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T hough hip-hop dance was initially just a hobby for Karlos Lyons, it has be-come a job and a lifestyle. “Hip-hop instruction has been fun,”

Lyons says. “I just did it as an extracurricular thing in college, and it became sort of like a side business that I started.” Now 26, Lyons is a Salsa Mississippi in-structor, where he teaches private and group hip-hop dance classes. He is also an assistant director of admissions at Belhaven University. A native of Jackson, Lyons attend-ed Murrah High School and graduated in 2007. He then attended Belhaven, where he auditioned for and was accepted onto the university’s unofficial hip-hop dance team in 2008. As his interest in dance grew, Lyons chartered the Belhaven’s Urban Dance Club in 2009. Now, almost five years after his Decem-ber 2010 graduation with a bachelor’s degree in communications, the club is still holding strong. Its membership fluctuates between 10 and 20 people. Recently, the club created a flash mob in Belhaven’s student-center cafeteria. “The club is still very much alive and well,” Lyons says. “It’s a great extracurricular ac-tivity.” He says when he was there, they would do halftime shows at football and basketball games, as well as a few chapel performances. They would also hold what the dancers called “jam sessions,” which would sometimes in-clude guest artists and last for several hours.

After his graduation from Belhaven, Lyons began his work in the admissions department. He is in charge of organizing Discover Day, Belhaven’s campus preview day where high-school seniors and juniors and their families visit the campus. For Lyons, the best part of Jackson is the community. “My family is here, (so there is) good community,” Lyons says. “A lot of new things are coming up in Jackson now. I love the arts, so Fondren is always cool.” Lyons’ wife of nearly two years, artist Brittany Lyons, owns BEL Decor, a business that creates interior-design items, offering everything from chalk pieces to traditional canvas art. She participated in Fondren’s First Thursday earlier this month. Ultimately, Karlos hopes to unite his sense of purpose and calling with a new career as a counselor, either providing marriage and fam-ily counseling or working with at-risk youth. “I desire to share the gospel as well as work as a counselor for those that may be dealing with types of addictions,” Lyons says. He is currently looking into the pro-cess of becoming a licensed counselor “Many people have hurting issues and things that they deal with in their life, and I want my existence to reflect that I care and that I have something to offer,” he says.

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24 “Yes, we are adults. I’m not sure when it happened, and every time I’m asked my age lately, I balk a little bit when I answer (denial is my friend). But being an adult doesn’t mean we have to lose the good parts of our youth.” —Julie Skipper, “The Art of Play”

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I don’t have a television in my dorm room, and I went to bed on election night before I found out the results. I was hopeful. I trusted that this state would not fail the

public-education system. When I awoke the next morning for my early class, I set my phone and laptop to charge while I took a shower, still bliss-fully unaware. Once I saw that my com-puter had enough battery, I powered it up; within two minutes, I felt as if I had been punched in the gut. Initiative 42 had failed. What hurts the most was politicians’ de-liberate deception to stop initiative 42 from passing. They, essentially, set up three ways to vote against Initiative 42 and only one way to vote for it. And it’s particularly discouraging to think about how one misleading political slogan causes Mississippians, once again, to turn their backs on our children’s needs. I attended JPS schools from age 4, when I enrolled in the Montessori program at Boyd Elementary that would eventu-ally relocate to McWillie, until May of this year, when I graduated from Murrah High School. I was in the Academic Performing Arts Program, or APAC, from fourth grade until graduation, and I went to schools that were not simply considered the best of JPS, but were among the best in the state. Still, we lacked. Last year, all but one of my classes were AP. However, most of my classes had at least 20 students. I was fortunate that, even in these large classes, my teachers found ways to attempt to meet the individual needs of each student. However, when one person is responsible for teaching approximately 200 children, many of whom are taking state standardized tests, some students inevitably will fall between the cracks. Last year, Mrs. Schneider, who taught creative writing my freshman year, instructed students taking the English II standardized

exams, taught English IV and sponsored the school’s newspaper, which is a class in itself. When we traveled to Oxford to attend Mississippi Scholastic Press Association’s an-nual awards, we competed against students who had journalism teachers with the sole job of teaching journalism. One of my former teachers, Mr. Ever-son, teaches Latin I, Latin II, AP Latin and Debate, and is the sponsor for both the speech-and-debate and quiz-bowl teams.

While I applaud this dedication to stu-dents, with proper funding great teachers would not have to singlehandedly raise funds for extracurricular organizations, or at least, their pay would reflect their efforts. My dad graduated from Lanier High School in 1967. When I was accepted to APAC in fourth grade, I remember him tell-ing me that it would have been impossible for him to attend APAC, as the school was, at that time, only for white kids. Instead, he told me, the smartest kids in his all-black school were put into a special homeroom in which they were taught even more rigorously than the rest of the students. My mother grew up in Columbia, Miss. Her education was different from my father’s in that she didn’t realize that her school was poor. While her textbooks were years out of date, too, her teachers supplemented by

teaching beyond the span of her books. My mother recalls having a client tell her, shortly after she graduated from Ole Miss Law School and began private practice, that she didn’t know what she was talking about because she was black. The client con-tinued, saying that, at one point, my mother had been taught by black teachers who didn’t know what they were talking about—because they hadn’t been taught anything. I’ve heard more times than I can re-member from children educated at local private schools that they were surprised I went to Murrah. On my first day at Mill-saps College, I met another Jackson native. I was excited, at first, because no one else in my group was from here. The student had attended a local private high school, where she had pretty much taken the same classes I took at Murrah. I don’t recall exactly how the topic came up, but I distinctly recall her saying, “You were probably really glad to be in AP.” I agreed. I had valued the smaller class size and opportunity for one-on-one time with my teachers. Then, she said, “Yeah, but you prob-ably liked it because there weren’t all those welfare kids who don’t care.” How she deter-mined that (a) every non-AP child at Mur-rah comes from an underprivileged family and (b) coming from such a family equates to apathy about one’s education is beyond my understanding. Recently, while sitting in the judge’s lounge at a debate tournament in Hatties-burg, I overheard a conversation between two adults who—it became clear—sent their children to private schools. They said things along the lines of: “I went to public schools, so clearly I don’t have a problem with them. But would I send (my son) to one? Defi-nitely not. Those schools don’t pay teachers anything, and the kids are too poor to care.” Initiative 42 failed because our state still has a race and a class problem.

I heard frequently that people cam-paigned or were voting against Initiative 42 because they didn’t want a judge in Hinds County (more specifically, a judge in ma-jority-black Jackson), deciding how funds would be allocated. It’s safe to say that most Mississippians understand the connotation that comes with such a phrase. If not, they would have just stopped with “a judge.” Taking it further, though, was an ar-gument against Initiative 42 on a College Republican page: “The judge could decide that high-performing districts, or those with a solid local tax base, are getting too much money from the state and that money should be transferred to low-performing districts.” While I never envisioned this happen-ing, had 42 passed and presented the possi-bility, I still can’t imagine how that transfer would be a bad thing. Oak Grove High School received $3 million of state funds to build an auditorium, but there are Missis-sippi schools in which one teacher is forced to teach both history and math, due to un-derfunding and a teacher shortage. How anyone thinks it is more impor-tant for a school that wants a nicer audito-rium to receive funding than it is for a school that shows a legitimate need for the basics completely baffles me. As I wrote in a Face-book status after finding out that Mississippi, once again, failed our children: It was not President Obama or Democrats or Socialists or even that mysterious “judge in Jackson” that was hurt. The failure of Initiative 42 di-rectly affected the lives of 500,000 children who were waiting, hoping for an equal shot at an education. Children cannot decide to whom they are born, and they cannot decide their race or socioeconomic status. Failing to pass Initiative 42 punished Mississippi’s children simply because they were born into the wrong demographic. Adria Walker, a Millsaps freshman, is an editorial assistant at the Jackson Free Press.

CONTRIBUTORS

Born into the Wrong Demographic

News Reporter Arielle Dreher is working on finding some new hobbies and adopting an otter from the Jackson Zoo. Email her story tips and ideas at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com. She wrote the cover package and several news stories.

News Editor R.L. Nave is a native Missourian who roots for St. Louis (and the Mizzou Tigers)—and for Jackson. Send him news tips at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com or call 601-362-6121 ext. 12. He wrote news and contributed to the cover.

Business Reporting Fellow Scott Prather is a Jackson native who co-founded indie label Esperanza Plantation. He returned after doctoral work in ethics and theology in Scotland. He wrote about Cooperation Jackson.

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, many photos for the issue.

Assistant Editor Amber Hel-sel graduated from Ole Miss with a bachelor’s in journal-ism. She is short, always hungry and always thinking. She wrote a food story about MsPattiCakes and directed production of the issue.

Web Editor Dustin Cardon is a graduate of the Univer-sity of Southern Mississippi. He enjoys reading fantasy novels and wants to write them him-self one day. He wrote an arts story about The Mill and made sure jfpdaily.com went out.

Larry Morrisey is the deputy director for the Mississippi Arts Commission. He is a host of “Mississippi Arts Hours,” an interview radio show on Mis-sissippi Public Broadcasting. He wrote a music story about the Steve Deaton Three.

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

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Initiative 42 failed because our state still

has a race and a class problem.

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I n recent weeks, Mayor Tony Yarber and members of the Jackson City Council have clashed over a number of high-dollar contract negotiations, but the

key players offer different perspectives on the root causes of the disagreements. Months of simmering frustrations came to a head during and following the Nov. 3 city council meeting, when the council again voted against a Yarber ad-ministration recommendation to award an approximately $13 million contract for hauling sludge away from the Savanna Wastewater Treatment Plant due to a con-troversy over contract bids and allegations of favoritism. It was the council’s second “no” vote on the contract in the past few months. The City must now restart the request-for-proposal process, which makes it more likely that the City won’t meet the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2018 deadline. Yarber and his top lieutenants left council chambers to hold a press confer-ence while the Nov. 2 meeting continued. The mayor also spoke to the Jackson Free Press, taking issue with statements council members have made that his administra-tion often fails to provide timely informa-tion before asking for a vote. The mayor says he has been more than transparent and accessible to the seven-member council. “At the end of the day, this whole idea about not knowing stuff, not getting

stuff, that’s so disingenuous that it outright makes me mad,” Yarber told the JFP.

