly rigorous trial process.

Each study “will be torn to pieces, ridiculed, criticized and generally pooped on by scientists around the world. If it passes all of that peer review, it will then be added to a pile of evidence, but it will just be a tiny pebble,” McRaney said.

“Scientists work to build mountains out of those pebbles, and they call those mountains ‘theories,’” he added. “Unfortunately, in everyday language, the word ‘theory’ doesn’t mean the same thing as it does among scientists, and that had led to a lot of confusion over the years.”

Science, McRaney said, is a tool that people use to test and disconfirm their beliefs, whereas it is human nature to gather only the evidence that confirms beliefs.

“That’s what’s happening with the vaccine deniers. They have a hunch and do everything they can to prove it is right,” McRaney said.

Dobbs said there isn’t an easy solution, but adds that scientists, doctors and political leaders must base policy on valid research to maintain the health of Mississippians.

“It’s really challenging, but probably

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with equal weight,” Mnookin said.

In this way, reporters have written about an issue of public health and given unscientific voices with emotional anecdotes the same authority as medical professionals. As Mnookin points out, the scientists can’t really compete for influence against parents’ heart-felt personal experiences.

“Anecdote is powerful, and certainly, a person’s belief in something or a story is very powerful,” Dobbs said.

But children dying of preventable diseases, Dobbs said, is powerful, too.

The fact is, stories are not science, and anecdotes are not data, Dobbs notes, and medical professionals must refer to the valid scientific studies when creating public policy.

“There are certain problems with stories,” Dobb said. “What someone thinks is the reality may not always be reality.”

Dobbs said, for example, that people with gastrointestinal diseases quickly blame the last meal they ate for their sickness. If a person with a food-borne illness ate at a restaurant just before becoming sick, that restaurant becomes the culprit in that person’s mind.

Yet, food-borne illnesses take more than a day to incubate.

“So clearly, it was not that restaurant. But no matter how much you try to explain to someone that it’s impossible for it to be that most recent meal, people’s temporal association makes them unequivocally connected to that most recent exposure,” Dobbs said.

Perry’s story reflects this trend.

“When you watch your child do a trust fall on the kitchen floor and have a convulsion when he was perfectly healthy before … you know what you saw, and you know what happened, and you don’t care what the science says,” Perry said.

What’s worse, scientific speech is

in interview earlier this month.

The results demonstrate a phenomenon called the “backfire effect,” which explains that some people’s established beliefs don’t change when he or she is presented with contradictory evidence—they actually gets stronger.

This could be why authorities on scientific processes, like vaccinations, have a hard time convincing people who already have their minds made up to trust the evidence. When a doctor tells a person who believes vaccines are unsafe that he or she is wrong, the “backfire effect” can make that parent more vehement that he or she is right—not the doctor.

The effect has already “primed that person to hate what you’re about to say,” McRaney said.

To avoid the backfire effect, McRaney said, scientists must never repeat misinformation—that vaccinations cause autism, for example—when countering it. They should only provide accurate information.

Ultimately, McRaney blames a misunderstanding of the scientific process for the disconnect between medical profes-

David McRaney, a scientific journalist based in Hattiesburg, has researched the way laypeople, who do not have a scientific background, justify their irrational beliefs. He warns about the “backfire effect.”

their child after seeing the accurate message (that there is no link between vaccines and autism)—the opposite of what Nyhan would have liked to see.

“What we found is that telling people the correct information wasn’t actually effective,” Nyhan told The New York Times

sionals and laypeople.

While McCarthy, Perry and other anti-vax parents around the world draw their reality from their individual “experiment”—the one they birthed—the scientific community conducts many, many studies and must subject their conclusions

the most powerful thing that can be done is to empower everyone to be able to look at things more scientifically,” Dobbs said.

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efore the actors hit the boards for an early “stumble- an 18th-century commedia ommedia dell’arte ’arte classic, Carlo Goldoni’s It’s what director Reynolds calls “true slapstick.” through” rehearsal of “One Man, Two Guvnors” at “Servant of Two Masters.” Players adept in that Italian for“It’s a huge challenge for the actors because they have New Stage Theatre, Joe Frost straps on knee and mat (literally “comedy of art” or “comedy of professionals”) to be structured, yes. They have to keep it moving; it can’t be elbow pads and uses the crook of a cane to massage combined stock comedic characters (the colorful Harlequin slow. But there also has to be the sense of relaxed-ness with a sore back muscle, while Jessica Wilkerson practices a tricky originated in the genre) and familiar plots with physical com- them, looseness that doesn’t appear loose,” she says. “… It bit of her English accent. edy, and they improvised dialog at specific points in the plays. does have to be controlled.”

