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$156K poured into race for Dist. 15 Senate seat

Rose outraises two opponents, receives help
from state party PAC to run for House Dist. 37
BY YUE STELLA YU
syu@cdispatch.com
With less than a week left before the
special election, the four-way race for
the vacant Senate District 15 seat has at-
tracted more than $156,000 in contribu-
tions, campaign finance reports show.
In District 15, four candidates are
vying for the Senate seat vacated by
former Sen. Gary Jackson (R-French
Camp), who retired June 30. The spe-
cial election is set for next Tuesday, and
the nonpartisan election will not include
party primaries. All candidates filed
their mandatory campaign finance re-
ports before the Sept. 15 deadline.
Oktibbeha County District 4 Supervi-
sor Bricklee Miller, who first announced
her candidacy in June, leads her fellow
candidates in fundraising efforts. Her
campaign raised $65,140 as of the Tues-
day filing deadline, including $25,000
from herself and $1,350 from her broth-
er-in-law, William Daniel Miller and his
Miller Williams
company, Miller Cattle Company.
Apart from family members, Miller
received roughly $25,000 from 30 in-
dividual donors, who each gave more
than $200, and a combined $9,740 in
“non-itemized” cash given by small do-
nors, who each gave less than $200 and
therefore are not required to be named.
Her campaign also received $2,500
from political action committees, which
are formed to dole out campaign funds
to influence the action of voters, accord-
ing to the Secretary of State’s website.
Two contributions came from out-of-
state addresses, which Miller said came
from donors connected to the state. Jim
and Mary Newsome, who Miller said
are both graduates from Mississippi
State University who now live in Wel-
lington, Florida, gave her campaign
$1,000. Clark PAC, a political action
See CAMPAIGN FINANCE, 3A

BUSINESS MOVES WITH MARY Local businesses optimistic after

Dave’s Tavern governor loosens COVID restrictions
To-Go opens
PLUS: Kona Ice and jewelry
repair shop both open
in Columbus
BY MARY POLLITZ
biz@cdispatch.com

F
or more
than 25
years,
Dave’s Dark
Horse Tavern has
never closed for
more than a two-
day stretch.
That all
changed when
March brought
COVID-19, when Mary Pollitz
the Starkville
bar’s owner, Dave
Hood, shuttered for more than six months. Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
As of Wednesday night, Dave’s is From left: Eli Lawrence and Ben Nelson chat while Emily Brott, Truman Loupe and Lauren Jennings study at 929 Cof-
officially open, at least for to-go. Though fee Bar in downtown Starkville on Wednesday afternoon. The coffee shop started allowing indoor dining Monday after
the tavern has been closed, Hood has weeks of only allowing outdoor dining. Gov. Tate Reeves issued an executive order Monday allowing retailers and
not spent the past six months sulking. restaurants to operate at 75 percent capacity — up from the previous 50 — and relaxing several other mandates put
He has taken the time off to renovate the in place to help curb the spread of COVID-19.
bathrooms, dining room and improve the
kitchen.
“Being closed for so long has been an
Owners, managers stress increased business must balance with safety
extremely strange experience,” Hood BY ISABELLE ALTMAN ate impact, sales and marketing di- step toward the “old normal” for in-
said. “… At first the emptiness of the place ialtman@cdispatch.com rector Peyton Scrivner told The Dis- dustries that have struggled since
haunted me as I renovated up here alone, patch Wednesday — employees can the pandemic came to the Golden
but after a while I started seeing this as an Two days after Gov. Tate Reeves allow a few more customers and seat Triangle, Scrivner said.
opportunity to make the tavern better.” issued an executive order relaxing up to 10 customers in one party to a “We obviously, of course, are ex-
Hood plans to eventually add a patio some restrictions put in place to curb table instead of six. Since the pan- cited,” Scrivner said. “Any (way) we
with outdoor seating soon so he can see the spread of COVID-19, executives demic began, restaurant employees can get more people into our restau-
his customers face to face once again. with Eat With Us Group met to dis- had to split large parties between rant, we’re excited about that. It’s
Dave’s to-go is officially open for all you cuss how the order would affect poli- multiple tables, if they were allowed nice to loosen it up a little bit.”
pizza lovers to pick up some classic Dave cies at the company’s restaurants. indoor dining at all. Reeves issued Executive Order
dishes. It will be open Wednesday through The biggest change the gover- But the company and restaurant 1522 on Monday, allowing business-
Sunday for orders. Check out Dave’s nor’s order will bring about for those employees were still excited because es to accommodate up to 75 percent
See BUSINESS MOVES, 6A restaurants will only have a moder- the relaxed restrictions are another See LOCAL BUSINESSES, 6A

Two men rob, beat New Hope resident at gunpoint in home invasion
early in the morning on Sept. tified Prather and Runnels
Suspects arrested for aggravated assault, 9, a Lowndes County Sheriff’s as the suspects, members of
armed robbery, kidnapping Office press release says. The
victim reported the two held
the United States Marshal’s
Fugitive Task Force arrested
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT Lee Runnels, 19, of Columbus, him at gunpoint, robbed him the two at the intersection of
have each been charged with and beat him. Pleasant Hill Road and Lee
Two men were arrested aggravated assault, armed The victim was treated and Stokes Road on Tuesday.
Tuesday for an assault and robbery and kidnapping, ac- released for fractured facial As of Wednesday, Runnels
armed robbery at a New Hope cording to Lowndes County bones at Baptist Memorial and Prather’s bonds have not
Prather Runnels
home last week. Adult Detention Center re- Hospital-Golden Triangle, the been set, and they were in cus-
Donavan James Prather, cords. er and Runnels invaded a release says. tody at Lowndes County Adult
18, of Caledonia, and Brandon Investigators believe Prath- home on Old New Hope Road After investigators iden- Detention Center.

