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Eatery Arrivals, Departures Cardon, p 18

Sam Mooney: Making Way Smith, p 22

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ackson native Daniel Berry says he has always been interested in the engineering behind fast cars such as the ones in Formula 1 and IndyCar racing. It was working on a go-kart that sparked his curiosity for racing and made him want to test his driving skills.

“It turned out that I was quite good at it,” Berry, 16, says.

He began go-kart racing in 2015.

Because there isn’t a track in Jackson for him to practice, he has to travel to New Orleans, where the nearest one is located.

IndyCar driver Jay Howard sponsors Berry, who is a member of Howard’s Motorsports Driver Development in New Orleans.

Although Berry competes at a club level and just began competing on a national level, he strives to go forward even though the path is uncertain.

“In racing, your career path isn’t something you can typically plan,” Berry says. “Obviously, I’d love to go all the way to IndyCar or Formula 1, but it depends on a lot of different circumstances; it primarily comes down to having enough money to move up from karts to cars, and having the right connections to get you into the higher levels. … In working with Jay Howard, I have the connections necessary to take me to the top; it’s just a matter

of money at this point.”

Even though the nearest track being 200 miles away, he doesn’t let the distance derail him from his dream.

“I’m hugely inspired by a driver called Lake Speed,” Berry says. “He (was) the only American to ever win the (Karting World Championship before 2015), and oddly enough, he was born and raised in Jackson. The fact that Lake Speed was able to win the (Karting World Championship) while living in Jackson really showed me that geography shouldn’t stand in the way of my racing.”

In August, Berry will be a junior at Jackson Preparatory School.

Although he spends the majority of his time practicing his racing and competing, Berry says he still has plans of pursuing a secondary education after he graduates from high school. He says he wants to attend either Clemson University or Alabama State.

“I believe I’m going to major in mechanical engineering because I really enjoy solving problems, and I’m particularly good at math and physics,” Berry says.

His favorite subject in school is math, and during his leisure time, he says he enjoys playing the guitar and several other instruments.

—Maya Parker

contents 6 ............................ Talks 12 ................... editorial 13 ...................... opinion 16 ............ Cover Story 18 ........... food & Drink 20 ......................... 8 Days 21 ........................ Events 21 ....................... sports 22 .......................... music 22 ........ music listings 24 ...................... Puzzles 25 ......................... astro 25 ............... Classifieds

7 JPS Board Back in Biz

The Jackson City Council approved Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba’s first pick for the JPS School Board.

18 Expansion, Renovation, Closing Char expanded its dining room; BRAVO! will soon go under renovations; and after almost three decades in business, Two Sisters’ has closed.

22 Sam Mooney: Finding His Way

“I started with two EPs that I’m really proud of and that were the right move for the time, and I’m really glad I did them, but now, I really want to make a full-length album. It’s tempting to just put singles out, and that may be the strategy after this album, but I do feel a strong pull to make a cohesive full-length album.”

—Sam Mooney, “Sam Mooney: Finding His Way”

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4 ..... PUBLISHER’S Note

Laura Amour; courtesy Char; Imani Khayyam

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PUBLISHER’s note

by Todd Stauffer, Publisher

Editorial Awards Encouraging for Our 15th Anniversary

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ast weekend Donna Ladd and I were in the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., for the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Editorial Awards ceremony. (It was about 4:30 p.m., so the club wasn’t exactly thumping—it had been requisitioned for this ceremony.)

With the drinks and hobnobbing out of the way, we were seated for the awards, at the mercy of emcee Haywood Turnipseed Jr., a local D.C. comedian who hosted the awards. (He’s very funny—look him up when you’re in the nation’s capital.)

When the slide for the Jackson Free Press’ entry in the Public Service category came up, I saw our name aside the others in the category—Colorado Springs Independent; The Athens (Ga.) Flagpole; and Portland (Ore.) Mercury—and started willing the JFP’s name to turn yellow, which is how they announced the winner in each category. It did, and Donna got up to take the stage and accept the award with the obligatory laugh about a paper from Jackson “Mississippi?!” winning the award.

That win in Public Service for the “A Hunger to Live: Interrupting Violence in Jackson, Miss.” series of articles, issues and illustrations—which Donna shares with Arielle Dreher, Imani Khayyam, Tim Summers Jr., Sierra Mannie, Maya Miller, Marzavier Harrington and Kristin Brenemen—capped a nice year of wins both for the Jackson Free Press and for that particular series of stories.

In the 2017 Green Eyeshade awards, for instance, Donna won the Green Eyeshade for the entire Non-Daily Print division with her “Hunger to Live” story series that launched the “Preventing Violence” series. (The JFP won 10 other awards in the Green Eyeshades, which represent the

Society of Professional Journalism in the 11 states of the southeastern United States.)

In the AAN awards, which are national, Donna also won First Place for her political columns about her exposé and impact of Gov. Phil Bryant’s “Confederate Heritage Month” support, HB 1523 and District Attorney Robert Smith’s trials. Writer Sierra Manning won Second Place in the Race Reporting category for her cover story about Ridgeland’s demographic struggles.

Good people are working on the actual solutions to violent crime.

In yet another competition—the Associated Press Louisiana/Mississippi awards for 2016 work—Donna and photographer Imani Khayyam won first place in Division One in the Investigative/Public Service series for the “Hunger to Live” series. AP also awarded the JFP a First Place for editorials.

I point all this out to say, first of all, congratulations to the JFP staff on these recognitions for a lot of hard work. Those of you who have read the Jackson Free Press for a long time know that Donna Ladd and her editorial team are going to deliver on the awards each year—this one has been the JFP’s biggest awards year yet in part because of Donna’s emphasis has put on crime and policing reporting in Jackson and elsewhere, including New York City.

It’s worth noting that this series was

supported by two Solutions Journalism grants, two fellowships from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and more generally by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in so far as it gave Donna a three-year leadership fellowship that helped her connect with research and sources with her goal of improving the media narrative about young people in our state and the nation.

The other reason I bring it up is because being in Washington, D.C., made this series that much more poignant on a couple of levels. First, we were at our annual convention with so many other people dedicated to the sort of journalism that uncovers local problems and, increasingly, seeks the solutions to those problems. That means it’s a nice reminder of why people like Donna and her team are in this business, and what we hope our readers and local community get out of it.

Second, it was a particularly poignant weekend for this work to be honored given that Donald Trump, at a campaignrally-like appearance in New York, told the police there that they should be “less nice” when they’re arresting immigrants or suspected gang members. In protracted comments that included the phrase “paddy wagon,” our current White House occupant encouraged the cops to run suspects’ heads into door frames as they were being put in the back of a police car.

While I don’t expect particularly insightful comments from Donald Trump on much of anything—much less criminal justice—the truth is that a lot of good people are working on the actual solutions to violent crime in this country. Many, like Donna and her team, are looking at it through the long lens of how we make the lives of young people in underprivileged

circumstances more encouraging and rewarding so they don’t turn to violence or drug sales or other gang or crew activity.

There are much better solutions than “round them up” and “bang their heads on the car frame.” Real solutions start with understanding how we got to where we are— what’s systemic about the problem—and what the best practices are for interrupting violence and setting young people on a better path with the full support of responsible and invested adults in their community.

Those solutions involve more than simply dealing with the violence in front of us and extend to re-investing in our community’s infrastructure, education and business community. Looking at the historical and structural inequity in this country— not to mention in this state and the Jackson metro area—is not just looking into a past we want to forget. It’s an important part of the process of rebuilding the American Dream so that more people have the opportunity they need for upward mobility.

As we approach JFP’s 15th anniversary, we hope that you’ll support this sort of deep coverage (and all the other great stuff our staff does such as events coverage, local business coverage, music and nightlife) by reading the JFP, advertising, shopping with our partners, and joining whenever you can to move this city and state forward.

One way is to attend the One-on-One talk on Aug. 14 at Millsaps College in the Ford Academic Complex, Room 215, at 6 p.m. Donna will be chatting with FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze about his ideas for reducing violence in the Jackson metro. Please join us.

Read the JFP’s full award-winning and ongoing “Preventing Violence” series at jfp.ms/ preventingviolence.

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contributors

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Amber Helsel

Timothy Quinn

Arielle Dreher

Ko Bragg

Imani Khayyam

Dustin Cardon

Tyler Edwards

Kimberly Griffin

Managing Editor Amber Helsel is a Gemini, feminist, writer, artist and otaku. She loves travelling, petting cats, hoarding craft supplies and more. Email story ideas to amber@jacksonfree press.com. She organized the cover package.

Freelance writer Timothy Quinn is a family physician at Quinn Total Health who dedicates himself to giving his patients consistent, comprehensive and ethical medical care. He contributed to the cover package.

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 Medicaid fraud solutions and more.

Ko Bragg is a Philadelphia, Miss., transplant who recently completed her master’s in journalism. She loves traveling, and has been to 25 countries to date. She’s covering the second Hinds County District Attorney Trial of Robert Shuler Smith.

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.

Web Editor Dustin Cardon is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. He enjoys reading fantasy novels and wants to write them himself one day. He wrote about local food news.

Events Editor Tyler Edwards loves film, TV and all things pop culture. He’s a Jackson native and will gladly debate the social politics of comic books.

