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fter Marcus A. Williams witnessed injustices in his community, such as friends and people he grew up with getting arrested and not having good, fair and adequate representation, he decided to go into law.

“I went to law school to help people, and I actually felt like that’s the best avenue because I feel like everything as it relates to America, at least, it comes down to a legal question sometimes,” he says.

Williams, a Jackson native, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science and history in 2010, and a law degree in 2014, both from the University of Mississippi. He worked as an associate attorney at Daniel, Coker, Horton & Bell, P.A., in Jackson from August 2014 to January 2016, when he began working as an attorney at Blackmon & Blackmon, PLLC. He handles cases in areas such as criminal defense and personal injury, and represents some small businesses and government entities.

After the state elections in 2015, when the House and Senate became majority Republican and Democrats only won attorney general, Williams says he felt that Mississippi’s Democratic Party needed some new energy and more young people involved. He decided to join Young Democrats of Mississippi, and in December 2016,

the organization elected him president.

Williams, 30, says it’s important to be involved in politics because that’s where citizens truly have a voice.

“Politics affects us in every way, so I wanted to be able to help my community by getting involved politically so that I can help people recognize their voice, organize with them so we can have a collective, and effectuate change that can truly, truly make our communities progress,” he says.

He is also one of the co-founders of Jackson Professional Group. Williams says he and the other founders were at a legislative reception when they realized that Jackson needs a group that would regularly get together and discuss politics and business, and also help people network and grow professionally. Since the organization’s founding in 2015, Williams says more than 400 people have attended JPG events.

“Millennials and young folks, we get so busy with our careers and jobs and student loans and working that sometimes we don’t get time to come together and do things so that we can have a collective voice,” he says.

In his free time, Williams likes hanging out with friends, traveling and reading.

His wife, Christin Williams, is a lawyer for the Mississippi Department of Health.

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7 Politicking in Pelahatchie

Read how a new mayor’s victory has spiraled into infighting and a state auditor investigation into the town’s spending.

16 Rolling in the Ice Cream

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20 Fighting for ‘The Four’

“I picked up the guitar and just started to evolve, I guess, as an artist, as a singer, knowing who I am, writing my own music ... and just trying to process being an artist and really developing and strengthening my love for music as a whole.”

—Carvena Jones, “A Jacksonian Fights for ‘The Four’”

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by Amber Helsel, Managing Editor

Midterm Madness Comes to Mississippi

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e get a lot of questions every year about how the voting process for Best of Jackson works. By now, most should know that we start off with a nomination ballot, and a few days after that one closes, we release a finalist ballot based on whom readers nominated. Jacksonians and people in the metro area then choose the winner on the finalists’ ballot, and we announce them in the issue before the Best of Jackson party.

Everyone gets the same chance to vote and has the same chance to win.

We also get accusations each year that the system is rigged. Some people say only advertisers win (not true at all); some say that we determine the winners ourselves (also not true because who has time to handpick the winner of more than 120 categories? And we don’t want to, nor would we choose some of those who’ve won repeatedly; think Haley Barbour or Phil Bryant); and some just say that it’s not worth voting in because what’s really in the Jackson metro area? (A lot, actually).

Editor-in-Chief Donna Ladd and Publisher Todd Stauffer started Best of Jackson almost 16 years ago to uplift the city because back then it was in a bad place, much worse than it is now. Cities around the country had “Best of” contests, but no one had cared enough to do one here. BOJ grew into a bigger deal each year, and the planning process can span anywhere from four to six months. While it’s a tough battle getting everything done, it’s always worth it in the end.

We take pride in that contest (and party!) and in lifting up a city that so many claim is too dangerous, too small, has nothing to do, etc. And you know what? We also

take pride in the voting process. Over the years, we’ve worked to make it as easy and convenient as we possibly can, and we’ve even had to strengthen rules to keep people from cheating. (Really, some have tried.)

The people who complain about BOJ often don’t bother to vote, which means they didn’t get their say in who is voted the best in Jackson. Some even say their vote doesn’t count; however, it counts as much as the next person’s, just like in lo-

If you do nothing else, vote. cal, state and national elections. While the voting process for those elections is also a little more complicated than just a couple of online surveys, they’re the same at the core: People announce they’re running for an office. They campaign and then get on the ballot. Citizens vote, and at some point, someone wins the office.

I voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, and I watched the results, feeling excited at first. But as the night wore on, I and the people around me felt more and more anxious and frustrated. Around 9 p.m., I decided to go to McDade’s for groceries and then go home and go to sleep, hoping and praying that Clinton would win. Of course, as we all know, she won the popular vote, but Trump won the Electoral College, therefore win-

ning the presidency. He got 306 Electoral College votes, while she got 232. In the popular vote, Trump actually ran behind by 2.1 percent, receiving 62,985,106 votes.

Clinton received 65,853,625 votes.

That sucked, and it’s easy to then get sucked into the mindset of “my vote doesn’t count.” But it does, even it’s more complicated nationally. On election day, we essentially elect the electors (Electoral College) who then elect the president. It’s a system that needs overhauling, for sure—how sad is it that Clinton won the popular vote, but Trump won the Electoral College because he won big states by a small margin?

But for now, it’s the elections system our nation has. We can’t change it overnight. We can vote, though.

We can’t effect change quickly at the national level, but we can do it on smaller levels, changing things from the inside out.

Take the upcoming election in the state.

Currently, all congressional House seats are up for re-election, as well as both Senate seats with primaries on Tuesday, June 5, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Mississippi.

It’s easy to believe your vote doesn’t count, but as Young Democrats of Mississippi President Marcus Williams (see page 3) says, it’s an important way for citizens to come together and raise their voices, even if it may seem like no one is listening.

“Sometimes people think that because they don’t have money or that they’re not well-connected that they don’t have a voice, but through voting, we all have a voice,” he the Jackson Free Press. “I believe by us collectively getting together, and organizing, we can truly have a voice.”

Whether you’re Republican or Democrat or Independent or Green Party or just like to party, or you just don’t care,

you should still vote in the upcoming election. Want to know why? Vox.com compiled a handy-dandy list of some ways these elections could change national politics: (1) Either house in Congress could flip, which means the current legislative agenda could change; (2) A flip in either house could mean more investigations into the Trump administration; (3) If Democrats retake the Senate, they could veto Trump’s nominees for positions such as judges; and (4) State elections could lead to Democratic majorities.

So if you’re unhappy with the current state of the country and the state, voting gives you the ability to try and change it. Sure, your vote is one among many, and the process is convoluted, but your vote does matter.

Mississippi’s primary is on Tuesday, June 5, and the general election is Nov. 6.

If you haven’t registered to vote or don’t know if you are, go to sos.ms.gov/vote. If you don’t even know how to vote or how it works, Y’all Vote has good resources for that, along with calendars, a polling place locator and more. If you never spend a day of your life involved in politics, still take the time to vote because as Williams said, politics affect our everyday lives, from something as simple as traffic violations to issues as complicated as sex education in schools.

If you do nothing else, vote. Vote for yourself. Vote for the women and children in your life. Vote for those experiencing injustice. Just vote.

Managing Editor Amber Helsel is a storyteller and artist. Her hobbies include annoying her cat, going on adventures, listening to excessive amounts of EDM and running sound at CityHeart Church. Email story ideas to amber@jacksonfreepress.com.

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Arielle Dreher

Ko Bragg

Micah Smith

Zilpha Young

Kimberly Griffin

Dustin Cardon

Meghan Garner

Todd Stauffer

News Reporter Arielle Dreher is trying to read more than 52 books this year and wants to foster an otter from the Jackson Zoo. Email her tips and story ideas at arielle@ jacksonfree­press.com. She wrote the cover story.

City Reporter 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 wrote about Pelahatchie’s audit and the City budget.

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 interviewed “The Four” star Carvena Jones.

Zilpha Young is an ad designer by day, painter, illustrator, seamstress and freelance designer by night. Check out her design portfolio at zilphacreates.com. She designed ads for the issue.

Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin is a Jackson native who loves Jesus, her mama, cooking, traveling, the Callaway Chargers, chocolate, her godson, working out and locally owned restaurants, not necessarily in that order.

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 “Week in Review” and edits JFPDaily. com 5 days a week.

Digital Marketing Strategist Meghan Garner avoids crowds and is most often spotted hiding behind a dry martini. She works to help local businesses thrive through JFP’s website building, content marketing, SEO and digital creative services.

Publisher Todd Stauffer is the author of more than 40 technology books on Macs, HTML, blogging and digital video. He leads JFP’s digital services for local businesses. Write him at todd@jacksonfreepress.com to inquire about services.

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“Several teams now refuse to play in Jackson because of the condition of our baseball fields.”