The Mayor’s List Yarber ticked off a laundry list of

high-priority votes for which the council criticized his office but where, he main-tains, the city council is equally respon-sible for delays. For example, Yarber points to a pro-posal in November 2014 to hire Boston-based engineering firm CDM Smith for approximately $700,000 to help prepare

a request-for-proposals for the sludge-hauling contract. The council placed the item in committee that month, voting unanimously a month later to approve the agreement; the final RFP then went

out March 31 of this year, Yarber said. “So you can’t say we were behind the 8-ball,” Yarber said. “We were trying to do it the top of the fall (2014).” Ward 6 Councilman Tyrone Hen-drix points out that the council was out of the process once they approved the agree-ment in December 2014, weeks

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after they got it. “It didn’t have to come back before city council,” he

said this week. After the council votes, such agree-ments go to the city administration for the RFP process. “They select who they want to select,” Hendrix said. “… By state law, the council can’t have anything to do with the RFP selection process. That’s an executive function.” So, he said, it was the City that released the RFP on March 31. Hendrix said he was concerned last fall about hiring CDM Smith instead of

using an RFP already written by the City’s EPA consent-decree managers, Waggoner Engineering Inc./AJA Management & Technical Services Inc. “Why hire somebody to redo what was already written?” he asked. Hendrix added that the administra-tion needs to do a “better job” allowing time for communications with council and “strategically planning” these con-tracts. “When we wait until the last min-ute,” he said, “we lose our leverage.”

Council: Need Information In addition to the biosolids deal, the city council also criticized the mayor’s of-fice for the timing of a proposal to switch health-care plans for city employees and retirees to UnitedHealthcare from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mississippi, which administration officials say would save $8.6 million over three years. With the current policies ending Dec. 31 and the changeover taking three months, the city asked council to vote on Oct. 20, 2015, past the deadline for a smooth transition.

Hendrix said the sticking point was council not having enough information. “We requested the selection commit-tee’s selection material and the consultant’s report. And we were upset because, when they gave us the agenda item, we didn’t have anything but two or three pieces of paper that didn’t do anything for us. More importantly, we didn’t have the consul-tant’s report of why they chose one com-

Two Jackson Public Schools middle schools outscored all other JPS middle and high schools on math assess-ments students took last year. Small classes of Algebra I students at Bailey APAC

Middle School and Northwest Middle School scored at or above the baseline—on the same test their peers took in high school. The two middle schools are the district’s advanced schools with special programs, and schools test students for admission into both schools. Both schools’ principals from the last school year praised their algebra teachers for preparing students in an advanced man-ner because the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for Colleges and Careers, or PARCC, assessments were more challeng-ing than state testing in previous years. Christi Hollingshead, the principal of Bailey APAC Middle School, said the teachers’ persistence, meetings with par-ents, independent and after-school tutoring all combined to help students get ahead of heightened standards. All middle-school students enrolled in Algebra I in JPS had to take the algebra exam, and students in other schools did not perform as well as the two advanced middle schools. Chinelo Evans, chief academic officer of middle schools, said middle-school math courses have changed, with new College and Career Ready standards, which means that fu-ture high-school students are ahead of the curve. “In all 13 middle schools, half of seventh graders are in a compacted (advanced) math course,” Evans said. “And they all have Algebra 1 cohorts, so this is the first year for (that to happen).” Students take more advanced math that prepares stu-dents for algebra called “compacted math courses” before tak-ing Algebra 1, and because all JPS middle schools offer that advanced level of math, Evans is hopeful that future test scores will only improve, especially those of the younger students. “I think this is the start of great things coming from

Jackson Public Schools,” Evans said. “Bailey and Northwest are just examples of a framework that is going on all around the district.” Overall, JPS students fared much better on English test-ing than algebra: 64 percent of students who took the algebra test did not reach the minimum standard. Mississippi middle- and high-school students are slowly

adapting to more rigorous College and Career Ready stan-dards, state test results released on Nov. 5 show. More than 40,000 students around the state participat-ed in the assessments, and almost half exceeded expectations on the English assessment; 27 percent of students met those same standards on the algebra assessment. The test evaluates students’ scores by levels: 1-5. Stu-dents who scored at levels 4 or 5 are considered at or above the PARCC standards. Students who reach level 3 still pass, but with some qualifications. Level 3 students know some of the content but need assistance in meeting gaps in their understanding, said J.P. Beaudoin, chief of research and development at the Mississippi Department of Education. PARCC defines a “Level 3” student as “someone who meets some standards and is not college-ready,” Beaudoin

said. The department equates that to being a “C” student, and made level 3 the baseline for counting a student as “col-lege and career ready.” When level 3 scores are included, 57.9 percent of stu-dents passed the algebra exam; 72.7 percent of students passed the English exam. State Superintendent Carey Wright said the test results were encouraging, especially because

PARCC assessments are more challenging than SATP2 tests (which students took in prior years, before PARCC tests replaced them in 2014). “This is the baseline, and we’re only go-ing to go up from here,” Wright said on a conference call Wednesday. “I am very proud of the teachers in this state.” Wright plans to keep the more challeng-ing standards as a baseline for testing going forward and says she will not lower testing standards. Mississippi is no longer part of the PARCC consortia and is adopting its own testing program called the Mississippi Assessment Program. The superintendent said the new tests for middle- and high-school students will focus on meeting National Assessment of

Educational Performance standards. NAEP produces its own national assessment and results every two years. This year, Mississippi was the only state whose fourth-grade scores on NAEP tests increased in math and reading. Mississippi’s PARCC test scores varied drastically by county. The Amory School District had 91.8 percent of students at or above the baseline on the English assessment, while Jackson Public Schools had 59.4 percent of students at or above the baseline. Wright said schools and teachers should use the test re-sults to see gaps in content and focus on professional develop-ment in the weak areas. “I will be encouraging all administra-tors and educators to use these results,” she said. The department will look to expand training and guid-ance for teachers so that they can improve students’ perfor-mance in the future.

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pany over the other. I still haven’t received it. I asked for it again today,” Hendrix said Tuesday, Nov. 10. Marshand Crisler, a top Yarber aide, told media that the process could have been speedier but insisted that the admin-istration had demonstrated sufficient due diligence to allay concerns about the deal. Nonetheless, Ward 1 Councilman Ashby Foote said the late timing of such votes puts members in a difficult spot, though. “There’s a lot of money in these proj-ects, and we seem to get bogged down in things that shouldn’t take that much time,” Foote said. Yarber also blames the council for slow-ing down a proposal to switch banks from Trust-mark to BancorpSouth, which the council also held up to get more in-formation, but approved in late December 2014. Hendrix says it was a $76.5 million bank transaction that the city administration presented to council on Dec. 16, 2014, to con-sider and approve by Dec. 31, 2014. And, he adds, that trend needs to end. “We’re slated to spend about a billion dollars in the next 17 years … so we have to make sure the citizens have faith and trust in the processes. We have to.”

Council: Just Doing Our Jobs Council members say they are simply fulfilling their responsibilities by asking pointed questions, and several disagree that tabling agenda items or placing them in committee makes them equally respon-sible for the lagging timetables. “What we need to do is make sure that all city business is handled in a fash-ion that’s thorough, transparent and ac-countable,” said City Council President Melvin Priester Jr., adding that he did not want to have a back and forth with the mayor about how specific votes went down. The mayor, though, was adamant that council is equally to blame. “That narrative that’s being created, it ain’t right,” Yarber said. “Now I don’t say much, I sit over there and try to be mayoral and not try to deal in the petty stuff, but at some point this mess, it has to stop.” After the Nov. 3 biosolids “no” vote, Yarber continued to speak as Priester in-structed the city clerk to continue reading from the agenda. “The citizens have to trust that ev-erything being done downtown is being

done in a standardized manner in a way that will make them proud,” Priester later told the Jackson Free Press. Ward 4 Councilman De’Keither Stamps, who chairs the Budget Com-mittee, said spirited debate is part of running a city, but that it would help if city leaders hashed out issues before the regular meetings. For example, both he and Yarber point to regular Monday brief-ings that the mayor and members of his administration were having with one or two council members at a time to avoid having a quorum, which would require an open-meeting notice and minutes.

“You could talk and argue and fuss and jump up and down,” Stamps said of the informal meetings, which no longer take place. Priester, the cur-rent president, said he prefers to handle the people’s business out in public instead of in closed-door meetings. “We are trying to be transparent and, above all, we’re trying

to be accountable to the citizens,” Priester said. “When you don’t have a thorough process, that’s when you get bitten.” Hendrix also said he stopped attend-ing those meetings, and still hasn’t visited the mayor’s office, due to respect for the open-meetings law. “I tend to err on the side of caution,” he said. In the coming weeks, the council is likely to face a number of critical votes, including whether to hire a program manager to administer $21 million in 1-percent sales tax funds. Yarber warned that if he and the council continued to butt heads, citizens would likely hold it against city leaders in the 2017 municipal elections. “I’m appealing to people who want good government,” Yarber said. “Citizens who want to see stuff happen and want to see stuff move, I’m appealing to them to hold our feet to the fire. I’m not asking you to pick a side, I’m asking you to say to us, ‘If you haven’t gotten your act to-gether, in 2017 everybody goes home.’” Hendrix responded that officials shouldn’t be petty, but need to dwell on facts. “I don’t think it’s healthy for the city for the city’s leaders to engage in back-and-forth. The city deserves us to work for them every day, and for that to be on the forefront of our mind,” he said. Comment at www.jfp.ms. Email R.L. Nave at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com. Ad-ditional reporting by Donna Ladd.

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“W e just want to be treated like any other family,” Donna Phillips said in her court testimony on

Nov. 6 in the southern Mississippi U.S. Dis-trict Court in Jackson. Phillips and her wife, Janet Smith, along with three other couples, are suing state At-torney General Jim Hood, the Mississippi Department of Human Services (and its acting director) and Gov. Phil Bryant over Mississippi’s same-sex adoption ban in U.S. district court. The lawsuit is crucial for her family’s future, Phillips says. She and Smith have a daughter, Hannah, who only has one birth parent included on her birth certificate: Phillips gave birth to her daughter eight years ago. Phillips, who served in the U.S. Army and worked for the Mississippi National Guard, feared for Hannah’s medical security if she was deployed. Because Smith’s name is not on the birth certificate, and she’s not her daughter’s legal parent, she could be denied rights to authorize treatment or medication for Hannah. Phillips also fears what her es-tranged parents might try to do. “If something happened to me, I’m afraid my parents would challenge custody (of Hannah),” Phillips told the court with tears in her eyes. Adoption, however, would fix this. Phillips and Smith have started the adoption process in Mississippi but hit a roadblock when no private social-work agency would

conduct a home study (an inspection of an applicant’s home environment sometimes court-ordered for prospective adoptive par-ents) for fear of retaliation from MDHS for violating the well-known adoption ban in Mississippi. A home study is a common but not mandatory requirement of the court to finalize adoption, done either before or after an application is completed. Following the Obergefell v. Hodges rul-ing that legalized same-sex marriage nation-ally, Phillips consulted with an attorney to

see if Smith could finally apply for an adop-tion and win. “We were told not no, but hell no,” Phillips said.