Send events to events@jack sonfreepress.com. He compiled the event listings.

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

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“We have asked for somebody who has skin in the game ... and this family does. ... We have asked for people with experience with finances, and she has a background as a financial services adviser.”

— Ward 2 Councilman Melvin Priester Jr. on Letitia Simmons Johnson’s appointment to the JPS School Board at the council meeting this week.

Wednesday, July 26

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood and Lieutenant Gov. Tate Reeves voice their stark differences on the state budget in back-to-back speeches at the Neshoba County Fair. … Donald Trump tweets that he wants to bar transgender people from serving in military “in any capacity,” citing “tremendous medical costs and disruption.”

Thursday, July 27

Republican Gov. Phil Bryant says in a speech at the Neshoba County Fair that employees at the Nissan Motor Co. plant in Mississippi should reject unionization because he believes labor unions have hurt the automotive industry in Detroit and other places.

Friday, July 28

Republican Senators’ so-called “skinny repeal” bill erasing several parts of the Affordable Care Act fails just before 2 a.m. on a vote of 51-49.

Saturday, July 29

U.S. District Court Judge Kristine Baker issues a preliminary injunction blocking Arkansas from enforcing four new abortion restrictions. … Donald Trump threatens to end required payments to insurance companies unless lawmakers repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act and suggests senators should cancel their summer break to pass legislation.

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Sunday, July 30

Russian President Vladimir Putin says the United States will have to cut its embassy and consulate staff in Russia by 755 after Congress approved sanctions against Russia.

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Monday, July 31

Hinds County Circuit Judge Jeff Weill sentences Christopher Butler to 30 years in prison as a habitual offender for 4 pounds of post the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics recovered at his home.

Tuesday, August 1

U.S. District Judge Daniel Jordan delays Dr. Carl Reddix’s sentencing for bribing Mississippi’s former corrections commissioner until September.

Get breaking news at jfpdaily.com.

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Medicaid Fraud Solutions: Two Ways

By Arielle Dreher

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tate Auditor Stacey Pickering is driving a bi-partisan approach to Medicaid fraud that stands in stark contrast to legislation the Republican supermajority in the Mississippi Legislature passed this past session.

Pickering announced his data-driven solution at the Neshoba County Fair last week. Mississippi has joined four other states in a program that teaches state agencies how to use more intricate datamining software to find dual-payments, improper payments and potential fraud in the state’s Medicaid program.

Mississippi joins Massachusetts, California, North Carolina, and Louisiana in a federally sponsored partnership to learn how to use the new software.

The state’s Division of Medicaid will integrate its work with that of the other states, alert the attorney general’s office to violations, and allow the auditor’s office to easily hold Medicaid providers and recipients accountable.

The Louisiana legislative auditor found $1.4 million in improper, duplicate payments over a five-year period the 2017 report shows and the Associated Press reported.

The kicker for the program, Pickering said, is its non-partisan label.

“We did it kind of strategically; it’s not a Republican or Democrat-driven

program,” Pickering told the Jackson Free Press. “It’s accountability. You’ve got auditors from big states, small states, red states, blue states, purple states—we’re sharing audit protocols that have been evaluated.”

‘It’s not a Republican or Democrat-driven program...You’ve got auditors from big states, small states, red states, blue states...’

In the program, states receive feedback from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as well as the non-partisan Government Accountability Office in Washington, D.C.

The bi-partisan program is not targeted at either Medicaid recipients or providers; instead, it looks at the whole

system to identify outliers. Pickering gave an example of identical cases in Louisiana and Massachusetts, where one medical provider was supposedly working and billing Medicaid at 100 percent for 60 hours every week. That seemed out of the ordinary, and the software pulled that doctor’s case out as an outlier.

“Of course, they go and find out that he’s gone six months out of the year to his vacation home in Tahiti (or wherever), and he ain’t working,” Pickering said.

The ‘HOPE’ Act Republicans lawmakers tried to eliminate fraud on their own terms this year, by passing what they called the “HOPE Act” to increase transparency. The bill enables the Division of Medicaid and the Mississippi Department of Human Services to implement a new verification system to audit providers and recipients of Medicaid, food stamps and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, funding.

House Bill 1090 was largely modeled off of draft legislation from other states and by special-interest groups, and the measure passed with a loud opposition from Democrats, decrying the measure as another way to kick people off TANF, SNAP and Medicaid rolls, despite Mississippi being one of the poorest states in the country.

Education Fun Facts

by Amber Helsel

It’s school time, which means it’s time for kids to enter a classroom and learn, but really, learning should never stop. Here are some interesting facts about brain development.

The period that spans birth to 3 years old has the fastest rate of brain development across a human’s life span.

Social interaction enhances how fast and accurate people of all ages learn.

If babies’ bodies grew at the same pace as their brains, they would weigh 170 pounds at 1 month old.

Parents reading aloud stimulates children’s brain development.

By the time children are 3, their brains have formed 1,000 trillion connections between neurons.

Singing, listening to or playing music boosts spatial orientation and mathematical thinking, and the rhythm builds language skills.

“I don’t think we need a union to come in there and tell us how to make a better automobile. ... They can get back on the Bernie Sanders bus and go back to New York, and I’ll pay their way. We’re doing just fine, thank you very much.”

— Gov. Phil Bryant at the Neshoba County Fair last week, speaking against unionization at the Canton Nissan plant, which workers vote on this week.

“Everybody goes, ‘All this fraud!’, but let’s find out.”

— State Auditor Stacey Pickering discussing his new initiative with four other states to work to find fraud in the state’s Medicaid program, through a bi-partisan initiative.

Council Unanimously Approves Lumumba’s First JPS Appointee, Returning a Quorum to the Board

By Arielle Dreher

The Jackson City Council unanimously confirmed Letitia Simmons Johnson (pictured), Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba’s first school-board appointee, on Tuesday. That means JPS again has a quorum.

school-board members from the 1990s who called to encourage the city council to vote to put Johnson on the school board.

the measure would generate $30 to $60 million in savings annually—but that includes both state and federal funding.

The assessment shows that the majority of the savings would be federal funds— not state funds. The state could save up to $13.7 million annually from Medicaid but none on the SNAP or TANF side, the assessment shows. Both Medicaid and MDHS receive large amounts of funding from the federal government.

Several parts of the HOPE Act became state law on July 1. One part of the bill codifies current MDHS policies into state law. The work requirement, which requires Mississippians to be working, seeking work or be a part of a work program if they want to receive SNAP, is now

Four of Johnson’s children were at the meeting with her, and she told the council that they have been able to take advantage of special programs offered in Jackson Public Schools.

“I want to see JPS do for all children what they’ve done for my children,” Johnson told the council. “And they’re the reason why I’m committed because they are still here, and they’re still in the system.”

Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes asked Johnson what she would do to help keep JPS independent and avoid the Mississippi Department of Education from taking over.

“Because I’m not on the board (now), I don’t know the issues that are coming up, but I feel like you do: that JPS belongs to JPS. So whatever is necessary to make sure it remains so, I will do,” Johnson said.

Johnson’s confirmation to the school board completes the quorum necessary for the board to resume business. The JPS School Board was down to three members before Johnson’s confirmation Tuesday and had to suspend business that needed to be voted on.

A quorum (or four of seven) of members must be present to vote on consent agenda items. The next school-board meeting is set for next Tuesday, Aug. 8.

Email state reporter Arielle Dreher at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com and follow her on Twitter @arielle_amara.

state law, after HB 1090 prevents the state from ever asking the federal government to waive that requirement.

The law also makes an MDHS policy permanent, which says a family who has received benefits for 10 consecutive months cannot receive additional funds if a new child is born into that household.

Critics say these provisions, often called family caps, are based on the “welfare queen” stereotype.

Roy Mitchell, the executive director of the Mississippi Health Advocacy Program, said many states have repealed their family cap provisions in recent years.

“Those family cap provisions are probably in a growing minority of states; they are anti-family,” Mitchell said.

How Much Fraud?

Democratic opponents of House Bill 1090 pointed out during debates last spring that the legislation presumes a large amount of fraud in Mississippi instead of studying how much fraud exists first.

Pickering’s program seems to do the opposite, and he said it has been an intentionally slow process.

“I’m excited about what we’re going to accomplish (collaborating with) Medicaid, our investigators, the attorney general’s investigators and also provide the Legislature a real, true picture of what’s taking place, you know?” Pickering said.

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Republican Sen. Jenifer Branning, RPhiladelphia, lauded the bill at the Neshoba County Fair last week, saying it was one of the positive things lawmakers passed in light of “hard economic times.”

“The HOPE Act … is a welfarereform bill that will save us an estimated $40 million in our state annually and about four times that on a federal level,” Branning said. “This is designed to help us purge the welfare rolls and to get ablebodied Mississippians back to work being taxpaying, productive citizens again. Now, that’s a positive change, and that’s good government.”

The $40-million figure comes from an assessment of the legislation from The Stephen Group, which found that

courtesy City of Jackson

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he Jackson City Council unanimously approved Letitia Simmons Johnson to serve as the Ward 2 member of the Jackson Public Schools Board of Trustees at its meeting Tuesday morning.

Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, who nominated Johnson, told the council that his decision to appoint her did not come out of the necessity of time—but instead because of her family’s involvement with JPS as well as her background as a bankruptcy attorney.

Lumumba told the council that his new appointee is deeply invested in education and wants the system to be fully funded.

Johnson told the council that all five of her children attended JPS schools. Three of her children are still in the district, while two have graduated.

“The education that they’ve received and the opportunities they’ve received from JPS has given them an advantage,” Johnson said.

Council members barely questioned Johnson at the meeting but had apparently asked her questions either at the work session on Monday or in private.

“We have asked for somebody who has skin in the game, so to speak, with JPS, and this family does,” Ward 2 Councilman Melvin Priester Jr., whose ward Johnson will represent on the board, said Tuesday. “We have asked for people with experience with finances, and she has a background as a financial services adviser.”

Priester said he received several calls from previous

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TALK | state Arielle Dreher

Mississippi State Auditor Stacey Pickering is working on a bipartisan datamining project to be able to provide lawmakers and Mississippians with an accurate picture of how much Medicaid fraud happens in the state.

FRAUD from page 7

“Everybody goes, ‘All this fraud!’, but let’s find out,” Pickering added.

The state auditor reiterated that the state’s Division of Medicaid is on board with his project and that it is not politically driven.

“We’re looking for, what do the facts say? Where is the money going? Where is the coverage? And what are providers doing?” Pickering said.

All the data-mining for the auditor’s project will be in-house, the state auditor said. That is another key difference from the HOPE Act, which authorizes MDHS and the Division of Medicaid to issue requests for proposals for third-party vendors to implement the asset verification system described in the bill.

Erin Barham, the communications

director at the Division of Medicaid, said it plans to use a current master contract with MDHS to implement the system.

MDHS did not return repeated calls and requests for comment or further information about which contract it will use.

For now it seems it does not plan to issue an RFP for the work.

The HOPE Act does not go into effect entirely until 2019, but by then Pickering’s team will have data and reports published.

The auditor said his office will likely publish the first reports at the end of this year or at the start of 2018, so Mississippians and lawmakers alike will soon be able to start looking at the data and see the level of fraud and waste inside the Division of Medicaid.

Email state reporter Arielle Dreher at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com and follow her on Twitter @arielle_amara.

Hindering Justice? DA Smith Back on Trial

by Ko Bragg and Donna Ladd

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and a Rankin Country grand jury indicted Smith for two felony offenses and two misdemeanors for aggravated stalking, domestic violence and stalking of a former girlfriend, Christie Edwards.

Smith is out on bond as he faces this week’s re-trial Imani Khayyam

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he second trial of Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith kicked off at 9:03 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 1, with a jury of seven women and five men who did not seem all that happy to be there.

Special Judge Larry Roberts ordered the jurors sequestered at the Eagle Ridge Conference Center in Raymond throughout the trial without use of their cell phones or access to the Internet or media coverage of the trial. They will consider the State of Mississippi’s case against Smith for allegedly hindering the prosecution of a suspect, Christopher Butler, whom a jury convicted just last week of possession of 4 pounds of marijuana.

The pot turned up in a Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics raid in 2014 that Smith has long argued was an effort to frame Butler, while the State has presented a case that the district attorney may have an ulterior motive for trying to help Butler beat charges in two separate cases.

Smith’s last trial ended in a mistrial in early January after the jurors could not reach a verdict and it emerged that one of the jurors arguing for a guilty verdict works for the Jackson Police Department.

Members of the JPD, along with a variety of local officials and even judges, have called out Smith’s behavior of the last several years, which resulted in complaints filed with the Mississippi Bar over his alleged attempts to clear Butler on two separate charges. Several judges, black and white, recused from handling cases related to Smith, leading to the special judge presiding over this trial.

The prosecution’s case in Smith’s last trial went beyond Butler, however, with testimony about potential corruption and bribery leading to select prosecution of people charged with crimes in Hinds County. Since that trial, Butler was convicted in a long-delayed drug trial,

Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith (pictured) is back on trial for trying to quell the prosecution of Christopher Butler in two separate incidents. The DA is also out on bond for charges of domestic violence, robbery and stalking of a former girlfriend in Rankin County.

that could cost him his elected position and send him to prison, if convicted.

Special Assistant Attorney General Robert G. “Bob” Anderson kicked off the State’s opening statement by acknowledging the odd nature of the case. “This is a little bit of an unusual case in that I’m a prosecutor prosecuting a prosecutor,” he told the jury.

Anderson pointed out that the DA’s office had

brought two charges against Butler that stayed on the docket “for a long time”—since 2014—with Smith filing a nolle prosequi motion indicating his intention not to prosecute him.

Hinds County Circuit Judge Jeff Weill requested information to support the motion, which Smith never provided, Anderson said. He promised to show that “Mr. Smith took an unusual posture—he was more involved in that case than any other.”

“There’s two ways you can hinder prosecution, by deception of the court or by intimidation,” Anderson said, promising to show that the DA tried to bully judges into dropping the case. “Mr. Smith started first with deception, and then he moved onto intimidation.”

“He even went to far as to call his defense attorney, (James) Waide, about filing a civil rights case against the attorney general. To get Butler’s case dismissed,” Anderson argued to the 12 jurors and the three female alternates.

“Smith would stop at nothing to get Butler free.”

During its arguments, the defense returned to its previous position—that the attorney general is prosecuting Smith because the DA was investigating the State. A new high-profile face showed up to defend the DA this time: Atlanta mayoral candidate Michael Sterling.

Sterling posited to the jury that Smith got involved in the case because the State “may have indicted a person who should not have been indicted.” He also said that the attorney general had threatened Butler to get him to give up information about Smith.

“He was in a search for justice,” Sterling argued.

The rial is expected to continue for at least a week. Read the JFP’s coverage of the saga to date at jfp.ms/dafiles and follow @jxnfreepress on Twitter for daily updates.

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Keeping Insurance Rates Stable, Despite Congressional Interference

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Catching a Break

The first waiver could help men and women who are insured by individual or small-employers in the state through health-insurance plans that are not ACAcompliant, but instead were “grandmothered” into the program because they were bought after the enactment of the ACA and before October 2013. (“Grandmothered” plans are those susceptible to rate changes; “grandfathered” plans are not.) The idea behind exempting these plans from ACA-regulations was to keep Americans with them from experiencing sharp increases in their rates.

Several U.S. senators, including Sens. Roger Wicker and Thad Cochran, wrote a letter to the HHS Secretary Thomas Price in February alerting him to the waivers that were set to expire.

“One way HHS can protect Americans from the crippling effects of the law (ACA) is to extend the transitional relief policy for individual and group plans in 35 states,” the letter says.

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the ACA, and while that is still possible, keeping those “grandmothered” policies out from under the ACA’s requirements will keep insurance companies from increasing rates and premiums. Without the extension of the waiver, all “grandmothered” policies would have had to follow all the ACA requirements come

called an age band, for youth health insurance from 0 to 20 years old to 0 to 14, with separate one-year age bands, or groups, for each individual age after that.

Instead of all youth under 20 staying in one age group, insurers would have had to create a separate group for 15 yearolds, 16-year-olds and so on.

Arielle Dreher

he Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare,” is still intact for now after a dramatic three-vote revolt from Republicans in the U.S. Senate to kill what was dubbed the “Skinny Repeal” effort. Even with the ACA intact, Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney is still concerned for Mississippians with certain plans that would see rate increases in 2018, despite the ACA’s fate.

Chaney spoke at the Neshoba County Fair last week about two transitional relief waivers, which the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently approved, that will keep insurance rates stable for Mississippians on small employer plans (outside of the ACA marketplace) as well as youth under the age of 20 stable in the coming year.

In past years, states could ask the federal government to exempt certain health-insurance plans from ACA requirements, like additional taxes or covering essential health benefits. Mississippi had two of these transitional waivers, but both were set to expire, until Chaney sought the help of both U.S. senators from Mississippi.

Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney told fairgoers at the Neshoba County Fair last week that he secured two transitional waivers that will keep some Mississippians’ insurance rates stable in the coming year.

Jan. 1, 2018, without the extension of the waiver, meaning insurance companies would have been taxed at higher rates or had to provide more services than they provide now, leading to increased costs for consumers.

Chaney said HHS granted his request for up to 130,000 Mississippians to keep their “grandmothered” plans through 2018. “Without transitional relief, health-insurance rates would have gone up another 65 percent on average,” Chaney said at the fair last week.

Keeping Kids’ Cost Down

Chaney requested a second, separate waiver for Mississippi children that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, approved this month, which would ensure that young people under age 20 keep their health-insurance coverage, without premium increases, through transitional relief. One of the ACA’s reforms changed the age range,

“Mississippi health insurance insurers have advised the Mississippi Insurance Department that the new age curve taking effect in 2018 … will have a significantly disruptive effect on premium rates for younger enrollees in the ACA individual and small group markets in the state,” Chaney’s May letter to the Office of Oversight at CMS says.

The commissioner said rates could have increased more than 50 percent for youth without the waiver.

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kid in college, it would have gone up $400, so this is big,” he said.

In July, CMS granted Mississippi youth the waiver—protecting against any would-be increases in premiums.