— Jackson Public Schools vice president Ed Sivak to the Jackson City Council last week when discussing an upcoming bond vote.

WEEK IN REVIEW

Thursday, May 24 Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann announces that Mississippi will receive $4.5 million in federal Help America Vote Act funds to secure elections this year. ... Mississippi native Morgan Freeman apologizes to anyone who may have felt “uncomfortable or disrespected” by his behavior after CNN reported that multiple women have accused him of sexual harassment.

Friday, May 25 Jordan Butler, project leader for Refill Café, gives a presentation about the workforce-training initiative for young adults. ... U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves hears arguments about who should repay victims of a $100million-plus ponzi scheme in the state.

Saturday, May 26 Irish citizens vote to expunge an abortion ban from the largely Catholic country’s constitution by a two-to-one margin in a national referendum.

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Sunday, May 27 South Korean President Moon Jaein announces that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recommitted to a previously-cancelled summit with Donald Trump following a Saturday meeting.

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Monday, May 28 French President Emmanuel Macron presents a Malian migrant named Mamoudou Gassama, who scaled a five-story apartment building in Paris to save a child, an offer of citizenship.

Tuesday, May 29 ABC cancels its reboot of “Roseanne” after show star Roseanne Barr posted a racist tweet about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett.

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City Blowing Through Its Fund Balance?

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he Jackson City Council meetings are falling into a chaotic pattern—the later it gets into the meeting, the more likely you are to see a show-stopping argument between members of the council. Now it seems the disorganization has potential to put the City’s fund balance at risk.

The infighting during May 22’s meeting involved both the budget and racial tensions. Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes proposed an item for the council to authorize a grant worth $15,000 to support the annual Farish Street Heritage Festival.

Although the City tends to support the festival, it was not included ahead of time as a line item in the budget.

Ward 2 Councilman Melvin Priester Jr. said he did not travel last year because he knew something would come up, and he ended up finding the money for the Farish Street Festival in the city clerk’s budget.

At voting time, Stokes had not yet determined where in the budget the money would come from. Alberta Gibson and Lee Davis, who chair the festival pled their case before the council and the mayor to get financial support for the two-day festival.

Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba, who said he supports Farish Street and the festival, wants to return to a request-for-propos-

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Wednesday, May 23 Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba announces programs to try to help decrease youth crime, including summer programs and new policing methods. ... Hinds County Chancery Judge William Singletary says he will not order Gov. Phil Bryant to reopen local bridges that are in poor condition after supervisors from Jasper and Smith counties filed a lawsuit.

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Director of Finance and Administration Charles Hatcher said his office is most concerned that groups can ask the city council for funds, without a process.

al process instead of having people come to council meetings to persuade the members to find money, especially when he hopes to use some of the City’s fund balance, also called the emergency or “rainy day fund,” to help out with youth programming in particular. Lumumba encouraged the Farish Street representatives to come to budget hearings this summer so that they can be included more formally next time.

“We do all this politicking at a later hour when were talking about going into an emergency fund. ... [W]e have some very real emergencies,” the mayor said.

Ward 7 Councilwoman Virgi Lindsay said that she would offer assistance with fundraising for the festival, but that she was concerned about being fair.

“The question remains is just this: ... it’s your festival today and another festival tomorrow, and who decides which festival we choose to fund out of the fund balance?” she said. “It is truly a question of fairness in my mind. That’s all.”

The council voted 5-2, with Lindsay and Ashby Foote of Ward 1 voting nay.

The council had moved on to yet another item—the Jackson Music Awards—that could cost the City $10,000 if the council approves the budget revision Stamps said he will present at the next meeting. Although the council was set to move on to yet another item that ended up drawing $6,000 from the fund balance, Stokes brought the conversation back to Farish Street.

“You’ve got to look at the City, how people feel when they watch these council meetings,” Stokes said. “Two whites vote against Farish Street, and then we say we’re working on race relations? Somebody’s gonna say it. Imma say it.” He was referring to Foote and Lindsay.

“[W]e started in a state of emergency, and we are still in triage and trauma recovery.”

“I think we can all agree that this is a wonderful effort that we need to support so we get these prescription drugs off our streets that people might be utilizing for nefarious intent.”

— Jackson Public Schools Board President Jeanne Hairston to the city council last week.

— Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba on the prescription pill-box partnership announced last week.

Rankin’s First Black Mayor Faces Setbacks

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“The people are not saying that,” Priester chimed back.

“Yes, they are saying that,” Stokes said, repeating himself louder.

“You are making it worse by—” Priester began before Stokes interrupted.

Stamps gathered his things and left the council meeting for the night.

“No, I’m telling it like it is,” Stokes said. You go down State Street and see all the work going on in Fondren, but yet you can’t support Farish Street?

Council President Charles Tillman of Ward 5 rapped his gavel down.

“I’m tired of it being this level of discourse,” Priester said.

“You can be tired, but it’s the truth,” Stokes said. “And the truth is going to keep

ering said in a statement provided to the media.

Pickering issued two separate demands with some overlapping parties involved. The first is for $421,688.10 from January 2015 to June 2017 for which the following parties are jointly responsible: former Mayor Knox Ross, Jr.; former Alderman Jerry Norwood; former Alderwoman

Pelahatchie Mayor Ryshonda Harper Beechem and her lawyer Thomas Bellinder held a press conference May 23 to discuss the state auditor’s demand for the town to repay $500,000.

Megan Hall; former City Clerk Bettye Massey; current Alderman Frank Boyd; current Alderman Michael Adams; and current Alderwoman Margie Warren.

The second demand is for $80,694.97 from July 2017 to December 2017 after Beechem had become mayor. For-

coming out. The white areas are getting better than the black areas in this city, and this is a black-majority city. It ain’t right.”

“I would just add that the work is going on in your ward,” Mayor Lumumba said to Stokes.

There could be serious repercussions if the council continues to spend money in the fund balance, which the City might need to use to repay its debts very soon.

Charles Hatcher, the director of the Department of Finance and Administration, believes that the city council will move the money from the fund balance to go toward Farish Street, although he does not necessarily support it.

“The principle that most disturbed the administration is that you can ask for

mer City Clerk Massey, Beechem and all five of the town’s aldermen are jointly responsible for this second demand.

Beechem does not believe she should have to pay back the funds. Her lawyer, Thomas Bellinger, who sat next to her during the press conference last week, said he will pursue justice for his client.

The board of aldermen has not been open to the media, with all five aldermen either ignoring this reporter’s past calls or hanging up at the mention of Beechem.

However, the group released a statement Tuesday entitled “The Mayor Who Cried Wolf,” condemning Beechem and resurfacing accusations that she does not live in Pelahatchie, among other statements. Beechem said she dealt with these claims when she ran for mayor and submitted proof of residency. The Pelahatchie aldermen and former Mayor Ross are holding a press conference Wednesday.

The aldermen’s statement says their own city auditor told them they could borrow drug-seizure money as long as they repaid it each year. The statement also says that Pickering’s office did not interview the aldermen or the former mayor, and that borrowing the drug money is common.

“Aldermen want to know why their town is being singled out by Pickering since many small towns across the state use drug seizure money to pay the bills and then repay those funds during the same calendar year,” the statement says.

Around 1,300 people live in the small town 25 miles east of Jackson. However, the town drama and tension between the aldermen and mayor have made national news.

At their Feb. 5 meeting, the board of aldermen voted to cut Beechem’s salary by 75 percent and to halve their own

money without a process,” Hatcher told the Jackson Free Press. “All you need to get money from the council is four votes. That doesn’t seem like good government.”

Hatcher estimates that the City has around $12 million unassigned in the fund balance, and although sums such as $15,000 pail in comparison, there is a bigger picture—and it’s a scary one.

“When you look at how much we’re going to need to spend, and how much (we’re) going to make in the next six years, that fund balance is going to evaporate in the next three years,” Hatcher said. “[W]e need a strategy for building it up. It undermines that effort when we pick away at it.”

The council also recently approved a raise for the part-time city clerks that drew

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nearly $117,000 out of the fund balance, causing uproar among City employees.

If the City goes into a negative fund balance, it would be insolvent, and the State of Mississippi could get involved.

Hatcher brings up six years a lot, and it’s intentional. Jackson could be “out of the woods” concerning major debt payments to bondholders by 2024. However, in the meantime, Hatcher hopes to drive home the importance of more revenue and guarding the fund balance.

Like the mayor, Hatcher said cutting into the fund balance like the council has been doing, is like having a lot of money in your wallet but a big credit-card bill, so it becomes irresponsible to spend the money in your wallet.

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elahatchie Mayor Ryshonda Harper Beechem sat at the head of a conference table on May 23 wearing black pants with elegant white ruffles down the side that had fanned as she walked into the room.