WEATHER FIVE QUESTIONS LOCAL FOLKS PUBLIC

1 Name three films that won Best Pic- MEETINGS
ture Academy Awards in the 1970s? Sept. 21:
2 In what month do you celebrate the Starkville Hous-
winter solstice if you live in Australia? ing Authority
3 What movie studio is represented board meeting,
by a roaring lion? 3 p.m., 101 W.
4 What was the name of the first Wood St.
Mira Alnas White House pet to have its own web
page? Sept. 22: OCH
Fourth grade, Heritage Regional Medical
5 What radical early 20th-century

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art movement is Picasso famous for Center Board of
cofounding with Georges Braque? Trustees meet-
High ing, 4 p.m.
Mostly cloudy Answers, 6B Oct. 2:
Full forecast on
Starkville Board
page 3A.
of Aldermen
work session,
INSIDE 10 a.m., City
Hall
Business 5B Dear Abby 4B
Classifieds 6B Obituaries 5A T’Amber Peoples and Lance
Comics 4B Opinions 4A Jones of Columbus have been
Crossword 6B dating for seven years.

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IN THE NATION

COVID-19 danger continues

to drive joblessness in US
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The num-
ber of Americans applying for un-
employment benefits fell last week
to 860,000, a historically high fig-
ure that reflects economic damage
from the coronavirus outbreak.
Before the pandemic hit the
economy, the number signing up
for jobless aid had never exceeded
700,000 in a week, even during the
depths of the 2007-2009 Great Re-
cession.
The Labor Department said
Thursday that U.S. jobless claims
fell by 33,000 form the previous
week and that 12.6 million are col-
lecting traditional unemployment
benefits, compared with just 1.7
million a year ago.
The outbreak slammed the U.S.
economy in the spring, causing the
economy to collapse at a 31.7% an-
nual rate from April through June,
by far the worst three months on
record. Companies and govern-
ment agencies slashed 22 million
jobs.
The outbreak slammed the U.S.
economy in the spring, causing
the economy to collapse at a 31.7%
annual from April through June,
by far the worst three months on
record. Companies and govern-
ment agencies slashed 22 million
jobs.
Since then, the economy and
job market have been rebounding.
Employers added 10.6 million jobs
from May through August -- but
the United States still has recov-
ered less than half the jobs lost in
March and April.
The recovery remains frag-
ile, imperiled by continuing
COVID-19 cases and a failure to
deliver another economic rescue
package in Washington.
An extra $600 in weekly unem-
ployment benefits ran out July 31,
squeezing households that had
depended on the beefed-up pay-
ments. President Donald Trump
issued an executive order Aug. 8
providing a scaled-back version
of the expanded jobless aid. Most
states signed up for federal grants
that let them increase weekly ben-
efits by $300 or $400.
That program is expiring.
Charissa Ward, 37, was fur-
loughed in April from her job as
a server at a restaurant in Dis-
ney’s Hollywood Studios resort
near Orlando, Florida. Since then,
she’s been helping at her partner’s
online retail business, applying
for jobs and waiting to see what
Disney will do. “We have no idea
when we’re going to get called
back,’’ she said.
The extra $600 in weekly job-
less benefits didn’t replace all her
lost income but helped. The re-
duced $300 she received briefly
from Trump’s program made life
“a little less stressful.’’ But Ward
said Congress needs to agree to
another financial rescue and do
“what’s best for working people.’’

Western wildfire smoke
causes East Coast haze,
vivid sunsets
The smoke from dozens
of wildfires in the western
United States is stretching
clear across the country
— and even pushing into
Mexico, Canada and Eu-
rope. While the dangerous
plumes are forcing peo-
ple inside along the West
Coast, residents thousands
of miles away in the East
are seeing unusually hazy
skies and remarkable sun-
sets.
The wildfires racing
across tinder-dry land-
scape in California, Idaho,
Oregon and Washington
are extraordinary, but the
long reach of their smoke
isn’t unprecedented. While
there are only small pock-
ets in the southeastern U.S.
that are haze free, experts
say the smoke poses less of
a health concern for those
who are farther away.
The sun was trans-
formed into a perfect
orange orb as it set over
New York City on Tuesday.
Photographs of it sinking
behind the skyline and
glinting through tree leaves
flooded social media. On
Wednesday, New Jersey
residents described a yel-
low tinge to the overcast
skies, and weather fore-
casters were kept busy ex-
plaining the phenomenon
and making predictions as
to how long the conditions
would last.
On the opposite coast,
air quality conditions were
among some of the worst
ever recorded. Smoke
cloaked the Golden Gate
Bridge and left Portland
and Seattle in an ashy fog,
as crews have exhausted
themselves trying to keep
the flames from consuming
more homes and even wid-
er swaths of forest.
Satellite images showed
that smoke from the wild-
fires has traveled almost
5,000 miles (8,000 kilome-
ters) to Britain and other
parts of northern Europe,
scientists said Wednesday.
The current weather
system, which favors a
westerly wind across the
higher levels of the atmo-
sphere, is to blame for the
reach of the smoke, experts
explained.
“We always seem, at
times, to get the right com-
bination of enough smoke
and the upper level jet
stream to line up to bring
that across the country, so
we’re just seeing this again,”
said Matt Solum with the
National Weather Service’s
regional operations center
in Salt Lake City, Utah. “It’s
definitely not the first time
this has happened.”
There could be some
easing of the haze this
weekend as a storm system
is expected to move into
the Pacific Northwest and
could affect the conditions
that helped the smoke trav-
el across the country. But
Solum said there’s always a
chance for more smoke and
haze to shift around.
Kim Knowlton, a senior
scientist with the Natural
Resources Defense Council
in New York City, said she
woke up Wednesday to a
red sunrise and more haze.
She said millions of peo-
ple who live beyond the
flames can end up dealing
with diminished air qual-
ity as it’s not uncommon
for wildfire smoke to travel
hundreds of miles.
SOURCE: AP