“Lloyd. Lloyd. Lloyd,” Wilkerson says repeatedly, trying The improvisations allowed the cast to tailor the plays to their “What’s really exciting about this format is that you’re to make her flat-sounding Os rounder. audiences and current events and include bawdy jokes that never going to see the same show twice,” adds David Lind, Other players strategically place rectangular blue couldn’t be part of the scripts. who plays Stanley Stubbers. “If your friend goes to see it one pads—the type you might see in a gym to provide safe “One Man, Two Guvnors” uses the format for British night and you go another night, different things are going to landings for balance-beam acrobats—upstage. The ac- comedy in the “Bennie Hill Show” vein: Pratfalls, audience happen.” Lind, who hails from San Antonio, Texas, attended tion in “One Man, Two Guvnors” won’t be limited to just interaction and asides combine with slightly blue humor and Millsaps College and, like Sanders, interned at New Stage bewalking, sitting and talking. rapid-fire dialog in a 1963 time frame. fore heading to New York City, where he’s now based.

“It’s controlled chaos,” says The plot of “One Man, Two GuKerri Sanders, who plays Rachel vnors” goes something like this: Two Crabbe. A Mississippi native, Sandgangsters (the guvnors of the title), ers interned with New Stage three Stubbers and Roscoe Crabbe, sepayears ago and stayed on to teach the rately hire Henshall as their personal theater’s youth troop. assistants. Roscoe, though, is actually Frost, who teaches theater at Rachel Crabbe, Roscoe’s twin sister, Belhaven University, plays perpetuand Stubbers is both Rachel’s lover and ally hungry Francis Henshall, the lead Roscoe’s killer. Mistaken identities, character, who is supposed to be fat. mayhem and hilarity ensue as HenBut Frost is losing weight, and direcshall tries to keep Rachel and Stubtor Francine Reynolds is threatening bers from discovering that he works to put him in a fat suit. for both of them, Rachel tries to avoid “You try different physical things discovery (including from Roscoe’s exwith different lines and try to find fiance Pauline, who is now engaged to the one that’s going to give you the Alan Dangle), Stubbers lies low, and maximum amount of chaos and enHenshall just wants to eat. ergy and comedy while not complete“It’s confusing on purpose,” ly over-running the elements of plot,” Frost says. His character, Henshall, Frost says of his intensely physical role, may seem bumbling and a little dense, which leaves him sweating and pantbut don’t be fooled. “I’m a guy with a ing with each run-through. “… There plan. Every little way I can think of to are motivations that drive every single get more money and scheme to find bit of silliness that happens.” some food somewhere, that’s what I’m The play, the newest New Stage going to do.”

Theatre offering, first debuted in That and get the girl, of course.

London at the National Theatre’s “One Man, Two Guvnors” is at New Lyttelton Theatre in 2011. London Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St., 601critics gushed and raved. The play 948-3533) from Feb. 17 through March received a dozen award nominations 1. Curtain is 7:30 p.m. Tuesday though when it ran on Broadway in 2012, Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sundays. General winning both a Tony and an Outer admission is $28, with discounts for seniors, Critics Circle Award. students and groups. Buy tickets by phone Kerri Sanders (Rachel Crabbe), Joseph Frost (Francis Henshall) and David Lind (Stanley Stubbers) Playwright Richard Bean adaptor online at newstagetheatre.com. Visit the star in “One Man, Two Guvnors,” which runs at New Stage Theatre Feb. 17 through March 1. ed “One Man, Two Guvnors” from website for additional information.

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Join Us For The 56th Annual Mississippi

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or Ron Guerieri, one of the partners at Livingston Mercantile, everything old is new again. Seated at a table at The Gathering, the restaurant side of the property, he explains the venue’s concept as a throwback in time that’s also part of a “rebirth of Livingston.”

Guerieri’s business partner, Bowen Eason, first began renting the property from David Landrum six years ago, and he envisioned it as a way to be part of the development of a new community. The complex also includes a gas station, general store and retail area featuring local products.

Eason had restaurant industry experience, having worked for 30 years with the Outback Steakhouse chain. When he and Guerieri, who worked in the coffee industry and had a family history with retail, partnered up three years ago, the two hatched an idea combining all three experiences.