As her eyes panned reporters around the room, Beechem seemed nervous but firm.

“As the mayor, I will take accountability for signing checks because I did sign checks—I had to pay bills,” she said. “[A]s the new mayor and, walking into this situation (for) a month and a half, I was under the impression that people abided by the law.”

For almost as long as she has been in office, Beechem, 38, has had an investigation looming.

On May 21, State Auditor Stacey Pickering issued demands for current and former town officials, including Beechem, to repay $500,000 because of misspent drugforfeiture funds dating back to 2015.

Beechem became Rankin County’s first black mayor in July 2017. A couple of months into her tenure, she raised questions about checks that seemed off to her and reached out to the state auditor’s office for clarity. The formal state investigation into the town began a month later, she said.

The state auditor says that Pelahatchie officials had been transferring drug-seizure funds to the town’s utility account, the fire department and the town’s regular checking account to prevent overdraft, and to pay salaries of people outside the police department. Those funds legally can only go toward law-enforcement uses.

“For years, the leadership of Pelahatchie abused these funds by attempting to use them to enhance the overall city budget when they were mandated to be allocated to the Pelahatchie Police Department,” State Auditor Stacey Pick-

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TALK | education

JPS: Bond Can Help District Deficiencies

by Arielle Dreher

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acksonians will head to the polls in August to vote on whether Jackson Public Schools will keep its current interest rates on bonds to help fund facility improvements district-wide.

JPS board leaders say the referendum is necessary to make about $70 million

standing with the district, City of Jackson and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Hairston told the city council that MDE is coming back to review 12 of those 24 standards that JPS has worked to clear currently. JPS will likely clear the other 12 standards this summer, but parts of some

later. The investment would also reduce the district’s reliance on portable classrooms.

Beyond the classroom, JPS board members discussed the need to invest in extracurricular activities to keep students engaged with the school district.

Newell Field, the football field at MurStephen Wilson File Photo

JPS Board President Jeanne Hairston (right) and Vice President Ed Sivak (left) explained the district’s need to have a bond referendum to city council members last week in a work session. Jacksonians will vote in August.

available to the state’s second-largest district for repairs to facilities.

Board President Jeanne Hairston told Jackson City Council members that the facility improvements speak directly to JPS’ failed accreditation standards.

“This positions us to maintain local control of our district as these facility improvements speak directly to the Department of Education’s failed standards in that regard,” Hairston told council members last week at a work session.

The Mississippi Department of Education found that JPS had violated 24 of the 32 accountability standards in a lengthy investigative audit last fall, moving for a state takeover as a result. Instead, Gov. Phil Bryant signed a memorandum of under-

standards require a lot of investment.

MDE found JPS to be out of compliance with facilities and safety standards, citing several schools for not having safe playgrounds or heating and cooling systems in place. Forest Hill High School, for example, does not have air conditioning in the gymnasium, the district’s corrective action plan says. Hairston said about $50 million of the $70 million in bond value will address those standard violations in the CAP.

JPS has not released a final facility upgrade plan for the bond referendum yet, but board leaders hinted at what the funds will go toward. Board Vice President Ed Sivak said a large part of the funds would pay for new science labs in all the middle and high schools, except those built in 2010 or

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salaries, citing budget cuts. The mayor and the board now make the same, $250 per month. The mayor wrote a veto a week later, laying out her vote of “no confidence” in the board and its financial dealings because of the ongoing state auditor’s investigation of Pelahatchie for alleged misappropriation of funds.

The aldermen blame Pickering’s investigation for the salary cuts, saying since drug-seizure funds could not be used, “aldermen say they had to find a way to raise the money to pay the bills.”

Beechem has also had to step into some clerking du-

rah High School, is no longer safe for students and is at risk of not re-opening this fall, Sivak told the city council last week. If the field is not fixed, more football games will need to be played away.

Sivak said he and other board members read letters from parents about their daughters having to change on the school buses because some of the high schools do not have a women’s locker room.

“Several teams now refuse to play in Jackson because of the condition of our baseball fields,” Sivak said.

The last time JPS had to do a bond referendum, it had 15 months to do it, Ward 2 Councilman Melvin Priester Jr. said. Council members expressed concerns about the rushed nature of the election.

ties, as three town clerks resigned in the first three months of 2018. Beechem said two walked out one afternoon in March while Beechem was out of the office. The other one was Massey, who is a named party in the state auditor’s investigation and made at least $80,000 working for Pelahatchie.

On average, in cities around the same size as Pelahatchie with part-time mayors, the aldermen tend to make less than the mayor, a Mississippi State University survey shows. Some part-time mayors have salaries as much as 120 times more than Beechem’s.

While aldermen earn more than part-time mayors in some towns in the state, they tend to be outliers.

The Pelahatchie Board of Aldermen is not the most transparent, with the board voting to not allow cellphones

“Have (you) thought about a campaign strategy and how you would raise money to fund a campaign because you can’t spend district funds on that?” Ward 7 Councilwoman Virgi Lindsay asked the JPS board officers.

“And how we would move forward with making sure this bond issue is successful since it requires 60 percent of the vote?”

Sivak and Hairston said they have been in touch with neighborhood associations throughout the city to help get a grassroots support effort going.

“We have to do this if we are serious about helping our children now. Yes, it’s quick, and yes, it’s short, but we started in a state of emergency, and we are still in triage and trauma recovery,” Hairston said.

“I think you just wrote the campaign,” Lindsay said.

The JPS Board will need to approve their referendum plan at its next board meeting on June 5. It will then send a copy of the plan to the City—although it does not need to approve it. The school board will have to cover the costs of the election, paying Jackson’s election commission to run it for them. The referendum, for now, is set for Aug. 7, attorney Stephen Edds, who JPS hired to work on bonds, said.

While the bond referendum could address serious infrastructure needs, JPS is still losing money each year as more students leave for other districts or charter schools.

In 2012, more than 29,000 students attended schools in the capital city; now only 25,595 students are enrolled in JPS, MDE enrollment numbers show.

“We are projecting a loss of 1,500 students next year—and the funds that come with them. The next budget cycle will be extremely challenging and will not occur without cuts,” Sivak said.

inside its public meetings earlier this year.

At the January board meeting a month before the salary cuts, Margie Warren recommended that the board should be able to bring up and vote on any items of their choosing, even ones not on the agenda.

The board sided with her unanimously, overriding Beechem’s eventual veto. That’s how an alderman was able to introduce a pay cut not listed on the agenda. Beechem said in April that the pay cut was “harsh” but not detrimental to her household. Beechem hopes to restore trust among the constituents in her hometown.

“At some point things have to stop, and you have to start doing things the right way. I’m glad that I am in this position because it could’ve been worse than it is now,” the mayor told the Jackson Free Press.

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oday in Mississippi, taxpayers fund two contradictory approaches to people struggling with drug addiction. One results in an arrest and possibly jail time. The other offers people health-based treatment. Both use taxpayer dollars, and they focus on the same people struggling with the same problem. But one uses fear, trauma and isolation. The other uses safety, therapy and community. The disparity is striking, but this is what our drug-criminalization laws have given us.

We will continue the troubling response of prison sentences for people struggling with a health crisis until we change our laws and end our criminal approach to drugs.

In April, Mississippi received a $3.58 million federal grant to respond to the opioid crisis, and the grant director told me the state is using 100 percent of the funds on health-based initiatives. This is great news because it meets the health issue of drug use with an appropriate response.

Eighty percent of the grant pays for inpatient treatment for people without private insurance. Fifteen percent provides expanded access to naloxone, an overdose reversal medication. The remaining 5 percent funds community outreach programs such as the “Stand Up, Mississippi” campaign.

It ought to give us pause that millions of our own taxpayer dollars go toward responding to the same issue with prison sen-

tences. When people with a health issue are labeled criminals and forcibly separated from their families and communities, that’s harmful. When we saddle them with a criminal record for life, making them virtually unemployable and unable to provide for their families, that’s harmful. Drug use and addiction can be devastating to individuals and their families.

Our response should focus on reducing

Our response should focus on reducing harm. that harm, not escalating it by labeling their medical crisis as a criminal offense.

Ending our criminal approach doesn’t mean that people who use drugs can do whatever they want. If a parent is abusing their children, they should be arrested for breaking laws against child abuse. That’s true right now whether you’re high, drunk or sober. It will still be true after we lay down our criminal approach to drugs. The same is true of laws against other aggressive acts like theft, rape and murder.

We can end criminalization of drugs

and retain all of our laws against harming people. This is how we treat alcohol, and it’s how we should treat other drugs as well.