Looking Ahead

While health-care reform legislation could still happen, in Mississippi, the benefits health insurers would have to cover, called “essential health benefits,” would hardly change from ACA standards. Chaney changed the state’s essential health benefits, which is a change he is authorized to make without legislation, since it’s a regulation move, back in 2014. Mississippi’s essential health benefits, which all insurers must cover, include everything from maternity and newborn care to chronic-disease management to mental health- and substance abuse-disorder services.

In other words, insurers must cover all those conditions without charging extra. Chaney told the Jackson Free Press that he modeled the state’s policies on the BlueCross BlueShield and United Healthcare lists back when the U.S. House passed the American Health Care Act this spring. (The Senate dumped that proposal, however, and has yet to pass anything).

“We took their essential health benefits because that included private plans and policies, and that’s what I used. They cover pregnancy, C-sections, postpartum depression under ‘mental health parities,’ and domestic violence. ... I caught a lot of hell over doing that,” Chaney told the Jackson Free Press in May.

Chaney does not plan to change the state list of 10 essential health benefits, which is crucial for Mississippians that have insurance.

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PETA: Lumumba Setting Positive Example

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n response to “Dear Pam: Stay in Your Lane” by Laurie Bertram Roberts ( Vol. 15, Issue 47, July 26-Aug. 1), I think that by accepting Pamela Anderson’s invitation to eat vegan meals, Mayor Lumumba is setting a positive example for Jackson residents and everyone else who wants to eat healthy, help animals and protect the environment. Research shows that, on average, vegans have lower body mass indexes, or BMIs, than vegetarians and meat-eaters alike, and two recent studies, one that researchers with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington, D.C., conducted, and one researchers conducted at Spain’s University of Navarra, suggest that people can lose weight just by eating tasty plant-based foods.

Leading health experts have pointed out that vegan foods tend to be low in fat and calories, and high in fiber and complex carbohydrates, which help boost your metabolism, so you can burn more calories. This makes it easier to shed pounds and maintain a healthy weight. Vegan foods are also cholesterol-free, unlike meat, eggs and dairy products, so they are less likely to contribute to heart disease and other health problems.

While not everyone lives within walking, or even driving, distance of a health-food store, everyone can be vegan—even in a neighborhood that makes it tough. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, offers tips on eating healthy in a food desert, and information on the campaigns that Roberts refers to in her opinion piece, at PETA.org.

Mayor Lumumba’s constituents should be proud that he is working to set such a healthy, compassionate example. I hope he enjoys plant-based meals and will promote vegan living, much like Sen. Cory Booker, who is formerly the Mayor of Newark, N.J., and other politicians who make an effort to encourage people to make healthy, humane choices.

Heather Moore is a writer for the PETA foundation.

Vegan foods tend to be low in fat and calories.

‘Don’t be too nice’ “When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of the paddy wagon … please don’t be too nice.”

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—Donald Trump on policing criminals Why it stinks: At a New York event last week meant to bring awareness to MS-13 gang activities and his administration’s efforts to eliminate criminal cartels, President Donald Trump encouraged officers to not be too gentle with criminals. “(L)ike when you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head …you can take the hand away, OK?” Trump’s comments spurred backlash from several police departments around the country that cited protocol and safety procedures in place that they would not forsake just because the president encouraged them to use force in arrests. (Also key: No one is guilty or 12 even legally charged at the moment of arrest.)

Cheers to Bipartisan Common Sense

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f you didn’t hear about Sen. John McCain’s big, literal “thumbs down” vote, or about the reasons Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine gave for voting no on the Senate’s “skinny repeal” health-care bill, you missed out on a rare bipartisan show in Congress.

As the Trump-promised repeal of the Affordable Care Act came crashing down last week, calls from Republicans and Democrats alike to fix health care in the country rang loud. Democrats, speaking against the “skinny repeal” bill, asked their colleagues to work with them to fix the ACA. Collins wrote a lengthy statement explaining her vote, saying that while the ACA had expanded health-insurance coverage to millions of Americans, other Americans have experienced skyrocketing premiums or deductibles they can no longer afford (some states have asked for waivers to get around ACA rules, including Mississippi, see page 10).

“These problems require a bipartisan solution.

The Democrats made a big mistake when they passed the ACA without a single Republican vote. I don’t want to see Republicans make the same mistake,” Collins said in her statement.

Three Republicans refused to engage in the block-style approach of ramming legislation through on party lines, and hopefully they’ve signaled a way forward despite the White House.

On the state level, State Auditor Stacey Pickering announced his bipartisan collaboration with a few other states to start weeding out Medicaid

fraud, starting slowly, collecting data and using sophisticated software. Pickering didn’t ask for extra funding to do this, but reached across party lines and is engaging with other red and blue states and the federal government to ensure that the system is fair and implemented correctly to find not just fraudulent Medicaid recipients but also Medicaid providers—doctors and hospitals—that are charging Medicaid for services they’re not providing.

Both in Congress and on a state level, bipartisanship is critical to ensure that all Americans and Mississippians have access to affordable health care regardless of their ZIP code, income, race or family status. In one of the richest nations in the world, access to health care is increasingly becoming one of the most important roles of government (at least for the most vulnerable among us) with citizens across America and partisan lines standing up for it.

While Mississippi’s U.S. senators decided to follow their rank-and-file partisan lines, other Republicans in America responsibly chose not to do so—mainly because of their own constituents.

In her statement, Sen. Collins eloquently put in words what we hope and encourage our state and nationally elected officials to follow for health-care reform: “Rather than engaging in partisan exercises, Republicans and Democrats should work together to address these very serious problems. In their letter to Senate leaders, the bipartisan group of Governors correctly notes that, ‘True, lasting reforms can only be achieved in an open, bipartisan fashion.’”

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Nissan: At the Union Crossroads

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n the podium in Jackson stood Mississippi’s leading corporate boosters decrying a possible victory by pro-union workers at Nissan’s Canton plant in the Aug. 3-4 election to determine whether they can join the United Auto Workers union.

At their July 20 press conference, Mississippi Economic Council interim President and Chief Executive Officer Scott Waller, Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership President and CEO Duane O’Neill and others made clear whose side they’re on: the Nissan bosses who have allegedly threatened and intimidated workers and led to international condemnation.

On the other side are the workers, Mississippians, 80 percent of whom are African American, who have little say in work and safety conditions, complain of minimal-at-best medical treatment for work injuries, and even lost a colleague in 2015, Derick Whiting, who collapsed on the plant floor during working hours.

It’s not just the pro-union workers doing the complaining. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined Nissan tens of thousands of dollars for safety violations at the plant. The National Labor Relations Board has charged the company with violating workers’ rights.

Nissan was forced to pay Iraq and Afghanistan military veteran Chip Wells $6,500 in disability and back pay after treating him with such hostility for his pro-union views that he had to go on medical leave.

Joining Waller, a former business editor with The Clarion-Ledger, and O’Neill on the side of the company bosses is Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, one of those oldschool conservatives who always cry about outside interference in state affairs unless, of course, that outside interference is antiunion. If so, then welcome to Mississippi!

Hypocrisy—another word for lying—is a common phenomenon in union battles. Witness Carlos Ghosn himself, the CEO of Nissan and partly French-owned Renault, who told the French Parliament in February 2016 that Nissan always cooperates with unions. In fact, every single Nissan plant around the world is unionized except the ones in Mississippi and Tennessee.

Yet this is the same Carlos Ghosn who told Nissan workers in Smyrna, Tenn., the day before their union election in 2001 that a union “is not in your best interest.”

They got the message.

When a union election was scheduled at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., in 2014, U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, RTennessee, initially pledged that he’d stay out of it. He lied. He soon joined Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam in an anti-union smear campaign that included secretly making a $300million state-funded expansion of the plant contingent on keeping the union out.

Poor ol’ Mississippi, so poor it can’t even keep its roads paved and bridges repaired, has thus far spent $1.3 billion on taxpayer subsidies to keep Nissan in Canton. Nissan is a $38.4 billion company.

Carlos Ghosn earns $10 million a year and has a net worth of $100 million.

The biggest charge against Nissan workers organizing is that they already earn good wages for Mississippi. Nissan refuses to reveal what it pays its full-time workers. However, an estimated 2,900 of its 6,400 workers in Canton are temporary or contract workers, with temporary workers earning between $13.46 and $14.21 an hour. Guess what the average central Mississippi production worker earns? $16.70.

Still, the campaign is not really about money. A decade ago, two years after it began, Nissan-Canton worker Yvette Taylor told a gathering at the Canton United Methodist Church how Nissan threw her into a tangled web of bureaucracy, disrespect, missteps in treatment, and finally dismissal after she injured her hands and knees on the job.

“So many things happened that I just don’t know where to begin,” the mother of 10 said. Finally, she says, “I got a letter in the mail saying I was terminated.”

Workers join a union to get respect, to have a collective voice that they can’t have as individuals, to have a say in working conditions. They have a legal right to join a union, yet when they try to exercise that right, they can face life-crushing threats.

Veteran labor organizer Rose Turner knows all about this. She helped catfish workers at Delta Pride in Indianola win their historic union election in 1986: “We were at the crossroads. Either we were going to change things or … our kids were going to have the same situation,” she once said.