“My grandfather owned a general store outside Belzoni, Mississippi,” Guerieri says. “With that (memory), I felt as this community developed, there was a need for people to be able to get convenience items, supplies and gasoline, in addition to having a community place to gather.”

The partners see The Gathering res-

taurant at Livingston Mercantile as a place of community. The open floor plan creates a warm space, with poured concrete floors, a ceiling of reclaimed metal roofing from an old barn and a bar of recycled wood.

A welcoming deck where guests can enjoy incredible sunsets accommodates up to 40 and, come warmer weather, it will have a service bar and live music.

In keeping with southern history and charm, chef Paul Adair oversees The Gathering’s breakfast, lunch and dinner service. Adair is a native of northeast Jackson who graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in New York City and worked stints at Eleven Madison Park, a restaurant in the city, The Gathering at Livingston Mercantile has a large, welcoming space to dine in or hang out.

and at several restaurants in the Hudson River Valley before returning to Mississippi in June 2013 to be the sous chef at Table 100 in Flowood. His formal training and experience in New York taught Adair “about seasonality and technique,” he says, and a mentorship under Joel Miller at The Ravine in Oxford from 2007 to 2010 “got

me hooked on local sourcing,” he adds.

Adair’s fine-dining technique and Mississippi roots meld at The Gathering.

“Everything I put on the menu has to be southern in nature—either through indigenous ingredients or preparation in a southern way,” he says.

That may mean a Reuben sandwich made with pulled pork and chow-chow instead of corned beef and sauerkraut, or (at dinner) pork rillettes—a French dish similar to a pâté. Adair believes it’s important to introduce people to new techniques and ingredients in a way that’s not intimidating.

That provides a sense of comfort and builds the customer trust he values.

He also takes great passion in everything he does. “I like techniques like braising that take a lot of time, and putting things on a plate properly and with care is really important,” he says.

Buying and selling local products is important to Adair and Guerieri. “We want to support our local economy and be a part of our community,” Guerieri says.

“When we were planning the restaurant, Paul (Adair) went to these farms and met with the farmers.” He cites as examples greens and lettuces from Salad Days Produce in Flora and eggs from The Brown Egg Company delivered fresh from Bentonia twice a week.

Taking local one step further, Guerieri adds that the restaurant recently purchased a young hog, which he will raise off-site.

Eventually, it will end up roasted, used in part for a celebration event and in regular menu items.

Diners who want to take some local flavor home can do so via the restaurant’s retail store. It features products from some of its vendors, such as the eggs from The Brown Egg Company, as well as privatelabel Livingston Mercantile products, including all-natural sodas in unique flavors like strawberry-jalapeño and hibiscus lemon. You can purchase syrups and the same locally roasted and ground coffees poured from French presses during dinner service at the restaurant.

The Gathering’s owners see it as a key player in the Livingston community and recognize that its success will be a group effort. “I’ve been lucky to have a good, hard-working team” to open the restaurant, Adair says.

Guerieri echoes that sentiment, adding that though it’s been a challenge to find and train team members, the staff is focused on “pleasing customers, making a fun experience and building loyalty.”

While he looks back to when Livingston was the first county seat of Madison in the 1800s, Guerieri knows that The Gathering at Livingston Mercantile will be a vibrant part of the town’s future.

For more information on The Gathering at Livingston Mercantile (106 Livingston Church Road, Madison County, 601-6674282), visit livingstonmercantile.com.

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At Home on the Farmstead is at Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum.

Hattiesburlesque is at Duling Hall.

Spaytacular in Spayce is at Table 100.

BEST BETS FEB. 18 - 25, 2015

One Man, Two Guvnors” is 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.” Performances continue Feb. 19-21, 7:30 p.m., Feb. 22, 2 p.m., Feb. 24-28, 7:30 p.m., and March 1, 2 p.m. $28, $22 seniors and students; call 601-948-3533, ext. 222; newstagetheatre.com.

“One Man, Two Guvnors,” featuring Joseph Frost as Francis Henshall and Jessica Wilkinson as Dolly, is on stage Feb. 18 to March 1, at New Stage Theatre.

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Back in the Day Black History Celebration is at 6 p.m. at New Hope Baptist Church (5202 Watkins Drive). The theme is “Youth Heritage Night,” and the guest speaker is Dr. Mark Henderson of MADDRAMA. African attire encouraged. Free; call 601-981-8696. … Mississippi Academy of Ancient Music Concert is at 7:30 p.m. at St. James Episcopal Church (3921 Oakridge Drive). The ensemble Armonia Celeste performs 17th century Italian vocal music with theorbo. $20, $5 students; call 601-594-5584; ancientmusic.org.