West Point man arrested for animal cruelty Columbus man
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT
A West
P o i n t
man
charged
was
with three
counts
animal cru-
of
elty, after
author it ies Powell
found dogs
at the suspect’s home so
underfed their ribs were
showing.
Clay County deputies
arrested Komarcus Pow-
ell, 22, on Tuesday after
they executed a search
warrant at a home on
Highway 50 West, accord-
ing to a Clay County Sher-
iff’s Office press release.
Deputies also removed
Campaign finance
Continued from Page 1A
committee registered in
Oakland, Kentucky, gave
$500. Miller said the PAC
belongs to Clark Bever-
age Group, which has an
office in Starkville.
As of Tuesday, Miller
had outspent what she
had raised, giving the
bulk of her campaign
cash — $61,113.25 — to
Triumph Campaigns, a
Jackson-based campaign
management company.
The company helped re-
elect Mitch McConnell
(R-Kentucky) in 2008 to
his fifth term in the U.S.
Senate, according to its
website.
Miller said she is run-
ning a “different” race
than when she ran for the
county supervisor seat.
This time, she said she
wanted professional help.
“This campaign is
very different from a su-
pervisor race, which I
did not have professional
help for,” she said. “I defi-
nitely needed help in it.”
Compared to Miller,
however, Starkville busi-
nessman Bart Williams’
campaign is mostly
self-funded. The owner
of Security Solutions Inc.
poured $50,000 into his
own campaign, which ac-
counts for most of the to-
tal $56,725 he had raised
by Tuesday.
Williams said he finds
it hard to fundraise for
cash during a pandem-
ic, when social activities
are limited. The $50,000
out of his own pocket,
he said, was a necessary
boost.
“In a time of COVID
and the shortness of the
election, fundraising was
not a priority. Trying to
get the message together
and put it out is what we
try to do,” he said. “I’d
hope for more donations,
but it is what it is.”
Williams’ campaign
received $3,000 from
named donors and an-
other $3,725 from small
donors. Rupert (Rudy)
Johnson with the Golden
Triangle Planning and
Development District,
gave his campaign $500.
The campaign still has
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Thursday, Sept.
17, the 261st day of 2020.
There are 105 days left in
the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Sept. 17, 1787, the
Constitution of the Unit-
ed States was completed
and signed by a majority
of delegates attending the
Constitutional Convention
in Philadelphia.
On this date:
In 1862, more than
3,600 men were killed in
the Civil War Battle of An-
tietam (an-TEE’-tum) in
Maryland.
In 1908, Lt. Thomas
E. Selfridge of the U.S.
Army Signal Corps be-
came the first person to die
in the crash of a powered
aircraft, the Wright Flyer,
at Fort Myer, Virginia, just
outside Washington, D.C.
In 1937, the likeness
Courtesy photo/Clay County Sheriff’s Department
six dogs and two cats
from the residence.
Employees with West
Point/Clay County Ani-
mal Shelter assisted with
the investigation, the re-
lease said.
more than $32,000 left in
the bank. Williams said
he is not eager to spend
it all at once and hopes
to preserve funds in case
there is a runoff. So far,
his campaign has spent
roughly $24,000, most of
which went to advertis-
ing, he said. The details
of his disbursements are
not documented in his re-
ports.
Joyce Meek Yates, for-
mer director of the Health
Promotion and Wellness
Program for students at
Mississippi State Univer-
sity, trails behind the two
candidates with a total
of $33,315.5 raised. That
includes $26,565.5 from
herself.
Yates’ campaign spent
almost $24,000 in adver-
tising, graphic design
and signage. The cam-
paign now has $3,286 on
hand.
“We’ve done a good job
with everything, the ads
and social media and TV
and mailouts,” she said.
“We’ve done what we feel
like is sufficient and we
are happy with the results
that we have right now.”
Levon Murphy, owner
of Murphy Motors in Ack-
erman, raised $1,450 and
spent $1,725 by Tuesday.
He said the amount of
campaign funds does not
decide the winner of the
race.
“I knew I probably
wouldn’t raise as much
as other candidates, so I
decided to focus more on
spending on Facebook
ads and a bunch of signs,”
he said. “I don’t think the
amount of money raised
determines who wins.”
Rose leads fundraising
in District 37
In District 37, all three
candidates running for
the vacant House seat
have filed their campaign
finance reports on dead-
line. The seat was vacat-
ed by former Rep. Gary
Chism (R-Columbus),
who retired on June 30.
Vicky Rose, who iden-
tifies as a Libertarian,
had raised $14,536 by
of President Abraham Lin-
coln’s head was dedicated
at Mount Rushmore.
In 1939, the Soviet
Union invaded Poland
during World War II, more
than two weeks after Nazi
Germany had launched its