“I’ve never been afraid of anything because before I do anything, I put God first.”

Joe Atkins is a veteran journalist and a professor at the University of Mississippi.

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Learning Outside the Classroom

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ducation is important to a child’s well-being. While classrooms provide a great setting for learning, Jackson has a lot of opportunities for kids to learn outside of a classroom.

Here is some of what’s happening over the next couple of months.

The Importance of Sports Physicals

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abnormal heart sound, or murmur, at the clinic where I did my residency in California. Despite a referral to see a cardiologist and being told not to participate in football practice until the specialist cleared him, the athlete managed to get a clearance from another clinic and participate in fall football

did. I told her that people who are not in the medical field often don’t know the dangers of undiagnosed medical conditions, and we must do our job to educate them. We must also understand that people often get angry when they are afraid.

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s the mother of the teenage patient yelled, “Just sign the paper!” at me, I looked at my nurse, who was on her first day on the job.

As I suspected, she appeared very uncomfortable. I, on the other hand, was used to this response, which, unfortunately, happens often after I tell a parent that their child must follow up with a specialist due to abnormal findings on the sports-qualifying physical exam.

I have experienced many scenarios, from parents and teenagers crying to people walking out. High-school athletics is a big part of our local culture, and the possibility of a young athlete not being able to participate can be devastating to some teenagers and their families. As a former high-school athlete with a limited support system outside of school athletics, I feel comfortable stating that it can be life-altering. Like myself more years ago than I’d like to admit, many teenagers feel that sports define their life. This includes their social interactions, their academic support, their opportunities to attend college, and sports have a large impact of how they view themselves.

After I allowed the parent to continue to vent about her child being referred to another doctor due to elevated blood pressure and abnormal electrocardiogram, or EKG, I started to calmly explain to the mother what was going on.

As I spoke, I gave my uneasy nurse and the angry mother a reassuring smile. As I continued to explain, the mother seemed to feel better about the referral. I reassured her that there may be a delay in her child starting the labor-intensive practices, but we will be assured that he is safe.

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Getting a physical before playing sports can highlight any potential health issues the strenuous activity can bring on.

practices. He collapsed during one of the afternoon practices while running. His death certificate read that he had a heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which happens when the heart muscles enlarge and cause the ventricle walls to thicken.

After hearing of that patient’s unfortunate fate, I had convinced the mom that allowing her child to have a more detailed evaluation by a cardiologist was worth the risk. As the patient and his mom left, my nurse told me that she did not understand why the mother initially reacted the way she

of physicals with abnormal findings that require follow-up, including decreased or compromised vision or hearing, behavioral problems, blood abnormalities such as anemia or diabetes, learning disorders, depression or anxiety, urinary tract infections, asthma, dental problems and many other conditions screened for during a general physical with a primary-care provider.

With excitement, my newest employee told me that she never imagined the impact we have. I smiled as she called the next patient back.

“Be the Dinosaur,” Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive, 601-576-6000) Though dinosaurs went extinct thousands of years ago, the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science is bringing them back to life through its “Be the Dinosaur” exhibit, which runs from May 20 to Dec. 31.

The exhibit features traditional exhibits such as full-size dinosaur bones, a paleontology field station and a safari Jeep, and also artificially intelligent and scientifically accurate dinosaurs with muscles, and nervous, digestive and sensory systems though Eureka Exhibits’ inquirebased simulation technology, and exhibits that feature video games.

Other than the “Be the Dinosaur” special exhibit, the museum also has fish feedings every Tuesday and Friday at 10 a.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m., Creature Features, which feature live or mounted animals on Saturday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., and more. Admission is $4 for ages 3 to 18, $6 for adults, $5 for ages 60 and over, and children under age 3 get in for free. For more information, visit mdwfp.com/ museum.

Frozen Treat Enrichment Weekend, Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St., 601352-2580) On Sept. 2-4, the Jackson Zoo will host its Frozen Treat Enrichment Weekend. The first 200 guests for each day will receive a coupon for a free Icee pop from the Elephant Café, and the zoo will have a frozen-treat schedule for the animals.

The zoo also has many other events throughout the year and amenities such as the Splash Pad, which is open through September.

The zoo is open every day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., except for Christmas Day. Admission is $7.25 for children ages 2 to 12, $10.25 for adults, $9.25 for seniors 65 and over, and children under 2 get in free. For more information, visit jacksonzoo. org.

Mississippi Science Fest, Lefleur Museum District On Saturday, Sept. 23, the Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum, Mississippi Children’s Museum, Mississippi Museum of Natural Science and Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum will host a festival dedicated to promoting science, technology, engineering

JPS Need to Know

by Amber Helsel

by Amber Helsel more information on the documents, visit Jackson.12.ms.us.

Academic and Performing Arts Complex is returning to Forest Hill High School, though this year’s classes will be academic-only. Arts classes will not be available this year.

Bus schedules will be mailed to parents or guardians by the first day of school.

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Jackson Public Schools start Aug. 8.

attend, contact JPS’ Office of Enrollment Services at 601-960-8852. To enroll children in school, parents and guardians must go to the school and receive a Snapcode, which they will use to complete registration online. Schools are open for registration from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday. To register students, parents and guardians must have a valid state-issued photo identification card, a certified copy of the student’s birth certificate, a certificate of immunization, and two proof-of-residency documents such as mortgage documents or property deeds, utility bills or a voter-registration card. For

and math and increasing children’s science literacy.

The event will feature STEM professionals, hands-on activities, and experiments and exhibits. Last year’s activities included a flight simulator and a catapult experiment.

The event is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and tickets are $10.

For more information, visit mssciencefest.org.

For help on the first day of school, parents or guardians can call the Superintendent’s Hotline at 601-960-2781.

JPS students receive breakfast and lunch at no cost as part of the Community Eligibility Program, which helps school and educational agencies in low-income communities offer free school meals to students. CEP allows schools who serve predominantly low-income children to give students meals at no cost through the National School Lunch and National School Breakfast program. Menus are available on the JPS website.

Dress code information is in the Student Handbook and Code of Conduct. If families need financial help in making sure students comply with the dress code, they can call the school’s principal. High-school students do not have a mandatory dress code, but the handbook does have a list of clothing expectations.

Parents and guardians can get involved in their students’ schools through the Parent Teacher Association and Parent Teacher Student Association. JPS also has volunteer opportunities such as becoming a Book Buddy or a member of Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students), and the city also has organizations such as Parents for Public Schools of Jackson. For more information, visit Jackson.k12.ms.us.

To view students’ grades, parents or guardians can go to jps.activeparent.net.

JPS will be closed on Sept. 4, Nov. 2024, Dec. 22, 2017-Jan. 4, 2018, Jan. 15, 2018, March 12-16, 2018, and March 30 and April 2, 2018.

Hoot and Holler Family Creation Lab, Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St., 601-960-1515) Every second Sunday at the art museum, an educator leads families with children ages 6 to 10 in an art project inspired by a different artist, along with educational art discussions.

The cost of the event is $10

per child. The art museum also has more classes and events such as Look and Learn With Hoot, where kids ages 5 and under participate in art and story time with Hoot, the museum’s mascot.

Look and Learn is free.

For more information, visit msmuseumart.org.

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It’s that time again. Here are the school supplies for Jackson Public Schools’ grades kindergarten through fifth.

Kindergarten Crayons (package of eight large) Crayons (package of 16 regular) Washable markers Hand sanitizer 8-ounce school glue Glue sticks 12-inch-by-18-inch manila paper Scissors (blunt, Fiskars preferred) Primary pencils Six-line manuscript tablets Two pocket folders Change of clothing in a plastic bag (all clothing labeled with child’s name)

Grade 1 Crayons (package of 24) Washable markers 8-ounce school glue (8 oz.)

Glue sticks Hand sanitizer 12-inch-by-18-inch manila paper Scissors (blunt, Fiskars preferred) No. 2 pencils Eight-line manuscript tablets Erasers (Pink Pearl or art gum) Six pocket folders (assorted colors) 12-inch plastic ruler (should have lines of differing lengths indicating 1/4 inch, 1/8 inch and 1/16 inch markings)

Grade 2 Crayons (package of 24) Washable markers Colored pencils Hand sanitizer 8-ounce school glue Glue sticks 12-inch-by-18-inch manila paper Scissors (Fiskars preferred) No. 2 pencils Notebook paper (wide-ruled) Two wide-ruled spiral-bound notebooks or composition tablets (standard paper size) Erasers (Pink Pearl or art gum) Six pocket folders (assorted colors) 12-inch plastic ruler (should have lines of differing lengths indicating 1/4 inch, 1/8 inch and 1/16 inch markings)

Grade 3 Crayons (package of 48) Washable markers Colored pencils 8-ounce school glue Glue sticks Hand sanitizer 12-inch-by-18-inch manila paper Scissors (Fiskars preferred) No. 2 pencils Notebook paper (wide-ruled) Four wide-ruled spiral-bound notebooks or composition tablets (standard paper size) Erasers (Pink Pearl or art gum) Six pocket folders (assorted colors) 12-inch plastic ruler (should have lines of differing lengths indicating 1/4 inch, 1/8 inch and 1/16 inch markings)

Grade 4 Crayons (package of 48) Washable markers Colored pencils Hand sanitizer 8-ounce school glue Glue sticks 12-inch-by-18-inch manila paper Scissors (Fiskars preferred) No. 2 pencils Wide-ruled notebook paper Four wide-ruled spiral-bound notebooks or composition tablets (standard paper size) Erasers (Pink Pearl or art gum) Six pocket folders (assorted colors) 12-inch plastic ruler (should have lines of differing lengths indicating 1/4 inch, 1/8 inch and 1/16 inch markings) Protractor

Grade 5 Crayons (package of 48) Washable markers Colored pencils Hand sanitizer 8-ounce school glue Glue sticks 12-inch-by-18-inch manila paper Scissors (Fiskars preferred) No. 2 pencils Wide-ruled notebook paper Four wide-ruled spiral-bound notebooks or composition tablets (standard paper size) Erasers (Pink Pearl or art gum) Six pocket folders (assorted colors) 12-inch plastic ruler (should have lines of differing lengths indicating 1/4 inch, 1/8 inch and 1/16 inch markings) Protractor Package of grid paper (1-centimeter square grids)

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ackson Public Schools start back on Aug. 8. JPS has compiled a handy back-to-school guide on its website, Jackson.k12.ms.us. Here are some of the things parents and students should know for this year.