& Purchase is Feb. 20 from 9 a.m.-noon, and the regular sale is Feb. 20 from noon-6 p.m. and Feb. 21 from 7 a.m.-2 p.m. $40 reveal party, $10 Peek & purchase, $3 regular admission; jljackson.org. … Mr. Sipp the Mississippi Blues Child performs at 9 p.m. at Underground 119 (119 S. President St.). $10; call 601-352-2322; email underground119music@ gmail.com; underground119.com.

SATURDAY 2/21

Ignite the Night is at 7 p.m. at the Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Highland Drive). This year’s theme is “UnBY MICAH SMITH der the Big Top!” The adultsonly event includes circus acts, JACKSONFREEPRESS.COM food, arcade games, a wine raffle and a drawing. $75, raffle tickets: FAX: 601-510-9019 $20 or $100 for six, $10 arcade DAILY UPDATES AT ticket; call 601-981-5469; misJFPEVENTS.COM sissippichildrensmuseum.com. … Laugh & Listen is at 7 p.m. at the Mediterranean Fish and Grill (The Med) (6550 Old Canton Road, Ridgeland). Includes stand-up comedy from Rita B., poetry from MellowME, Mental Masterpiece and Pretty Dany, and music from DJ Energizer. For ages 21 and up. $10; call 601-956-0082; email energizrent@gmail.com.

composer James Sclater. Mezzo soprano Dr. Viola Dacus is the featured performer. Free; call 601-622-7978; freewebs.com/metropolitanchamberorchestra.

MONDAY 2/23

The Voices of Mississippi Winners Concert is at 7 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The 10 winners from last year’s Voices of Mississippi Competition perform, including first place winners Rebecca Sorensen and Edwin Davis. Cash bar at 6:30 p.m. $20; call 601-960-2300; email arden@ardenland.net; msopera.org.

EVENTS@ TUESDAY 2/24

FRIDAY 2/20

Junior League Jumble is from 9 a.m.-noon at the Old Kroger in Ridgeland (2000 E. County Line Road, Ridgeland). The rummage sale is a fundraiser for the Junior League of Jackson. Reveal party is Feb. 19, 7-10 p.m., Peek

SUNDAY 2/22

Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra of Metro Jackson Concert Two: “Made in America” is at 3 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral (305 E. Capitol St.).

Enjoy selections from Copland, Dvorak and Mississippi

WEDNESDAY 2/25

Spring Musical: Godspell is at 7 p.m. at the Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive) in Blackbox Theatre. Performances continue Feb. 26-27, 7 p.m., and Feb. 28, 2 p.m. $10, $5 seniors and students; call 601-965-7026; belhaven.edu. … The “Yazoo Revisited: Integration and Segregation in a Deep Southern Town” Screening is from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.) in the Student Center Theater. Includes a Q&A with filmmaker David Rae Morris. Free; call 601-979-3935; jsums.edu/margaretwalkercenter.

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International Blues Challenge-winning guitarist Mr. Sipp the Mississippi Blues Child performs Friday, Feb. 20, at Underground 119.

Music in the City is at 5:15 p.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). In Trustmark Grand Hall. Cash bar and music from Gena Everitt with Coleman Pearce at 5:45 p.m. Free, donations welcome; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

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#/--5.)49 Military, Veterans, Spouses and Dependents Job Fair Feb. 18, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., at Metrocenter Mall (1395 Metrocenter Drive). Participants should dress appropriately for an interview and bring multiple copies of a resume. Free; call 601-321-7931; jobfairs.ms.gov.

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

Events at William F. Winter Archives and History Building (200 North St.) • History Is Lunch Feb. 18, noon-1 p.m.

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.

• History Is Lunch Feb. 25, noon-1 p.m.

Historian Clarence Hunter presents “Three Chaplains,” a program about influential staff at Tougaloo College. Free; call 601576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us.

Lenten Lunch Feb. 19, 11:30 a.m., at Wells United Methodist Church (2019 Bailey Ave.).

The speaker is Rev. Chuck Poole, pastor of Northminster Baptist Church. Free; call 601-353-0658; email admin@wellschurch.org; wellschurch.org.