assault.
In 1944, during World
War II, Allied paratroop-
ers launched Operation
Market Garden, landing
behind German lines in
the Netherlands. (After
initial success, the Allies
were beaten back by the
Germans.)
In 1947, James V. For-
restal was sworn in as the
first U.S. Secretary of De-
fense.
In 1971, citing health
reasons, Supreme Court
Justice Hugo Black, 85,
retired. (Black, who was
succeeded by Lewis F.
Powell Jr., died eight
days after making his an-
The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 3A
He stressed the inves-
tigation is ongoing. Three
of the dogs in particular
charged with
were in such bad shape
that authorities worried
they would die if they
molesting child
didn’t go ahead and get
them out of the house
Tuesday.
under 14
“Our main concern DISPATCH STAFF REPORT
was to get the dogs in our
possession so we could A Columbus man was ar-
get them treated,” he rested last week for allegedly
said. molesting a child.
Investigators are ask- Anthony Jordan Coleman, 29,
ing anyone with informa- of Tabernacle Road, has been
tion on the case to call charged with molesting-touch-
Sheriff Eddie Scott CCSO at 662-494-2896 or ing a child for lustful purposes,
said the charges are mis- Golden Triangle Crime according to a Lowndes County
demeanors, though it Stoppers at 800-530-7151. Sheriff’s office press release. Coleman
may be upgraded to a fel- Powell has been re- Deputies first began inves-
ony if he is charged with leased from Clay Coun- tigating Coleman on Aug. 11 when LCSO
further counts of animal ty Jail after posting received reports that Coleman molested a child
cruelty. $3,548.25 bond. under the age of 14. Investigators arrested him
nearly a month later on Sept. 10.
Coleman has been released from Lowndes
County Adult Detention Center after posting
$10,000 bond.
Tuesday, outraising both Wright’s campaign
of her opponents. also received $1,500 from
Most of her funds Alabama-based Ameri-
came from donors with can Pharmacy Coopera-
out-of-state addresses. tive, Inc., exceeding the
She raised $8,150 from amount of corporation
three out-of-state donors, contributions allowed un-
including $7,500 from
der the state law. While
William Perkins, a film
contributions from indi-
produc-
er with a vidual donors, PACs, par-
registered ties and unions are not
address in limited, corporations are
the Virgin only allowed to give up to
Islands, $1,000 per candidate per
documents calendar year, according
show. She to the state law.
also re- Rose When contacted by
c e i v e d The Dispatch, Wright
$3,000 from said he had not known of
the Liber- the limits and would re-
tarian Party turn $500 to the company
of Missis- and file an amended re-
sippi PAC.
port. He added he did not
Rose’s
campaign solicit the funds from the
spent al- D. Chism company.
most $9,197 Wright said he does
as of Tuesday, including not know where the race
$5,615 to Ammons Solu- leads, but hopes he will
tions, a Jackson-based win.
company that offers ser- “I don’t know how it
vices in campaign con- would turn out,” he said.
sulting, lobbying and “I’d love to continue serv-
marketing. ing in some capacity.”
Rose could not be David Chism, cous-
reached for comment by in to Gary Chism and
press time. owner of Greenway Pool
For mer
Service in Lowndes
Lowndes
County, raised $2,840
C o u n t y
S c h o o l as of Tuesday, includ-
ing $2,000 from Andrew
District
Superinten- Benton, owner of Co-
dent Lynn lumbus-based Benton’s
W r i g h t Maintenance and Me-
r a i s e d Wright chanical, Inc. His cam-
$5,500 as paign spent $806 as of
of Tuesday, including Tuesday, including $563
$3,000 from corporations on Facebook ads.
and $2,500 from small Although he raised
donors. The campaign less money than his two
spent $4,792, leaving opponents, Chism said
roughly $700 on hand as he thinks a little money
of Tuesday.
can go a long way.
The campaign re-
ceived $1,000 from the
“I’m happy with where
Mississippi Road Build- we stand,” he said. “My
ers Association, a trade philosophy is: Take a lit-
group lobbying the state tle bit and make a lot hap-
and federal government pen.”
for more funds toward
road and bridge building,
according to its website.
The group enjoys a 501(c)
(6) status, which does
not require it to disclose
the identity of its donors
and where it receives its
funds.
nouncement.)
In 1978, after meet-
ing at Camp David, Is-
raeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin (men-
AH’-kem BAY’-gihn) and
Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat signed a framework
for a peace treaty.
In 1987, the city of
Philadelphia, birthplace
of the U.S. Constitution,
threw a big party to cel-
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versary of the historic SOLUNAR TABLE
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SLLIMANTICS