It would free up millions of dollars that we could redirect to address these issues in ways that are grounded in research and science. It would reduce stigma so that people could admit their need for help without the shame of being labeled a criminal. Moms and dads wouldn’t be locked away for years of their children’s lives for making some unwise choices. Sons and daughters wouldn’t be crippled with a lifetime criminal record before they even graduate high school.

We can help people regain their sobriety and give them tools for a new life with this grant money; however, as long as we’re also pouring resources into destabilizing the same people with the same health problems by criminalizing them, we’re undercutting our potential and crippling our prosperity.

Conservative people like me want strong families and productive citizens, and this grant is helping us toward that. But we’re simultaneously supporting laws that destroy families and cripple employment.

We need to be courageous enough to chart a new course.

Christina Dent and her family live in Ridgeland.

This column does not necessarily reflect the views of the JFP.

City Should Prioritize ‘Rainy Day’ Funds for Emergencies

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ackson is never shy of emergencies. This year alone, schools remained closed for seven days after freezing weather shattered pipes and forced businesses, schools and residents to either close or stock up on bottled water. When some students did go back to school, they couldn’t even flush toilets, so the school provided hand sanitizer and port-a-potties instead. Just a matter of weeks ago, a high school senior drove over an uncovered manhole, flipped There should her mother’s convertible and died inbe little stead of going to graduation practice.

Despite these catastrophes, confusion the Jackson City Council has been over what using its fund balance or “rainyday” fund for city-clerk salaries constitutes an and festivals—items that are funemergency. damentally non-essential.

There are bound to be growing pains as a largely experienced council, save two rookie members, continue to do business as usual as a new radical mayor and his administration work to shift gears. However, 10 no matter how long you have been in the City of Jackson, there

should be little confusion over what constitutes an emergency.

On the one hand, the mayor and Director of Finance and Administration Charles Hatcher do not believe in spending the fund balance so frivolously. The city council, though, has gotten into the habit of allowing groups to petition them for money that often comes out of the emergency fund rather than through a process. Just last week, the council authorized $15,000 to the Farish Street Festival without determining which fund the money would come out of first. The justification? Council always ends up funding this event even though it never seems to end up in the budget.

Last year, Priester said he found the money for it in the city clerk’s budget. Are events like the Farish Street Festival vital to the Jackson community? Absolutely. But funding for events can be locally sourced or actually budgeted for by the city council, not pulled from emergency funds. The applicants must follow a well-communicated process for applying for funds to be eligible for them.

As we enter budget hearing season, the City is up against serious and mounting debts to bondholders, some of which may be repaid through the emergency fund so that the City does not have to raise taxes. It is irresponsible at best, and a death sentence for the City’s finances at its worst, to continue to dip haphazardly into the fund balance.

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Mississippi’s Third Congressional District has been red for a long, long time. The third district is cut to include the Republican-leaning parts of Madison County (excluding Canton) as well as northeast Jackson and parts of Belhaven.

While the Cook Political Report assesses the district to be the least Trump-y of the three GOPheld House districts in the state, Rep. Gregg Harper never struggled to garner more than 60 percent of the vote in all five of his elections.

Before Harper, Chip Pickering won elections for the district by even wider margins.

Never mind the district’s GOP-leaning constituents, two Democrats are facing off for a chance to challenge the candidate who wins the crowded, 12 expensive Republican primary race.

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DO NOT CROSS OUT - If you change your mind, exchange your ballot for a new one. If you tear, soil, deface or erroneously mark this ballot, return it to obtain another.

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JACKSON State Rep. Michael Ted Evans, D-Preston, has been in the stateHARRISON House of Representatives since HANCOCK 2012, representing four counties at the Legislature.

FEC filings show no campaign-finance contributions or reports filed by press time. Evans is vocal about legislation that will affect the rural parts of his district in the Legislature, and this year he was vocal about ending state testing in public schools.

Michael Aycox, a veteran and a police officer in Newton, is challenging Evans in the Democratic District 3 race. Aycox is running on a platform to streamline Veterans Affairs, install universal health care and free college, and implement certain guncontrol reforms. Aycox has raised a little over $1,500, FEC filings show. Evans has not raised any funds, FEC filings show.

Fill in the oval to the left of the name of your choice. You must blacken the oval completely, and do not make any marks outside of the oval. you do not have to vote in ever race.

For United States Senate Vote for ONE

For U.S. House of Representatives 3rd Congressional District Vote for ONE

 David Baria

 Michael Aycox

 Jensen Bohren

 Michael Ted Evans

 Jerone Garland

 _____________________

 Victor G. Maurice Jr.  Omeria Scott  Howard Sherman  _____________________

This is a recreated District 3 Democratic sample ballot for the June 5 election from the Hinds County Election Commission.

Off To the Races

precinct 32 official Ballot Ballot Style 3R State of Mississippi Hinds County 2018 republican Primary Election Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Official Ballot republican

The Race to Replace Gregg Harper

Mississippi business elites, political players and various political action committees all have their eyes on the race to replace Rep. Gregg Harper. Six candidates lined up for a chance to replace Harper, representing a wide swath of the state from Meridian to Starkville to parts of Jackson and Natchez.

At press time, nearly $1.45 million has poured into the Republican primary contest for the District 3 seat, and that number could climb once the Federal Election Commission updates candidates’ profiles with their campaign-finance reports, due last week.

Michael Guest, the district attorney for both Madison and Rankin Counties, jumped into the race early in January. So far, he has netted $396,411 in campaign donations, without loaning his campaign a dime. Guest has the support of former Rep. Gregg Harper, whose campaign committee has donated more than $5,000 to Guest. Harper was out of the country and unable to comment on his donations at press time. The Brandon resident has attracted the support of many attorneys and law enforcement officers too, FEC filings show.

Local millionaires John McGowan, who has long envisioned a lake development along the Pearl River in the district, and James Barksdale, an advocate for public-education funding and economic development, have also donated to his campaign.

Not long after Guest announced his candidacy, Whit Hughes declared his run for Congress, too. Hughes has deep political experience in Mississippi. He worked as Elizabeth Dole’s finance director in her initial Senate campaign. He returned to Mississippi to help elect Haley Barbour in 2003 as governor as his finance director. Hughes also worked at the Mississippi Development Authority after his career in politics.

Hughes has raised the most of any Republican candidate seeking to replace Harper. He had received $430,577 by press time, without loaning any funds to his campaign. He has the support of former Rep. Chip Pickering, who held Harper’s

seat previously, as well as several Barbour family members and leaders of Mississippi-based businesses, like Joe Sanderson of Sanderson Farms, FEC campaign-finance filings show.

Sally Doty is the only current lawmaker and politician in the race to replace Harper, and she has relied on her experience to drive her campaign forward. The Brookhaven-based state senator announced she was running for Congress in January, and she largely has the support of other state lawmakers as well as the View PAC, which exists to elect Republican women into office.

Doty has raised $110,761 by press time, with about $15,000 in loans to her own campaign.

Morgan Dunn, a local business owner and health-care consultant, entered the election contest in January as well. Dunn is running on a platform to improve public health care and limit federal spending. She advocates for a business-model mentality to government, and she believes that her not being a lawyer or a politician is an asset.

Dunn has raised $118,340, but she has loaned her campaign $73,100.

Perry Parker, a former investor and international banker, is running a campaign of financial growth and ensuring that the next generation of Mississippians stays in Mississippi. Parker said he would push for an even simpler tax code than the 2017 GOP tax bill created, he said at a recent debate in Brandon. Parker has raised $390,412 by press time, but he loaned $240,000 to his own campaign.

Katherine Tate, a retired public-school teacher, is not raising any campaign funds. Her biggest campaign goal is to get the federal government out of education, she said at a debate in Brandon.

The race to replace Harper could end in a run-off after June 5 if no candidate receives 50 percent of the votes cast plus one. A runoff would be held for the top two candidates on June 26, if necessary.

Instructions to Voter:

Fill in the oval to the left of the name of your choice. You must blacken the oval completely, and do not make any marks outside of the oval. you do not have to vote in ever race.

DO NOT CROSS OUT - If you change your mind, exchange your ballot for a new one. If you tear, soil, deface or erroneously mark this ballot, return it to obtain another.

For United States Senate Vote for ONE

For U.S. House of Representatives 3rd Congressional District Vote for ONE

{{ Richard Warren Boyanton

{{ Sally Doty {{ Morgan Dunn

{{ Roger F. Wicker {{ _____________________ This is a recreated District 3 Republican sample ballot for the June 5 election from the Hinds County Election Commission.

{{ Michael Guest {{ Whit Hughes {{ Perry Parker {{ Katherine ‘Bitzi’ Tate {{ _____________________

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Michael Guest $396,411 ($0 loaned to own campaign)

Perry Parker

$390,412 ($240,000 loaned to own campaign)

Morgan Dunn $118,340 ($73,100 loaned to own campaign)

Sally Doty

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Katherine Tate $0

Source: FEC Campaign Finance Filings as of May 29,2018.

