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ackson-based clinical psychologist Dr. Jim Herzog’s work is about understanding people’s behavior so he can help make their lives better. “I like understanding the reasons people behave as they do and finding ways to help people with significant psychological difficulties so they can make their lives better,� he says. “The educational component, teaching people about themselves, is one of the most significant parts of my job and the part that best helps me accomplish my goals. It’s very important to me to see people who come to me become able to take care of themselves better psychologically.�

Herzog, 59, was born in Mason City, Iowa, and moved to Omaha, Neb., to attend Creighton University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1978. He entered a health-professional scholarship program with the U.S. Air Force and moved to Oxford, Miss., to continue his education at the University of Mississippi in 1979. He received his master’s and doctorate degrees in clinical psychology in 1980 and 1985, respectively.

Between his studies, Herzog served as an Air Force psychologist at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, where he finished his clinical internship and residency in 1983.

He settled in northeast Jackson after earning his doctorate at the University of Mississippi.

This month, Gov. Phil Bryant reappointed Herzog to his position as psychology repre-

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sentative for the Mississippi Board of Mental Health, a position he has held for more than seven years. Herzog also served as chairman of the board for three years from 2012 to 2015.

The Board of Mental Health, the governing board of the Mississippi Department of Mental Health, is composed of nine governor-appointed members—a physician, a psychiatrist, a clinical psychologist, a social worker with experience in the field of mental health and one citizen representative from each of Mississippi’s five congressional districts.

In his position on the board, Herzog oversees projects that aim to improve services in the state’s clinical psychology community, including implementing better evidence-based treatment practices—those that integrate the best available evidence in the field with practitioner expertise and the needs, values and preferences of those who the treatment will affect. Herzog also oversees the operation of electronic health records and data collection and the clinical psychology department’s budget.

Herzog and his wife, Angela Herzog, have also run a private practice in Highland Village called Herzog & Herzog PA since 2004. He primarily works with children who have disruptive or emotional disorders.

The Herzogs have two children—John, 34, and Anna, 30. Both are University of Mississippi graduates with degrees in psychology.

The couple also has three grandchildren— Jack, Lucy and Jane. —Dustin Cardon

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8 The Unkindest Cuts

Initiative 42, which would have required full funding of public schools, failed. Nevertheless, legislative bean counters are proposing deep budget cuts in the upcoming session.

26 Burnside’s Grammy Blues

“I love to play my music, period, with or without the accolades, but I’m just glad people enjoy it and understand my music. And I’m going to keep on doing it, man. It’s been a beautiful year.� —Cedric Burnside, “The Future of Feel Music�

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The Lady Bulldogs’ recent streak of successes has already reached an all-time high this season.

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EDITOR’S note

by Donna Ladd, Editor-in-Chief

A Nation ‘Intoxicated with Bad Policing’

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his thing runs our lives,� New York Det. James Shanahan told police officers as he held up a smartphone Dec. 14 at the new, mammoth New York Police Academy in Queens, N.Y., that I always liken to Starfleet Academy during my visits there.

Forty years ago, the animated Shanahan told the cops, no one could imagine the effect that marvel of “electronic circuitry� would have on people’s lives, especially the ones on both ends of police interactions with citizens. Nowadays, everyone is an amateur videographer, and police actions are under more scrutiny than ever. It doesn’t mean, though, that there are more incidents of police brutality or over-policing; it means that more people can see the evidence of it now. “We have been intoxicated with bad policing in America for a long time,� Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a black former NYPD officer of 22 years, told me last May in his huge office in the next borough over. “And we have refused to acknowledge that drunkenness. We’re being forced to do so now only because of Steve Jobs.�

The “bad policing� Adams speaks of— which is ingrained into American police culture, although not a habit of all cops— is, arguably, the issue of our time. Like other vestiges of our country’s racist heritage, it is a practice not used exclusively by white officers against citizens of color, but it more often is.

That is, it’s a problem for Americans of all races, and worse for black people.

David Kennedy, a white criminologist at John Jay College (where I have a fellowship) in New York, points to decades of bad policing that has destroyed trust in black communities. He said the issue now is beyond black and white, explaining why black officers can be guilty as well. “It’s about especially black communities and police departments,� he told me. It’s about legal power and how police exercise it, especially against

black people, he said, which must change.

The fact that many people don’t see over-policing as a problem makes it harder to stop. Grand jurors often refuse to indict officers accused of excessive use of force resulting in the death of an (often black) unarmed citizen, from Eric Garner to, now, Tamir Rice. Twitter explodes with people, usually of color, outraged that officers don’t even have to face a fair trial for the deaths.

Still others, often white, respond that had

“It’s about inflicting pain.� fill-in-the-blank not done something wrong (like Garner selling untaxed cigarettes and begging officers not to arrest him, or 12-yearold Rice playing with a toy gun), he or she would still be alive. The latter’s logic is that police have the right to use lethal force anytime they fear a suspect, or even when one is disrespectful. That’s frightening. So is a public reaction that justifies an execution for something as mundane as selling cigarettes or saying the wrong thing to a cop.

It is also jarring to learn how little training most American police officers have ever gotten in anything beyond firearm use. Over the last year, I’ve been researching how police departments are trying to retrain officers to de-escalate rather than the over-reactions that can lead to fatal outcomes. I’ve spent a great deal of time in New York City because, as a city with the nation’s largest police department, it should be a laboratory for solutions for what Commissioner Bill Bratton likes to call the “divide� between cops and communities of color—and for how to train officers to, first, not escalate and, instead, de-escalate

encounters whenever possible.

The NYPD, like many other departments, knows it has a problem with the way citizens of color have traditionally been targeted. Even Bratton will admit that it’s historic in a country where many cops traditionally helped (or were) white supremacists. Many, including the NYPD, were established to patrol slaves. It really did take people with smartphones to get police departments to face that their officers are often woefully under-trained. Too many are rude to citizens, seeming to embody the idea that one who isn’t perfect deserves disrespect or even death—at least if they’re not white and live in “those� areas. Some cops call kids and adults “scumbags� or worse to their faces.

Adams, the borough president, is direct that the police culture must change and that officers (and management) must stop making assumptions about poor communities based on the “numerical minority� that commits most of the offenses.

He said many officers, in New York and beyond, discriminate in the tools they employ when trying to “correct conditions� i.e. encounter someone doing something illegal. Officers leave the station house every morning, he says, with a packed toolbox of options for dealing with troublemakers and de-escalating confrontation, especially with non-violent, non-armed offenders. “What he has done in America is that when he goes into an area that is economically challenged,� the Brooklyn borough president says of offending officers, “is he pulls out only the hammer, which is the gun, or the nightstick, or the blackjack. In other areas, he uses every item in that toolbox. He uses conflict resolution; he’ll get a family member to talk to the person; he will try to reason with the person. He’ll use every item in that toolbox in an escalating fashion.�

That means that a cop is often able to arrest a white offender because he or she took

the time to use non-violent tools first or just have a respectful conversation. But when dealing with, say, an Eric Garner—a middleaged black man who made his living in an unsavory way—“it immediately goes zero to 100,� Adams says. That means “pulling out the gun, pulling out the chokehold, throwing you to the ground; physical contact is immediate. Any signs of disobeying my verbal command must result in some form of punishment when, in other communities, any sign of disobeying my command, I move to the next level of command.�

Adams said officers probably don’t realize this implicit bias, especially if they get away with it with no serious punishment: “So when you have someone that is put in a chokehold for correcting the condition of selling loosey cigarettes, that’s a reflection.

When you have someone shot in the back eight times like in Carolina for correcting the condition of a broken taillight, that’s a reflection that is not about correcting the conditions the way policing should be done.�

Adams said such policing is about power. “It’s about inflicting pain for someone not doing what you said they should do,� he says. “Yet, you can go through scenarios in affluent communities where a person is armed with a gun, and the police are able to use proper tactics to disarm them without hurting anyone involved.�

The good news is that cops like Det. Shanahan and his partner, Lt. Mark Turner, are retraining officers, drawing them into role-plays and dialogues like I observed, using hostage-negotiation techniques to help them rethink the way they interact with citizens, including when the dispatcher has told them a 12-year-old has a “probably fake� gun. It may be late, but they are trying.

Still, Adams said, police culture is a tough ship to turn around. “It’s an ocean liner that has spent 20 years off course,� he says. But, at least, now people are noticing.

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News Editor R.L. Nave is a native Missourian who roots for St. Louisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and for Jackson.

Send him news tips at rlnave@ jacksonfreepress.com or call him at 601-362-6121 ext. 12. He wrote news pieces and several most intriguing blurbs.

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

She wrote about the state budget and most intriguing people.

Assistant Editor Amber Helsel graduated from Ole Miss with a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in journalism. She is short, always hungry and always thinking. She wrote a story about New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve events in Jackson and other features.

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

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

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Thursday, December 24 The National Endowment for the Humanities announces $3.6 million in grants for 21 community-based projects, including one at the University of Mississippi to discuss civil rights.

Friday, December 25 An airstrike near the Syrian capital kills top rebel commander Zahran Allouch, the head of the most powerful Saudi-backed insurgent group fighting against President Bashar Assadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s government.

Saturday, December 26 The Islamic State group releases a new message purportedly from its reclusive leader, claiming that his â&#x20AC;&#x153;caliphateâ&#x20AC;? is doing well despite an unprecedented alliance against it and criticizing the recently announced Saudi-led Islamic military coalition against terrorism.

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Monday, December 28 A grand jury declines to indict white rookie police officer Timothy Loehmann in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, a black youngster who was shot while playing with what turned out to be a pellet gun. Gov. Phil Bryant announces that Mississippi is seeking a federal disaster declaration for some or all of the seven counties that a tornado hit last week.