Governor’s Arts Awards Feb. 19, 4:30 p.m., at Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive). In the concert hall. Recipients include the Lane Chapel Quartet, Maude Schuyler Clay, Chesney Blankenstein Doyle, Craig Wiseman and the MSU Riley Center.

Free; call 601-359-6030; arts.ms.gov.

Back in the Day Black History Celebration Feb. 19, 6 p.m., at New Hope Baptist Church (5202 Watkins Drive). The theme is “Youth Heritage Night,” and the guest speaker is Dr. Mark Henderson of MADDRAMA. Includes a reception. African attire encouraged. Free; call 601-981-8696.

Junior League Jumble Feb. 19, 7-10 p.m., Feb. 20, 9 a.m.-noon, noon-6 p.m., Feb. 21, 7 a.m.-2 p.m., at the Old Kroger in Ridgeland (2000 E. County Line Road, Ridgeland). The rummage sale is a fundraiser for the Junior League of Jackson.

Reveal Party is Feb. 19, 7-10 p.m., Peek & Purchase is Feb. 20 from 9 a.m.-noon, and the regular sale is Feb. 20 from noon-6 p.m. and Feb. 21 from 7 a.m.-2 p.m. $40 reveal party, $10 Peek & purchase, $3 regular sale admission; jljackson.org.

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Millsaps Spring Public Forum Feb. 20, 12:30 p.m., at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). In room AC 215. Panelists discuss the commemoration of Millsaps College’s 125th anniversary. Free; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu.

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Fifth Annual Mississippi Early Childhood Alliance Conference Feb. 21, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.).

On third floor of the Student Center. Participants learn to provide quality educational skills and strategies in early childhood classrooms. Registration required. $20 advance, $15 undergraduate students; $25 (cash only); call 601-979-1476; email mli2003@jsums.edu; mlims.org.

Jackson Black Business Expo Feb. 21, noon-5 p.m., at Tougaloo College (500 W. County Line Road, Tougaloo). Jackson Black Pages hosts the event in the Owens Health and Wellness Center to establish a working network of black-owned businesses in the metro area. Vendor booths and advertisers welcome. Free admission; call 601675-2596; email jacksonblackpages@gmail.com; expo.jacksonblackpages.com.

Ignite the Night Feb. 21, 7 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Highland Drive). This year’s theme is “Under the Big Top!” The adultsonly event includes circus acts, food, arcade games, a wine raffle and a drawing. $75, raffle tickets: $20 or $100 for six, $10 arcade ticket; call 601-9815469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

+)$3 Events at Ridgeland Public Library (397 Highway 51, Ridgeland) • Craft & Game Quest Feb. 19, 4 p.m.-5 p.m.

Play table games and make crafts. All ages.

Family friendly. Free; call 601-856-4536.

• Baby Bookends Storytime Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m.-11 a.m. through Feb. 25. The interactive session includes rhymes, songs, puppets and more to stimulate the learning process of babies and toddlers. For ages 2 and under. Free; call 601-856-4536.

Look and Learn with Hoot Feb. 20, 10:30 a.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.).

This educational opportunity ages 5 and under and their parents features a hands-on art activity and story time. Please dress for mess. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

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“One Man, Two Guvnors” Feb. 18-21, 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.). $28, $22 seniors and students; call 601-948-3533, ext. 222; newstagetheatre.com.

Hattiesburlesque Feb. 20, 9 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The burlesque-style music and dance review is made up of 27 dancers, singers and musicians. $10 in advance, $15 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-2927999; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Screening of “Yazoo Revisited: Integration and Segregation in a Deep Southern Town” Feb. 25, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.). In the Student Center Theater. Includes a Q&A with filmmaker David Rae Morris. Free; call 601-979-3935; jsums.edu/margaretwalkercenter.

Spring Musical: Godspell Feb. 25-28, 7 p.m., Feb. 28, 2 p.m., at Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive). In Blackbox Theatre. John-Michael Tebelak’s play tells the gospel of Matthew with a blend of comedy and song styles. $10, $5 seniors and students; call 601-965-7026; belhaven.edu.

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In Reception Room A. Representatives give a presentation about the Summer Food Service Program for children in Mississippi.

RSVP. Free; call 353-9691; email lphillips@ mde.k12.ms.us.