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Highland Village restaurant Char recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house for its new private-dining and event expansion.

Char’s New Private Dining

Char Restaurant held an open house and ribbon cutting on Aug. 1 for its new private-dining and event space in the former location of Mozingo Clothiers, which moved to Fondren last year.

Char’s new space has five rooms of various sizes, each of which has an audiovisual screen and projector. The largest room, the Highlands Room, can seat up to 150 people, up to 200 for a cocktail reception. Char’s smallest private dining space, the Jacksonian Room, can seat up to 20 people. The Eastover Room seats up to 38 people, the Northside one seats up to 60, the Lefleur’s Bluff, seats up to 108.

Char will offer its full menu to parties of less than 20 people and a limited menu for groups of 20 or more. That menu will feature a choice of appetizer, salad, entrÊe and dessert, with optional hors d’oeuvres.

Groups can also customize the menu.

For more information on Char Restaurant (4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 142, 601956-9562), visit charrestaurant.com.

BRAVO! Closing for Renovations

BRAVO! Italian Restaurant & Bar (4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 244) recently announced that it will be closed Aug. 28 through Sept. 25 for building repair and renovations. In celebration of the upcoming changes, the restaurant is hosting The Closer, an event that will feature rare vintage wines, hors d’oeurves, a cash bar and an auction where visitors can bid for seats at the reopening party, as well as furniture and other accessories in BRAVO!.

“The Closer is going to be like a cock-

tail party with hard-to-find wines,� Susan Farris, marketing manager for Mangia Bene Restaurant Management Group, told the Jackson Free Press.

“It’s our way of celebrating our regulars and all the people who come to BRAVO! with their families and friends.�

The restaurant will reopen on Tuesday, Sept. 26, with a grand reopening celebration.

Only those who bid on a seat at The Closer will be able to attend. Tickets to the closer are $60 per person or $100 for a couple. For more information, visit bravobuzz.com.

Two Sisters’ Closes

After almost three decades in business, the frequent Best of Jackson winner for Best Fried Chicken, Two Sisters’ Kitchen, closed its doors in July.

On July 18, owner Diann Irving Alford announced that the restaurant was closing for air-conditioning repair. A few days later, she posted on the restaurant’s Facebook page that she was closing the restaurant to care for her mother.

“It is with a heavy ‌ but glad heart that I say a fond farewell to our dear patrons and friends as I leave to assist in the care of my sweet mother. I have enjoyed meeting each of you and serving you over the past years. God bless you ALL,â€? Alford wrote.

The Two Sisters’ Facebook page was closed by July 22.

The restaurant opened inside of a Victorian-style house in downtown Jackson in 1989. In addition to being a consistent Best of Jackson winner, Two Sisters’ was featured on Travel Channel’s “Man v. Food Nation,� as well as national food blogs such as FoodAndWine.com.

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THURSDAY 8/3

FRIDAY 8/4

SATURDAY 8/5

Universal Sigh performs at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar.

The Blue Mile and Beer Mile is at Fleet Feet Sports in Ridgeland.

Lee Stockstill signs copies of “How Mayfield Found His Meow” at Lemuria Books.

BEST BETS August 2 - 9, 2017

“A Visit with Marie Curie” screens from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). The film tells the story of the famed scientist and her quest to pioneer the field of radioactivity. Features a Q&A with director Jen Myronuk following the screening. Free with admission; mdwfp.com.

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WEDNESDAY 8/2

Director Jen Myronuk presents her film “A Visit with Marie Curie” at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science on Wednesday, Aug. 2.

THURSDAY 8/3

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“Fondren After 5: Duling Avenue Live” is at 5 p.m. in Fondren. The street festival takes place on the first Thursday of each month and includes entertainment, food and drinks for sale, art and crafts vendors, pop-up art exhibits, pet adoption drives and more. Free; fondren.org. … Sam Mooney performs at 7:30 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The Brookhaven-native pop and soul musician performs. Victoria Holmes also performs. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $7 in advance, $10 at the door; ardenland.net.

chungfanchang@gmail.com. … The Grown & Sexy Conversation is from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at The Iron Horse Grill (320 W. Pearl St.). J. Hayes is the host. Includes dinner, drinks and dialogue on topics including life, love, relationships, dating, religion and more. $30 per person, $50 per couple; call 601-398-0151; find it on Facebook. …

The “Made in Mississippi” Comedy Tour is at 7:30 p.m. at The

by TYLER EDWARDS Hideaway (5100 Interstate 55 N.). The stand-up comedy show features performers hailing from jacksonfreepress.com Mississippi, including JJ WilFax: 601-510-9019 liamson, Karlous Miller, Marvin Hunter, Kdubb, Rita B and Bo-P. Daily updates at $25; call 601-291-4759; find it on jfpevents.com Facebook.

SUNDAY 8/6

The “Reading Between the Wines” Book Club meets from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Sombra Mexican Kitchen (140 Township Ave., Ridgeland). Participants discuss author Richard Grant’s “Dispatches from Pluto.” Free; find it on Facebook. … YAWN performs at 8 p.m. at Spacecamp (3002 N. Mill St.). The Chicago rock band performs. Double Take also performs. $5; find it on Facebook.

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Chung-Fan Chang is a curator and featured artist in “The Bared Sound: A Symphony of Artists from Taiwan and Mississippi,” which opens Friday, Aug. 4, at the Arts Center of Mississippi.

FRIDAY 8/4

The “The Bared Sound: A Symphony of Artists from Taiwan and Mississippi” opening reception is from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). The exhibit features artists such as Chung-Fan Chang, Yu-Hsien Su, Hong Kai Wang, Adam Farcus, Allen Chen, Mark Geil and more. Gallery talk at 5 p.m. Exhibit 20 on display through Aug. 30. Free; call 347-420-1006; email

SATURDAY 8/5

Author Darden North signs copies of “Five Manners of Death” from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at The Foundry Mall (820 Wilson Drive, Ridgeland). Free; find it on Facebook. … Boots and Bling is at 6:30 p.m. at the Kirk Fordice Equine Center (1198 Mississippi St.). Features music from 90 Degrees West, free drinks, auctions and more. Proceeds go to the Mississippi’s Toughest Kids Foundation project of building a camp for special needs children. $25; call 601961-4000; find it on Facebook. … Ocean Disco performs at 10 p.m. at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St.).

The New Orleans band melds elements of dance, funk and hip-hop music. $10; martinslounge.net.

Blue Monday is from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The Central Mississippi Blues Society’s weekly event features an acoustic hour and a performance from the Blue Monday Band. Includes cash bar. $5, $3 for members; centralmississippibluessociety.com.

TUESDAY 8/8

Author Susan Cushman signs copies of “Cherry Bomb” at 5 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Reading at 5:30 p.m. $24.95 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

WEDNESDAY 2/9

The “Southern Classics” cooking class is at 10 a.m. at The Everyday Gourmet (1270 E. County Line Road, Ridgeland). Participants learn to make deviled eggs, buttermilk fried chicken, greens, cornbread and pecan pie with vanilla whipped cream. $65; theeverydaygourmet.com.

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JFP One-on-One Aug. 14, 6 p.m., at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). Ford Academic Complex, Room 215. JFP Editor-in-Chief Donna Ladd sits down with FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze for a discussion on youth violence, law enforcement and how the community can reduce crime. Reception to follow. Free; jfp.ms/one.

Blue Mile and Beer Mile Aug. 4, 6-9 p.m., at Fleet Feet Sports (340 Township Ave., Ridgeland). Features a USA Track & Field-certified one-mile chip timed race, a doughnut mile and a beer mile. Includes a free t-shirt. $25; call 662312-7419; facebook.com.

“A Visit with Marie Curie” Aug. 2, 11 a.m.12:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). The film tells the story of the famed scientist and her quest to pioneer the field of radioactivity. Features a Q&A with director Jen Myronuk. Free with admission; call 601-576-6000; mdwfp.com.