Tuesday, December 29 Jason Van Dyke, a white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the 2014 fatal shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in which Van Dyke shot McDonald 16 timesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;pleads not guilty in court.

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How Many Hotels Can Downtown Support?

by R.L. Nave

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or close to eight hours every day, a tower crane soaring above Jackson swivels and pivots like the minute hand of a clock gone a little haywire.

The crane, which will be part of Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skyline for at least another year, is helping build what promises to be the newest permanent fixture of the cityscape, a 205room luxury hotel operated by Starwood Hotels & Resorts.

After a brief snag in finding a buyer for about $9 million in bonds, the Westin is back on track to complete construction on the site of the former Mississippi Valley Title Building on Tombigbee and West streets by early 2017.

Developers of the nine-story, 169,000square-foot hotel say the project represents a renaissance for downtown and an answer to the need for more hotel beds. That, the thinking goes, will draw more and bigger conventions with attendees spreading cash around downtown and shoring up Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s struggling revenue coffers.

The Westin has been under construction since August, but is not the only the hotel game in downtown. At least three other proposals are on the drawing board to add hotel rooms to downtown, but opinions vary widely about what the market in Jackson will bear. Consider that plans for the Westin call for a market-high nightly room rate of $145 per night. Discount websites like Kayak and Expedia advertise rates for the Marriott and

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Wednesday, December 23 Education policy groups back up the Mississippi Department of Education and its state superintendent by lambasting a recent PEER committee report on the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new pre-kindergarten pilot program. Lakeisha Holloway, a woman from Oregon accused of intentionally plowing her car with her 3-year-old daughter in the back seat through crowds of pedestrians on a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk, appears in court on felony murder, hit-and-run and child-abuse charges.

A plan to refurbish one tower of the City Centre building could be a curveball for building a new convention-center hotel in downtown Jackson.

Hilton Jackson for $110 and $109 per night, respectively. A night at the Hilton Garden Inn, better known to locals at the King Edward, runs guests about $99 per night.

Leland Speed, a developer and movershaker, wonders whether the laws of supply and demand justify building new hotels from the ground up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jackson is a low-hotel-rate town. For $59, you can get a room and breakfast,â&#x20AC;? said Speed, a former investor in the nowshuttered Edison Walthall Hotel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real question (about) what you can get for a downtown hotel room in Jackson. The business travel isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t there any more.â&#x20AC;?

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The Mississippi Business Journal reported in July 2015 that Jackson hotel rooms fluctuated widely since 2010, from the mid$60 range to $76.59 in summer 2014, based on data from international travel research firm STR. The companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s analysts also predicted that demand for hotel rooms expanding at a healthy rate.

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City OKs TIF for The Fondren Hotel, Whitney Place

by R.L. Nave

with the City of Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s credit and helped redevelop the King Edward and build the convention center, put out a request for proposals for a convention-center hotel in June 2015.

Two joint-venture firms responded: Herndon, Va.-based based Red Leaf LLC working with Advanced Technology Building Solutions LLC, which is headquartered in Jackson. The other is Atlanta-based Engineering Design Technologies Inc, which is working with Jackson-based Mississippi Developers LLC. Both proposals call for an eight-story, 304-room hotel totaling 236,070 gross square feet. Food and beverage space, which includes a restaurant and bar, total 4,140 square feet in both proposals.

Don Hewitt, a developer and principal with ATBS, won a $600,000 judgment against the City of Jackson for a civil-rights violation before a judge dismissed the award in January. Hewitt also unsuccessfully filed a lawsuit to block the sale of bonds for the Westin project, arguing that it is illegal for

were going great, it would be a different issue,â&#x20AC;? Foote said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re scrambling, I have a problem turning over sales tax to developers.â&#x20AC;?

Whitney Place also proposes a hotel from developers Sunny Desai and Jason Watkins. In 2014, Desai announced plans for a boutique-style Hampton Inn near the corner of Duling Avenue and Old Canton Road, but he later withdrew those plans.

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the spotlight.

On Dec. 29, Jackson City Council members voted in favor of several resolutions supporting a tax-increment-financing district for Whitney Place and a nearby hotel announced earlier this year. Ward 1 Councilman Ashby Foote, who attended by phone, voted against the resolutions. In his view, the City should not sacrifice any tax revenue after Moodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent downgrade of Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bond rating, he told the Jackson Free Press.

The TIF would provide $3.1 million for infrastructure upgrades to support the two projects, which represent a $60 million investment. The projects would include two hotels, totaling 203 rooms, 87,000 square feet of leasable office space and 48,000 square feet of retail space. The projects would create 250 construction jobs and 100 permanent jobs, city officials said.

Jackson-based Duvall Decker Architects andEldonDevelopmentLLCwoulderectone of these hotels, known as The Fondren.

Roy Decker, one of the principals in Duvall Decker, has said the $20 million, 100-room hotel near State Street and Mitchell Avenue would create $227 million in spin-off economic activity and $17 million

in local tax revenues over 10 years.

The TIF would help pay for parkingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a surface lot for The Fondren and a garage for Whitney Placeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as well as sewer and drainage upgrades for The Fondren and Whitney Place. Foote said he supports development in Fondren and around the city, but believes the city should try to collect all the tax revenue it can while battling a budget deficit and employee furloughs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we were flush, and everything

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public money to flow into the hands of private developers.

Besides providing needed hotel space, Hewitt believes his teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal, which would also solicit Starwood to operate the hotel as a Sheraton or Crowne Plaza, would also create jobs and use Jackson vendors for construction supplies and furnishings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know the Jackson market is hurting for jobs,â&#x20AC;? Hewitt said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of opportunity to create jobs here, to keep people locally employed.â&#x20AC;?

Mitzi Bickers, a representative with Mississippi Developers, told the Jackson Free Press on Dec. 28 that she would have an EDT representative call a reporter later in the day. Follow-up calls to Bickers on Dec. 29 went straight to voicemail. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Best Driver for Growthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The quest for a convention-center hotel has taken a number of bizarreâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and, for city officials, frustratingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;turns in recent years.

In 2006, a Dallas-based company called

TCI, connected to controversial businessman Gene Phillips, formed a local limitedliability company to purchase property located between Pearl, Mill and Pascagoula streets in downtown Jackson for $1.5 million with the blessing of then-Mayor Frank Melton.

Those plans called for two hotels as well as residential, retail and office space, but never materialized and the city reacquired the land back in 2013 after lengthy negotiations with TCI. Mayors Harvey Johnson Jr. and late Mayor Chokwe Lumumba also sought hotel proposals of their own, but none of those plans got off the ground, either.

The JRA, which added four new board members this year, has not scheduled a vote on which proposal to green light, although developers expect the commission to act by the end of January 2016. Regardless of what happens with the JRA proposals, a third option is on the horizon that backers say will make more economic sense for Jackson.

Hertz Investment Group, headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif., which owns much of

nounced in 2010, was planned as a $80million mixed-use development for Fondren that would replace buildings on State Street known as The Strip, built in the 1930s.

Those plansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from David Watkins Sr., who helped redevelop the King Edward and Standard Life downtownâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;met opposition from locals and historic preservationists. Watkins Sr. told the Jackson Free Press that he is not involved with the new development, which is still named after his late daughter-in-law, and referred questions to son Jason Watkins, who did not respond to emails by press time.

Both projects also plan to apply for a rebate program through the Mississippi Development Authority, which rebates a portion of sales tax generated by tourism-related developments. Christiana Sugg, an attorney with Gouras & Associates and a consultant on both projects, said combining the projects under one TIF would save the city time and money by doing one bond issue instead of two, which would increase closing costs and attorneys fees.

Decker said The Fondren is in the final stages of putting the financing package in place, which includes using the state historic tax credit program, which ran out of money, but that the Legislature may consider reauthorizing in the coming legislative session.

Comment at jfp.ms/news. Email R.L. Nave at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com. the office space in downtown Jackson, has plans down the road for a 204-room hotel in the City Centre building, which sits catercornered from the convention center. Jim Ingram, executive vice president for Hertz, said the south tower of the two-building plaza is now empty and could be refurbished into a hotel likely without any zoning variances. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are going to try to make ours work for the convention center hotel. But when the construction would start, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not at the point to say,â&#x20AC;? Ingram said.

Like Leland Speed, Ingram is dubious whether downtown can support a brand new hotel and said Hertzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longterm downtown revitalization strategy is to convert 300,000 square feet of office space to other uses, including hotel rooms and residential living space. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Doubling the residential units is going to be the best driver for growth in downtown Jackson,â&#x20AC;? Ingram said.