Spaytacular in Spayce Feb. 21, 6 p.m.-10 p.m., at Table 100 (100 Ridge Way, Flowood). The fundraiser for Mississippi Spay and Neuter includes a silent auction, a LEGO Star Trek display by Scott Crawford and music from Vibe Doctors, DJ Sandpaper and Gospel Travelers. $50, $75 sponsor, $600 VIP table of eight; call 601-420-4202; tinyurl.com/spaytacular.

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“Taste of Musiq” Catering Expose Feb. 21, 7:30 p.m., at Center Stage (1625 E. County Line Road, Suite 410). Enjoy samples from Delectable Dining & Catering, Kimmie Sweett, Chardon Hospitality, Marlo’s Backyard BBQ and Let’s Eat Nicks. Includes music from Mike Rob and the 601 Band. BYOB or buy mixed drinks. Reserved tables available. For ages 21 and up. $7, $60 table of five; call 601-624-8992.

Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) • The Apache Relay Feb. 19, 8 p.m. The indie roots band performs. Andrew Combs also performs. Adults must accompany children. $8 advance, $10 door, $3 surcharge for under 21; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland. net; ardenland.net.

• Voices of Mississippi Winners Concert Feb. 23, 7 p.m. The 10 winners from last year’s Voices of Mississippi Competition perform, including first place winners Rebecca Sorensen and Edwin Davis. Cash bar at 6:30 p.m. $20; call 601-960-2300; email arden@ ardenland.net; msopera.org.

Bourbon Tasting Feb. 25, 6 p.m.-8 p.m., at Char (Highland Village, 4500 Interstate 55 N.). Sample the restaurant’s newest bourbons paired with appetizers. Liquor representative Joel Grant also discusses the selections. Reservations required. $25 plus tax and tip; call 601-956-9562; charrestaurant.com.

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Tickets sold at Boot County and Hub City West. Reserved seating. $12 in advance, $15 after Feb. 19; call 601-266-5405; usm.edu.

Free Seminar: Natural Hepatitis and Cirrhosis Recovery Feb. 23, 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m., at Rainbow Natural Grocery Cooperative (2807 Old Canton Road). Free; call 601-366-1602; email co-opgm@rainbowcoop.org; follow Rainbow Natural Grocery Cooperative on Facebook.

“Bravo IV: Brahms’ Third” Feb. 21, 7:30 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.).

The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra presents selections from Dvorak, Elgar and Brahms with Jesse Christeson on cello. $20-$58; call 601960-1565; msorchestra.com.

Events at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.) • The Revivalists Feb. 21, 8 p.m. The indie rock band performs with Sweet Crude.

Cocktails at 7 p.m. Ages 18 and up. $15 advance, $20 at door, $3 surcharge for under 21; call 601-292-7999; email jane@ halandmals.com; ardenland.net.

• "The Voice" Recording Artists Concert Feb. 25, 7:30 p.m. Jordy Searcy and Kensington Moore perform. Seated show. Adults must accompany children. $5 in advance, $10 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7999; email jane@ halandmals.com; ardenland.net.

Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra of Metro Jackson Concert Two: “Made in America” Feb. 22, 3 p.m., at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral (305 E. Capitol St.). Enjoy selections from Copland, Dvorak and Mississippi composer James Sclater. Mezzo soprano Dr. Viola Dacus is the featured performer. Free; call 601-622-7978; freewebs.com/metropolitanchamberorchestra.

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Events at Off Square Books (129 Courthouse Square, Oxford) • "Welcome to Braggsville" Feb. 23, 5 p.m. T. Geronimo Johnson signs. $25.99 book; call 662-236-2828; email books@squarebooks.com; squarebooks.com.

• "Soul Food Love" Feb. 24, 5 p.m. Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams sign. $30 book; call 662-236-2828; email books@squarebooks.com; squarebooks.com.

#2%!4)6% #,!33%3 Events at Farmer’s Table Cooking School (Town of Livingston, 129 Mannsdale Road, Madison) • Keeping It Simple Cooking Class Feb. 18, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Learn how to make vinaigrette, dress a salad, truss and roast a chicken, roast vegetables, make an ice cream batter and use and operate an ice cream machine. Registration required. $59; call 601-506-6821; farmerstableinlivingston.com.

• Pasta Workshop Feb. 18, 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Topics include making a vinaigrette, preparing, rolling and cutting pasta dough, filling raviolis, making a cream sauce and more.

Registration required. $79; call 601-5066821; farmerstableinlivingston.com.