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Off To the Races • Elections 2018 Courtesy Richard Boyanton

Instructions to Voter:

Senate Showdown Courtesy Roger Wicker

precinct 02 official Ballot Ballot Style 2D State of Mississippi Hinds County 2018 Democratic Primary Election Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Official Ballot Democratic

Fill in the oval to the left of the name of your choice. You must blacken the oval completely, and do not make any marks outside of the oval. you do not have to vote in ever race.

DO NOT CROSS OUT - If you change your mind, exchange your ballot for a new one. If you tear, soil, deface or erroneously mark this ballot, return it to obtain another.

For United States Senate Vote for ONE

For U.S. House of Representatives 2nd Congressional District Vote for ONE

{{ David Baria

{{ Bennie G. Thompson

{{ Jensen Bohren

{{ _____________________

{{ Jerone Garland {{ Victor G. Maurice Jr. {{ Omeria Scott {{ Howard Sherman {{ _____________________

This is a recreated District 2 Democratic sample ballot for the June 5 election from the Hinds County Election Commission.

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Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)

Richard Boyanton

Sen. Roger Wicker arguably dodged the biggest bullet in his campaign when Sen. Chris McDaniel announced he would not challenge Wicker, instead opting to run for Cochran’s seat.

Wicker had already ramped up his campaign presence, spending more than $2.8 million in the 2017-2018 election cycle on advertisements and other campaign expenditures.

Without McDaniel in the race, Wicker faces Richard Boyanton, a Gulf Coast candidate who is running on a platform of limiting federal spending as well as imposing term limits, a restriction that at this point would have kept Wicker from running again. On the Democratic side of the Senate election, several candidates threw their names in the race to challenge Wicker or Boyanton in November. Rep. David Baria, D-Bay St. Louis, is a longtime state lawmaker who announced his candidacy first, followed by Rep. Omeria Scott, D-Laurel, another veteran lawmaker in the Mississippi House of Representatives. Scott, a vocal member of the House, is pushing her experience as a lawmaker on the campaign trail.

Baria has raised $120,644, FEC fillings showed at press time (this number likely does not reflect the most recent campaign finance filings, but the FEC website can take several days to refresh its numbers). Baria, an attorney by trade, has

focused his campaign on change in Washington D.C. including equal pay and transparency.

The unlikely challenger, Howard Sherman, has raised more in campaign finances than Baria, with $628,215 in contributions. A large part ($500,000)of that total is from loans from Sherman himself, but he has netted well over $100,000 in campaign donations, mainly from donors who pay his campaign through ActBlue, making them anonymous on FEC campaign finance filings.

Sherman, a venture capitalist and investor, is married to Meridian-native actress Sela Ward and has focused his campaign on job creation and using his private sector. The Clarion-Ledger reported that Sherman donated to Roger Wicker in previous years, prompting questions about his Democratic affiliation, which he has since defended.

Jensen Bohren, who is running a grassroots progressive campaign, has almost $2,000 in campaign finances, FEC filings show. He is running on legalizing marijuana, Medicare-for-all and major election reforms. (Baria recently came out in support of legalizing medical marijuana.)

Jerone Garland, a Kosciusko native who is running on criminal-justice reform, has raised $600 in campaign funds, FEC records show.

Victor Maurice as well as Scott do not have any campaign-finance reports filed with the FEC.

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Ryan Parmentier, co-owner of 30 Below Rolled Ice Cream, chops up Oreos in the ice-cream mix for one of the business’ signature dishes, the “Cookie Jar.”

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yan Parmentier, co-owner of 30 Below Rolled Ice Cream, pours a thick mixture into a small plastic cup, filling it up almost to the top. Then, he transfers it onto a frost top, a metal plate used to make rolled ice cream.

Parmentier places Oreos in the middle of the mixture. Then, he uses two food-grade scrapers to chop up the cookie pieces and combine the mix into a thick, almost-ice-cream-like substance.

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30 Below Rolled Ice Cream’s “Cookie Jar” consists of vanilla ice cream, Oreo pieces, chocolate syrup and whipped cream.

He then grabs the handle of the scraper and puts it upright with the metal edge down on the plate. He spreads the ice cream out into a rectangle, using the edge of the scraper in his left hand as a guide for straight lines. Then, starting at the back of the rectangle, he scrapes the ice cream until they form tight roles.

For this treat, which 30 Below calls the “Cookie Jar,” he puts Oreos, whipped cream and chocolate syrup on top.

Parmentier says he grew up loving

to cook and always wanted to own a food truck. His initial idea was to open a barbecue truck, but after trying rolled ice cream in St. Louis, Mo., he decided the Jackson metro area needed the frozen treat.

“It’s something totally different,” Parmentier says.

He told Patrick Molpus, a friend since childhood, about the idea, and they decided to go into business together.

“I had never heard of it, and he showed me pictures, and I was like, ‘What?!’ I (asked him), ‘Do you know how to do this?’ He goes, ‘No, but we’ll learn it.’”

The recipe for rolled ice cream is much the same as regular ice cream, save for a secret ingredient to make it more pliable, Molpus says. However, it was not an easy dish to master. The duo received their LLC designation around August 2017, but it took them four months to perfect the mixture and method.

“It’s definitely not as easy as it looks,” Parmentier says.

“The first rolls should have been called ‘30 Below ice sheets,’” Molpus says with a laugh. “It would just come up like sheets of paper. You couldn’t roll it.”

Once the rolling machine came in, they got the formula down and the Mississippi Department of Health cleared them, so they officially started serving their creations about two and a half months ago.

30 Below currently operates out of a converted trailer, setting up shop around the Jackson metro area. However, Parmentier says the goal is to eventually have a 30 Below food truck, as well as a food truck with Asian-inspired barbecue dishes.

For more information, find 30 Below on Instagram and Facebook.

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SATURDAY 6/2

MONDAY 6/4

TUESDAY 6/5

The Heatwave Classic Triathlon is at the Ridgeland Recreation Center.

Jane Hearn signs copies of “A Past That Won’t Rest” at Lemuria Books.

Snake Day is at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.

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“Sister Act” is at 7:30 p.m. at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The musical comedy is about a lounge singer who goes into witness protection at a convent.

Additional dates: May 31-June 2, 7:30 p.m., June 3, 2 p.m., June 5-9, 7:30 p.m., June 10, 2 p.m., June 12-16, 7:30 p.m., June 17, 2 p.m. $35 for adults, $30 for seniors, students, and military; newstagetheatre.com.

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WEDNESDAY 5/30

Nashville, Tenn., alternative group Elliot Root performs for this year’s Cathead Jam, which takes place June 1 and June 2 at the Cathead Distillery.

THURSDAY 5/31

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The Madison Healthplex Golf Invitational is from noon to 7 p.m. at Lake Caroline Golf Club (118 Caroline Club Circle, Madison). The tournament benefits the Jackson Touchdown Club’s Gene May Scholarship.

Includes a box lunch, range balls, a shirt and on-course beverages. Registration at noon, and shotgun start at 1 p.m. $125 per player, $500 team of four; healthplexperformance.com. and more. Additional date: June 2, 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. $50 weekend pass, $30 Friday pass, $40 Saturday pass; call 877987-6487; catheadjam.com.

SATURDAY 6/2

Grillin’ and Chillin’ is from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Mississippi Farmers Market (929 High St.). Includes grilling demonstrations, local produce for sale, and free ice cream and popcorn. Free admission; find it on Facebook. … The

by Rebecca Hester MIAL Award-Winners Event is at 1:30 p.m. at Lemuria Books jacksonfreepress.com (4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). The event features winners Fax: 601-510-9019 from the 2018 Mississippi Arts Daily updates at & Letters Awards, including Mijfpevents.com chael Knight, John T. Edge, Shannon McNally, Jack Spencer, James Sclater and more. Free admission; lemuriabooks.com.

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(Left to right) Kimberly Myles and Jessica Wilkinson star in New Stage Theatre’s “Sister Act,” which runs through June 17.

FRIDAY 6/1

Cathead Jam is from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Cathead Distillery (422 S. Farish St.). The music festival features Moon Taxi, Black Pistol Fire and Elliot Root on Friday, and JJ Grey & Mofro, Hard Working Americans, Leftover Salmon, LUTHI and The Busty Petites on Saturday.

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SUNDAY 6/3

Cancer Survivors Day is at 1 p.m. at The Belhaven (1200 N. State St., Suite 230). The event gives cancer survivors and their families a chance to network with each other and medical professionals. Includes refreshments, entertainment and activities. Pre-register. Free admission; mbhs.org.