Hood, Bryant Under Microscope Several other witnesses took the stand as Roberta Kaplan, the lead counsel from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York, laid out her clients’ case. They aren’t looking for damages but relief from the damage that Mississippi’s discriminatory ban has caused their families. Judge Daniel P. Jordan III is presiding over the case—and he questioned Kaplan as much as her counsel questioned the witnesses. Kaplan is asking the court to issue a pre-liminary injunction that would allow two of the plaintiffs to become adoptive and legal parents to their children. Additionally, Ka-plan wants Jordan to force the attorney gen-eral to withdraw his opinion, which upheld Mississippi’s abortion ban as constitutional and asked for the case to be dismissed, and for MDHS to issue a regulation or policy that allows private social-work groups to conduct home studies for same-sex couples with no fear of repercussions. Specifically, Kaplan is challenging the provision in Mississippi adoption law that states, “Adoption by couples of the same gender is prohibited.” She said the provi-sion is not constitutional under the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the U.S. Constitution. Attorneys for the attorney general’s office and MDHS defended Mississippi’s adoption ban. They argued that because attorney-general opinions are not binding, asking Hood to withdraw his opinion would not force chancery-court judges around the state to grant adoptions to same-sex couples. They are asking Jordan to dismiss the case, maintaining that plaintiffs can sue their chancery-court judges once they are denied an adoption—and appeal to the Mississippi Supreme Court if necessary. This case is a way to simplify that process, Kaplan argued, although she did concede that Hood had no authority to tell chancellors what to do. The governor’s role as a defendant rare-ly surfaced in the hearing, but Kaplan said he was still responsible. “By saying post-Obergefell that the Mississippi adoption ban is OK, he (Gov. Bryant) has told gay couples throughout Mississippi that their marriages are not as good as straight couples,” Kaplan told Jordan.

Parenting Determines Parenting The Campaign for Southern Equal-ity filed the lawsuit in August on behalf of

four same-sex couples in Mississippi who wanted to adopt children, or who already had children but with just one official par-ent instead of two. Mississippi’s same-sex couple adoption ban is the only one of its kind in the nation. The defendants—MDHS, Bryant and Hood—filed a motion to dismiss in Septem-ber, but in November the court summoned both sides for a hearing. Kaplan also filed the same-sex mar-riage lawsuit, Campaign for Southern Equality v. Bryant, on behalf of two couples

in Mississippi before the Obergefell ruling legalized same-sex marriage nationally, in-cluding in Mississippi. Following that rul-ing, Kaplan and CSE decided it was the right time to move on Mississippi’s adop-tion ban. Kaplan also litigated the United States v. Windsor case before the U.S. Su-preme Court that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013. Susan Hrostowski, another plaintiff in the case, testified about how the adoption ban creates inequality for advantages that du-al-sex couples likely take for granted. Hros-towski is an Episcopal priest and a social-work professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, and her name is not on her son Hudson’s birth certificate. “If I die, Hudson won’t get my Social Security,” she told the court. “If I were his parent, he could go to USM half-price.” Hrostowski and her wife, Kathryn Garner, considered an adoption after Obergefell as well, but the couple was told that they had a “one in four” chance of be-

ing approved depending on which Forrest County judge got their case. The complaint Hrostowski and other plaintiffs filed in August called Mississippi’s adoption ban “overtly discriminatory” be-cause it singles out same-sex couples as the only group or category of people who are not allowed to adopt. Former Gov. Ron-nie Musgrove signed Mississippi’s adoption ban into law in 2000 and has since publicly expressed regret about doing so. Mississippi has 996 gay couples who are raising 1,401 children—the highest

percent of gay couples raising children nationally—reports The Williams Insti-tute, a think tank at UCLA Law School the researches gender identity and sexual orientation. Dr. Brian Powell, an expert witness in the adoption case, told the court that the gender of parents does not determine anything, but “parenting determines parenting.” Powell is a researcher and professor at Indiana University who focuses his research on several aspects of parenting, particularly how same-sex couples parent. Powell said the bulk of research on LGBT parenting shows that good parenting is not linked ex-plicitly to gender. “Children who come from same-sex households fare as well as children from dual-sex households,” Powell said during his testimony in court. For more stories about LGBT rights, visit jfp.ms/lgbt. Email Arielle Dreher at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com.

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S ix members of Cooperation Jackson, along with several children, a transla-tor and someone to help with child care are headed to Paris, France, to

lend their voices and efforts to the global fight against climate change at the United Nation’s annual climate conference, referred to as COP21, beginning Nov. 30. The local contingent will join a larger delegation of nearly 100 people from the United States and Canada organized by the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, or GGJ. “The goal is half protest and half af-firmation,” said Kali Akuno, a longtime social-justice advocate and co-founder of Cooperation Jackson who worked in the mayoral administration of the late Chokwe Lumumba. The political leaders and cor-porations involved in the official discussions about climate change are “playing games with the planet and with our lives,” Akuno added. GGJ is helping pay for four members of the Jackson delegation to make the trip. The group works to connect working-class and op-pressed communities from North America with social movements in the southern hemisphere. Cooperation Jackson is also part of the Climate Justice Alliance’s “Our Power Campaign,” a parallel effort to end global warming while specifically supporting, connecting and learning from those commu-nities of poor and working people who have directly suffered the ef-fects of climate change. The protest is important, Akuno said, because at this point the gov-ernment and industry officials meeting at COP21 “control some of the key levers and institutions which can either save us or drive us further off the cliff.” So, he said, Coop-eration Jackson is “joining with other com-munities of struggle throughout the world to send a clear message that this is not suf-ficient, that they have to do better, and we’re demanding that they do better.”

Exploring Alternatives at COP21 This year’s event comes just weeks af-ter Obama’s rejection of TransCanada’s pro-posed Keystone XL pipeline, which would have funneled one of the world’s largest crude oil reserves from the Alberta Tar Sands to the Gulf of Mexico. The COP21 website emphasizes that world leaders will, for the first time in more than 20 years of UN climate negotiations, set a “legally binding and universal agree-ment” that aims to indefinitely keep global warming under 2 degrees Celsius. But the

Cooperation Jackson delegation will be in Paris as part of a parallel gathering of com-munities from across the globe converging to challenge the official standards that are set to emerge from COP21. Sacajawea Hall, of Cooperation Jack-son, said that it’s critical for communities of protest to send a message and hold leaders accountable, but also to connect with com-munities across the globe who are already practicing alternatives to the current oil-and-profit based economy that scientists say is threatening the planet. “So much of it for me is gathering with other communities who are actively asking,

‘What do we want for ourselves and our world?’ and not just “What do we not want from our governments?,’” Hall said. Both Hall and Akuno stress the need for the delegation to learn from the successes and failures of alternative-energy-based move-ments at COP21, and to bring those lessons home. Hall finds inspiration for her work in “the stories of what people, and women in particular, have been able to do with even less resources than we have here” in Jackson and in the United States as a whole.

First, Be the Change Citing Mahatma Gandhi’s maxim that we must first try to “be the change we wish to see in the world,” Aina Gonzalez, another Jackson delegate, said this trip is a chance for Cooperation Jackson to “network, show our presence, make friends and build allies.” Locally, Gonzalez is helping to launch Nubia’s Place Café and Catering, a food-ser-vice cooperative that will run out of the Lu-mumba Center for Economic Democracy,

the group’s base of operations at 939 West Capitol St. in Jackson. The café is an example of the integrat-ed, sustainable economic alternatives Coop-eration Jackson says it wants to model for the city and state. An urban farming cooperative will source the café and catering businesses, whose workers will have a share in ownership and management and receive what organiz-ers call a fair, livable wage. In turn, the business of sustainably pro-ducing and serving food will present the need and opportunity for sustainable waste man-agement, recycling and composting practices. The goal of making Jackson “the most

sustainable city in the south” comes out of the “Jackson Rising” statement that former Mayor Chokwe Lumumba’s administration released in 2014. Akuno credits Lumumba’s administration with laying out the broad vi-sion Jackson needs to incentivize local poli-cies and business practices that are both just and ecologically sustainable. The work of Cooperation Jackson hones in on one aspect of that broad social vision—the development of worker-owned cooperatives and alternative economic practices. In part due to Mississippi’s long history of rural and industrial worker orga-nizations, Akuno says that “the conditions of Jackson are challenging but also ripe for cooperatives as a means of to getting to a solidarity economy.” Moving toward an economy that puts people’s needs over profit would, he believes, best serve the people who live and work in Jackson.

It Takes An ‘Eco-Village’ The ambitious goal of a zero-waste-

and-emissions Jackson by 2025 is just one part of “The Jackson Just Transition Plan,” a climate-justice vision Cooperation Jackson released this week as part of the international “Our Power Campaign.” The plan lays out a “Sustainable Com-munities Initiative” that has two primary components. The first is an “Eco-Village” in west Jackson, which will build on emerging cooperatives to develop the infrastructure for west Jackson residents to sustainably live and work in their communities. This part of the plan is predicated upon the creation of a Community Land Trust, controlled by residents, and a network of intercon-

nected cooperatives that will provide affordable housing and jobs that respect workers’ rights. The plan also contains a “policy reform” agenda that aims to help city government realize the Lumumba administration’s vision of making Jackson the most sus-tainable city in the south. The strategy articulates “zero waste” and “zero emissions” programs and outlines policies designed to mitigate ecological de-struction while incentivizing just and sustainable business practices. For example, it calls on city government to invest in localized food production and citywide re-cycling and composting programs, while transitioning to a city fleet and public-transportation system run entirely on renewables. While “The Jackson Just Transition Plan” would require buy-in from city leaders to achieve

policy reform, the plan grounds those policy goals in a political vision that looks to con-nect the dots between the environmental, economic and racial crises that have long plagued the south. It is that political vision, as well as the nuts and bolts of what does and doesn’t work for communities engaged in similar struggles throughout the world, that the Jackson delegation says it hopes to discover, share, and refine in Paris. “It’s important for the global commu-nity to come together to show that we al-ready have the resources and power to create sustainable and just communities,” said Co-operation Jackson member Brandon King, a 31-year-old Virginia native with a back-ground in activism and the arts who now lives in Jackson. See Cooperation Jackson’s website at cooperationjackson.org. Email ideas to business reporting fellow Scott Prather at scott@jacksonfreepress.com.