• Killer Chops Cooking Class Feb. 20, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Topics include the use and care of black iron skillets, brining, grilling and roasting techniques for vegetables, and creaming and baking of cake batters. Registration required. $109; call 601-506-6821; farmerstableinlivingston.com.

Adult Pottery Classes Feb. 19, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m., at Lauren Rogers Museum of Art (565 N. Fifth Ave., Laurel). In the LRMA Carriage House Studio. Participants will create hand-built and wheel-thrown pottery. Registration required. $50, $40 members; call 601-649-6374; email mbuchanan@lrma.org; lrma.org.

%8()")4 /0%.).'3 Events at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.) • Evening for Educators Feb. 19, 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. Teachers connect with education staff, tour exhibits for free and enjoy special perks. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

• Art of War Program Feb. 21, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Includes a panel discussion, a book signing and a tour of the exhibit Civil War Drawings from the Becker Collection. Space limited. Pre-registration recommended. Free, lunch for sale; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Check jfpevents.com for updates and more listings, or to add your own events online. You can also email event details to events@jacksonfreepress.com to be added to the calendar. The deadline is noon the Wednesday prior to the week of publication.

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Moore and Wenrich also alternated on keys. As the music evolved, Ben joined the fray in 2011, and drummer Steve Smith joined in 2013. In that short time, The Apache Relay has opened for major actsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;such as Jenny Lewis, Mumford and Sons, and Trampled by Turtlesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and scored a feature in Esquire, a menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lifestyle magazine.

The Ford brothers grew up playing music together. They were in a rock band called the Hollywood Ten when Michael started writing folk songs. At the same time, Ben was trying his hand at country songs.

When The Apache Relay invited Ben to play guitar, he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t resist the opportunity.

record hit stores in April 2014, all the â&#x20AC;&#x153;grindingâ&#x20AC;? has started to pay off. The band received national attention when NPR Music premiered the video for the albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opening track, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Katie Queen of Tennessee.â&#x20AC;? The video features a 40member youth dance company and was filmed in a single, painstakingly choreographed shot. The band is working on a music video to go along with its third single, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good As Gold,â&#x20AC;? which is set to be released this spring. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re mainly using road footage from the U.K. tour,â&#x20AC;? Ford says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The record will be released there in physical and digital formats this April. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talk about going back to promote it.â&#x20AC;?

In the meantime, The Apache Relay is content with being back in the states, doing end-of-week shows for the next few months, including a few with singer-songwriter and friend Andrew Combs, who Rolling Stone recently named one of its â&#x20AC;&#x153;Four Songwriters to Know in 2015.â&#x20AC;? Combs releases his own new album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;All These Dreams,â&#x20AC;? March 3.

The Apache Relay performs at 8 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 19, at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Tickets are $8 in advance or $10 at the door. For more information, visit theapacherelay.com.

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Callaway High School basketball played on national television (ESPNU) Saturday night and defeated Dominican High School (Whitefish Bay, Wi.) 76-47 behind 31 points from star Malik Newman.

Belhaven University basketball star Jordan Bedford took home SSAC Player of the Week honors. His 23.7 points per game ranks him No. 3 nationally in the NAIA. Millsaps College womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball beat Centre College 51-47 to move to 18-5 and 10-2 in the SAA. The Majors own a two-game conference lead with two games remaining.

Holmes Community College basketball claimed the MACJC North Division championship with a 74-64 win in a title showdown at East Mississippi Community College.

Mississippi College basketball hosted University of Alabama in Huntsville Feb. 14. The Choctaws lost 66-73, ending their four-win streak.

No. 14 Mississippi State womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball matched a school record of 25 wins in a season by defeating Florida Feb. 15.

Jackson State basketball hosts Grambling State Feb. 21 at the AAC in a womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doubleheader starting at 3 p.m.

High school basketball playoff sites in the metro area (Feb.16-23): Forest Hill High School (Region 6-6A), Brandon High School (Region 5-6A) and Ridgeland High School (Region 3-5A), The Minnesota Timberwolves traded Murrah High School great Mo Williams to the Charlotte Hornets, where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll team with Prentiss, Miss., native â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bigâ&#x20AC;? Al Jefferson.

The Hinds Community College menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4x400 meter relay team won first place honors in the Samford University Multi and Invitational Track & Field Meet in Birmingham, Ala. No.2 Hinds Community College baseball started the season 6-0 by a combined score of 51-16. The Eagles host Panola for a double-header Feb. 21.

Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Southern Miss and Jackson State opened the baseball season with a combined win-loss ratio of 12-2, with the Bulldogs and Golden Eagles sweeping their competition.

No. 14 Belhaven hosts an SAA baseball series with the University of Mobile on Feb. 20 and 21 at Smith-Wills Stadium in Jackson.

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he capital city, along with organizer Parents and Kids Magazine, hosted the annual Metro Jackson College Fair Feb. 11. Junior and senior high school students packed the Jackson Convention Complex to learn more about the universities and colleges in and out of the state.

They spent the morning visiting booths and picking up information as they waited for the dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speaker to arrive.

One of the convention centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ballrooms quickly became standing room only as teachers, students and parents filled the room. The crowd even consisted of 60 middle-school students from Ray Brooks School in Benoit, Miss., Inverness Elementary in Inverness, Miss., and Morgantown College Prep Academy in Natchez, Miss., as part of the early college awareness program offered to various public schools in the Delta.

Mississippi State University head coach Dan Mullen was this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speaker, but in a major surprise, he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t alone. MSU quarterback Dak Prescott and defensive back and 2014-2015 team captain Jay Hughes also joined the head coach.

Though Prescott scored a rock-star reaction from the crowd, it was Hughes who stole the show with his humor and ability to get a reaction from the audience.

Mullen, Prescott and Hughes spoke to the students at length about their college experiences. Prescott graduated in December with a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in educational psychology and will soon enter the masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree program. Hughes earned a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in history in May 2014 and is already in MSUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree program for workforce education leadership.

Here are some of the key points the speakers made.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be afraid to change your major and figure out what you want to do in life.

Mullen stressed that students should talk to

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Dan Mullen spoke at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Metro Jackson College Fair alongside Dak Prescott (not pictured) and Jay Hughes (not pictured).

people who work in their fields of interest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can accomplish whatever you want, but there are no shortcuts to the top,â&#x20AC;?

Mullen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Success isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t guaranteed, but there is no way to be successful if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try. Success isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a destination but a journey.â&#x20AC;?

Mullen explained that college was like climbing a mountain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are several ways to get to the top, but you have to put in the work. â&#x20AC;Ś It wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be easy,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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challenged the students to go above and beyond. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anyone can be average,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Average is easy, but who wants to be great?â&#x20AC;?

When a student asked the quarterback what NFL team he would like to join, Prescott said if he could pick his team, it would be the Dallas Cowboys.

Learn to make decisions for yourself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;College is what you make it,â&#x20AC;?

Hughes said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no curfew anymore when you get to college.â&#x20AC;? He told the students that they would have to learn when they must go to bed or go out and have fun since their parents wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be at college with them to make those decisions anymore.

You can succeed in college. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Does anyone know what your GPA is when you start college?â&#x20AC;? Mullen asked the crowd. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s zero. You can make it as high or as low as you want to make it. â&#x20AC;Ś College isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just about getting a degree, but also learning to think for yourself, problem solve (and) come up with your own ideas.

Mullen said he was proud that of the 19 seniors on this past yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team, 17 of those young men graduated last December, and the other two will graduate this May. Even running back Josh Robinson, who left school early for the NFL Draft, will graduate with a degree in May. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t settle,â&#x20AC;? Mullen told the students. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be the best you can be.â&#x20AC;?

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fter a period of declining offense and interest, the NCAA switched to a new baseball with flatter seams in hope of raising scores and ramping up excitement from the fans.

The returns from opening weekend came back positive.

Mississippi State University scored a combined 48 runs in its first four games, compared to just 21 a season ago. Defending SWAC champion Jackson State University totaled 30 runs in four games compared to 11 over the same stretch

last season. University of Southern Mississippi also exceeded its run total over its first three games, 23-14.

Coincidence? The in-state look reflects the bigger picture. Scoring increased 11 percent nationally from 2014â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opening weekend. The NCAA had also hoped to increase big hits.

SEC teams clubbed 34 home runs over the weekend compared to 21 last year.

There had been disagreement about how much of a difference the new ball would make. Southern Miss coach Scott Berry told Home Cookinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; before the sea-

son that he thought it would be significant, while Mississippi Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s John Cohen termed it a â&#x20AC;&#x153;subtleâ&#x20AC;? impact.

There was little debate, though, that something needed to be done to ramp up offense in the NCAA. No one wants baseball games that last five hours, but games where hardly anyone scores are no fun, either.

It appears the NCAA has struck a better balance with the new ball. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good news for college baseball.

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