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

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Proposed Budgets Slashed Even Without 42â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Passage

by Arielle Dreher

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tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dĂŠjĂ vu all over again. passage of Initiative 42 and, some argue, as a political 60 percent of personnel, according to the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s letState agencies are bracing for deep cuts in the face of move against 42. The documents reflected how a 7.8 per- ter. Their staff is so strained currently, that even a 7.8 perdire economic forecasts. This time, the reductions are cent cut would affect each departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s operations and cent cut, which only amounts to $26,000, would leave the part of the Joint Legislative Budget Committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spend- which areas of their own budgets they could slash in the commission â&#x20AC;&#x153;unable to meet the constitutional mandate ing recommendation, which will provide a starting base- event Initiative 42 became law. Some departments are to enforce the standards of judicial conduct,â&#x20AC;? like holding line for the budget blueprint lawmakers must approve looking at much higher cuts than 7.8 percent; here are courts to federal and ethical standards. With the Legislalater this spring. the departments taking the biggest hits. ture adding more trial judges, the commissionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role would The Legislative Budget Committee imposed more need to growâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible. cuts in the fiscal year 2017 budgetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which the upcoming ATTORNEY GENERALâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S OFFICE Proposed Fiscal-Year 2017 cut: 31.36 percent Legislative session will finalizeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;than the current yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s DEPARTMENT OF AUDIT (THE AUDITORâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S OFFICE) Proposed Fiscal-Year 2017 cut: 12.58 percent budget, appropriating $37 million less than they did in The proposed budget cuts 31 percent of funding, or fiscal-year 2016. The committee With a 12-percent cut, emproposed a $5.67-billion generalployees might lose their jobs in the fund budget Dec. 15 despite projecauditorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office as well as audit fees intions that state revenue will be 1.9 creased. The July budget request letpercent higher than last year. The ter says a 7.8-percent cut would result proposal suggests that the proposed in 10 employees separated, raising budget cuts eliminated the allocathe audit fee and decreasing audittion of state general-fund dollars for ing time and hours. Additionally, the one-time spending. office might not be able to perform These cuts are even greater than â&#x20AC;&#x153;State Single Auditsâ&#x20AC;? as mandated by those that Rep. Herb Frierson, a key the federal government to ensure that Republican budget writer from Popfederal funds are being used properly larville, warned would be necessary within several state departments and if the school-funding amendment would have to pass those responsibiliInitiative 42 passed. Last fall, he ties to private firms that their letter threatened 7.8 percent across-thestates would cost much more. board budget cuts if voters did not reject the citizen-driven effort to reDEPARTMENT OF FINANCE quire state lawmakers to follow state AND ADMINISTRATION law on funding public schools.

Proposed Fiscal-Year In July, top Republican leaders, including House Appropriations Committee Rep. Herb With 42â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failure and a bump 2017 cut: 31.6 percent Frierson (center), asked all state departments to submit 7.8-percent budget-cut proposals in revenue, logic holds that any cuts Kevin J. Upchurch, the execin case Initiative 42 passes, but some departments might have to cut their budgets by should come in below the 7-perutive director of the Department of much more than 7.8 percent in the next year. cent threshold. Yet, the Legislative Finance and Administration, called a Budget Committee has recom7.8-percent budget cut â&#x20AC;&#x153;catastrophicâ&#x20AC;? mended deeper cuts for certain state in his letter to the Legislative Budget departments than under the 42 doomsday scenario. | about $3.9 million, from the budget of the office of state Committee. The department has suffered cuts or stayed Republicans say the committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget proposal is Attorney General Jim Hood, the only Democrat elected to the same for the past 15 years, and more cuts have to come just a jumping-off point and that the final numbers are statewide office. In a letter to the Legislative Budget office from the salary and fringe-benefit category, its letter states. likely to change before the session ends. in July, the attorney generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office said it had been shorted A 7.8-percent cost would mean a loss of 13 to 26 positions â&#x20AC;&#x153;As we see revenues come in over the next few $760,400 so far in fiscal-year 2016 and had to subsidize â&#x20AC;&#x153;by depending on which fiscal year the cut was taken in. The months, we will be better able to see how the final budget using special funds that have been set-aside and reserved to impact, Upchurch wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be only to DFA, but will will shape up,â&#x20AC;? Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves said, praising the meet our Federal matching requirements.â&#x20AC;? The attorney be to all of state government because most all of what DFA committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s balanced budget in a press release. generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office receives no additional state general funds, does is to provide the basic and critical services that keep The so-called rainy-day fundâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;unallocated funds in according to the letterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;except in Medicaid fraud cases. In government up and running.â&#x20AC;? the budgetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;totals $481 million that the proposal sug- the case of a 7.8-percent proposed budget cut, the office gests can be used to address needs in the current or future of the attorney general planned to subsidize costs to avoid DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE Proposed Fiscal-Year 2017 cut: 15.53 percent yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; budgets but does not specify which state depart- personnel cuts. Its July letter said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will have to request ments will benefit, if any, from the funds sitting there. an increase in Special Fund Spending Authority in order The Department of Revenue sits in an interestSen. Joey Fillingane, R-Sumrall, is on the committee to avoid staff terminations, lay-offs and/or furloughs.â&#x20AC;? A ing cross-section of â&#x20AC;&#x153;agency that needs moneyâ&#x20AC;? as well as that helped put the budget proposal together this year. larger cut may give the office no choice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;agency that handles money.â&#x20AC;? Ninety-eight percent of the He said the committee tried to spread the cuts evenly but general funds run through the Department of Revenue, were obligated in certain instancesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;such as raises for JUDICIAL PERFORMANCE COMMISSION but as its July budget cut letter states, the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perforProposed Fiscal-Year 2017 cut: 15.8 percent judges and Mississippi Highway Patrol employeesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;by mance is directly related to its funding. Ed Morgan, comprevious legislation that require pay increases.

The Mississippi Commission on Judicial Perfor- missioner of revenue, wrote that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the impact of cutting The Jackson Free Press compared the committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mance, which enforces judicial conduct and provides over- the DOR will make the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget problems worse.â&#x20AC;? recommendation to budget cut plans obtained via a pub- sight of the judiciary branch of government in the state, The department outlines several areas where 7.8 percent lic records request. House Appropriations Committee has taken several hard budget cuts previously. In fiscal-year cuts could be made, but either way, the results could be chairman Rep. Herb Frierson asked state departments to 2015, the division was unable to fill a regular staff position, disastrous, it argues. One option outlined suggests a 23submit the plans in July in possible preparation for the had to resign its only administrative worker and operate at day furlough for all employees that would result in

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE Proposed Fiscal-Year 2017 cut: 8.06 percent

MISSISSIPPI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Proposed Fiscal-Year 2017 cut: 19.58 percent

Staff cuts and business development are at stake with MDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget, and its July letter said a 7.8percent cut would result in unspecified staff losses, less travel for staff to recruit businesses, and eliminating or reducing existing contracts. The departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fiscal-year 2016 estimated budget is $27 million, but the Legislative Budget Committee has proposed a $21-million budget for fiscal-year 2017.

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY Proposed Fiscal Year 2017 cut: 8.27 percent

The Department of Archives has a relatively simple budget with fixed costs on rent and salaries that make up 87 percent of its budget. A 7.8-percent cut to the department would mean the elimination of up to 16 positions in the department.

In her July letter, Director Katie Blount wrote that â&#x20AC;&#x153;a cut of this size would have a significant impact on the services and programs MDAH provides to the public.â&#x20AC;?

Comment at www.jfp.ms.

Email Arielle Dreher at arielle@ jacksonfreepress.com.

by R.L. Nave

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efore 2016 is finished, every major known, wrested the gubernatorial nomina- for the new term remains an open question, instrument of the Mississippi Demo- tion away from better-positioned candidates contingent on whom the members choose for cratic establishment will have new in Vicki Slater and Valerie Short, which new leadership, especially in the House. leadership. prompted murmurs in and outside the party Moak, the outgoing minorRickey Cole, the state party chairman that for all intents and purposes Democrats in ity leader, said the leadership switch-a-roo and executive director, has said he wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t run Mississippi are fatally wounded. in his party isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as dramatic as it looks. again when his four-year term expires in July. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two-thousand fifteen was a disapâ&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think you read anything into Bogue Chitto Rep. Bobby Moak, who leads pointing yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think anyone would that. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just what happens,â&#x20AC;? Moak said of the Democrats in the Mississippi House of argue with thatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for the Democratic Party the changing of the political guard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Any time Representatives, was defeated in his Novem- in Mississippi,â&#x20AC;? said McDowell, a Slidell, La., thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s change, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a chance for the party to ber re-election bid, meaning the take a step back.â&#x20AC;? caucus will have to appoint a new Despite the decline in Demominority leader next session. cratsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; voting strength over the past The Legislative Black Caudecade, Moak points to neighborcus, which comprises a majority ing Louisiana, where Democrat of Democrats in the statehouse, John Bel Edwards bested his oprecently named Jackson Rep. Earle ponent in the gubernatorial race, Banks as its chairman to replace Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter, state Sen. Kenneth Jones, of Canby 12 points, as the trajectory Miston, who also fell in defeat. Finally, sissippi politics could be on. the four-year-old Mississippi DemDemocratsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; long-term susocratic Trust will also come under tainability could hinge on the pernew leadership on Jan 1. son selected as its next statewide The flurry of changes present chairperson. Cole served as chairthe question of whether the state man from 2000 to 2004 and again Democratic Party is in shambles or for a four-tear term from 2012 to if the stars are finally aligning for it.

2016. Cole is also executive direcâ&#x20AC;&#x153;I personally think this is a tor, running the day-to-day operapositive thing and a sign of matutions of the party. rity,â&#x20AC;? said Brandon Jones, a former Several names have surfaced legislator who started the organiza- The rumor mill says Jackson Ward 6 Councilman Tyrone as possible successors, including tion in 2011 to provide air support Hendrix could have a good shot at succeeding Rickey Cole Moak, attorney and former Demofor Democratic candidates in terms as chairman of the Mississippi Democratic Party. cratic gubernatorial candidate Vicki of fundraising, communications Slater and Jackson Ward 6 Counciland policy development. man Tyrone Hendrix. Mike Biggs, Jones said that stepping aside blogging for his Mississippi Political is the grown-up thing to do because he never native. However, he and Jones point to the Pulse, first floated the idea in mid-December, planned to be in charge of the Democratic trustâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success in municipal elections in 2013, writing of Hendrix, a party operative and Trust forever. The organization, he said, needs when Democrats beat off aggressive Republi- campaign consultant: fresh, high-energy leadership with new ideas can challenges to retain several mayoral seats â&#x20AC;&#x153;Make no mistake, Tyrone and I have who possess the technical expertise to execute and picked up a few more. McDowell said he had disagreements on tactics and style in modern data-driven political campaigns. is not sure where the organization will focus the past; at times very public. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve taken So on Jan. 1, he will step down and hand its efforts in the near term. As a state politi- similar yet different paths partnering up the reins over to David McDowell, a longtime cal action committee, the group does not get at times along the way. â&#x20AC;Ś Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always recampaign worker who is relocating to Jackson involved in federal elections; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also possible spected the fact that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s steadfast in what from Oxford to take Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; place as executive that it helps on some judicial races, which are he sets out to do.â&#x20AC;? director. Will Godfrey, another Democratic officially nonpartisan but often draw interest Hendrix said he has considered it only campaign operative, will serve as finance di- from the respective parties. because he started getting inquiring phone rector for the group. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to be standing calls after Biggsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; blog went live. But, for now, The Mississippi Democratic Trust fo- there with our legislators and sticking up for he is focused on representing his south Jackcused the 2015 election cycle on recruiting the things we care about. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no more son ward on the city council, he said.