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Protect Our Queens and Princesses

L ast week, the state—via the Democratic-led Mississippi attorney general’s offi ce—again stood on the wrong side of a federal judge in an individual-rights case, this time defending

Mississippi’s constitutional ban on same-sex adop-tion while also trying to duck responsibility for en-forcing that same-sex adoption ban. Again, attorneys for same-sex couples looking to adopt had to argue that they have just as much right and are just as capable of creating loving, sup-portive environments in which to raise children. This time, these couples believe they have addi-tional ammunition: the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges earlier this year striking down same-sex marriage bans, including Mississippi’s. Attorneys for the state argued in court last week that the attorney general, the governor and the Mississippi Department of Human Services are not responsible for granting adoptions and that couples should sue local chancery court clerks who deny their adoption rights. Now, follow this argument from the state’s lawyers: Mississippi’s ban on same-sex adoption says that only couples—made up of members of different sexes—can adopt but does not explicitly mention marriage. Therefore, says the AG’s offi ce, the Obergefell ruling, because it speaks only to the right of couples to wed, doesn’t legally change the standing of same-sex adults in the state. Now, even though you have the right to le-gally marry in the state of Mississippi, you still

don’t have the right to adopt a child. This isn’t the only destined-to-fail suit that the attorney general is spending time and money defending. Before the same-sex adoption charade, a lawsuit over Mississippi’s same-sex marriage ban made it all the way to a federal appeals court and likely would have wound up at the U.S. Supreme Court had it not already had enough pending cases to rule on the issue. Similarly, the state’s abortion-clinic admitting-privileges lawsuit is currently awaiting U.S. Supreme Court review even though lower courts have ruled that the law is an overreach that would shut down Mississippi’s only abortion clinic and therefore deny women their right to legal and safe abortions. These suits are costly, time-consuming and embarrassing. It’s time for the attorney general to move on from defending them and instead start working toward progress for all the state’s citizens. If it takes months or years, history has shown us that Mississippi’s same-sex adoption ban will ultimately meet defeat. As lawmakers continue to harp about the need for fi scal restraint (the stated underlying reason for Republican leaders’ opposi-tion to full public-education funding and Medic-aid expansion), our leaders should start by putting aside these political wedge issues that tie up the courts, spend the taxpayers’ money, and put the lives of tax-paying citizens in the balance. It’s time to get out of people’s private lives and work on the important stuff.

I didn’t know his name. He never gave it. I don’t know whom he came with or what compelled him to speak. But what I do know is that he spoke directly to me. His words have since gone viral. More than 8,000 people have com-mented on the video of the South Carolina man speaking passionately about

the incident at Spring Valley High School, where a young, black girl was tossed around like a rag doll by what I would label an overzealous law enforcement offi cer. She was previously non-compliant to both a teacher and the principal before the offi cer was called in. What happened next has been the subject of great controversy. Some say the force was warranted. Others are furious that a much larger, stronger adult manhandled her. Either way, the father had had enough. When he spoke, it sent chills up my spine. Not for the courage that it took to say it but for the sheer conviction in his voice. He was angry. And for all intents and purposes, he wasn’t going to stand for it anymore. He voiced a sentiment that I and many others have had for a while now. Black men are tired. We’re tired of watching rogue cops harass, profi le and slaughter our sons in the streets. But more importantly, we’re tired of watching our wives and mothers being disrespected. We’re tired of waiting for our daughters to meet the same fate. As I replayed that video over and over again, I thought about my own father—a man who toiled as a child in cotton fi elds in Crystal Springs, a retired Army sergeant who gives no quarter and takes none. I thought about my uncles who worked on a farm in Neshoba County, their hands calloused from con-struction work. You didn’t put your hands on their wives or sisters. Period. And everyone in Stallo knew it. We’ve got to send the message loud and clear that we are going to protect our women. By whatever means. No more accosting them at abortion clinics; no more victim-shaming them when they’ve been raped; no more Sandra Blands; and no more instances like the one in that classroom in South Carolina. Societies are measured by how they treat their women, and as a black man, I can say we’ve done a piss-poor job. But it stops here. You don’t put your hands on our babies like that. And they are our babies. Each one is a part of our village. And yes, had that offi cer put his hands on either of my daughters like that, you would have either had to get my bail money together or write my obituary. See, when the oppressed fi nally stand up like the black father in that clip did, we’re told we’re making “threats.” When we decide we won’t be mistreated anymore, they call us crazy. We’re not “supposed” to want to be treated fairly. But it’s not that. We’re just fed up. And America, this is just the beginning. We will honor and protect our queens and princesses. Hands off! And that’s the truth ... sho-nuff.

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Why it stinks: Even the University of Mississippi, which has often had to be dragged kicking and screaming into modern times, is on the right side of this is-sue. Both UM and the University of Southern Mississippi recently joined several of the state’s historically black colleges and universities in taking down the fl ag. Not only should a university president respect and encourage critical discussion, but he has to recognize that the fl ag contains a Confederate symbol that offends a signifi cant number of Mississippians of all races, including State students.

Editor’s note: This piece was submitted before the PARCC assessment results were re-leased. To see the results, visit mde.k12.ms.us.

I want to share some thoughts and insights about the concept of assessment and why we should remain calm and focus as we anxiously await the Partnership for As-

sessment and Readiness for College and Careers to release the results of the most recent administration of statewide tests for students in grades three through 12. Interestingly, my insights were con-firmed as I reviewed an article that colleague and former school superintendent, Ray-mond Yeagley, wrote in a June 2015 edition of School Administrator entitled, “Shifting As-sessments.” In that ar-ticle, Yeagley addresses the drop in performance when students are tested under new academic standards. He articulates five reasons to expect the predictable decline in test scores. I will lend to his review by asserting three reasons that we, in this community, should be encouraged even in the face of a probable drop in the percent-age of our scholars scoring proficient and advanced on the state test. Dr. Yeagley lists the following as reasons or factors that contribute to the probable drop in test performance: New tests: With every new test comes a level of uncertainty and unfamiliarity with both the types of questions or items and the way students will react or respond to them. New content on the test: The new standards and assessment are both more rig-orous and much deeper in their scope. The most recent change in standards has been the most significant in nearly 30 years. Higher expectations in preparation for college or careers: The new standards require and demand that the students fully understand the skill and the content. Stu-dents have the expectation to really know the standard and to be able to apply it to real-life situations. Higher cut scores: Early tests were designed so that every student in the nation would know 100 percent of the materials by 2014. The score to achieve that was set low enough so that even the most struggling student could eventually reach it. The new state tests are designed to ensure that every student is college or career ready, period. That shifts the score upward to reflect being tested by a standard that will make sure our students don’t have to take remedial courses in college and that they can find and keep a well-paying career. New grading scales: Now comes the

hard part—A new scale must be established to reflect the new test. The challenge is com-paring the new scale to the old one. Now, here are the three reasons we should all remain calm and focused. First, Jackson Public Schools has de-veloped a very aggressive but attainable, three-year strategic plan that will propel our scholars and schools forward academically. This includes strategies that will increase student proficiency in reading, mathemat-ics, and science, increase the graduation rate and proficiency on the ACT, increase state accountability ratings for the district and schools, and increase parental and commu-nity engagement. Additional strategies will

increase attendance for our scholars and staff, as well as the health and safe-ty levels of our campuses. Second, each school has developed a compre-hensive plan of action that reflects its achievement of the research-based five characteristics of high per-forming schools. National improvement strategies and the five dimensions of

success from the Mississippi Department of Education guide this plan. In it, each school provides the results of a needs assessment that its leadership teams conduct. The as-sessment identifies the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to improvement for the school. The primary goal is to ensure that all students, particularly underachieving ones, demonstrate proficient and advanced levels of achievement on the new Mississippi College and Career Ready Standards. Third and finally, we have developed a system of monitoring and accountabil-ity. We monitor and hold accountable the achievement of our scholars and schools in two ways. First, we use a data dashboard that reports progress in attendance, behav-ior and course performance on a daily ba-sis. This information is reported to me in a regularly scheduled meeting each month. I then present the progress to the school board each quarter. Secondly, the annual progress is tracked by our balanced scorecard, which is then reported through the district’s annual report. Simply stated, we monitor our prog-ress regularly and report it to our commu-nity so that we are all informed. This time of transition in our state can be overwhelming without a precise plan of action. Jackson Public Schools has a plan and wants our community to know how important the progress of all of our schol-ars is to us. So we ask you to remain calm as we focus on the plan and build stronger schools together. Cedrick Gray is the superintendent for Jackson Public Schools. 13

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As soon as the Mis-sissippi Legislature proposed an al-ternative measure to Initiative 42, a citizens’ initia-tive to fully fund the Mississippi Adequate Educa-tion Program, its

advocates cried foul, saying the alternate was only there to confuse voters. But the alterna-tive-initiative gambit worked whether it was a meaningful amendment or just a legisla-tive trip-up for voters. While the alternate amendment itself did not win, the two-part question, including 42-A, on the ballot un-doubtedly confused some voters on Nov. 3. By Mississippi constitutional stan-dards, the Legislature was fully entitled to propose an alternative measure to a citizen-driven ballot initiative—that’s in the constitution. The unraveling of Initia-tive 42 began in the Legislature itself in the 2015 session, when the Republican leadership backed a bill that Rep. Greg Snowden, R-Meridian, sponsored in the House of Representatives that suggested alternative measure 42-A. At a press conference on Oct. 19, Snowden said that the Republicans moved quickly to add an alternative because of what they perceived to be the danger of Initiative 42 passing. Snowden said Initia-

tive 42’s proposed constitutional amend-ment was “completely contrary to our system of representative democracy,” from power it supposedly passed to the

judiciary branch to removing the word “Legislature” from the constitutional pro-vision, which the Legislature made sure to keep in 42-A.

From the outset, the Republican leadership’s campaign message to stop Ini-tiative 42 from passing was not “Vote for 42-A” but instead “Vote No on 42.”

Power and Control Sen. David Blount, D-Jackson, said that those who created 42-A did not sup-port their own language. By proposing 42-A, those legislators were also proposing a different constitutional amendment—something they rarely mentioned. Initiative 42-A would have amended the state constitution as well keeping the Legislature responsible for public-school funding. It would have changed Section 201 of the constitution to say, ‘The Leg-islature shall, by general law, provide for the establishment, maintenance and sup-port of an effective system of free pub-lic schools.” The Republican leadership seemed most concerned with squashing Initiative 42, however, and not amending the constitution itself. At an October press conference be-fore the election, House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, focused on the lan-guage that Initiative 42 would add to the Constitution.