Sam Mooney Aug. 3, 7:30 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The Brookhaven-native musician performs. Victoria Holmes also performs. $7 in advance, $10 at the door; ardenland.net.

2017 Mississippi Wildlife Festival Aug. 4, 2-8 p.m., Aug. 5, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., Aug. 6, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). Includes vendors, demonstrations, giveaways, a duck-calling contest, and special guests. $10 for adults, $5 ages 6-12, free for ages 5 and under (ages 12 and under free on Aug. 4); call 601-605-1790; mswildlife.org.

Induction Weekend 2017 Aug. 4, 6:30 p.m., Aug. 5, 10 a.m., at Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame & Museum (1152 Lakeland Drive). The weekend’s events include the Drawdown of Champions on Friday, an opportunity to meet inductees on Saturday and the enshrinement and banquet on Saturday evening at the Jackson Convention Complex. $50; msfame.com.

Green Market & Craft Fair Aug. 5, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., at Dogwood Festival Markets (150 Dogwood Blvd., Flowood). Features local produce, baked goods and crafts for sale. Free; call 775354-7437; shopdogwoodfestival.com.

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Made in Mississippi Comedy Tour Aug. 4, 7:30 p.m., at The Hideaway (5100 Interstate 55 N.).

Features stand-up comedy from JJ Williamson, Karlous Miller, Marvin Hunter, Kdubb, Rita B and Bo-P. $25; find it on Facebook.

the best in sports over the next seven days

by Bryan Flynn, follow at jfpsports.com, @jfpsports

Football is back. It might be preseason NFL football, but it is football. That means the regular season is right around the corner for your favorite NFL and college teams.

UFO Space Funk Takeover Aug. 5, 9 p.m., at Cowboys’ Saloon (208 W. Capitol St.). DJ Libra, DJ Uri, DJ Loop and DJ Tam perform. BYOB. $5; call 601-944-0402; find it on Facebook.

THURSDAY, AUG. 3

YAWN Aug. 6, 8-10 p.m., at Spacecamp (3002 N. Mill St.). The Chicago rock band performs with Double Take. $5; find it on Facebook.

MONDAY, AUG. 7

NFL (7-10:30 p.m., NBC): Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys take on the Arizona Cardinals in the 2017 NFL Hall of Fame Game.

FRIDAY, AUG. 4

College football (7-9 p.m., SECN): The Rebels and Bulldogs take center stage in back-to-back one-hour specials, with “Ole Miss in 60” and “Mississippi State in 60.”

SATURDAY, AUG. 5

Boots and Bling Aug. 5, 6:30 p.m., at Kirk Fordice Equine Center (1198 Mississippi St.).

Features music from 90 Degrees West, free adult beverages, auctions and more. Proceeds go to the Mississippi’s Toughest Kids Foundation project of building a camp for special needs children. $25; call 601-961-4000; find it on Facebook. iGNITE Youth & College Night Aug. 6, 4-8 p.m., at Word of Life Church (5401 Lakeland Drive, Flowood). Comedian Big V is the host.

The Christian music concert features performances from V. Rose and P. Lo Jetson, giveaways, games and more. Free with school-supply donation; find it on Facebook.

NFL (6-9 p.m., ESPN/NFLN): The 2017 NFL Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony will feature Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones among the inductees.

Frisbee (6-8 p.m., ESPNU): For something you don’t see every week, tune in for the U.S. Open Ultimate Mixed Championship Game to see some the nation’s best ultimate frisbee players battle for the title.

TUESDAY, AUG. 8

Basketball (8-10 p.m., ESPNU): Some of the top high-school basketball talent will be on display in the third annual SC30 Select Showcase Game, which Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry presents each year.

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SUNDAY, AUG. 6

College football (6-9 p.m., ESPNU): Get ready for the upcoming season with a rebroadcast of one of the most entertaining games from last season, as the University of Mississippi took on the University of Alabama.

NFL (6:30-10 p.m., NFLN): The Carolina Panthers take on the Houston Texans in a rare Wednesday-night preseason game, which was moved because of the PGA Championship.

It is great to see The Slate start and end with football. Next week will have plenty of NFL action, as the rest of the league kicks off its preseason schedule.

LITERARY & SIGNINGS Events at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202) • “How Mayfield Found His Meow” Aug. 5, 11 a.m. Lee Stockstill signs copies. $14.50 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

• “Cherry Bomb” Aug. 8, 5 p.m. Susan Cushman signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $24.95 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

EXHIBIT OPENINGS “The Bared Sound” Opening Reception Aug. 4, 6-8 p.m., at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). Features artists from Taiwan and Mississippi, including Chung-Fan Chang, YuHsien Su, Hong Kai Wang and more. Gallery talk at 5 p.m. On display through Aug. 30. Free; email chungfanchang@gmail.com.

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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COMMUNITY Fondren After 5: Duling Avenue Live Aug. 3, 5 p.m., in Fondren. The monthly street festival includes live music, food and drinks for sale, art and crafts vendors, pop-up art exhibits, pet adoption drives and more. Free; fondren.org.

Moman & Harris 5K Run/Walk and Health Fair Aug. 5, 7 a.m., at New Hope Baptist Church (5202 Watkins Drive). Features a 5K run/walk, a one-mile fun run and a tot trot. A health fair follows from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Free; call 601-366-7002; newhope-baptist.org.

Events at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St.) • Universal Sigh Aug. 3, 10 p.m. The Georgianative alternative-rock band performs. Doors open at 9 p.m. $10; martinslounge.net.

• The Stolen Faces Aug. 4, 10 p.m. The Nashville-based Grateful Dead tribute band performs. $10; martinslounge.net.

• Ocean Disco Aug. 5, 10 p.m. The New Orleans-based band meld together the influences of dance, funk and hip-hop music.

Doors open at 9 p.m. $10; martinslounge.net.

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

Aug. 2 - Wednesday

AUG. 3 - Thursday Capitol Grill - Jesse Robinson & Friends 7:30-10:30 p.m.

Cerami’s - Doug Bishop & James Bailey 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Duling Avenue - Jason Turner Band 5 p.m. free Duling Hall - Sam Mooney w/ Victoria Holmes 7:30 p.m. $7 advance $10 door F. Jones Corner - Raul Valinti & the F. Jones Challenge Band 10 p.m. $5 Fenian’s - Kat Johnson 9 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Jonathan Alexander Hops & Habanas - Kicking & Stonewalls 7 p.m. free Iron Horse Grill - Jimmy “Duck” Holmes 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Travelin’ Jane 6:30 p.m.

Kemistry - DJ TMoney 9 p.m.

Martin’s - Universal Sigh 10 p.m. $10 Offbeat - Mannie Fresh vs. Juicy J feat. DJ Young Venom & DJ Breakem Off 8 p.m.-midnight $5 Pelican Cove - Acoustic Crossroads Duo 6 p.m.

Shucker’s - 4 on the Floor 7:30 p.m. free Sneaky Beans - Dream Cult 8 p.m. free Surin - Chad Perry 5 p.m.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Underground 119 - Lady L & the River City Band 7-10:30 p.m.

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Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Dr. Zarr’s Amazing Funk Monster 8 p.m. $10 The Big Muddy, Vicksburg - Just Right Jazz 7-10 p.m.

Castlewoods Country Club - Larry Brewer 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Stevie J Blues midnight $10 Fenian’s - Risko Danza 9 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Andy Tanas

Martin’s - Ocean Disco 10 p.m. $10 Pelican Cove - Steele Heart 2 p.m.; Shadz of Grey 7 p.m.

Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 3:30 p.m. free; Snazz 8 p.m. $5; Chad Perry 10 p.m. free Sombra, Flowood - Tim Warren 6-9 p.m.

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Underground 119 - Dexter Allen WonderLust - Drag Performance & Dance Party feat. DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-3 a.m. free before 10 p.m.

Aug. 5 - Saturday Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Dr. Zarr’s Amazing Funk Monster 8 p.m. $10 The Big Muddy, Vicksburg Straighten It Out 7-10 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Sid Thompson & DoubleShotz 7:30-11:30 p.m.

Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m.

Cowboy’s Saloon - UFO Space Funk Takeover feat. DJ Libra, DJ Uri, DJ Tam & DJ Loop 9 p.m. $10 F. Jones Corner - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $1; Stevie J Blues midnight $10 Fenian’s - Cooper Miles 9 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Jim Tomlinson The Hideaway - Splendid Chaos 9 p.m. $10 Iron Horse Grill - Joe Carroll 9 p.m.

Johnny T’s - Truth Saturday feat.

Moneycure da DJ w/ Kidd Blakk Kathryn’s - Luckenbach (Willie Nelson tribute) 7 p.m.

Sam Mooney: Finding His Way

by Micah Smith

Brookhavennative pop and soul artist Sam Mooney performs Thursday, Aug. 3, at Duling Hall.

Aug. 6 - Sunday 1908 Provisions - Knight Bruce 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Char - Big Easy Three 11 a.m.1:45 p.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Jay Wadsworth 6 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Robert King noon; Robin Blakeney Trio 5 p.m.

Shucker’s - Andrew Pates 3:30 p.m. free Spacecamp - YAWN w/ Double Take 8-10 p.m. $5 Table 100 - Jazz Brunch feat.