Democrats to run in key races in hopes of important time to stand up for the things we â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would like to see the leadership of the winning back the state House from Republi- care about as Democrats when the Republi- party start to be representative of the Democans. The campaign succeeded in picking off cans are on their way to strong arming (the cratic Party and Democratic voters in the one GOP incumbent, Brad Mayo of Oxford, legislative process), at least in the House,â&#x20AC;? state,â&#x20AC;? Hendrix said, referring to the Missisbut losses by Moak and Rep. Sherra Lane of McDowell said. sippi partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overwhelming black majority.

Waynesboro bought Republicans within one In the past few years, Democrats pushed Moak said he has not actively camvote a supermajority, which would allow the for a debate and vote on Medicaid expansion, paigned for the party chair position, but, Republicans to run roughshod over money beat back attempts to impose strict documen- without offering specifics, added that he is bills with no input from the minority party. tation requirements for immigrants and de- interested in keeping a toe in politics.

Legislative stumbles aside, this was also bated a number anti-abortion bills to varying Comment at www.jfp.ms. Email R.L. the year that Robert Gray, a political un- degrees of success. The Democratsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; agenda Nave at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

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The Department of Agriculture and Commerce would have to eliminate state regulatory inspections with a 7.8-percent budget cut, its July letter to the Legislative Budget Office stated. Those responsibilities for inspections would then fall to the federal government.

The departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funding from the federal government is tied to federal dollars, however, and reducing its budget means less federal support.

Lack of funding could â&#x20AC;&#x153;result in a lesser quality of motor fuel; endanger the welfare of agricultural commodities and affect other vital consumer protection responsibilities,â&#x20AC;?

Agriculture Commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith wrote.

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Dem Leadership Changing

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$28.7 million loss in revenue.

The alternative would be to dismiss 22 auditors and 13 revenue officers permanently. The department did outline other areas of its budget such as travel, postage, and state agency charges that could be cut or changed if need be.

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hen the news broke of no indictment against the officer in the Tamir Rice case on Dec. 28, I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t shocked or surprised. I was disappointed, I ached for Tamirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family, but mostly, I was afraid for my own. Too often, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve followed cases like these to find that in the end, the answer that seems most obvious isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the one that juries reach. To hear that an officer killed a 12-year-old and then wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t charged with anything rattles me in a way that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never thought to worry about before I started paying attention to national news. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m 22 years old, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m afraid to have children.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the physical act of labor thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s terrifying, nor the debt of raising a childâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visits, sports, college tuition. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the fact that once I give birth to my child, his or her black body isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t their own, yet he or she will bear the weight of every black soul in America. For my birthday, a friend of mine gave me a copy of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Between the World and Meâ&#x20AC;? by Ta-Nehisi Coates. In it, the author writes to his son: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You are a black boy, and you must be responsible for your body in a way that other boys cannot know. Indeed, you must be responsible for the worst actions of other black bodies, which, somehow, will always be assigned to you.â&#x20AC;?

I remember reading these sentences again and again, crying while swinging in a hammock at my grandmotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house. Those lines took me back to the grand-jury hearing in the case against Darren Wilson, the officer who shot down Mike Brown on Aug. 9, 2014, just four days before my 21st birthday.

Then on Nov. 24, I sat in my too-small twin bed on the campus of my HBCU and watched a prosecutor hand down a no-indictment ruling, and for the first time, I knew that I was afraid. As a black female, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been exposed to many aggressions and subtle assertions of power that felt like direct disrespect to who I am, such as crushes not accepting the shade of my skin or white male managers whose eyes always lingered and hands found their way to my hips repeatedly while trying to pass me during a busy lunch rush. These things, however minute, feel like assertions of power over my black body, and while Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve encountered an angry police officer, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never been pulled over and felt like that day was my last. Sandra Bland wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that lucky.

This commodification of black bodies is as old as America, and just about every day, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m reminded of how much my black body is worth. It pained me to watch the video of an officer slinging a 15-year old-girl to the ground at a pool party in Texas because a white woman felt like the girl didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t belong in her space.

I was in tears at the video of the South Carolina high school student thrown like a rag doll across the classroom. Schools are supposed to be safe spaces for children, and while that case ended up being more about the officerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anger issues than her race, it still hurts to think about it.

Nearly every problem in this countryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;racism, classism, sexismâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is about power. How am I supposed to tell a child that my future husband and I will raise in love that he or she will be seen as less than in the eyes of non-black counterparts? I may be young, but the thought of my child being reduced to his or her physical appearance sends my heart racing. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen far too many cases with mountains of evidence against the abuser, attacker or murderer, and yet, in nearly all of them, the one oppressed, especially if black, is on trial. In three seconds, Tamir Rice was shot. Bettie Jones and Quintonio LeGrier were shot simply opening the door after the officers were called to their home for help. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s painful to think that it could be my mother receiving that phone call, planning a funeral, organizing rallies. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s frustrating to think that one day, that may be me.

As Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten older, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve noticed more injustices that my young eyes didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think were important. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m trying to learn to navigate through this world without being buried beneath fear, but the more I hear about police brutality, abuse of power and privilege going unchecked, it feels like the world is resistant to change. All I can do is pray for my generation and generations after me and hope that, one day, black bodies wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bear the brunt of this unrelenting hatred.

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his week, Associated Press writer Emily Pettus aptly noted: â&#x20AC;&#x153;In a few weeks, the Mississippi Legislature will work itself into a lather about something. Nobody right now really knows what the topic will be.

It could be abortion, gun rights or gay marriage. It could be the state flag or Syrian refugees. It could be something trumped up by one or more of the presidential candidates.â&#x20AC;?

Every session, it seems, something President Barack Obama has said or didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say whips Republicans under our dome into a froth. Without a doubt, the Donald Trump caucus is bound to get its hairpiece into a bunch about something or another.

Granted, much of politicsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and even governance, to some degreeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is theater, and rallying around controversial issues can be a way to invigorate debate and, ideally, possibly bring forth compromise on public policy.

That said, we hope to see more real leadership than jockeying in the coming year.

Our stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s challenges are no secret, and we hope our lawmakers refrain from using the first session of a new term for settling scores and wading in time-wasting wedge issues. As disappointed as we often are in our elected leaders, we are also confident that the will and resources exist to do some good.

While Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s citizens might be disproportionately poor and our unemployment rate high, we are not saddled by the massive

debt loads seen in some states. Plus, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll credit Republicans for building up the rainy-day fund. Now, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to recognize the torrent of problems we face.

We would give similar advice to local government officials. As far as the City of Jackson is concerned, we insist that the next 12 months not devolve into competing auditions for the mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chair in 2017 and instead focus like a laser on water and sewer infrastructure fixes.

On Wednesday, Dec. 30, Hinds County will swear in several new supervisors, a new sheriff, and a new circuit clerk as well as several incumbents who won re-election.

This is an opportunity to make progress on getting the county jail under control and doing whatever it takes to keep the detention center out of the headlines. The Board of Supervisors, Sheriff-elect Victor Mason and District Attorney Robert S. Smith, who will likely be faced with a federal consent decree to address human-rights concerns at the Raymond jail, have a real opportunity to implement progressive reforms to the criminal-justice system.

This work must be approached strategically, not scattershot and politically motivated.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had it up to here with wedge issues and red-meat baiting in recent years.

We want to see real leadership.

We also expect to see results. We look forward to seeing what our leaders come up to respond to the challenges that face us.

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XFORD â&#x20AC;&#x201C; When I take a peek into 2016, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sometimes not sure whether to get depressed or elated.

On the down side is the presidential campaign, with Donald Trump and the other Republican wannabes one-upping each other on how theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ready to go mano a mano with Vladimir Putin, build a milehigh wall between the United States and Mexico, ban Syrian refugees and their families from entering the country, and bury the memory of Barack Obama forever.

Here in Mississippi, Republican Gov. Phil Bryant and the three-fifths Republican majorities in both houses of the state will assume untold power to continue underfunding education, highways, and other state needs while looking for ways to fatten the wallets of their corporate sponsors. Republicans need to keep their constituents pre-occupied with a scapegoat, preferably dark-skinned, while they accomplish the further corporatization of nation and state. Many Democrats are in on the deal, but others do try their best to expose this ruse. The problem is they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t shout louder than Fox News. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Democrats should demand that Tea Party rebels explain why they are in league with a party that intends to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in order to finance more tax cuts for billionaires,â&#x20AC;? journalist William Greider wrote in The Nation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If common folks ever understand the corrupt nature of the Republican coalition, we will see a popular rebellion that makes the present chaos look like, well, a tea party.â&#x20AC;?

The reason Mississippi doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t already have an Arizona- or Alabama-style anti-immigrant law is the hard work of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance in coalition with other progressive legislators. However, MIRA Executive Director Bill Chandler and the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other activists are worried. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will be a dangerous, unpredictable time for immigrant and worker rights,â&#x20AC;?