Mississippi hurricane damage confined to hurt feelings

For a day or so,
it looked as though
Hurricane Sally
would touch down
on the Mississippi
Coast. By Monday,
the storm had
already entered the
gulf and seemed
to pause there as
if deciding which
direction to take.
This is not Slim Smith
uncommon.
Hurricanes can be fickle. In
1985, Ann Jermyn, my col-
lege roommate’s sister, upon
hearing that Hurricane Elena
was headed for the Mississippi
Coast, left to stay with her
boyfriend in Panama City. By
the time she had arrived there, 44-mile stretch of the Missis-
the projections had changed,
this time indicating that Elena
would come ashore in Florida.
So she drove back to Biloxi.
The hurricane came ashore
in Biloxi in the early-morning
hours of Sept. 2, 1985. We all
blamed Ann for that.
On Wednesday morning,
Gov. Tate Reeves praised God
in a tweet that the
hurricane ravaged
Alabama and Flor-
ida instead of Mis-
sissippi because,
well, that’s just the
kind of Christian
he is.
Hurricane Sally’s
path reminds us
that no matter the
eventual landfall,
anytime a hurricane
enters the Gulf of
Mexico, Mississippi suffers, if
hurt feelings qualify as storm
damage.
As Sally sat in the Gulf play-
ing eenine-meenie-minie-moe
and national news outlets made
their landfall projections, the
sippi Coast went unnamed,
misnamed or overnamed.
One source, in its list of
states that might be in the path
of the storm, identified them
by postal Abbreviations: LA.,
FL., AL and ...MI.
MI is the abbreviation for
Michigan, of course. Fortu-
nately, Sally did not hit MS or
MI, praise God.
Another map placed Pas-
cagoula in Florida. Another
source, perhaps determined to
make sure Mississippi was not
omitted, labeled both Missis-
sippi and Alabama as “Miss.”
Then, of course, there were
the obligatory projections
that Sally would make landfall
somewhere between Mobile
and New Orleans, which —
while true enough —harkens
to another grievous insult
when CNN identified the area
as “the landmass between
Mobile and New Orleans.”
That happened eight years
ago, and Mississippians are
still much aggrieved. There’s
even a Facebook Group named
“The Land Mass Between
NOLA and Mobile.” that is
“liked” by 54,214 people, in-
cluding 150 of my “friends.”
I get the strong impression
that every time a hurricane
rolls up on the Gulf, there is a
sizable population that is just
waiting to be offended.
But we don’t always have to
wait for a hurricane for that.
Wednesday, during her press
briefing, Kayleigh McEnany,
President Trump’s press
secretary, commenting on the
Big 10 Conference’s decision to
resume football, congratulated
Big 10 states. Reading a list
of the Big 10 states identified
by postal abbreviations, she
congratulated Mississippi, but
not Michigan. So in comes
Mississippi State and Ole Miss
and out goes Michigan and
Michigan State.
It’s no small irony to note
that McEnany’s father, Mike,
played football at Mississippi
State in the early 1980s.
So you can see why Missis-
sippi sometimes feels like the
Rodney Dangerfield of states.
Although I may be put-
ting my credentials as a loyal
Mississippian at risk here, I’ve
never been offended by these
inevitable mistakes.
There are two reasons.
First, some sense of propor-
tion is necessary. Southerners
should obviously be expected
to identify Mississippi and its
location, but people in other
parts of the country shouldn’t
be held to the same standard.
For example, I’ll bet that
half of the people in Mississip-
pi can’t distinguish between
Vermont and New Hampshire,
although it is a simple task for
a New England grade-schooler.
Second, I know from painful
personal experience that
there are some advantages to
ambiguity.
There was a stretch there
where I would have been more
than happy if I had been hard
to locate. I’ll just leave it at
that.
For a lot of people, Missis-
sippi is like Antifa: They have
some vague sense it exists, but
can’t say exactly where.
I’m happy to dwell in quiet
obscurity on the theory most
of the time when Mississippi
attracts national attention, it’s
not a good thing.
If Michigan winds up taking
the fall it suits me just fine.
Slim Smith is a columnist
and feature writer for The
Dispatch. His email address is
ssmith@cdispatch.com.