MONDAY 6/4

The Chef Dinner is from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at McClain Lodge (874 Holly Bush Road, Brandon). Chef Matt Huffman presents a four-course meal with wine pairings for each course. $80 per person; find it on Facebook.

TUESDAY 6/5

The Josh Cellars Wine Dinner is at 6:30 p.m. at Amerigo Italian Restaurant (155 Market St., Flowood).

The four-course dinner features wine pairings from the Napa Valley-based vineyard. $45 per person; find it on Facebook. … The Bacon Brothers is at 7:30 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Brothers Michael and Kevin Bacon front the Americana-rock band. Farewell Angelina also performs. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $45 in advance, $50 day of show, $100 VIP; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net.

WEDNESDAY 6/6

History Is Lunch is from noon to 1 p.m. at the Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.) in Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium. Joseph Crespino, author of “Atticus Finch: The Biography,” presents on the topic “Atticus Finch and American History.” Sales and signing to follow. Free admission, $27 book; call 601-576-6998; email info@mdah.ms.gov; mdah.ms.gov.

Dine In or Carry Out for FOOD & DRINK Josh Cellars Wine Dinner June 5, 6:30 p.m., at Amerigo Italian Restaurant (155 Market St., Flowood). The four-course dinner features wine pairings from the Napa Valley-based vineyard. $45 per person; find it on Facebook.

Snake Day June 5, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). Visitors can interact with and learn about live snakes with experts. The museum’s herpetologist will give one-hour presentations on how to distinguish venomous and non-venomous snakes at 10 a.m. and noon. Includes crafts and activities. Included with admission; mdwfp.com.

Women For Progress: Lunch & Learn June 5, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., at Char Restaurant (4500 Interstate 55 N. Frontage Road). Guest speaker Rev. C. J. Rhodes discusses the principles of leadership. Pre-registratin required. $17 admission; eventbrite.com.

Indivisible Jackson Meeting June 6, 6:30-7:30 p.m., at Whole Foods Market (4500 Interstate 55 N.). The meeting introduces participants to Michael Aycock and Michael Ted Evans, candidates in Mississippi’s 3rd Congressional District election. Includes a Q&A session.

Free admission; find it on Facebook.

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SPORTS & WELLNESS Heatwave Classic Triathlon June 2, 7 a.m.-noon, at Ridgeland Recreation Center (137 Old Trace Park, Ridgeland). The race includes a half-mile swim, a 27-mile bike ride and a 10-kilometer run. $85 registration; find it on Facebook.

Leonardo Xavier Seminar June 4, 6-9 p.m., at Gracie Jiu-Jitsu (360 Industrial Drive S., Madison). The fourth-degree black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu presents the seminar. Registration required. $100 per person; find it on Facebook.

The Big Run June 6, 6-8 p.m., at Fleet Feet Sports (500 Highway 51, Suite Z, Ridgeland).

The 5K takes place simultaneously at Fleet Feet Sports locations nationwide in honor of Global Running Day. $25; find it on Facebook.

STAGE & SCREEN “Sister Act” May 30-June 2, 7:30 p.m., June 3, 2 p.m., June 5-9, 7:30 p.m., June 10, 2 p.m., June 12-16, 7:30 p.m., June 17, 2 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The musical comedy

the best in sports over the next seven days

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

Both the University of Mississippi and Southern Miss won their respective conference baseball tournaments last week. The wins mean they will be joining MSU in the NCAA Baseball Tournament’s 64-team field.

THURSDAY, MAY 31

NBA (8-11 p.m., ABC): Game one of the NBA Finals see LeBron James makes his eighth consecutive finals appearance, as the Cavaliers face off against the Warriors.

FRIDAY, JUNE 1

College baseball (11 a.m.-11 p.m., ESPN2/ESPN3/ESPNU/SECN): The NCAA Baseball Tournament Regionals begin with matchups such as USM versus Dallas Baptist, MSU versus Oklahoma, and UM versus Saint Louis.

SATURDAY, JUNE 2

College baseball (11 a.m.-11 p.m., ESPN2/ESPN3/ESPNU/SECN): Tune in for day two of the NCAA Baseball Tournament Regionals.

SUNDAY, JUNE 3

College baseball (11 a.m.-11 p.m., ESPN2/ESPN3/ESPNU/SECN): The final day of the NCAA Baseball Tournament Regionals reveals the

last of the 16 teams advancing to the Super Regionals.

MONDAY, JUNE 4

College softball (6-8:30 p.m., ESPN): Watch game one in the best-of-three Women’s College World Series championship.

TUESDAY, JUNE 5

College softball (7-9:30 p.m., ESPN): The loser of game one in the Women’s College World Series championship will have to win to tie it up and force a game three.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6

College softball (7-9:30 p.m., ESPN): Game three, if necessary, will crown a new Women’s College World Series champion. … NBA (8-11 p.m., ABC): Game three of the NBA Finals is a nice alternative if the softball season is over.

While MSU and USM will play in regionals, only UM is hosting. The Bulldogs and the Rebels are two of 10 SEC teams in the NCAA Tournament.

CONCERTS & FESTIVALS Events at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St.) • Mark “Porkchop” Holder May 31, 10 p.m.

The Chattanooga, Tenn.-native blues artist’s latest album is titled “Death and the Blues.”

Dirty Deep also performs. Doors open at 9 p.m. Admission TBA; martinslounge.net.

• Winston Ramble June 1, 10 p.m. The Muscle Shoals, Ala., folk-rock band performs. Doors open at 9 p.m. $10; martinslounge.net.

• Little Raine Band June 2, 10 p.m. The Birmingham, Ala., band is known for its blend of progressive rock, electronica and soul music.

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

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Cathead Jam June 1, 5-11 p.m., June 2, 2-11 p.m., at Cathead Distillery (422 S. Farish St.). The music festival features Moon Taxi, Black Pistol Fire, JJ Grey & Mofro, Hard Working American and more. $50 weekend pass, $30 Friday pass, $40 Saturday pass; catheadjam.com.

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“Celebrating Bernstein” June 5, 7:30 p.m., at St. Joseph Catholic School (308 New Mannsdale Road, Madison). The Mississippi Wind Symphony performs music from Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide” and more. Free; find it on Facebook.

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The Bacon Brothers June 5, 7:30 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Michael and Kevin Bacon front the Americana-rock band. Farewell Angelina also performs. $45 in advance, $50 day of show, $100 VIP; ardenland.net.

LITERARY SIGNINGS Events at Lemuria Books (4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202) • “Empire of Light” May 31, 5 p.m. Michael Bible signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $15.99 book; lemuriabooks.com.

• “A Past That Won’t Rest” June 4, 5 p.m.

Editor Jane Hearn signs copies of the book from the late photographer Jim Lucas. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $40 book; lemuriabooks.com.

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“A Perspective of People” June 5, 5-7 p.m., at Mississippi Library Commission (3881 Eastwood Drive). The exhibition features work from painter Alexander Bostic and photographers James Patterson and Dominic Lippillo. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

BE THE CHANGE The State of Mental Health in the Community May 31, 5:30-8:30 p.m., at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). The event includes mental-health discussions, vendors, food and a cash bar. Free admission; email dominica_ johnson@aol.com; find it on Facebook.

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 Events at Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.) • History Is Lunch May 30, noon-1 p.m.

Duffy Neubauer presents on the topic “A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Starkville Civil War Arsenal.” Free; mdah.ms.gov.

• History Is Lunch June 6, noon-1 p.m. Joseph Crespino, author of “Atticus Finch: The Biography,” presents on the topic “Atticus Finch and American History.” Free; mdah.ms.gov.

is about a singer who goes into witness protection at a convent. $35 for adults, $30 for seniors, students, and military; newstagetheatre.com.

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Visit jfp.ms/musiclistings for more. Music listings are due noon Monday to be included: music@jacksonfreepress.com

May 30 - Wednesday

May 31 - Thursday 1908 Provisions - Ronnie Brown 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

The District at Eastover - No Strings 5:30 p.m. free F. Jones Corner - Maya Kyles & the F. Jones Challenge Band 10 p.m. $5 Fenian’s - Zach Day 9 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Aaron Coker Georgia Blue, Madison - Jason Turner Iron Horse Grill - James Travis 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Phil & Trace 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Kemistry - DJ T-Money 9 p.m.

Martin’s - Mark “Porkchop” Holder w/ Dirty Deep 10 p.m.

Monsour’s, Vicksburg - Johnny Crocker 7 p.m.

Ole Tavern - DJ Glenn 9 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Jessie Howell Duo 6-10 p.m.