MIRA said in a release about the upcoming legislative session. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With Republicans holding an overwhelming majority in both sides of the Legislature, they will be almost unstoppable. On the national political stage, candidates in both parties are spreading xenophobic, discriminatory messages, which is stoking the fires here in Mississippi.â&#x20AC;?

Still, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got some reasons for cheer in the coming year. Nearly three-fourths of the skilled trades workersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;71 percentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., recently voted to join the United

Auto Workers. The victory sent shock waves across the corporate South, where CEOs like Nissanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Carlos Ghosn thought heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d found non-union heaven, and anti-worker politicians like Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., thought their Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day 2014 demagoguery in the UAWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous Chattanooga election nailed the unionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coffin shut.

I keep telling my pessimism-prone labor friends that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to keep a long view and remember that labor was on its knees once beforeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the 1920sâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just prior to its historic rise to become a major force in American society.

In another shock to southern conservatives, Louisiana state Rep. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, defeated conservative Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter in that stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nov. 21 gubernatorial race. Edwards won by 12 percent over the scandal-ridden Vitter, becoming the only Democratic governor in the once solidly Democratic Deep South.

Edwards, conservative on some social issues, is a progressive populist on economic issues. His message resonated with voters sick of Republican Gov. Bobby Jindalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disastrous leadership, which endangered education and health care while he sought the limelight as a presidential candidate. Edwards pledged to expand Medicaid, support schools and roll back government giveaways to corporations in an effort to secure greater tax fairness.

Closer to home, 80 percent of Laurel firefighters joined a reorganized Local 207 of the Laurel Firefighters Association. Chartered in 1919 as part of the International Association of Firefighters, the union endeared itself to the community not only for its support of its membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; safety and good working conditions but also for its Christmas toy drive. After a decline in membership, new life has been breathed into Local 207.

You may remember another story out of Laurel this column has followed closely: worker unrest at Howard Industries, beneficiary of more than $60 million in state and local largesse and site of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest raid on undocumented workers in history.

Workers at this pampered company earn just 61 percent of what their counterparts earn at a similar plant in Crystal Springs.

Seeing voters in Louisiana and workers in Mississippi and Tennessee finally stand up to the political and corporate fog machine and assert their rights gives me hope for 2016. Challenges lie ahead, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m doing what I can to spread the good news.

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Adrienne Domnick

If artists such as Adrienne Domnick have anything to say about it, pop art wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be remembered as an art style from the 1960s. She brings a modern element to it with her high-contrast paintings of figures in pop culture, such as JeanMichel Basquiat and musician Ray Charles. Besides painting, she also works at Pearl River Glass as a glass artist and does photography.

This year, her art was featured in many events around town, such as the Mississippi Museum of Artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum After Hours in August, and she also has pieces up at Offbeat in midtown. But besides her art, the Jackson native is also working to make her neighborhood, midtown, a little better.

She opened her studio in midtown in 2012. She is currently the president of the neighborhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business association, Made in Midtown. Artists like her are helping to create a strong community in midtown and by extension, Jackson. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Amber Helsel

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As Mayor and Pastor Tony Yarber prepared to deliver a Christmas Eve message via Periscope from his momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen this year, the sound of Mama Yarberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cake mixer could be heard just off camera.

Like mother, like son, Mayor Yarber never seems to stop moving. This is evidenced by the fact that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not uncommon for the mayor to sport sneakers with his suits or by his regular excursions out of town for conferences and to drum up support for Jackson on Capitol Hill. In his first full year as Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief executive officer, Yarber has endured and addressed rumors that he is a target of possible corruption probe (he has denied this), navigated a fiscal deficit that led to employee furloughs (he and the city council worked out a deal to stave off property-tax hikes), infrastructure emergencies and good bit of political scrutiny for all of it. However, Yarber would argue that his administration closed 2015 on some high notes, including his promises to start work on projects from the 1-percent sales-tax fund, the Jackson Police Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reports of a reduction in crime from last year and the announcement of several new initiatives to encourage property ownership in Jackson. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; R.L. Nave

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Chris Epps

Somehow, Chris Epps managed to work his way up through the rank and file of the Mississippi Department of Corrections to have a Democratic governor appoint him as commissioner and last through three terms of Republican governors. Then, somehow, he managed to screw it all up by getting involved with a scandal that ended in his pleading guilty to federal corruption charges in February 2015.

The charging documents allege that Epps convinced prospective vendors to hire a Rankin County political player named Cecil McCrory as a consultant. When the vendors won the bids, McCrory would kickback some of the cash to Epps. Neither Epps nor McCrory, who together were charged for 49 crimes, have been sentenced. However, the corruption scandal prompted Gov. Phil Bryant to convene a special task force to examine procurement at MDOC, and several other changes at the state prison system have also followed. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; R.L. Nave

Dr. Carey Wright

Anyone who attended the Legislative Budget Committee hearings knows that state Superintendent Carey Wright can weather a stormâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and weather it well.

Drilled with several questions about the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $2.8 billion budget request, the state superintendent was able to stand her ground and defend the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s requested budget increase. Since her appointment in 2014, Wright has initiated and continued to improve several programs, including the third-grade reading gate and pre-K collaboratives, updated state testing standards, and continued to ask the Legislature for necessary and increased funding to help support the majority of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children who attend public schools.

Wright, so far, has remained optimistic yet realistic about the speed of progress in the state. This year, she acknowledged low test scores on the consortia exams that students took for the first time, with the understanding that students will continue to be exposed to such high standards when they take the first round of state-developed assessments in 2016. The assessments are supposed to be in line with rigorous standards she has already exposed students to, and she expects scores and student progress to improve over time. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Arielle Dreher PRUH ,175,*8,1* VHH SDJH

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Corinthian Washington

People love a good controversy, and this year, show promoter Corinthian Washington provided two for the Jackson music scene in a small window of time.

First, there was the Fondrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Thursday fiasco in September, which revolved around unauthorized rappers taking the stage and delivering vulgar lyrics at a hip-hop showcase that Washington organized. As a result, FFT founder Ron Chane said he would no longer allow hip-hop at the monthly event.

Then, in November, Washington announced that his inaugural 3rd Eye Music Festival had to find a new venue, despite the City originally approving the use of Fondren Park. Theories differed as to the reason behind the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reversal, but Washington said in an interview with JFP that he felt it was because the event featured hip-hop and would bring a predominately young, black audience.

Both times, Washington and the other parties resolved their issues.

Chane said he quickly realized that leaving out local hip-hop artists â&#x20AC;&#x153;would be a disservice to the community,â&#x20AC;? and Washington, the City and the Jackson Police Department came to an agreement and placed 3rd Eye back in Fondren Park.

Ultimately, these resulted in positive changes, but hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hoping for Washington having a smoother route to them in 2016. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Micah Smith

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The death of Rexdale Henry came at a time when Mississippi and the rest of the nation was on high alert for citizens dying in law-enforcement custody. In fact, Henry was arrested and taken to the Neshoba County Jail the day after a white police officer killed a black man named Jonathan Sanders a couple of counties away. Henryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case was unique because he was not only a member the Choctaw tribe, but he had also been a political candidate for a seat on the Choctaw Tribal Council from the Bogue Chitto community. Henry was arrested on July 14 for outstanding fines, which totaled more than $2,600 over the years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His fines shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have led to his death. It couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have been that bad,â&#x20AC;?

John Steele, a Henry family spokesman, told the Jackson Free Press at the time. In a bizarre twist, 16 days after Henryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death, authorities charged his cellmate, 34-yearold Justin Schlegel, with his murder. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; R.L. Nave

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Joce Pritchett

Jocelyn Pepper Pritchett had one hell of a year. In late June, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down same-sex marriage bans as unconstitutional, which meant that Pritchettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s marriage to her wife, Carla Webb, would be legally recognized in the state of Mississippi. This came on the heels of a 2014 lawsuit where Pritchett and Webb challenged the legality of Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anti-gay marriage amendment, which made it to a federal appeals court, which held off on making a ruling because the court knew SCOTUS would make a decision in 2015.

There was little time to celebrate because Pritchett also qualified to seek the Democratic nomination for state auditor, the first openly gay person to run for statewide office in Mississippi. She ran a sophisticated campaign for state auditor with a strong social-media presence and regularly took her opponent, incumbent Stacey Pickering, to task on key issues. Even though Pritchett didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t win her election, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll certainly go down in the history books as a Mississippi trailblazer. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; R.L. Nave

Robert Gray

Remember when Ross Perotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s running mate, Admiral James Stockton, opened a 1992 vice presidential debate by positing, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who am I? Why am I here?â&#x20AC;? Gubernatorial candidate Robert Grayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political debut was strikingly similar.

Gray, who grew up in Jackson and Terry, led a quiet life as a long-haul truck driver before submitting his name as a Democratic candidate for governor, even if hauling a truck full of sweet potatoes and other errands eventually kept him voting for himself.

Gray shocked the political world, the Democratic establishment, and even his own mom by besting two women who went through the trouble of assembling campaign staffs and going on the stump to be the Democratic standard bearer against incumbent Gov. Phil Bryant. After he won the nomination, Gray got serious and brought on his kid sister, Angela, to manage the campaign and started showing up to events to drum up support for his candidacy.

In the end, the power of incumbency in a Republican stronghold like Mississippi was too much for Gray to overcome. At the very least, though, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have quite a story to share with buddies at truck stops for the rest of his life. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; R.L. Nave

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that U.S. District Judge Carlton Reevesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;only the second African American federal judge in Mississippi history, whom President Barack Obama appointed early in his first termâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;would end up being one of the most progressive judges on the federal bench.