OTHER EDITORS
Spending haste is
asking for waste
When Congress earlier this year enacted several tril-
lion dollars worth of COVID-19 relief funding, it wanted
to be sure the money got spent quickly.
The desire for speed was predicated on a main focus
of the enormous allocation: to keep the economy from
completely tanking. If the money were allocated to the
states but the states dragged their feet disbursing it, it
wouldn’t do much good in softening the impact caused by
business shutdowns and the layoffs of tens of millions of
U.S. workers.
Haste in spending, however, also creates more avenues
for waste, fraud and abuse. It’s almost certainly going to
result in waste, if not worse, in the spending on workforce
training in Mississippi.
Recently, Mississippi Today reported on the dilemma
this state is facing in getting $55 million of pandemic
relief money spent before the end of the year to provide
job training and retraining.
Most of the program, which is being called ReSkill
MS, is being directed through the state’s community
colleges, which have rightly become the leading entity
THE WORLD
History starts with people
for providing workforce training in the state. Apparently,
though, they aren’t geared up to act this quickly, perhaps
because they were themselves largely shut down for
months during the early stages of the pandemic.
This week, I had in making policy son, and expand to include
According to Mississippi Today, nearly $49 million
the great honor happen. Most people entire societies.
of the $55 million allocation was directed toward the
and privilege of don’t know that a Without question, this never
two-year colleges. The colleges have proposed spending
observing history. I chance encounter would have been possible with-
$44.2 million on purchasing equipment to be used in the
was blessed to be a in a Washington, out some key individuals work-
training and the other $4.4 million for tuition vouchers —
guest of the White D.C., restaurant in ing tirelessly behind the White
enough to cover 5,200 students.
House and witness March played an House scenes. Jared Kushner
Through August, however, only a fraction of the mon-
the signing of the instrumental role in played an essential role and
ey has been spent or committed, the online news orga-
momentous peace getting these historic was a driving force, bringing a
nization reports. Less than a quarter-million has been
agreement between agreements over the fresh and innovative approach to
spent on equipment and just $50,000 on tuition vouchers.
Israel and two Arab finish line. establishing peace in the region.
That leaves more than $48 million still to go in just four
nations: Bahrain At this casual His boundless energy and cre-
months to meet the federal government’s deadline.
and the United Arab Armstrong Williams meeting, Israel’s idea ativity, applied to these thorny
Since it’s “either use it or lose it,” there’s going to be
Emirates. of establishing full geopolitical issues, have proven
a lot of pressure on the community colleges to get that
Watching as and warm diplomatic to be invaluable.
money spent, and there will be people coming out of the
President Donald Trump hosted relations with an Arab country And at the end of the day,
woodwork to help the community colleges spend it. The
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (outside of Egypt and Jordan) there is only one person in
schools have already heard that backlogs in the supply
Netanyahu and the Emirati and shifted from being an unthink- charge, one person to whom we
chain could prevent them from being able to spend all of
Bahraini foreign ministers, I able development to a project can credit this deal that so many
the equipment money in time.
felt a swelling of joy in my heart. secretly in the works. doubters thought would never
State Auditor Shad White announced last month that
This was the dawning of a new Netanyahu was in Washing- come. That person is Donald
he has a plan in place to watch over all of the $1.25 billion
day. ton for meetings with Trump, Trump. Without his global
in coronavirus-related money coming to the state. He
Seeing these enhanced and dining one night in a George- leadership and his unwavering
has hired three CPA firms to help his in- house auditors
improved ties between Israel town restaurant. Present in commitment to pursuing peace
keep tabs on the spending. ReSkill MS needs to be on the
and the Arab world is both the same place was the UAE in the Middle East, this historic
“watch closely” list.
encouraging and exciting. For Ambassador to the U.S. Yousef breakthrough would not have
Greenwood Commonwealth
those who love Israel and want Al Otaiba. When the two men been achieved.
to see peace in the Middle East, learned that they were dining The fact that President
this is the next leap forward. in the same establishment, they Trump was able to convene
Israel is rapidly expanding ties had a brief encounter where Israel, Bahrain and UAE at the
LETTER TO THE EDITOR and cooperation with its neigh- they shook hands, exchanged White House for the signing cer-
bors, and this is genuinely an pleasantries and spoke for a emony is truly a fantastic thing,
Who will speak for the Christians? extraordinary development. while. This friendly chat would not to be taken for granted. This
The Sept. 13 column by Mona Charen, “Who Will The fruits of these deals will be one of the deciding factors achievement is a real testament
Speak For The Uighurs,” made me think for a while about be many. We will see increased in a deal that will reshape the to the Trump administration’s
the plight of Christians around the world. A recent article economic cooperation in the Middle East dynamics. commitment to pursuing peace
in “Christianity Today” stated: Eight Christians are region as these countries col- Netanyahu invited Al Otaiba and being the most generous
killed daily. One hundred eighty two Christian churches laborate on medical innovation, to visit Israel, which is signifi- friend -— not just to Israel but
are attacked every day. Three hundred nine Christians agricultural technologies, and cant in and of itself. The ambas- also to the people of the Middle
are imprisoned unjustly monthly. Where is the outrage so much more. It will become sador declined. East — that there has ever been
from the liberals? A certain unnamed politician stated, evident that this normalization But it was not because he did in the White House.
“America is not a Christian nation any more.” We have serves only to lift each society not want to visit the Jewish state. As Israel, Bahrain and the
seen liberal governors and mayors in some states outlaw and provide gifts for the entire To his immense credit, Ambas- UAE embark upon their new
the meetings of churches, while approving the rioting, world. With eager partners in sador Al Otaiba thought not just journey together, I have full faith
looting and burning of property. If one thinks things are the region, Israel’s technology about the value of him taking that this will only be the begin-
bad now, take the Christians out and evil will run ram- and innovation will benefit the a trip to Israel, but about his ning. And I look forward to at-
pant. For the scoffer out there, that time is coming. The whole Middle East. Make no country. He proposed bringing tending other peace ceremonies
“rapture is close.” Revelation 22:20, Jesus said, “Yes, I mistake; these two agreements his entire country to the Jewish in the near future that includes
am coming soon.” To my fellow Christian, pray for each are game-changers. state, imagining that it could be Saudi Arabia and Oman.
other, pray for the scoffers and pray for America. This moment is hugely a first step toward normalizing Armstrong Williams is an
God bless America! significant on the world stage. relations and creating real peace American political commentator,
Lee Roy Lollar And it also highlights the critical ties. Genuine ties, which start at entrepreneur, author, and talk
Columbus importance that people play the human level, person-to-per- show host.