Shucker’s - Lovin Ledbetter 7:30-11:30 p.m. free Soulshine, Flowood - Brian Jones 7-9 p.m.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Underground 119 - Jeff Reynolds 7-10:30 p.m. free

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1908 Provisions - Ronnie McGee 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - NuCorp 8 p.m.

Cathead Distillery - “Cathead Jam” feat. Moon Taxi, Black Pistol Fire & Elliot Root 5-11 p.m. $40 single-day $60 two-day pass Cerami’s - James Bailey & Linda Blackwell 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Skip McDonald 6-9 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Lonn’e George & Flasche midnight $10 Fitzgerald’s - Jonathan Alexander 7:30-11:30 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Shaun Patterson Georgia Blue, Madison - Jason Turner Iron Horse Grill - Louis “Gearshifter” Youngblood 8 p.m.

ISH Grill & Bar - “First Friday JXN” feat. 601 Live Band, DJ Unpredictable & comedian Merc B. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. $15 advance $50 VIP for four

Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 3:30-7:30 p.m.; Ian Faith 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $5; Chad Perry 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Underground 119 - Stephanie Luckett 9 p.m.

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

A Jacksonian Fights for ‘The Four’

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June 3 - SUNDAY 1908 Provisions - Knight Bruce 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Anjou - David Keary 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m.

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

Kathryn’s - The XtremeZ 6-9 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Road Hogs noon4 p.m.; Waylon Halen 5-9 p.m.

Shucker’s - Steele Heart 3:30-7:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Raphael Semmes Trio 11 a.m.-2 p.m.; Dan Michael Colbert 6-9 p.m.

Wellington’s - Andy Hardwick 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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1908 Provisions - Bill Ellison 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Alumni House - Kern & Denise 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 6-9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Old Capitol Inn - Stacy Andrews 6-9 p.m. free Pelican Cove - Mike & Skip 6-10 p.m.

Shucker’s - Proximity 7:30-11:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Faze 4 Dance Band 7-10:30 p.m.

Kemistry - DJ Trigga 9 p.m.

Lounge 114 - Doctor Dee 9 p.m.midnight $17.89 Majestic Burger - Larry Brewer 6-9 p.m.

Martin’s - Chris Gill 6-8:30 p.m. free; “Cathead Jam Aftershow” feat. Winston Ramble 10 p.m. $10 Mudbugs 042 - Phil & Trace 7-10 p.m.

Mudbugs 047 - Travelin’ Jane Duo 10 p.m.

Pelican Cove - “Rockin’ the Rez” feat. Ashley McBryde 11 a.m.1 p.m.; Fannin Landin’ 7-11 p.m.

Shucker’s - Barry Leach 5:309:30 p.m.; Ian Faith 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $5; Aaron Coker 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

The Town of Livingston - Sid Thompson & DoubleShotz 4-7 p.m. free Underground 119 - King Edward Blues 8:30 p.m.

WonderLust - DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-2 a.m.

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Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Fitzgerald’s - Johnny Crocker 7-11 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Central MS Blues Society (rest) 7 p.m. $5 Kathryn’s - Joseph LaSalla 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Acoustic Kitchen 6-10 p.m.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

June 2 - Saturday

June 5 - Tuesday

Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - NuCorp 8 p.m.

American Legion Post 112 - The XTremeZ 9 p.m.-midnight Capitol Grill - “Five-Year Anniversary Party” feat. Jason Turner Band 11 a.m.-2 a.m. free Cathead Distillery - “Cathead Jam” feat. JJ Grey & Mofro, Hard Working Americans, Leftover Salmon, Luthi & The Busty Petites 2-11 p.m. $50 single-day $60 two-day pass Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m.

Club 43, Canton - Snazz 9 p.m. $10 F. Jones Corner - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $5; T-Baby midnight $10 Georgia Blue, Flowood - Andy Tanas Georgia Blue, Madison - Brandon Greer Iron Horse Grill - Sonny Ridell 9 p.m.

Jose’s, Pearl - Blake Edward Thomas 6-9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Scott Turner Trio 7-10:30 p.m.

Kemistry - DJ Kujho & the Nasty Sho 9 p.m.

Martin’s - “Cathead Jam Aftershow feat. Little Raine Band 10 p.m. $10 Pelican Cove - Travelin’ Jane 2-6 p.m.; Four on the Floor 7-11 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 6-9 p.m.

Duling Hall - The Bacon Brothers w/ Farewell Angelina 7:30 p.m. $45 advance $50 day of show $100 VIP Fenian’s - Open Mic 9 p.m.

Fitzgerald’s - Hunter Gibson 7-11 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - “Dinner, Drinks & Jazz” feat. Raphael Semmes & Friends 6-9 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Stace & Cassie 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Simpatico 6-10 p.m.

St. Joseph Catholic School, Madison - MS Wind Symphony’s “Celebrating Bernstein” 7:30 p.m. free Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

June 6 - Wednesday Alumni House - Hunter Gibson 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 6-9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Jessie Howell Duo 6-10 p.m.

Shucker’s - Proximity 7:30-11:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

(Right to left) R&B artist Carvena Jones, a Jackson native, joins James Graham, Stephanie Zelaya and Sharaya J on season two of “The Four: Battle for Stardom,” which premiers on FOX on Thursday, June 7.

T

he reality-TV singing competition has long been an entertainment staple, but not every entry in the genre has stood above the crowd.

In January of this year, FOX launched its latest foray into the format with “The Four: Battle for Stardom.”

Over the course of the show’s sixepisode debut, an average of about 3.64 million viewers tuned in to see vocalists face off against members of “The Four,” taking their spot in the competition.

The show is known for its celebrity bonafides, with host Fergie and judges Sean “Diddy” Combs, DJ Khaled and Meghan Trainor. Charlie Walk, former president of Republic Records, dropped out of judging due to sexual-assault allegations.

When “The Four” returns June 7, fans will find a new set of singers in the hot seats, including Jackson native Carvena Jones. The Jackson Free Press recently spoke with her over the phone to find out more about her “battle for stardom.”

How did you first get involved with singing and making music?

How did your friends and family react when you told them you made it on “The Four”?

What would you like to see happen as a result of being on “The Four”?

So I told them, and I told my grandma, and ever since I was little, my grandma would always get on me about my teeth for some reason. Like, “Brush your teeth right.

Make sure you keep your teeth together and their white.” And the first thing she (said) when I told her was, “Oh my gosh.

Here’s some toothpaste. You have to use it so your teeth will stay white.” [Laughs] I was like, “Really? That’s the first thing you have to say?” But no, everybody was just really excited and couldn’t believe it. They were like, “We’re so proud of you; wow, we’re rooting for you; you’ve got this.”

To start off, I come from a musically inclined family, so literally all of my family sings. I grew up in church and have uncles who are pastors, and just everybody sings. ... I could always sing but was really, really shy, and I never liked attention on me until one day, I think I was 12, and I had a random vision of me on a huge stage, an arena type of setting. I was like, “What the heck?

Are you serious?”

At 13, I tried out for a talent show— my first talent show ever—and that was the first time my family ever heard me sing, period. Everybody was like, “Oh my gosh.”

And I won it. I was like, “Wow. This is what I’m supposed to do.” So at 13, I picked up the guitar and just started to evolve, I guess, as an artist, as a singer, knowing who I am, writing my own music—you know what I mean?—and just trying to process being an artist and really developing and strengthening my love for music as a whole.

I mean, obviously I want to win.

[Laughs] I want to win for sure, but if not, I’m definitely looking forward to the exposure and just broadening my audience a little more, and just to honestly see myself evolve. I know this is about to be a challenge for me. ... But I’m ready for that because I feel like I’m going to become the artist I always see myself as, you know? Be super confident, free onstage, and really break out of my shell even more.

“The Four: Battle for Stardom” season two premiers June 7 at 7 p.m. on FOX. For the full interview, visit jfp.ms/thefour.

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Friday, June 8

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austin, texas rockers bringing psychedlia to jxn!

Friday, June 15

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Saturday, June 16

A NIGHT OF ROCK AND ROLL

MONDAY 6/4

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Last Week’s Answers 53 PART 4 OF 5 58 90∞ from north 59 New Orleans Saints linebacker Manti ___ 60 “How can ___ sure?”

61 PART 5 OF 5 67 Pie ___ mode 68 ___ the occasion (come through) 69 Microscopic particle 70 Vancouver clock setting (abbr.)

71 “Sophie’s Choice” novelist William 72 Baker’s amts.

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39 Front counterpart 40 Memory unit rarely seen in the singular form 41 Monogram ltr.