“I want to show you what Initiative 42 proposes to do: If you look at the first change made in the constitution, (it’s) the deletion of the words ‘the Legisla-ture,’” Gunn said at a Hattiesburg press conference. At the same gathering, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves said Initiative 42 was a vote about power and control, not education fund-ing, pointing again to the constitutional language. “The proponents of 42 would have you believe that this is about funding, but if you look at the changes they propose in the constitution, the word ‘funding’ is nowhere to be found,” Reeves said. The Republican leadership harped on the Initiative 42 language but rarely, if ever, promoted 42-A’s ballot language. Blount said they were disingenuous, for this very reason. “From early on, the mixed messages sent out by the opponents of 42, namely ‘We don’t want to amend the constitu-tion,’ (were contradictory to what 42-A is),” Blount said. The anti-42 campaign sent out mail-ers and flyers encouraging voters to vote “Against Both” and in favor of “42-A,” a vote that in and of itself is incongruous, because voters who vote against a con-stitutional amendment do not have to choose which one they want. Ballot of Confusion Patsy Brumfield, the spokeswoman for Better Schools, Better Jobs, said the al-ternate measure was designed to ensure a “difficult-to-understand ballot” and erect another barrier against Initiative 42. If the vote had been a straight “Yes” or “No” on 42, which is what the ballot would have looked like without the alter-native, it might have turned out differ-ently, Brumfield said. The ballot totals for the first ques-tion, on whether to amend the state con-stitution, asked voters to vote “For Ap-proval of Either” or “Against Both.” It received 672,096 votes, with 52 percent of those voters choosing “Against Both”—blocking any constitutional

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amendment from passing. The second question asked voters to pick between 42 and 42-A. If a majority of voters (50 percent plus one vote) had chosen to amend the constitution, then the second question would come into play, with two caveats. First, either 42 or 42-A had to gar-ner a majority of the votes. Second, the winner’s vote tally had to be at least 40 percent of total votes cast in the election. If voters had understood the way the ballot was structured, then there should only have been about 322,420 votes for the second question—the number of people who voted “yes” on amending the constitution. However, the second ques-tion drew 534,966 votes total, with Initia-tive 42 drawing the most with 59 percent of the votes. The Mississippi Constitution allows those who vote “against both” mea-sures to still vote on the second question, even though they do not want to amend the constitution. In fact, Initiative 42 won the 40-percent overall majority of total votes cast in the election that would have been required for the ballot initiative to pass, as prescribed in the Mississippi constitu-tion. Brumfield said the first question like-ly confused some people, who skipped to the second one because they recognized the number 42. “I think the configuration of the bal-lot … really threw a lot of people,” Brum-field said. “They didn’t know what to do with that first question, so I think they went down to that question they knew what to do with.” Despite Initiative 42’s failure, Brum-field said she believes supporters of 42-A still support public schools. Sen. Blount agrees. “I know there are a significant num-ber of people who voted against the con-stitutional amendment but want the Leg-islature to fully fund MAEP,” Blount said. “I think all legislators need to look at the results carefully.” ‘We Have Roofs That Leak’ Initiative 42 and even 42-A brought Section 201 of the Mississippi constitu-tion into focus, particularly the issue of education funding. MAEP, the formula that calculates the Legislature’s contribution to public-school funding, has only been fully fund-ed twice since its creation in 1997. Before the election, Rep. Cecil Brown, D-Jackson, who served as the chairman of the House Education Com-mittee and was just elected public-service commissioner of the central district in this election, said he was not convinced that lawmakers campaigning against 42

are going to fully fund MAEP. “These folks are not going to fully fund education,” Brown told the Koi-nonia Coffee House Friday Forum au-dience on Oct. 30, days before the elec-tion. “We’ve got 500,000 kids in public schools. The problem is we have roofs that leak; we don’t have textbooks; we don’t have computers.” MAEP funds the base of the educa-tional system, paying for teachers, staff, and the buildings and facilities that make

the public-school system work. With un-derfunding, most of the formula’s funds end up paying for teacher salaries and raises. Brown believes that Republican leadership is going to shrink MAEP or change it in order to “fully fund” it in the upcoming legislative session. “They will change the formula, so they can magically fully fund it, and all of a sudden, MAEP will be ‘fully funded’ with no (additional) money,” Brown said in an interview. Lt. Gov. Reeves did not mention changing the formula when asked about it in October. He said he will support full funding, however. “I’m for fully funding MAEP for a slightly different reason than some other folks,” he told the Jackson Free Press at a press conference in Hattiesburg. “I want to fully fund it because I want to take the excuse off the table.” Sen. Hob Bryan, D-Amory, who was re-elected for another term, said legisla-tors should not tamper with the formula, and if the election results prove anything, they show that 48 percent of the people are for the formula. Bryan said the Senate Democrats have been pushing for fully

funding MAEP in the past two legislative sessions, suggesting a three-year phase-in, and will continue to do so in the upcom-ing legislative session. “The Senate Democrats have had a very legitimate, conservative budget pro-posal where we could fully fund the ad-equate-education formula in three years and have corresponding increases in three years for universities and community col-leges,” Bryan said. The plan, Bryan maintains, does not

come from a tax hike or from additional taxes, but instead from revenue coming into the state coffers that has been moved to other parts of the state’s budget in past years—particularly tax cuts for corpora-tions and businesses being wooed to Mis-sissippi. Bryan said campaigning against the state income tax seems more impor-tant to Republican leaders than funding public schools. In this past election, Republican leaders campaigned on their education funding, and Reeves acknowledged that the formula had not been a priority—but say that hiring reading coaches and im-proving literacy have been. “If all we cared about was the poli-tics, we would have already funded it, but instead of investing every penny we’re investing on K-12 in the formula, we’re actually doing things to help kids,” Reeves said in an October press confer-ence against Initiative 42. ‘All Hands on Deck’ Sanford Johnson, deputy director at Mississippi First, a group that advocates

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O n Nov. 3, media outlets reported steady turnout throughout the day in Hinds County, but in the end, the

number of Hinds Countians who par-ticipated in the 2015 cycle was lower than the previous two cycles. Based on people who cast ballots at the top of the ticket—governor—statewide vot-er participation was also comparatively lower than 2011 and 2007.

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Robert Gray (Democrat): 32,169Phil Bryant (Republican): 21,998

Shawn O’Hara (Reform): 974

2011Total Votes: 69,943**

Phil Bryant (Republican): 24,092 Johnny L. DuPree (Democrat):

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2007Total Votes: 60,820**

John Arthur Eaves Jr. (Democrat): 34,074

Haley Barbour (Republican): 26,746

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2015Total Votes: 709,222

Phil Bryant (Republican): 472,197Robert Gray (Democrat): 227,400Shawn O’Hara (Reform): 9,835

2011 Total Votes: 893,468**

Phil Bryant (Republican): 544,851Johnny L. DuPree (Democrat):

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2007Total Votes: 744,039**

Haley Barbour (Republican): 430,807

John Arthur Eaves (Democrat): 313,232

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for policies and solutions to increase edu-cational attainment in the state, said the “how” of public-school funding got lost in the Initiative 42 campaign. The general public, he said, has the responsibility to stay informed and involved in the issue now that the initiative has failed. “We have to have these conversations about equity and accountability,” John-son said. “‘Are we spending our money efficiently? How much money does it ac-tually cost to educate a child?’” Johnson said the approach to educa-tion in Mississippi going forward needs to be “all hands on deck,” focusing on not just fully funding the MAEP formu-la but also boosting reading achievement and expanding access to pre-kindergarten as well. “We don’t have time to focus on one (element),” Johnson said. “We need to be working on more than one thing at a time.” Initiative 42’s demise means that planning for education funding now lies in the hands of all the legislators elected Nov. 3—a GOP-controlled Legislature. Nancy Loome, executive director of the Parents’ Campaign, strongly encour-ages engaged Mississippians to reach out to their legislators and make sure they are representing their communities’ desires to fully fund public schools. “It’s incumbent upon us to make sure that they know what we want to have happen,” Loome said. “They can’t represent us well if they don’t know where we stand.” Loome said that so many voters weighing in on 42 and 42-A shows that Mississippi tax-payers want public schools ade-quately funded at least, and that it is time for the Legislature to start listening and do something about it. When the Republi-can leadership talks about their “record-level” school funding, Loome said the funding they tout does not directly benefit all school districts. For instance, the funding for reading coaches (which is not a part of MAEP) helped hire around 72 of them, Loome said, but those coaches could not possibly reach all the schools—in fact, that’s only one coach per every two school districts in Mississippi. Next Stop, Vouchers? Grant Callen, executive di-rector of Empower Mississippi, a school choice advocacy group that cam-paigned against Initiative 42, said that

voter turnout showed that at least those who voted agree that the educational sys-tem in Mississippi is not working. “How to solve it (the system) is a point of debate—and how to fix it,” Cal-len said. “I see a majority of people who do not think that money is the answer to our education system.” Callen says the formula itself is prob-lematic. MAEP is setting the bar high because even when state revenues are at all-time highs, the formula can’t be fully funded, he said. “That tells you something is wrong with the bar,” Callen said. Potential education funding plans from the Republican leadership could in-clude tampering with the MAEP formula, or broadening voucher laws that would give parents a voucher to use for a private school instead of their child attending public schools. Loome believes neither strategy would benefit public schools, siphoning funds away from where they are needed most. Callen disagrees, saying he would love to see the special-needs education voucher bill, which Empower Mississippi fought for, expanded to the entire student population. “We think every kid in the state who is in a situation where the public schools are not serving their needs ought to have the ability to have an education scholar-

ship account (voucher) so their parents can customize an education that meets

their needs,” Callen said. Last session, Sen. Gray Tollison, R-Oxford, proposed changing the “Aver-age Daily Attendance” component in the MAEP formula to “Average Daily Membership.” The change could have potentially bolstered school-attendance numbers used to allocate funding per district by taking a year-long average of attendance in schools instead of count-ing students in September and October.

However, other proposals like those found in Auditor Stacey Pickering’s report on MAEP suggest that the formula itself is ineffective. “You hear people say they don’t like the formula, but you don’t hear them say what they don’t like,” Loome said. “But they are going to find it difficult to come up with a different for-mula that is both adequate or equitable.” Some legislators are confi-dent that the Republican lead-ership is going to continue to push voucher legislation in the upcoming session, trying to di-vert potential MAEP dollars to-ward voucher accounts to allow families to transfer their tax dol-lars away from public schools. Callen, who said the Republi-can leadership that was re-elect-ed does care about education and spending more money on it, argues that vouchers will al-low families to have more choice in their child’s education, a key goal for his organization. Bryan said the Republicans’

overall strategy is to replace public educa-tion with vouchers. As for the public’s role

in education funding in the future, Bryan echoed what Loome and Johnson said. “The public needs to demand fund-ing, and not stop demanding it,” he said. Judicial Remedies, Still? With the defeat of Initiative 42, edu-cation proponents wanting to strong-arm the Legislature into fulfilling its own man-date to provide adequate school funding still have a glimmer of hope in one pend-ing lawsuit in Hinds County. The case started last August when former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove filed suit on behalf of 14 Mississippi school dis-tricts (five more plaintiff districts eventu-ally joined) against the state. The goal was to recoup millions those districts say they were shortchanged as a result of the state ignoring MAEP, the formula created in 1997 to provide a baseline of funding for all school districts but that the Legislature has ignored all but two years since. In 2006, legislators passed a bill to re-quire full funding by 2010 with a phase-in period between 2007 and 2009. Since 2010, Mississippi has underfunded public education by $1.5 billion. Collectively, the districts Musgrove is representing—now totaling 19—are seeking more than $240 million they said they were shortchanged during six state-budget years. The suit suffered an initial setback in July when Hinds County Chancery Judge William Singletary ruled against the districts, writing in his opinion: “This court is sympathetic to plaintiffs’ unten-able position of being required to educate the students of Mississippi with less than a fully funded MAEP. However, this court is unable to interpret the relevant statutes

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as imposing a mandatory annual duty on each legislator to automatically vote to apportion and allocate to each district 100 percent of the funds estimated un-der MAEP.” Singletary subsequently allowed Mus-grove to make a fresh round of arguments in mid-October, but had issued no new ruling as of press time. Gov. Musgrove said his clients would appeal if Singletary doesn’t reverse his July order. (He also ex-pects the state to appeal if the judge does reverse the ruling.) Musgrove said the 2006 law is un-ambiguous, saying that lawmakers “shall fund” MAEP. If lawmakers believed they did not have a responsibility to fund the formula, he questions why they have not eliminated it. “There is nothing right now keep-ing the Legislature from amending the MAEP statute, and they chose not to,” Musgrove told the Jackson Free Press in an interview. Even if the Legislature scraps MAEP, Musgrove said his clients would still de-serve the money they were shorted be-cause, he argues, lawmakers have an ob-ligation to fully fund MAEP until they decide to change it.