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At least 1 dead, hundreds
rescued after Hurricane Sally
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Tennessee Task Force teams
PENSACOLA, Fla. — Hurri-
cane Sally lumbered ashore near
the Florida-Alabama line Wednes-
help with fires, hurricane
day with 105 mph (165 kph) winds
and rain measured in feet, not
inches, killing at least one person,
swamping homes and forcing the
rescue of hundreds as it pushed in-
land for what could be a slow and
disastrous drenching across the
Deep South.
The death happened in Or-
ange Beach, Alabama, according
to Mayor Tony Kennon, who also
told The Associated Press that one
person was missing. Kennon said
he couldn’t immediately release
details.
Moving at just 3 mph (5 kph),
or about as fast as a person can
walk, the storm made landfall at
4:45 a.m. close to Gulf Shores,
Alabama, about 30 miles (50 kilo-
meters) from Pensacola, Florida.
It accelerated to a light jog as it
battered the Pensacola and Mo-
bile, Alabama, metropolitan areas
encompassing nearly 1 million
people.
Sally cast boats onto land or
sank them at the dock, flattened
palm trees, peeled away roofs,
blew down signs and knocked
out power to more than 540,000
homes and businesses. A replica
of Christopher Columbus’ ship the
Nina that had been docked at the
Pensacola waterfront was missing,
Business Moves
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website to see the to-go menu and
give Dave a call to pick up those
bar classics.
Moving to Columbus, there’s a
new tropical ice shop on wheels.
Kona Ice, a national franchise
that boasts 1,000 locations in 48
states, has officially expanded to
Columbus, Aberdeen and West
Point. Caledonia residents Jesse
and Jolene Hebert opened the
shaved ice truck in August, and
business has been booming.
The Kona Ice business first
opened in 2007 and has given back
nearly $100 million to community
organizations since then.
Jesse Hebert said that was the
selling point when he decided he
wanted to start a business.
“One of the main reasons I
wanted to start this business is
the giveback,” Hebert said. “With
this business you can give back to
anyone in need. I’m not restricted
to just one thing, I can give to who-
Local businesses
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of their capacity pre-pandemic —
up from 50 percent — provided cus-
tomers still maintain the Centers
for Disease Control and Preven-
tion-recommended six feet of social
distance. The order also relaxed re-
strictions on gatherings, allowing
up to 50 people in outdoor spaces
where social distancing is not pos-
sible and up 100 in outdoor spaces
where congregants can maintain
six-foot distance between people
not from the same household.
While local governments can
still enact their own, stricter ordi-
nances if officials feel such mea-
sures are necessary to prevent
an outbreak, both Columbus and
Starkville officials opted to follow
the governor’s order.
Starkville Mayor Lynn Spruill
said she’s sure local business own-
ers are “delighted” with the loosen-
ing of some restrictions. The order
was also a good sign
for city officials, who
have been concerned
about the decrease
in sales tax revenue
since the start of
the pandemic. The
board of aldermen
voted to raise prop- Spruill
erty taxes for the
upcoming fiscal year partly to help
shore up a projected $880,000 loss
in sales tax revenue.
Both Spruill and Main Street Co-
lumbus Executive Director Barbara
Bigelow, whose organization works
with about 150 downtown and local
businesses in Columbus, said they
hope the relaxed restrictions will
lead to slightly increased traffic in
businesses and, in turn, an uptick
in sales.
Spruill added the restrictions
would also allow more participants
in citywide events, such as the
weekly Dawg Talk on Lafayette
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A task
force based in Memphis, Tennes-
see, has sent team members to Or-
egon to help with the wildfires and
to Mississippi to assist in recovery
efforts related to Hurricane Sally.
Memphis Fire Department
spokesman Wayne Cooke said
Wednesday that four K-9 han-
dlers and their dog partners with
the Tennessee Task Force arrived
late Tuesday in Salem, Oregon,
to help firefighters and other first
responders with wildfires in the
police said.
Sally tore loose a barge-mount-
ed construction crane, which then
smashed into the new Three Mile
Bridge over Pensacola Bay, caus-
ing a section of the year-old span
to collapse, authorities said. The
storm also ripped away a large sec-
tion of a fishing pier at Alabama’s
Gulf State Park on the very day a
ribbon-cutting had been sched-
uled following a $2.4 million reno-
vation.
By the afternoon, authorities in
ever I want and that’s just really
cool to have a business that can do
that.”
Once a month, Hebert said he
wants to donate 20 to 50 percent of
his profits to a family in need in the
area.
For now, Kona Ice is complete-
ly mobile and you can track and
follow Kona Ice on Facebook and
you can call and even reserve the
Hawaiian Ice truck for any events.
Also in Columbus, we have a
new jewelry shop open downtown.
Justin Wheat opened Justin’s
Watch and Jewelry Repair in the
old Sweet Shop at 101 Fifth St. S.,
Suite 4.
Wheat, who previously worked
at Rae’s Jewelry that closed down
this month, said for now he primar-
ily performs watch battery replace-
ment, jewelry repair, watch and
clock repair.
“I have a little bit of jewelry
right now,” Wheat said. “Due to
Street with Mississip-
pi State head football
coach Mike Leach.
“Obviously we still
are very concerned
that the activities are
safe and done in a
cautious manner to
make sure that we fol- Bigelow
low the guidelines …
but we’re delighted to see that more
people will be able to come out,”
she said.
Bigelow said she thought the
order is a good balance between
helping businesses and still keep-
ing enough restrictions in place to
emphasize safety and social dis-
tancing.
“The mandate is still there for
masks and social distancing, but
I think it’s an optimistic turn that
they can have more people in their
businesses,” Bigelow said.
‘Our main priority is safety’
Though the three days since
Reeves issued the order haven’t
been enough time for local busi-
nesses to feel the impact of in-
creased foot traffic yet, local busi-
ness owners and managers said
they’re hopeful that they’ll see more
customers in the coming weeks.
“I don’t want people all clustered
in here and breathing on each oth-
er,” said Carol Pearson, location
manager at Coffee House on 5th in
downtown Columbus, “but I’m glad
that things are safe enough to start
loosening up.”
In Starkville, Book Mart and
Cafe owner Carolyn Abadie said
she hasn’t seen an immediate im-
provement in sales since Monday
but that it’s been good to see gradu-
al increases in foot traffic and activi-
ty downtown. Particularly as school
starts back up, her bookstore is
starting to see more student cus-
area.
Cooke said 45 members of the
task force with the ability to work
on water rescues arrived in Ham-
mond, Louisiana, earlier this week.
The team of firefighters, para-
medics, doctors, engineers and K-9
handlers have since been moved to