In late 2014, Reeves struck down Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s same-sex marriage as unconstitutional. Early this year, the statement he read to three of the white men charged with killing James Craig Anderson before he sentenced them was chilling and beautiful that National Public Radio published it in its entirety. Late this year, Reeves ruled that Mississippi

must continue operating under a consent decree for one of its privately run prisons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The protection of prisoner rights greatly impacts prisoners, the prison staff in charge of overseeing the prison facility and even those who may visit the facility. And we cannot overlook the impact the treatment of prisoners has on the rest of society,â&#x20AC;? Reeves wrote in the order.

Make no mistake: Reeves isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t some a tree-hugging, soft-on-crime liberal jurist. At the aforementioned hearing on prison conditions, which took place on Good Friday, after a recess he threatened to throw anyone in jail whose cell phone rang in his courtroom. Pretty sure he was only half-serious. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; R.L. Nave PRUH ,175,*8,1* VHH SDJH

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Cecil Brown

When Mississippi Republicans predictably redid the voting boundaries after the 2010 Census and moved to eliminate white Democratic seats, Jackson Rep. Cecil Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fate was uncertain.

Brown, an education-policy wonk and former chairman of the House Education Committee, would have had an uphill climb in running against a Republican incumbent in Rep. Bill Denny.

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Drake Elder, former owner of Bebop Records; Tom Freeland, attorney and blogger; Howard Jones, jazz multi-instrumentalist; B.B. King, blues musician; James â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hot Dogâ&#x20AC;? Lewis, blues musician; Claude McInnis, Democratic Party leader; Patrice Moncell, soul-blues singer; Anne Moody, civil-rights activist and author; Stephanie ParkerWeaver, health and civil-rights activist; Jonathan Sanders, horse trainer whose death sparked civil-rights protests; Dee Smith-Smathers, LGBT civil-rights pioneer

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In a classic case of being in the right place at the right time, Victor Mason was able to benefit from a Hinds County jail that seemed to be in the news every other day to push out the incumbent Tyrone Lewis. For his part, Mason started his law enforcement career with the Jackson Police Department, and worked for the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, JPDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vice and narcotics, intelligence and youth divisions. He took a leave of absence from his job as an investigator for the Mississippi Attorney Generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office to run for sheriff.

During his campaign, he seized on problems at the Raymond Detention Center that was not only fodder for the nightly news but also became the basis for a U.S. Department of Justice report that is likely to result in a legal settlement. Mason said he wanted to tackle youth crime by bringing back role models, telling the JFP: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bring back guys that were in the military, that are willing to volunteer on our team. Bring back normal everyday people that can teach these people the Bible, that can teach these young people the way of life.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; R.L. Nave

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Many pre-made pancake mixes tend to be unhealthy, with lots of preservatives, sugars, salts and other additives. Patti Igoe-Bett has made it her mission to fight back on that.

Her business, MsPattiCakes, which makes healthy pancake mixes began as a way to give her grandson, who has celiac disease, pancakes that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have all the additives. She began the business officially in May 2014 and now makes her products in Mississippi Cold Drip Coffee & Teaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incubator kitchen at The Hatch in midtown. This year, business such as the Livingston Mercantile Store and Mississippi Gift Company have picked up her products. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Amber Helsel

Bilal Qizilbash

The third weekend of December, Bilal Qizilbash had three important things to do: see â&#x20AC;&#x153;Star Wars: The Force Awakens,â&#x20AC;? complete his masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in biomedical sciences from Mississippi College and, as he had done every weekend for nine months, take food to homeless people in Smith Park.

Qizilbash (pronounced kizzleBOSH) founded a group called R U Hungry? to provide hot meals to homeless people on Friday nights because he saw a need that social-service organizations are unable to fill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For as many people who claim to love Jesus and love religion, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen some of the most unreligious behavior in regard to treating the homelessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;almost like theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a blight on societyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;(as opposed to) saying â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;How do we help these people a little?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Instead of getting angry at the symptom, why donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we go to the root cause of the problem?â&#x20AC;? Qizilbash, who is Muslim, told the JFP in December.

He said he wants to formally organize R U Hungry? into a nonprofit so that the group can apply for grants; currently, he and fellow volunteers spend $150 to $200 out of pocket on the weekly feasts. Qizilbash is also an inventor and is working on a process to mass produce juiced curly kale, which he discovered can kill cancer cells. In 2016, he will begin a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in business administration program at Mississippi College. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; R.L. Nave

Sharon Brown

The year 2015 was a revival year for the state flag debate. Community organizer and Jackson native Sharon Brown was one of the first Mississippians to take action against Ballot Initiative 54 that proposes to make the current state flag permanent. In response, Brown filed Ballot Initiative 55 on Oct. 9 to remove the Confederate battle flag and any emblems of the Confederacy from the state flag permanently.

Brown also helped organize the 1 Flag for All rally in October, drawing support from civil rights activists and politicians in a march to the Capitol, including activists from in and out of state like Myrlie Evers-Williams, David Banner and South Carolina Rep. Jenny Horne (who fought to bring down the Confederate battle flag outside her stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Capitol).

Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initiative must receive 107,000 signatures before the end of 2016 for it to go on a ballot for voters.

Brown attributes her fight and determination to her motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s challenge to stand up and do somethingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;despite hardships. She wants to see a state flag that unites Mississippians with peace, unity and love. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Arielle Dreher

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The quarter marathon and relay race were sold out at press time. The marathon is $90, the half is $80, and the kids marathon is $10. At press time, the music lineup during the race was not available.

Packets can be picked up at the pre-race Blues Expo Jan. 7 and 8 at the Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). Vendors will have running gear and accessories and also blues-related items. Visitors can enjoy musical performances from blues artists. The expo is open from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Jan. 7 and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Jan. 8. Extended packet pickup hours for Jan. 8 are 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

After the race, the Blues Marathon will host a party in the Art Garden. It will have music, food, sodas, beer, activities for kids and more.

Post-race massages will be available for the marathonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s participants at 9 a.m.

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Like years past, musicians will play before, during and after the race. The start and finish area for the marathon will be at the Mississippi Museum of Artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Art Garden (380 S. Lamar St.) The starting line is at the intersection of Pascagoula and Lamar streets, and the race will go through downtown Jackson to areas such as Fondren and Belhaven.

The full-length marathon and half and quarter marathons will all begin at 7 a.m., and the kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; marathon will begin at 9 a.m. Runners in the full and half marathons have a seven-hour time limit to complete the race, although runners on the course

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Broad Street Bakery (4465 Interstate 55 N. 601-362-2900) Hot breakfast, coffee drinks, fresh breads & pastries, gourmet deli sandwiches.

The Feathered Cow (4760 I-55 North 769-233-8366) Simple and homemade equal quality and freshness every time. You never leave The Cow hungry!

The Iron Horse Grill (320 W Pearl St, Jackson, 601-398-0151) The smell of charcoal greets you, the music carries you inside.

Primos Cafe (2323 Lakeland 601-936-3398/ 515 Lake Harbour 601-898-3400) A Jackson institution for breakfast, blue-plates, catfish, burgers, prime rib, oysters, po-boys & wraps. Famous bakery!

Roosterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (2906 N State St, Jackson, 601-982-2001) You havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t had a burger until youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had a Roosterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s burger. Pair it with their seasoned fries and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in heaven.

Two Sisters Kitchen (707 N. Congress St. 601-353-1180) Lunch. Mon-Fri, Sun. PIZZA Sal & Mookieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (565 Taylor St. 601-368-1919) Pizzas of all kinds plus pasta, eggplant Parmesan, fried ravioli & ice cream for the kids!

Mellow Mushroom (275 Dogwood Blvd, Flowood, 601-992-7499) More than just great pizza and beer. Open Monday - Friday 11-10 and Saturday 11-11.

ITALIAN BRAVO! (4500 Interstate 55 N., Jackson, 601-982-8111) Award-winning wine list, Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s see-and-be-seen casual/upscale dining.

Fratesiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (910 Lake Harbour, Ridgeland, 601-956-2929) Fratesiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has been a staple in Jackson for years, offering great Italian favorites with loving care. The tiramisu is a must-have!

STEAK, SEAFOOD & FINE DINING Eslavaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grille 2481 (Lakeland Dr, Flowood, 601-932-4070) Seafood, Steaks and Pastas The Manship Wood Fired Kitchen (1200 North State St. #100 601-398-4562) Transforms the essence of Mediterranean food and southern classics.

The Penguin (1100 John R Lynch Street, 769-251-5222) Fine dining at its best.

Rockyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (1046 Warrington Road, Vicksburg 601-634-0100) Enjoy choice steaks, fresh seafood, great salads, hearty sandwiches.

Sal and Philâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Seafood (6600 Old Canton Rd, Ridgeland 601-957-1188) Great Seafood, Poboys, Lunch Specials, Boiled Seafood, Full Bar, Happy Hour Specials Saltine Oyster Bar (622 Duling Avenue 601-982-2899) Creative seafood classics. One of Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best New Restaurants.

MEDITERRANEAN/GREEK Aladdin Mediterranean Grill (730 Lakeland Drive 601-366-6033) Delicious authentic dishes including lamb dishes, hummus, falafel, kababs, shwarma.

Zeekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House of Gyros (132 Lakeland Heights Suite P, Flowood 601.992.9498) Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Newest Greek Restaurant, offering authentic gyros, hummus, and wide selection of craft beers.

BARBEQUE Chimneyville (970 High St, Jackson 601-354-4665 www.chimneyville.com) Family style barbeque restaurant and catering service in the heart of downtown Jackson.

Hickory Pit Barbecue (1491 Canton Mart Rd. 601-956-7079) The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Butts in Townâ&#x20AC;? features BBQ chicken, beef and pork along with burgers and poâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;boys.

Pig and Pint (3139 N State St, Jackson, 601-326-6070) Serving up competition style barbecue along with one of the of best beer selections in metro.