44 Cake, in Italian restaurants 48 “Zero stars” 49 Troubled 51 “Le Freak” disco group 53 Summary 54 Counts’ counterparts 55 Have ___ (stop standing) 56 Doomed one

57 British war vessel of WWII 62 ___-80 (old Radio Shack computer) 63 DDE’s WWII arena 64 Took the gold 65 Alley-___ (basketball maneuver) 66 Apt. divisions ©2018 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@ jonesincrosswords.com)

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1 Brewhouse offerings 5 Pique 11 Langley or Lackland (abbr.)

14 Billiards table material 15 Cheesemaking enzyme 16 Oolong, e.g.

17 PART 1 OF 5 of a wordplay challenge (the answer is spelled out in the circles) 20 “Bali ___” (“South Pacific” song) 21 Hamton, on “Tiny Toon Adventures” 22 Half, for openers 23 PART 2 OF 5 28 Romania’s currency

29 Six-inch or footlong 30 Hall of Fame umpire Bill 31 ___ Arbor, Michigan 32 Hiatus 34 Q followers 38 Regulation, for short 39 PART 3 OF 5 42 An eighth of octo43 Impulsiveness 45 “The Fountainhead” author Rand 46 ___ “King” Cole 47 Honolulu’s island 50 Nervous twitch 52 Easter mo. in 2018

1 Back, on board 2 Actress Salonga 3 Spitz relatives 4 Sauna atmosphere 5 Fleischer formerly of the White House press room 6 Prepare to drag race 7 Lunch time, sometimes 8 Detach, as from a chain 9 Robert who stepped down from “All Things Considered” in January 2018 10 Dr. who focuses on the head 11 “Confessions of ___ Idol” (2009 VH1 series) 12 Physicist Enrico 13 Rudimentary 18 Is suitable 19 Yorke and McAn, for two 23 Adobe animation platform being phased out by 2020 24 Designer Oscar de la ___ 25 “Les MisÈrables” author Victor 26 “Buy It Now” site 27 “Jeopardy!” creator Griffin 33 Org. for Bubba Watson 35 Cheesy lunch counter orders 36 Not suitable 37 Part of IVF

BY MATT JONES Last Week’s Answers

“Movie Sudoku” Solve this as you would a regular sudoku, except using the nine given letters instead of numbers. When you’re done, each row, column and 3x3 box will contain each of the nine given letters exactly one time. In addition, one row or column will reveal, either backward or forward, the name of a famous movie. psychosudoku@gmail.com

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If you’ve got a business idea, an

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Co.Starters isn’t lectures—for eight weeks you’ll have discussions with successful

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own business canvas.

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The nine-week program takes place on Wednesday evenings in downtown Jackson.

For the ninth meeting, we gather at Coalesce in downtown Jackson for a celebration with friends and family—and final pitches by each business!

You’ll meet with other entrepreneurs in a facilitated discussion setting—following the national Co.Starters curriculum.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

On Feb. 17, 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev had an appointment with a local cheese-making company to provide his expert consultation. But he never made it. A blast of inspiration overtook him soon after he awoke, and he stayed home to tend to the blessed intrusion. He spent that day as well as the next two perfecting his vision of the periodic table of the elements, which he had researched and thought about for a long time. Science was forever transformed by Mendeleyev’s breakthrough. I doubt your epiphanies in the coming weeks will have a similar power to remake the whole world, Gemini. But they could very well remake your world. When they arrive, honor them. Feed them. Give them enough room to show you everything they’ve got.

Ninety-five percent of your fears have little or no objective validity. Some are delusions generated by the neurotic parts of your imagination. Others are delusions you’ve absorbed from the neurotic spew of other people’s imaginations. What I’ve just told you is both bad news and good news. On the one hand, it’s a damn shame you feel so much irrational and unfounded anxiety. On the other hand, hearing my assertion that so much of it is irrational and unfounded might mobilize you to free yourself from its grip. I’m pleased to inform you that the coming weeks will be an excellent time to wage a campaign to do just that. June can and should be Fighting for Your Freedom from Fear Month.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

During the next four weeks, I’ll celebrate if you search for and locate experiences that will heal the part of your heart that’s still a bit broken. My sleep at night will be extra deep and my dreams extra sweet if I know you’re drumming up practical support for your feisty ideals. I’ll literally jump for joy if you hunt down new teachings that will ultimately ensure you start making a daring dream come true in 2019. And my soul will soar if you gravitate toward the mind-expanding kind of hedonism rather than the mind-shrinking variety.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

Everyone has a unique fate that’s interesting enough to write a book about. Each of us has at least one epic story to tell that would make people cry and laugh and adjust their thoughts about the meaning of life. What would your saga be like? Think about what’s unfolding right now, because I bet that would be a ripe place to start your meditations.

The core themes of your destiny are currently on vivid display, with new plot twists taking your drama in novel directions. Want to get started? Compose the first two sentences of your memoir.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

“Dear Oracle: I find myself in the weird position of trying to decide between doing the good thing and doing the right thing. If I opt to emphasize sympathy and kindness, I may look like an eager-to-please wimp with shaky principles.

But if I push hard for justice and truth, I may seem rude and insensitive. Why is it so challenging to have integrity?

—Vexed Libra.” Dear Libra: My advice is to avoid the all-ornothing approach. Be willing to be half-good and half-right.

Sometimes the highest forms of integrity require you to accept imperfect solutions.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

You have waited long enough to retaliate against your adversaries. It’s high time to stop simmering with frustration and resentment. Take direct action! I suggest you arrange to have a box of elephant poop shipped to their addresses.

You can order it here: tinyurl.com/ElephantManure. JUST KIDDING! I misled you with the preceding statements. It would in fact be a mistake for you to express such vulgar revenge. Here’s the truth: Now is an excellent time to seek retribution against those who have opposed you, but the best ways to do that would be by proving them wrong, surpassing their accomplishments and totally forgiving them.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Marketing experts say that motivating a person to say yes to a big question is more likely if you first build momentum by asking them smaller questions to which it’s easy to say yes.

I encourage you to adopt this slant for your own purposes in the coming weeks. It’s prime time to extend invitations

and make requests that you’ve been waiting for the right moment to risk. People whom you need on your side will, I suspect, be more receptive than usual—and with good reasons—but you may still have to be smoothly strategic in your approach.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

I bet you’ll be offered at least one valuable gift, and possibly more. But I’m concerned that you may not recognize them for their true nature. So I’ve created an exercise to enhance your ability to identify and claim these gifts-in-disguise.

Please ruminate on the following concepts: 1. a pain that can heal; 2. a shadow that illuminates; 3. an unknown or anonymous ally; 4. a secret that nurtures intimacy; 5. a power akin to underground lightning; 6. an invigorating boost disguised as tough love.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

When I was a kid attending elementary schools in the American Midwest, recess was a core part of my educational experience. For 45 minutes each day, we were excused from our studies so we could indulge in free-form play— outdoors, if the weather was nice, or else in the gymnasium.

But in recent years, schools in the U.S. have shrunk the time allotted for recess. Many have eliminated it altogether. Don’t they understand this is harmful to the social, emotional and physical health of their students? In any case, Aquarius, I hope you move in the opposite direction during the coming weeks. You need more than your usual quota of time away from the grind. More fun and games, please! More messing around and merriment! More recess!

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

For many years, actor Mel Blanc provided the voice for Bugs Bunny, a cartoon character who regularly chowed down on raw carrots. But Blanc himself did not like raw carrots. In a related matter, actor John Wayne, who pretended to be a cowboy and horseman in many movies, did not like horses.

And according to his leading ladies, charismatic macho film hunk Harrison Ford is not even close to being an expert kisser. What about you, Pisces? Is your public image in alignment with your true self? If there are discrepancies, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to make corrections.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

A critic described Leonardo da Vinci’s painting the Mona Lisa as “the most visited, most written about, most sung about, most parodied work of art in the world.” It hasn’t been sold recently, but is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Today it’s kept in the world-renowned Louvre museum in Paris, where it’s viewed by millions of art-lovers.

But for years after its creator’s death, it enjoyed little fanfare while hanging in the bathroom of the French King François.

I’d love to see a similar evolution in your own efforts, Aries: a rise from humble placement and modest appreciation to a more interesting fate and greater approval. The astrological omens suggest that you have more power than usual to make this happen in the coming weeks and months.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

These days, many films use CGI, computer generated imagery. The technology is sophisticated and efficient. But in the early days of its use, producing such realistic fantasies was painstaking and time-intensive. For example, Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film “Jurassic Park” featured four minutes of CGI that required a year to create. I hope that in the coming weeks, you will summon equivalent levels of old-school tenacity and persistence and attention to detail as you devote yourself to a valuable task that you love. Your passion needs an infusion of discipline. Don’t be shy about grunting.

Homework: Each of us has a secret ignorance. Can you guess what yours is? What could you do about it? Freewillastrology.com.

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