Matt Steffey, a constitutional law professor at Mississippi College School of Law, said even though the “one Hinds County judge” meme of Initiative 42 op-ponents is a red herring, courts are a tough place for public-education litigation unless constitutional issues are present. Initiative

42 sought to amend the constitution spe-cifically to give the courts more power to enforce school-funding laws. “Funding decisions are discretion-ary,” Steffey said. “Under the principle of legislative sovereignty, every time the Legislature opens for session, it’s a new

sovereign; it’s a new day. One Legislature can’t really bind another one if that Legis-lature decides that the money isn’t there or shouldn’t be allocated in that fashion.” Besides, Steffey adds: “Courts aren’t designed to make decisions about what’s adequate (or) what’s efficient because, like beauty, that’s in the eye of the beholder. Those words imply discretion so I’ve al-ways thought that if (Initiative) 42 passed, judicial intervention would be limited to extreme cases—no textbooks, not enough money to hire a first-grade teacher.” A federal civil-rights challenge, for ex-ample, would face similar obstacles in part because the Legislature created MAEP to address equity issues. A successful federal lawsuit would have to prove intentional, overt race discrimination, which has be-come increasingly rare since the 1970s. “There is no readily apparent judicial remedy. That isn’t to say there isn’t one, but there is no easy way to force the Legis-lature to fund your school,” Steffey said. Read more about Initiative 42 and MAEP at jfp.ms/maep. Email reporter Ari-elle Dreher at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com. R.L. Nave contributed to this story.

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I nitiative 42 set off statewide debate about amending the constitutional provision requiring the Mississippi Legis-lature to fund and provide for a system of public schools. Pro-42 advocates consolidated in Better Jobs, Better

Schools, and the anti-42 advocates formed KidsFirst and Improve Mississippi, which were all funded, at least in part, through outside organizations and dollars. These campaign donations are called “dark mon-ey” mainly because voters often are not privy to where the funding for the campaigns are coming from, the ex-act amounts individuals or organizations give to middle groups, or the political agendas or objectives of those organizations providing the funding. The Brennan Center for Justice tracks and re-searches campaign finance and spending in elections. Chisun Lee, senior counsel at the center, said outside money entering state and even local elections has been a continuous trend since 2010. The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission case in 2010 opened the doors for corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts of their money on independent election communications. Previously, they had been limited in the amounts they could contribute. The law technically states that their spending has to be indepen-dent, meaning they cannot coordinate with candidates, although due to outdated state disclosure laws, Lee said, this makes the donors less accountable. Some states have recognized how the Citizens

United decision made their disclosure laws outdated and have acted to change it. Lee said the State of Mon-tana worked out a bipartisan agreement to make cam-paign donors more accountable, passing a “transparency in political spending” package into state law. With Mississippi’s 42 initiative, “dark money” (what Lee said could also be called “secretive” donors) tainted both sides of the Initiative 42 campaign, giving the other side political fodder and, arguably, muting the ability of either to take the high road on funding. On the pro-42 side, the New Venture Fund and the Southern Education Foundation gave millions of dollars to the Better Schools, Better Jobs campaign. The Southern Education Foundation is an educa-tion and advocacy organization that works to promote early learning, advance public education and improve col-lege access in the South. They have also been involved in school-discipline initiatives in Alabama. The New Venture Fund claims to be a nonpartisan charity that supports in-terest projects, by directing donor funds to said projects. They were also involved with the launch of the Literacy Design Collaborative that helped school districts and states implement Common Core standards. The Associated Press found that both charities gave $2.6 million to Better Schools, Better Jobs, but over half that donation came from three main donors: the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, former Secretary of State Dick Molpus and former Netscape and FedEx executive Jim Barksdale—all avowed supporters of pubic educa-

tion in Mississippi who have invested large amounts of money in education efforts in the state over the years. The Associated Press reviewed records showing that at least $1.6 million in donations can be pinpointed to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Molpus. Barksdale’s contribution amount is unknown. Kellogg announced its donations to both charities on its website: $500,000 to the Southern Education Foundation and $900,000 to the New Venture Fund. On the anti-42 side, Americans for Prosperity, started by the controversial Koch brothers, donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to KidsFirst Missis-sippi, one of the anti-42 campaigns. The Southern Education Foundation and Ameri-cans for Prosperity are both nonprofit organizations—and the Citizens United decision applies to them as well, so they are unlimited in the amounts they can give to candidates’ campaign communications. “Nonprofits are coming out as the largest dark-money organizations (in our research),” Lee said. Political action committees and political initia-tive committees are only required to submit monthly reports to the secretary of state’s office, so the October reports (which should reveal just how much was spent on these campaigns) are not due until Nov. 10, a week after the election. Watch jfp.ms/documents to read cop-ies of those reports. Read more about Initiative 42, and the funding on both sides, at jfp.ms/maep.

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C oloring books are the new knit-ting. Have you heard? This is a thing now. For grown-ups. This is just the latest in a num-

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supposed adults. In addition to the coloring books, you can find things like gourmet pop-sicles, bars (including Fondren’s CAET Wine Bar) that offer alcohol-laced “slushies” and adults kickball leagues. It all makes me think about what Mer-edith Grey said on “Grey’s Anatomy”: “We’re adults. When did that happen, and how do we make it stop?” It’s not just our leisure activities, either; as an avid consumer of pop, fashion, and celebrity culture, I know full well about the cult of youth and the pursuit of it. Celebrities who look the same as or even better than they did 20 and 30 years ago stare at us from the pages of magazines. (Anyone else still in awe of Sharon Stone’s nude shoot in a recent Harper’s Bazaar?) The latest and greatest medical and spa treatments and elixirs promise to render us ageless. Heck, I even have a lot of friends who, in their adult years, are still trying to figure out the question that we were first asked in elementary school: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I had my own career crises a few years ago—I called them career crisis ’08 and job-a-pa-looza 2010, respectively, and made party cups to make them more festive. Which is to say, I am by no means immune to this. I am all about a popsicle. I am a big fan of Dr. Dotie Jackson at Sanctuary Body Spa of St. Dominic’s and will continue my plan

of maintenance and prevention that will keep my face and skin looking … well, hopefully the same age as when I started seeing him. And lately, I have on occasion felt that childlike urge to just run away and hide from things.

When did we grow up? It’s easy to mock or make fun of the attempt to cling to one’s youth, and I admit that people can take it too far; however, there’s something to retain-ing the joy of childhood and recogniz-ing the importance of play. We have enough seriousness. A friend of mine who plays kick-ball and enjoys “Harry Potter” can also participate in serious political policy de-bates and assumes very adult responsi-bilities in dealing with the care of aging family members. Another friend enjoys playing video games but is also in the midst of starting and growing a small business and a family. A friend who is still trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up took on the role of caretaker for a parent much ear-lier in life than I’m sure she ever imag-ined, and she did so with such love and beauty and selflessness. So yes, we are adults. I’m not sure when it happened, and every time I’m asked my age lately, I balk a little bit when I answer. (Denial is my friend.) But being an adult doesn’t mean we have to lose the good parts of our youth. Pablo Picasso once said: “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” Maybe that idea should extend from visual art to the art of living. Maybe we should all remember and practice the art of play. So … maybe I’ll go pick up a coloring book myself.

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AMERICAN/SOUTHERN CUISINEBasil’s (2906 N State St #104, Jackson, 601-982-2100) Paninis pizza, pasta, soups and salads. They’ve got it all on the menu.Broad Street Bakery (4465 Interstate 55 N. 601-362-2900) Hot breakfast, coffee drinks, fresh breads & pastries, gourmet deli sandwiches.The Feathered Cow (4760 I-55 North 769-233-8366) Simple and homemade equal quality and freshness every time. You never leave The Cow hungry!Primos Cafe (2323 Lakeland 601-936-3398/ 515 Lake Harbour 601-898-3400)A Jackson institution for breakfast, blue-plates, catfish, burgers, prime rib, oysters, po-boys & wraps. Famous bakery!Rooster’s (2906 N State St, Jackson, 601-982-2001)You haven’t had a burger until you’ve had a Rooster’s burger. Pair it with their seasoned fries and you’re in heaven. Two Sisters Kitchen (707 N. Congress St. 601-353-1180) Lunch. Mon-Fri, Sun.

PIZZASal & Mookie’s (565 Taylor St. 601-368-1919) Pizzas of all kinds plus pasta, eggplant Parmesan, fried ravioli & ice cream for the kids!Mellow Mushroom (275 Dogwood Blvd, Flowood, 601-992-7499) More than just great pizza and beer. Open Monday - Friday 11-10 and Saturday 11-11.

ITALIANBRAVO! (4500 Interstate 55 N., Jackson, 601-982-8111) Award-winning wine list, Jackson’s see-and-be-seen casual/upscale dining. Fratesi’s (910 Lake Harbour, Ridgeland, 601-956-2929) Fratesi’s has been a staple in Jackson for years, offering great Italian favorites with loving care. The tiramisu is a must-have! La Finestra (120 N Congress St #3, Jackson, 601-345-8735) Chef Tom Ramsey’s downtown Jackson hot-spot offers authentic Italian cuisine in cozy, inviting environment.