COFFEE HOUSES Cups Espresso CafĂŠ (Multiple Locations, www.cupsespressocafe.com) Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s local group of coffeehouses offer a wide variety of espresso drinks. Wi-fi.

BARS, PUBS & BURGERS 4th & Goal Sports Cafe (North, 5100 I-55 Frontage Rd 769-208-8283) Handcrafted food made from the best ingredients.

Burgers and Blues (1060 E. County Line Rd. 601-899-0038) Best Burger of 2013, plus live music and entertainment!

Fenianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub (901 E. Fortification St. 601-948-0055) Classic Irish pub featuring a menu of traditional food, pub sandwiches & Irish beers on tap.

Hal and Malâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (200 S. Commerce St. 601-948-0888) Pub favorites meet Gulf Coast and Cajun specialties like red beans and rice, the Oyster Platter or daily specials.

ISH Grill & Bar (5105 I 55 N Frontage Rd. 769-257-5204) Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest hot spot offering classic foods and cocktails in a refined and elegant atmosphere.

Legends Grill (5352 Lakeland Dr. 601-919-1165) Your neighborhood Sports Bar and Grill.

Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant and Lounge (214 South State Street 601-354-9712) Lunch specials, pub appetizers or order from the full menu of po-boys and entrees. Full bar, beer selection.

Ole Tavern on George Street (416 George St. 601-960-2700) Pub food with a southern flair: beer-battered onion rings, chicken & sausage gumbo, salads, sandwiches.

One Block East ( 642 Tombigbee St. 601-944-0203) Burger joint and dive bar located in downtown Jackson. Great music, tasty beverages and Bad Ass Burgers is what we do.

Underground 119 (119 South President St. 601-352-2322) Upscale Southern cuisine, gumbo, red beans and rice, fried green tomatoes, grilled or fried shrimp, catfish, kitchen open with full menu till 1 am on Friday and Saturday night.

ASIAN AND INDIAN Fusion Japanese and Thai Cuisine (1002 Treetops Blvd, Flowood 601-664-7588/1030-A Hwy 51, Madison 601-790-7999) Specializing in fresh Japanese and Thai cuisine, an extensive menu features everything from curries to fresh sushi.

Surin of Thailand (3000 Old Canton Road, Suite 105, Jackson 601-981-3205) Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Newest Authentic Thai & Sushi Bar with 26 signature martiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and extensive wine list.

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MONDAY 1/4

The Planetarium Holiday Shows are at noon at the Russell C. Davis Planetarium.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gridironâ&#x20AC;? Dinner Theater is at Kismetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant and Catering in Brandon.

The 2016 Legislative Welcome Reception is at Coxwell & Associates, PLLC.

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The City of Jackson Community Kwanzaa Celebration is from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Medgar Evers Community Center (3759 Edwards Ave.). The annual seven-night event includes speakers, information, discussions, dancing, poetry, music, refreshments and more. Additional dates: Dec. 29Jan. 1, 6-9 p.m. Free; call 601-608-8327 or 601-960-1741; email juneteenthjackson@yahoo.com.

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WEDNESDAY 12/30

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jersey Boys,â&#x20AC;? a musical about the career of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, is Jan. 5-10 at Thalia Mara Hall.

THURSDAY 12/31

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NYE Stäge is at 7 p.m. at The Apothecary at Brentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Drugs (655 Duling Ave.). Stäge founder, chef Tom Ramsey, serves a special six-course meal. Purchase drinks from a special cocktail menu. Limited seating. $60; call 601-366-3427; stagepopup.com. â&#x20AC;Ś The Black and White Affair New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve Celebration is from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., at King Edward Hotel (235 W. Capitol St.) and Union Station (300 W. Capitol St.).

FRIDAY 1/1

New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day Brunch is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Anjou Restaurant (361 Township Ave., Ridgeland). Includes drink specials with the purchase of an entree and music from Spirit of Django from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Reservations recommended. $12 for bottomless mimosas and Champagne, $11 for bottomless Bloody Marys, entree prices vary; call 601-707-0587; anjourestaurant.net.

SATURDAY 1/2

The PyInfamous Album Release Show is at 8 p.m. at The Workshop (215 W. Capitol St.). The hip-hop artist performs with a live band for the release of his album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We Struggle

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Hip-hop artist PyInfamous performs for the release of his new album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We Struggle Too,â&#x20AC;?

Saturday, Jan. 2, at The Workshop.

Blue South Entertainment and Embellished Events & Interiors host the end-of-the-year event. Admission includes refreshments, live music, a cash bar and a Champagne toast. Tickets available at Eventbrite. In advance: $50, $75 couples; at the door: $60, $100 couples; call 24 601-201-7284; bluesouthentertainment.com.

SUNDAY 1/3

The Physicianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) Cancer Project Class Series is from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. at St. Columbâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church (550 Sunnybrook Road, Ridgeland). Attendees learn about the benefits of a plant-based diet in cancer prevention and weight loss. Includes cooking demonstrations and food samples.

Registration required. Sessions held Sundays through Jan. 24. $60; call 601-853-0205; email magnoliahealthyliving@gmail.com; magnoliahealthyliving.com.

MONDAY 1/4

Joseph LaSalla performs at 6:30 p.m. at Kathrynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Steakhouse (6800 Old Canton Road, Ridgeland). The singer-guitarist plays music from a variety of genres, including jazz and classic rock. No cover; call 601-956-2803; kathrynssteaks.com. â&#x20AC;Ś Blue Monday is at 7 p.m. at Hal & Malâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (200 Commerce St.). The Central Mississippi Blues Society hosts this weekly jam session, which features the Front Porch Acoustic Hour and a performance by the Blue Monday Band. Includes light refreshments and a cash bar. $5; call 601-948-0888; email centralmsbluessociety@gmail.com.

TUESDAY 1/5

Art Attack Vol. 1 is at 7 p.m. at Big Sleepyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (208 W. Capitol St.). View and purchase art from Mississippi artists, including Wood Simmons, Melissa Bryant, Jordan Thornton, Douglas Cruise and Ming Donkey, with live music from Nossiens and Echo Courts. Prices vary; email artattackmississippi@gmail.com; find the event on Facebook. â&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jersey Boysâ&#x20AC;? is at 8 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The award-winning musical is based on the life of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Additional dates: Jan. 5-8, 8 p.m., Jan. 9, 2 p.m., Jan. 9, 8 p.m., Jan. 10, 1 p.m., and Jan. 10, 7 p.m. $22-$87; call 800-745-3000; jacksonbroadway.com.

WEDNESDAY 1/6

None the Wiser performs at 8 p.m. at Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.). 3rd Eye Booking Company, Outbound Flight and The Khronox host. The rock band from Joplin, Mo., performs as part of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Dog Days Tour.â&#x20AC;? Die With Nature, the Empty Handed Painters and Rafiki Grove also perform. $10; call 601-376-9404; find the event on Facebook.

City of Jackson Community Kwanzaa Celebration Dec. 30-Jan. 1, 6-9 p.m., at Medgar Evers Community Center (3759 Edwards Ave.). The annual seven-night event includes speakers, information, discussions, dancing, poetry, music, refreshments and more. Free; call 601-608-8327 or 601-960-1741; email juneteenthjackson@yahoo.com.

Noon Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve Celebration Dec. 31, 9 a.m.1 p.m., at Mississippi Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum (2145 Highland Drive). Includes Japanese-inspired storytelling and noisemakers, dancing with Mr. Snowman and a confetti rocket launch. Mississippi blues artist Vasti Jackson performs at 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months free); call 601-9815469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

2016 NYE Ladies Night Dec. 31, 9 p.m., at Ole Tavern on George Street (416 George St.).

Includes music from DJ Glenn Rogers, a Champagne toast and more. Ladies drink free. $15; call 601-960-2700; find the event on Facebook.

New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve Bash Dec. 31, 9 p.m., at One Block East (642 Tombigbee St.). The party includes drink specials, a toast, a balloon drop, music from DJ Money Hungry and more. $10; call 601-944-0203; find the event on Facebook.

The Black and White Affair New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve Celebration Dec. 31, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., at King Edward Hotel (235 W. Capitol St.) and Union Station (300 W. Capitol St.). Blue South Entertainment and Embellished Events & Interiors host. Includes refreshments, music, a cash bar and a Champagne toast. Tickets sold at Eventbrite. In advance: $50, $75 couples; at the door: $60, $100 couples; call 601-201-7284; bluesouthentertainment.com.

New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve Blowout Dec. 31, 10 p.m., at Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St.).

The Cedric Burnside Project and The Delta Get Down perform. Doors open at 9 p.m. Admission TBA; call 601-354-9712; martinslounge.net.

#/--5.)49 Jackson Area Web & App Developers December Meetup Dec. 30, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at The Hive (Dickies Building, 736 S. President St.). Speakers include Matthew McLaughlin of Coalesce Coworking Space and AngularJS expert Joe Buza.

Enjoy pizza, beer and socializing before the presentations. Free; call 601-812-8166; meetup.com.

Mississippi Geographic Alliance Travel Fellowship Application Deadline Dec. 31, statewide.

The Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO) sponsors the program that gives teachers the opportunity to travel and share their experiences with students. Visit the website for guidelines. Free; tinyurl.com/MGAtravel.

2016 Legislative Welcome Reception Jan. 4, 6 p.m., at Coxwell & Associates, PLLC (500 N. State St). The Mississippi Democratic Party hosts this event in honor of new legislators, including incoming state Rep. Jarvis Dortch and incoming state Rep. Kathy Sykes. Tickets available by financial contribution, starting at $25; mississippidemocrats.org.

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NYE Stäge Dec. 31, 7 p.m., at The Apothecary at Brentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Drugs (655 Duling Ave.). Chef Tom Ramsey serves a six-course meal. Purchase drinks from a special cocktail menu. Limited seating. $60; call 601-366-3427; stagepopup.com.