Raphael Semmes Trio 11 a.m.2 p.m.; Dan Michael Colbert 6-9 p.m.

Word of Life Church - Ignite Youth & College Night feat. P. Lo Jetson & V. Rose 4-8 p.m. free

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Alumni House - DoubleRamm Outlaws 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 5:30-8 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6:30-11:30 p.m.

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ike many performers, pop and soul artist Sam Mooney was infatuated with music from a young age. However, the connection wasn’t instant.

When he first began learning to play piano at age 8, the Brookhaven, Miss., native says that he was interested, but it wasn’t the passion that it has become. Often, he would find himself practicing out of obligation to his weekly lessons.

“What really turned it around for me was when I got my first keyboard,” he says.

“It wasn’t even a really great one, but my parents got me a good starter keyboard, which was awesome because I could practice 24/7, plug in headphones and play at 11 o’clock at night.”

Another contributing factor was the type of music that he listened to, he says. In 2004, Mooney, who is the second youngest of seven siblings, was riding with his older sister, Mary Grace Fontenot, to the Egg Bowl, and she played him Ray Charles’ “Georgia on My Mind.” It floored him, he says, and he began seeking out other iconic R&B and blues artists, such as Dr. John.

“I started writing songs in junior high and high school, and was still mortified to sing for anyone,” Mooney says. “Like, singing was not even on the radar at 14. I had kind of imagined myself doing it but wouldn’t actually do it.”

As he got older, he broke through his stage fright and started performing more often. He says the biggest push came in 2013 when he completed a summer performance program at the Berklee College of Music and also won the Mid-South Fair Youth Talent Contest, which came with $2,000 and a trip to Los Angeles to meet with industry professionals.

In early 2014, Mooney recorded his first EP, “Somewhere in Between,” which he released in July of that year. His followup, “Find My Way,” came out in April 2016. His current string of shows, the

Southern Starlight Tour, takes its name from that EP’s lead-in track and comes through Jackson on Aug. 3.

While both EPs proved successful— his debut reached No. 1 on iTunes’ SingerSongwriter EP chart, and his sophomore EP reached No. 3 on that same register— Mooney says that he wants to go a different route on his next project, which he will start recording this fall.

“I started with two EPs that I’m really proud of and that were the right move for the time, and I’m really glad I did them,” he says, “but now, I really want to make a full-length album. It’s tempting to just put singles out, and that may be the strategy after this album, but I do feel a strong pull to make a cohesive full-length album.”

Mooney, who is currently a senior at the University of Mississippi, says that one exciting prospect of a full-length is the creative real estate it will give him. With the limited number of songs on his EPs, he wasn’t as able to consider the overall experience with each release, but with an album, he can tell a bigger story, he says.

“With the first (EP), I kind of lined it up so that there’s a pretty cohesive listening experience if you literally go track one to six, but if you put it on shuffle, you’d be like, ‘Wow, that’s a change,’” he says. “…

I wanted to put out a sampler of things I like. The second one had a small element of that but was certainly narrowing toward the soulful pop.

“I think on this one, I want to narrow even more, but also branch and do a lot of different things I haven’t done yet. I think this record will be pretty different from my stuff overall so far.”

Sam Mooney performs at 8 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 3, at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Victoria Holmes also performs.

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Leo actor Robert DeNiro once observed that most people devote more energy to concealing their emotions and longings than to revealing them. Is that true about you? If so, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to hide less of yourself and express more.

There’ll be relatively little hell to pay as a result, and you’ll get a boost of vitality. Don’t go overboard, though. I’m not suggesting that you unveil every last one of your feelings and yearnings to everyone—just to those you trust. Most importantly, I hope you will unveil all your feelings and yearnings to yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

It has almost become a tradition: Each year at about this time, you seem to enjoy scaring the hell out of yourself, and often the heaven, too. These self-inflicted shocks have often had a beneficial side effect. They have served as rousing prompts for you to re-imagine the future. They have motivated and mobilized you. So yes, there has been an apparent method in your madness—an upside to the uproar. What should we expect this time, my dear? A field trip to a crack house or a meth lab? Some fun and games in a pit of snakes? An excursion to the land of bad memories?

I suggest something less melodramatic. How about, for example, a frolic with unruly allies in a future paradise that’s still a bit unorganized?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

Before grapes become wine, they have to be cleaned. Then crushed. Then macerated and pressed. The next phase is fermentation, followed by filtering. The aging process, which brings the grapes’ transformation to completion, requires more time than the other steps. At the end, there’s one more stage: putting the wine in bottles. I’d like to compare the grapes’ evolution to the story of your life since your last birthday. You are nearing the end of the aging phase. When that’s finished, I hope you put great care into the bottling. It’s as important as the other steps.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Are you gearing up to promote yourself and your services?

In my astrological opinion, you should be. If so, you could put the following testimonial from me in your résumé or advertisement: “(place your name here) is a poised overseer of nerve-wracking transitions and a canny scout who is skilled at tracking down scarce resources. He or she can help you acquire the information and enhancements you don’t quite have the power to get by yourself. When conditions are murky or perplexing, this plucky soul is enterprising and inventive.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Your eyes are more powerful than you realize. If you were standing on a mountaintop under a cloudless night sky with no moon, you could see a fire burning 50 miles away. Your imagination is also capable of feats that might surprise you.

It can, for example, provide you with an expansive and objective view of your entire life history. I advise you to seek that boost now. Ask your imagination to give you a prolonged look at the big picture of where you have been and where you are going. I think it’s essential to your discovery of the key to the next chapter of your life story.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Love is your gritty but sacred duty. It’s your prickly prod and your expansive riddle, your curious joy and your demanding teacher. I’m talking about the whole gamut, Capricorn— from messy personal romantic love to lucid unconditional spiritual love; from asking smartly for what you desire to gratefully giving more than you thought you had. Can you handle this much sweet, dark mystery? Can you grow your intimacy skills fast enough to keep up with the interesting challenges? I think you can.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

There’s an eclipse of the moon coming up in the sign of Aquarius. Will it bring bad luck or good luck? Ha! That’s a trick question. I threw it in to see if you have been learning anything from my efforts to redeem astrology’s reputation.

Although some misinformed people regard my chosen field as a superstitious pseudo-science, I say it’s an imaginative art form that helps us identify and transform our subconscious patterns. So the wise answer to my earlier question

is that the imminent lunar eclipse is neither bad luck nor good luck. Rather, it tells you that have more power than usual to: 1. Tame and manage the disruptive and destructive aspects of your instinctual nature; 2. Make progress in dissolving your old conditioning; 3. Become more skilled at mothering yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

August is Good Hard Labor Month for you Pisceans. It’s one of those rare times when a smart version of workaholic behavior might actually make sense. Why? First of all, it could ultimately lead to a pay raise or new perks. Secondly, it may bring to light certain truths about your job that you’ve been unconscious of. Third, it could awaken you to the fact that you haven’t been trying as hard as you could to fulfill one of your long-term dreams; it might expand your capacity to devote yourself passionately to the epic tasks that matter most. For your homework, please meditate on this thought: Summoning your peak effort in the little things will mobilize your peak effort for the Big Thing.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

In my astrological opinion, your life in the coming days should draw inspiration from the ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia, a six-day bout of revelry that encouraged everyone to indulge in pleasure, speak freely and give gifts. Your imminent future could (and I believe should) also have resemblances to the yearly Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena, which features a farcical cavalcade of lunatics, like the Shopping Cart Drill Team, The Radioactive Chicken Heads, the Army of Toy Soldiers and the Men of Leisure Synchronized Nap Team. In other words, Aries, it’s an excellent time to set aside your dignity and put an emphasis on having uninhibited fun; to amuse yourself to the max as you experiment on the frontiers of self-expression; to be the person you would be if you had nothing to lose.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

It’s time to Reinvent the Wheel and Rediscover Fire, Taurus.

In my astrological opinion, you’ll be wasting your time unless you return to the root of all your Big Questions. Every important task will mandate you to consult your heart’s primal intelligence. So don’t mess around with trivial pleasures or transitory frustrations that won’t mean anything to you a year from now. Be a mature wild child in service to the core of your creative powers.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

Writing in The Futurist magazine, Christopher Wolf says that the tradition of eating three hearty meals per day is fading and will eventually disappear. “Grazing” will be the operative term for how we get our fill, similar to the method used by cavemen and cavewomen. The first snack after we awaken, Wolf suggests, might be called “daystart.” The ensuing four could be dubbed “pulsebreak,” “humpmunch,” “holdmeal” and “evesnack.” In light of your current astrological omens, Gemini, I endorse a comparable approach to everything you do: not a few big doses, but rather frequent smaller doses; not intense cramming but casual browsing; not sprawling, heroic epics but a series of amusing short stories.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22):

The RIKEN Institute in Japan experiments with using ion beams to enhance plant growth. In one notable case, they created a new breed of cherry tree that blossoms four times a year and produces triple the amount of flowers. The blooms last longer, too, and the trees thrive under a wider span of temperatures. In the next 11 months, Cancerian, you won’t need to be flooded with ion beams to experience a similar phenomenon. I expect that your power to bloom and flourish will be far stronger than usual.

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