STEAK, SEAFOOD & FINE DININGThe Islander Seafood and Oyster House (1220 E Northside Drive, Suite 100, 601-366-5441)Oyster bar, seafood, gumbo, po’boys, crawfish and plenty of Gulf Coast delights in a laid-back Buffet-style atmosphere. The Manship Wood Fired Kitchen (1200 North State St. #100 601-398-4562) Transforms the essence of Mediterranean food and southern classics.The Penguin (1100 John R Lynch Street, 769-251-5222) Fine dining at its best.Rocky’s (1046 Warrington Road, Vicksburg 601-634-0100) Enjoy choice steaks, fresh seafood, great salads, hearty sandwiches.Sal and Phil’s Seafood (6600 Old Canton Rd, Ridgeland 601-957-1188)Great Seafood, Poboys, Lunch Specials, Boiled Seafood, Full Bar, Happy Hour Specials Saltine Oyster Bar (622 Duling Avenue 601-982-2899) Creative seafood classics. One of Jackson’s Best New Restaurants.

MEDITERRANEAN/GREEKAladdin Mediterranean Grill (730 Lakeland Drive 601-366-6033) Delicious authentic dishes including lamb dishes, hummus, falafel, kababs, shwarma.Vasilios Greek Cusine (828 Hwy 51, Madison 601-853-0028) Authentic greek cuisine since 1994, specializing in gyros, greek salads, baklava cheesecake & fresh daily seafood. Zeek’s House of Gyros (132 Lakeland Heights Suite P, Flowood 601.992.9498) Jackson’s Newest Greek Restaurant, offering authentic gyros, hummus, and wide selection of craft beers.

BARBEQUEChimneyville (970 High St, Jackson 601-354-4665 www.chimneyville.com) Family style barbeque restaurant and catering service in the heart of downtown Jackson.Hickory Pit Barbecue (1491 Canton Mart Rd. 601-956-7079) The “Best Butts in Town” features BBQ chicken, beef and pork along with burgers and po’boys. Pig and Pint (3139 N State St, Jackson, 601-326-6070) Serving up competition style barbecue along with one of the of best beer selections in metro.

COFFEE HOUSESCups Espresso Café (Multiple Locations, www.cupsespressocafe.com)Jackson’s local group of coffeehouses offer a wide variety of espresso drinks. Wi-fi.

BARS, PUBS & BURGERSBonny Blair’s (1149 Old Fannin Rd 769-251-0692) Traditional Irish pub food and live entertainment. Open 11am daily. Burgers and Blues (1060 E. County Line Rd. 601-899-0038) Best Burger of 2013, plus live music and entertainment!Fenian’s Pub (901 E. Fortification St. 601-948-0055) Classic Irish pub featuring a menu of traditional food, pub sandwiches & Irish beers on tap.Hal and Mal’s (200 S. Commerce St. 601-948-0888) Pub favorites meet Gulf Coast and Cajun specialties like red beans and rice, the Oyster Platter or daily specials.ISH Grill & Bar (5105 I 55 N Frontage Rd. 769-257-5204) Jackson’s newest hot spot offering classic foods and cocktails in a refined and elegant atmosphere.Legends Grill (5352 Lakeland Dr. 601-919-1165) Your neighborhood Sports Bar and Grill.Martin’s Restaurant and Lounge (214 South State Street 601-354-9712) Lunch specials, pub appetizers or order from the full menu of po-boys and entrees. Full bar, beer selection.Ole Tavern on George Street (416 George St. 601-960-2700) Pub food with a southern flair: beer-battered onion rings, chicken & sausage gumbo, salads, sandwiches.One Block East ( 642 Tombigbee St. 601-944-0203)Burger joint and dive bar located in downtown Jackson. Great music, tasty beverages and Bad Ass Burgers is what we do.Underground 119 (119 South President St. 601-352-2322) Upscale Southern cuisine, gumbo, red beans and rice, fried green tomatoes, grilled or fried shrimp, catfish, kitchen open with full menu till 1 am on Friday and Saturday night.

ASIAN AND INDIANFusion Japanese and Thai Cuisine (1002 Treetops Blvd, Flowood 601-664-7588/1030-A Hwy 51, Madison 601-790-7999)Specializing in fresh Japanese and Thai cuisine, an extensive menu features everything from curries to fresh sushi.Ichiban Chinese (359 Ridge Way - Dogwood Promenade, Flowood 601-919-8879) Asian food with subtle and surprising flavors from all across the Far East! Surin of Thailand (3000 Old Canton Road, Suite 105, Jackson 601-981-3205) Jackson’s Newest Authentic Thai & Sushi Bar with 26 signature martini’s and extensive wine list.

VEGETARIANHigh Noon Café (2807 Old Canton Road in Rainbow Plaza 601-366-1513) Jackson’s own strict vegetarian (and very-vegan-friendly) restaurant adjacent to Rainbow Whole Foods.

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WEDNESDAY 11/11 “Shrek the Musical” is at 7:30 p.m. at Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive) in Blackbox Theatre. The musical is based on the popular Dreamworks animation series about an ogre’s relationship with a princess.Additional dates: Nov. 12-13, 7:30 p.m., and Nov. 14, 2 p.m. $10, $5 seniors and students, free for Belhaven students, employees and their immediate family members; call 601-965-7026; belhaven.edu.

THURSDAY 11/12 TEDxJackson is from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Jack-son Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). The theme is “Liftoff,” and the emcee is Cherita Brent. Speakers include Marshall Ramsey, Brad Frank-lin, Latina Rivers, Katy Simpson Smith and more. Advance tickets only. $100, $60 group rate (five or more); call 601-960-2321; tedxjackson.com.

FRIDAY 11/13 The Friday the 13th Fish Fry is from 6 to 10 p.m. at North Midtown Arts Center (121 Millsaps Ave.). Purchase midwestern-style fish plates with traditional sides. Beer for sale. Includes music from DJ Brik a Brak, DJ Scrap Dirty and more. Free admission; call 601-941-3297. … The Mis-sissippi International Film Festival is at 7 p.m. at Tinseltown

(411 Riverwind Drive, Pearl). The event includes film screen-ings, an acting workshop and special guests. History Channel UFO investigative reporter Linda Howe is the guest Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. at Courtyard Marriott. A screening of “Dixieland” is Nov. 14 at 6:30 p.m. Additional date: Nov. 14, 2 to 10 p.m. $10 film screenings, $16.82 Linda Howe meet and greet, $22.09 acting workshop with Jerry Katz; call 601-936-5856; email edward@weathervision.com; msfilm.org.

SATURDAY 11/14 The Riverview Book Expo is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.) in the rehearsal hall, first floor. Get access to new titles and upcom-ing books, and meet authors. $5 general admission, $7 early bird (entry at 9 a.m.), $12 special edition (entry at 9 a.m. and tote bag), free for ages 10 and under with a paid adult (limit of two children free per adult); call 601-260-9322; riv-erviewbookexpo.com. … 3rd Eye Music Fest is from noon to 1 a.m. at Fondren Park (Northview Drive and Dunbar Street). Includes hip-hop, punk and indie-rock music, food vendors, an arcade and beer. Tickets sold at Swell-O-Phonic and Offbeat, or through Project Jackson. Performers include Dolla Black, Tlo da Champ, Tira D, Dream Cult, Empty Atlas and more. $15; find the event on Facebook.

SUNDAY 11/15 Mannheim Steamroller Christmas is at 3 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The symphonic pop band from Omaha, Neb., has been performing since 1974. Enjoy holiday music along with multimedia effects. $25 and up; call 888-502-2929; jacksonbroadway.com.

MONDAY 11/16 The Variegated Art Exhibit opening is at the Lewis Art Gallery (Millsaps College, Ford Academic Complex, 1701 N. State St.). See works from Margaret Haden through Dec. 18. Free; call 601-974-1762; millsaps.edu. … The Missis-sippi Academy of Ancient Music Concert is at 7:30 p.m. at Tougaloo College (500 W. County Line Road, Tougaloo) in Woodworth Chapel. Max Emanuel Cencic, countertenor, appears with Il Pomo d’Oro orchestra in a program of 17th and 18th century Venetian opera. $30; call 601-594-5584; email info@ancientmusic.org; ancientmusic.org.

TUESDAY 11/17 The “Girl Rising” Film Screening is from 5:30 to 10 p.m. at Russell C. Davis Planetarium (201 E. Pascagoula St.). The documentary is about nine girls in the developing world who overcome obstacles to obtain an education. In-cludes a reception and Q&A with Krista Rigalo of the Peace Corps. Free tickets on eventbrite.com; call 601-960-1550.

WEDNESDAY 11/18 Author Leonard Pitts Jr. signs copies of his latest novel, “Grant Park,” at 5 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Pitts is a Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator, journalist and novelist. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $24.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

SUNDAY 11/15Thanksgiving in the Park is at Poindexter Park.

FRIDAY 11/13Seeker & Servant performs at Duling Hall.

MONDAY 11/16The Jackson Touchdown Club Meeting is at River Hills Club.

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We Gather Together Nov. 12, 1-4 p.m., at Man-ship House Museum (420 E. Fortification St.). Jeff Klingfuss, Grady Howell and Marilynn Jones speak on the history of Thanksgiving traditions. Reservations required. Free; call 601-576-6851; email mjones@mdah.state.ms.us.

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Nov. 15, 3 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The symphonic pop band from Omaha, Neb., has been performing since 1974. Enjoy holiday music along with multimedia effects. $25 and up; call 888-502-2929; jacksonbroadway.com.

Events at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.)

n Nov. 12, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. The theme is “Liftoff,” and the emcee is Cherita Brent. Speakers include Marshall Ramsey, Brad Franklin, Latina Rivers, Katy Simpson Smith and more. Advance tickets only. $100, $60 group rate (five or more); call 960-2321; tedxjackson.com.

Nov. 12, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. The panel discussion is a fund-raiser for Operation Shoestring. Maggie Wade is the moderator. Sponsorships available. $50; call 601-353-6336, ext. 27; email sjordan@operation-shoestring.org; operationshoestring.org.

Tween Stars Live Nov. 14, 3 p.m., at Madison Central High School (1417 Highland Colony Parkway, Madison). The variety show features Disney and Nickelodeon stars such as Calum Worthy, Spencer Boldman, Noah Munck, Peyton List, Corey Fogelmanis and Jackson native Trini-tee Stokes. VIP autograph and photo session at 5 p.m. $19.95; call 856-7121; tweenstarslive.com.

Nov. 13, 6-10 p.m., at North Midtown Arts Center (121 Millsaps Ave.). Purchase Midwestern-style fish plates with traditional sides. Beer also for sale. Includes music from DJ Brik a Brak, DJ Scrap Dirty and more. Free admission; call 601-941-3297.

Nov. 16, 6 p.m., at River Hills Club (3600 Ridgewood Road). The speaker is East Mississippi Com-munity College football coach Buddy Ste-phens. $30 non-members; call 601-506-3186; jacksontouchdownclub.com.

Nov. 11-13, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 14, 2 p.m., at Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive). In Blackbox Theatre. $10, $5 seniors and students, free for Belhaven students, employees and their immediate family; call 601-965-7026; belhaven.edu.

Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 13, 10 a.m., Nov. 13-14, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 15, 3 p.m., Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m., at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.). At McCoy Auditorium. MADDRAMA presents the play set during the 1964 New York riots. $10, $5 seniors and students, $7 per person in groups of 20 or more; call 979-5956; jsums.edu/speechcomm.

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Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m. Frontier Ruckus also performs. $8 in advance, $12 at the door, $3 surcharge for under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Nov. 13, 8 p.m. Ben Ford and Trey Cochran also perform. $10, $3 surcharge for under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Nov. 14, 8 p.m. Tony Martinez also performs. $15 in advance, $20 at the door, $75 VIP, $3 surcharge for under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Nov. 14, noon-1 a.m., at Fon-dren Park (Northview Drive and Dunbar Street). Includes hip-hop, punk and indie-rock music, food trucks, arcade and beer. Tickets sold at Swell-O-Phonic and Offbeat, or through Project Jackson. $15; email info@ourfondren.com; find the event on Facebook.

-ing Nov. 11, 5-9 p.m. at Millsaps College, Ford Academic Complex (1701 N. State St.). In the recital hall. Roberta Kaplan is the author of “Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA.” Free lecture, $27.95 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

(Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202)

Nov. 12, 5 p.m. Neely Tucker signs books. $27.95 book; call 366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Nov. 18, 5 p.m. Leonard Pitts Jr. signs books. $24.95 book; call 366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Nov. 14, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). Get access to new titles and upcoming books, and meet authors. $5 admission, $7 early bird (entry at 9 a.m.), $12 special edition (entry at 9 a.m. and tote bag), free for ages 10 and under with a paid adult (limit of two children free per adult); call 260-9322; riverviewbookexpo.com.

Nov. 12, 5:30 p.m., at Fischer Galleries (Dickies Building, 736 S. Presi-dent St., fourth floor). See paintings from Cathy Hegman, Mary Hardy and Kim Whitt, and sculptures from Stacey Johnson. Free; call 601-949-3103; fischergalleries.com.

Nov. 16, at Lewis Art Gallery (Millsaps College, Ford Aca-demic Complex, 1701 N. State St.). See works from Margaret Haden through Dec. 18. Free; call 601-974-1762; millsaps.edu.

Nov. 15, 2 p.m., at Poindexter Park (200 Poindexter St.). Healing Place of Jackson and other local organizations give away dinner plates, personal hygiene products and care packages. Donations needed. Sponsorships and volunteers welcome. Free; call 601-291-8687.

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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T he Mill (3002 N. Mill St.), a new incubator space for local artists and small businesses, grew out of one man’s quest to find a parking spot

in midtown. Robert Lewis, who owns The Mill, has been in Jackson since moving from Starkville in 2000. Lewis, 38, lives in Fondren with his wife of 12 years, Margaret, and their 2-year-old son, Marshall. For a time, the Lewises co-owned Campbell’s Bakery in Fondren with Mitchell Moore, although they recently sold their share to him. While Lewis was mostly silent in the Campbell’s venture, he bought the bakery’s food truck and while fixing it, encountered a problem with finding a space to keep it. Lewis came across a vacant garage and a pair of old buildings in midtown. Although he initially bought the space for parking, he began repainting and making repairs to the roof and electrical systems; eventually, it was ready to rent out. Ultimately, the truck didn’t pan out. “I decided I’d rent (the space) to (people) who are creative, independent, self-sustaining and looking for a workspace that can serve as the next step up from some-thing like a home-based business they may

have been running before,” Lewis says. The Mill’s facilities sit on two acres and consist of a 2,000-square-foot warehouse, an 8,800-square-foot combination garage and

warehouse, and a 3,000-square-foot main building with 11 office spaces, a conference room and a shared kitchen. Lewis envisioned The Mill as a collaborative environment where tenants with a variety of skills and spe-

cialties can support each other. His ultimate goal is to get talented people to stay in Fon-dren and midtown for the long term in order to revitalize the neighborhoods.

Lewis celebrated the launch of The Mill by throwing an open house for his first tenant, Mississippi Modern Inc., on Sept. 5. Mississippi Modern, an organiza-tion dedicated to empowering and facili-

tating artists and cultural dialogue in the state, used its space to host an indoor artist market. Another of Lewis’ artistic renters is graphic designer Will Brooks, owner of JellyDonut Studio, who creates mixed-media vinyl prints, custom buttons and graphic-design work in his space. Jackson filmmaker Wayne Patterson, owner of Blazewalker Pictures, is using The Mill’s warehouse as a film lot to shoot episodes

of his web series “Lebron James: Po-lice Detective.”

“I envision this as being a big helping hand to Jackson,” Lewis says. “I believe in this city and want to help it get bet-ter. I want creatives here at The Mill because they have energy,

a mission, a cause, and that’s so important. I think what they

have is cool, and I want this place to be cool. I want people with passion

who will help make the arts relevant in Jackson.” Rent for office and studio spaces at The Mill begin in the mid-$100s per month. For more information, contact Robert Lewis at 601-832-4775.

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Artist Will Brooks, who owns JellyDonut Studio, is one of the tenants at The Mill, a new collaborative workspace in midtown.

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Madison-based guitarist and singer applied his allegiance to the sounds of ’70s FM rock radio to his latest project, the Steve Deaton Three. Along with his band mates, bassist Adam Perry and drummer Denny Burkes, Deaton displays a variety of styles on the group’s self-titled album, which hits iTunes, Amazon and other digital retailers Wednes-day, Nov. 18. Deaton grew up in Decatur, Miss., in a musical household. Both his parents were musicians—his father, Alford, played guitar, and his mother, Barbara, played piano—and fans of country and southern gospel. They often took him to picking sessions out in the country. When he showed an interest in the gui-tar in fifth grade, Deaton’s father bought him a cheap Sears guitar and amp, telling his wife, “If he is serious enough (about playing) to realize that that guitar is terrible, by next year, I’ll get him something else.” Deaton worked at learning the instru-ment and was soon playing a sturdy Peavey

electric. He became interested in the rock world through his older brother, Phil, who had a job at Hooper’s Sound, a stereo store in Meridian. Phil also invested in a quality stereo and a steady supply of Led Zeppelin and other rock records that Deaton coveted.

“I’m sure he got tired of me comman-deering his stereo and record collection,” Deaton says. “I spent more time in his room than I did in mine.” The guitarist played different styles of music over the years before forming the Steve Deaton Three with Burkes and Perry in May 2014, and the band’s new record showcases a number of those, moving from chiming power pop to boogie rock to rockabilly. While all these styles on one record might seem like a lot for the modern era, Deaton recalls that you would hear many of them while listening to rock radio in the ’70s. “If you were listening to the radio in 1978, this record will make sense to you,” he says. “There was a lot of variety on the radio then. I like records that have that variety. My favorite Beatles records are the ones that are all over the place.” Deaton singles out one specific ’70s rocker for special tribute on the record. In the track “Derringer Lays It Down,” he de-tails the long career of Rick Derringer, who is best known for the classic-rock radio staple, “Rock and Roll, Hootchie Koo.” “I thought he needed a tribute,” Deaton says. “To me, he’s the epitome of ’70s rock.

He produced and played on so many re-cords. He was just in the middle of it all. If you wanted rock guitar done right, you just called that guy.” The band members’ work and fam-ily commitments will limit the number of out-of-town shows they can play to promote the record, so Deaton has been working on Internet promotion, connect-ing with the now worldwide network of music blogs and Internet-radio shows that focus on power pop. While he enjoys get-ting recognition for the work, the record has been a way for Deaton to expand his songwriting methods. “I’m trying to go back and turn up the volume a bit but still keep the sound of those great rock records,” he says. “The songs are so well put to-gether. I’m still trying to improve and mature as a songwriter but get some of my rock ‘n’ roll demons out at the same time.” The Steve Deaton Three’s record re-lease party is at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 119 Gallery in Fondren (3017 N. State Street). For more information, visit stevedeatonthree.bandcamp.com.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 14 College football (2:30-6 p.m., WLOO): Southern Miss travels to Texas to face Rice as the Golden Eagles look to improve their bowl standing. … College football (2:30-6 p.m., CBS): Mississippi State looks to pull off the shocker at home with an upset over Alabama.

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M ississippi State University quarterback Dak Prescott has just four games left in his illus-trious college-football career,

as he prepares to take on the University of Alabama, the University of Arkansas, the University of Mississippi in the Egg Bowl and a currently unknown opponent in an-other bowl game. Prescott is, without question, one of the greatest football players in Mississippi State history. He and Head Coach Dan Mullen took the Bulldogs program to heights never seen before, such as the No. 1 ranking in all of college football during the last season. The Louisiana native already owns all 23 passing records at MSU (11 season records and 12 career records), as he now sets his gaze on the SEC record books. He is the only player from either UM or Mis-sissippi State who has earned 100 career touchdowns. He places sixth in the confer-ence in that statistic, putting him on a list with the likes of Tim Tebow, Aaron Mur-ray, Danny Wuerffel, Peyton Manning and Chris Leak. This season, Prescott already became the third SEC quarterback to have 50 passing and 30 rushing touchdowns. He joins a group that includes Heisman Tro-phy winners Johnny Manziel and Tebow. Here’s another record for Prescott’s stellar career—becoming just the 10th player in SEC history (and the second player from a Mississippi SEC school) to net 10,000 yards of total offense. He joins Murray, Tebow, Leak, David Greene, Manning, Eric Zeier, Jared Lorenzen, Wuerffel and Bo Wallace. Currently, Prescott has 10,285 total yards, and if he averages 300 total yards (rushing and passing) per game in the next few weeks, he can rise as high as third place in conference history behind Mur-ray and Tebow, which would put him in elite SEC company. As he climbs the record books, Prescott will have a chance to enter the Heisman discussion again. His best chance at earning the accolade would be to upset Alabama this weekend. When the Bulldogs take on the Crimson Tide in Starkville on Saturday, Nov. 14, he will have the nation’s eyes on him at the 2:30 p.m. kickoff. But upsetting the Crimson Tide will take a mix of top-notch technique and a bit of luck. It took five turnovers for UM to manage that, and the Tide ran over Louisiana State University to take control of the SEC West. If MSU wins out, the Bulldogs will likely end the season 10-2,

and Prescott would be the major reason for a second year of 10 wins for this pro-gram. He would also probably be on the mind of Heisman voters after finishing eighth in voting last year. Fans can anticipate plenty of discus-sion about how Prescott’s game will fit in at the NFL level next April, but that is another article for another day. Right now, I just want to enjoy what Prescott is doing. It is rare to see a college foot-ball player mean so much to a program during his career. Prescott reminds me of Tebow because of how much he does for the MSU offense. It is time to soak in his greatness. Next season, we will miss him.

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