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Planetarium Schedule Dec. 30-31, noon, at Russell C. Davis Planetarium (201 E. Pascagoula St.).

Options include â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lasers in Space,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let It Snowâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Winter Holiday (Laser Adventure).â&#x20AC;? $6.50; $5.50 seniors; $4 children (cash or check); call 601-960-1550; thedavisplanetarium.com. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gridironâ&#x20AC;? Dinner Theater Dec. 31, 7 p.m., at Kismetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant and Catering (315 Crossgates Blvd., Brandon). The Detectives presents the interactive comedy. Seating at 6:30 p.m.; show at 7 p.m. Includes a three-course meal. Reservations required. For ages 18 and up. $39; call 601-9371752 or 601-291-7444; thedetectives.biz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jersey Boysâ&#x20AC;? Jan. 5-8, 8 p.m., Jan. 9, 2 p.m., Jan. 9, 8 p.m., Jan. 10, 1 p.m., Jan. 10, 7 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The award-winning musical is based on the life of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. $22-$87; call 800-745-3000; jacksonbroadway.com.

#/.#%243 &%34)6!,3 Argiflex Album Release Show Jan. 2, 9 p.m., at Big Sleepyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (208 W. Capitol St.). The live electronica artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s album is titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cybersmog.â&#x20AC;? Vexadrem and Orin also perform. For all ages. $5; call 601-863-9516; find the event on Facebook.

None the Wiser Jan. 6, 8 p.m., at Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.). The rock band from Joplin, Mo., performs. Die With Nature, the Empty Handed Painters and Rafiki Grove also perform. $10; call 601-376-9404; find the event on Facebook.

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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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Blues artist Cedric Burnsideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Descendants of Hill Country,â&#x20AC;? was recently nominated for a Grammy Award.

you know,â&#x20AC;? the Holly Springs native says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She told me weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been nominated for best blues album of the year to win a Grammy.â&#x20AC;?

When the Recording Academy announced the nominees on Dec. 7, 2015, Burnsideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seventh album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Descendants of Hill Country,â&#x20AC;? made the short list. The album, which he released in February, is nominated alongside Buddy Guyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Born to Play Guitar,â&#x20AC;? Betty LaVetteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Worthy,â&#x20AC;? Shemekia Copelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outskirts of Loveâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Muddy Waters 100,â&#x20AC;? a centennial tribute featuring artists such as John Primer, Gary Clark Jr. and Derek Trucks.

The winner will be announced at the 58th Grammy Awards ceremony on Feb. 15.

Burnside attributes the attention that his album has received to new listeners discovering hill-country blues, the style of music that his grandfather, R.L. Burnside, and Junior Kimbrough popularized in the early 1990s. However, the sound has been a staple of north Mississippi for many years. Burnside points to that history on tracks such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Born with Itâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Down in the Delta,â&#x20AC;? a song that his uncle, Garry Burnside, wrote about their familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past as sharecroppers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been hearing for years people asking for a more traditional style of music to come around. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been hearing the same style of music for so long,â&#x20AC;? Burnside says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Ś I play hill-country blues. It just happened to be a very rare blues from north Mississippi that people didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really know about or understand for a bunch of years.

even sees some similarities between his stylistic heritage and Delta blues. But thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also something completely different in the hill-country style, he says, even in the unorthodox song structure, which is rooted in a more raw, dirty blues sound. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to explain how the rhythm is because you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have no eight bars or 12 bars, none of that,â&#x20AC;? Burnside says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all feel music, you know. Sometimes, cats might change on the one, or hold the one for three minutes. You never know. You just have to listen and hope that you catch it.â&#x20AC;?

As thankful as he isâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to God, to fans, and to his famous and influential grandfatherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to be recognized for his music, Burnside says he wants to continue business as usual. For now, he plans to stick to his routine on the road, and within the next four to five months, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll head back to the studio to record his eighth album. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great and everything, but I do it from my heart,â&#x20AC;? Burnside says of the Grammy nomination. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love to play my music, period, with or without the accolades, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just glad people enjoy it and understand my music. And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to keep on doing it, man. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a beautiful year.â&#x20AC;?

The Cedric Burnside Project performs at 10 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 31, at Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St., 601354-9712) and at 6:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 9, at The Iron Horse Grill (320 W. Pearl St., 601-398-0151). For more information, visit cedricburnside.net.

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Barring no one else falling out of a window and being suspended for the Sugar Bowl, the UM Rebels should be in good shape to beat Oklahoma State.

Rebel fans, keep your fingers crossed.

FRIDAY, JAN. 1 College football (7:30-11 p.m., ESPN): University of Mississippi looks to show up this year in the Sugar Bowl against Oklahoma State unlike its showing against TCU in last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Peach Bowl.

SATURDAY, JAN. 2 College basketball (6-8 p.m., SECN): The UM Rebels can make a statement on the opening day of SEC play with a road win against the Kentucky Wildcats.

SUNDAY, JAN. 3 NFL (noon-3 p.m., FOX): Could this be the final game for both Drew Brees and Sean Payton as Saints as New Orleans hits the road to face arch-rival Atlanta Falcons?

MONDAY, JAN. 4 College basketball (7:30-10 p.m., ESPNU): Alcorn State hits the road in SWAC play to face Texas Southern.

TUESDAY, JAN. 5 College basketball (8-10 p.m., ESPN): The Kentucky Wildcats hit the road in SEC play as the LSU Tigers get their chance at the top SEC team.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 6 College basketball (8-10 p.m., SECN): Mississippi State looks to get on a roll, and a home win against ranked Texas A&M is a great place to start.

The Rebels defense, even without Robert Nkemdiche, should be nearly unlike anything the Cowboys saw in the Big 12.

My pick: Rebels 48, Cowboys 31.

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he history of the Mississippi State University womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team is light on success, to say the least.

The team began play in 1974 and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make the NCAA Tournament until the late 1990s. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until 1988 that the program reached the National Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Invitational Tournament for the first postseason berth.

But things started to change when Sharon Fanning-Otis was took over the program, starting in the 1995 season.

Fanning-Otis laid the foundation for success in Lady Bulldogs basketball. In 1999, she led the Lady Bulldogs to reach the NCAA Tournament, helped the team earn its first national ranking in 2000 and took Mississippi State to the

The Lady Bulldogs reached the second round of the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NCAA Tournament, but the season ended in a loss to Duke University. At the end of the season, the Lady Bulldogs tied a school record with the 2000 team when it finished the season ranked No. 12 in the final AP Poll.

Schaefer was named 2015 AP SEC Coach of the Year, 2015 SEC Coachesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Co-Coach of the year and was a 2015 Naismith National Coach of the Year Semifinalist after the Lady Bulldogsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; remarkable season. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already tied for third for most wins in program history and is second in program history in SEC wins.

Last year, Vivians led the Lady Bulldogs in scoring with 14.9 points per game and was the top scoring freshman in the SEC and third overall in scoring in the conference.

She received honors such as Second-Team All-SEC, SEC All-Freshman, AP All-American Honorable Mention and Full Court Press Freshman All-American Second-Team. Vivians won the 2015 C Spire Gillom Trophy, which the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum gives to the best womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball player in the state of Mississippi. The budding superstar also got it done in the classroom, as she was named SEC FirstYear Honor Roll.

Lady Bulldog Victoria Vivians helped lead Mississippi State University to a banner The Lady Bulldogs season last year, and this season is looking even better for her and the team. started the 2015-2016 season ranked No. 11 in the AP Poll and No. Sweet 16 during the 2009-2010 season. The highest ranking 13 in the USA Today Coaches Poll, but thankfully for State the program achieved at any point was No. 10 in 2003. fans, the team didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t peak there. Just a few short weeks on Fanning-Otis retired and left the program in 2012, and the court, these Lady Bulldogs have already set a new school current coach Vic Schaefer took over. In his second season, record for the highest ranking at any point by being ranked Schaefer brought the Lady Bulldogs to the quarterfinals of No. 8 in both the AP and Coaches poll. the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NIT. After a 5-0 start, the Lady Bulldogs lost a close 53-47 conLast season, he added the most coveted womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high- test to sixth-ranked the University of Texas before immediately school basketball prospect in the state of Mississippi: Victo- hitting their stride again to reach 12-1 for the season thus far. ria Vivians. The five-star player out of Scott Central High However, the Lady Bulldogs donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t start SEC play until the new School was just about a legend in girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball in Missis- year and still have a ranked University of South Florida team to sippi before her career was even done with the Lady Rebels. play in the non-conference schedule on Dec. 30.

It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take long for her to make an impact on the Vivians is already outdoing her freshman effort and is team. She helped lead it to a school-record 27 wins in a 27-7 leading the team in scoring with 17.8 points per game. Her season that included an 11-5 mark in SEC play and 10-0 in top showings include her 36 points in a win against Louisinonconference games. Those 11 wins in conference play set ana Tech University and 27 points in a win against Savannah a school record. The team also had a school-best 18 straight State University. She is near the top of nearly every statistical wins at the beginning of the season and spent 17 consecutive category for the Lady Bulldogs. weeks in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll, which broke yet There is no question that Vivians is the favorite to win another school record. the Gillom Trophy this season. She could be a part of a MSU The Lady Bulldogs won 20 games in back-to-back sea- sweep of state basketball awards this season. sons for the second time in program history and improved 10 The main question is: What new highs are the Lady spots in the SEC standings. MSU womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball reached Bulldogs going to reach this season under Schaefer and Vivthe Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NCAA Tournament for the first time since the ians? Right now it seems like the skyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the limit for the MSU 2009-2010 season. womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball program.

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