Meridian, Mississippi, where they
are awaiting orders to respond
to flooding and other problems
caused by Hurricane Sally.
Cooke says the length of time
that both teams will be deployed is
uncertain.
Escambia County, which includes
Pensacola, said at least 377 people
had been rescued from flooded ar-
eas. More than 40 people trapped
by high water were brought to
safety within a single hour, includ-
ing a family of four found in a tree,
Sheriff David Morgan said.
Authorities in Pensacola said
200 National Guard members
would arrive Thursday to help.
Curfews were announced in Es-
cambia County and in some coast-
al Alabama towns.
COVID, it closed the jewelry show
down for the whole year, but next
year is looking good. I do have a
little jewelry here, but if you want
something I can order it for you.”
More than 15 years ago, Wheat
went antiquing with his grandfa-
ther. In a glass case he found a me-
chanical pocket watch that didn’t
quite work. Wheat started tinker-
ing and figuring out the mechanics
of the watch but never could get
the watch working as a child.
It was then that Wheat realized
he wanted to continue his fascina-
tion with the workings of jewelry
and watches. He specializes with
watch battery changes, and various
watch, jewelry and clock repairs
until he can build his jewelry
inventory.
If your watch, ring, necklace or
other jewelry isn’t looking up to
par, missing stones or is having
issues, give Wheat a call at 662-
570-1593.
tomers, whether middle schoolers
looking for books or MSU students
looking for a quiet place to study.
“We’re getting our children back
that come in, our middle school
kids that come in,” she said. “And
they’re all together, but they’re all
wearing masks. I think people are
getting pretty safe. ... People are
pretty much complying with every-
thing.”
Both Coffee House on 5th and
Book Mart and Cafe have hand san-
itizing stations set up for customers
at their entrances — something
Bigelow said she’d seen at multi-
ple businesses in Columbus — and
Abadie said she’s laid out stickers
on the floor of her business re-
minding customers to keep six feet
apart.
Pearson and Abadie said even
without the usual number of cus-
tomers inside, stores and restau-
rants have become creative with
increased curbside business and
delivery options, with participation
with delivery options like Door-
Dash.
“The shutdown was horrific for
all the businesses,” Abadie said. “It
was very upsetting because peo-
ple were losing business left and
right and we were seeing stores
shut down. As far as loosening the
restrictions to 75 percent, I think
that’ll be OK as long as people
follow mask etiquette, placing or-
ders with their mask on and only
keep their masks on when they’re
talking with the waitresses and so
forth and take the masks off when
they’re eating and drinking.”
Scrivner agreed with Abadie
that loosening of restrictions have
to be balanced with safety.
“Yes, we would love to be able to
seat at 100 percent capacity,” she
said, “but our main priority is safe-
ty.”
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HOW COLUMBUS’ KYLIN HILL FITS INTO MSU’S AIR RAID OFFENSE
Columbus native Kylin Hill is expected to thrive as a dynamic playmaker in Mike Leach’s air raid offense.
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — It’s
almost assured Missis-
sippi State running back
and Columbus native
Kylin Hill won’t lead the
Southeastern Conference
in rushing this fall, but for
what he’ll lack in carries,
he’ll more than make up
for through the air.
Leading a running
back room that could go
as many as five deep in
2020, there’s reason to
Raised in Guam, Olivia Simpson brings speed, athleticism to MSU soccer
BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Oliv-
ia Simpson likes to dance.
Before each match
the Mississippi State
soccer team plays, Simp-
son grooves to the mu-
sic streaming out of the
speakers as she limbers
up for the contest.
The freshman hasn’t
played for the Bulldogs
long — an early enrollee,
she joined the team for
its spring season before
COVID-19 put an end to
it — but she’s already es-
tablished herself as one
of MSU’s most outgoing
players, not to mention Freshman Olivia Simpson is poised to make an early impact for Mississippi State
one of its most talented soccer this fall. Simpson enrolled a semester early and impressed head coach
See MSU, 3B James Armstrong with her play during the spring season.
believe Hill is primed for
perhaps his most com-
plete season since arriv-
ing in Starkville as the
No. 14-ranked running
back in the 2017 class ac-
cording to the 247 Sports
composite rankings.
“Y’all know his big
play ability,” senior line-
backer Erroll Thompson
said Wednesday. “He’s
an (New Orleans Saints
running back) Alvin Ka-
mara type of guy. He can
get it in space, throw it to
him, but he can also run
MISSISSIPPI STATE FOOTBALL
it. He’s a problem.”
Hill has flashed big-
play potential in the pass-
ing game before, sure. He
took a screen pass from
former quarterback Key-
taon Thompson 53 yards
for a score on MSU’s first
play from scrimmage in
its season-opening blow-
out of Stephen F. Austin
in 2018. Hill also darted
past an Abilene Christian
defender down the seam
in the second-to-last week
of the 2019 regular sea-
son, taking a touch pass
Photo courtesy of Mississippi State Athletics
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88 yards to the house.
But with Hill’s expe-
rience in offenses that
leaned toward the run,
first-year head coach
Mike Leach’s air raid
should prove a stark con-
trast for his dynamic skill
set and function as a mea-
suring stick for his profes-
sional prospects.
Reneging on his entry
into the 2020 NFL draft,
it’s widely expected Hill
will need to show im-
provement in his receiv-
ing and pass blocking
Photo courtesy of Mississippi State Athletics
should he look to vault up
boards next spring. Enter
Leach.
In 2019, Leach’s
Washington State team
attempted 710 pass-
es — a number that led
second-place LSU by
nearly 150 attempts. By
contrast, the Cougars fin-
ished dead last in rushing
attempts nationally with
just 210 on the year, while
Hill boasted 242 rush at-
tempts himself.
As for the passing
game, Hill has corralled
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
No. 1 Green Wave set to
clash with No. 3 Tigers
BY GARRICK HODGE
ghodge@cdispatch.com
From a statewide per-
spective, Friday night’s
contest between Nox-
ubee County and West
Point needs little build-
up.
The four-time de-
fending state champion
Green Wave (1-1) are
ranked the top team in
Class 5A in the latest
Associated Press media
poll, while the Tigers (2-
0), who lost in the state
title game last season,
came in at No. 3 in Class
3A.
Accolades state wide
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662-241-5000
B
SECTION
just 44 passes for 394
yards and five touch-
downs. Washington
State running back Max
Borghi recorded 44 catch-
es for 398 yards and three
touchdowns by Week 8
last season.
“You get an athlete like
that … it’s a problem for
people when we put him
out in an empty forma-
tion in the slot versus a
linebacker or a defensive
back,” Mele said of Hill.
See HILL, 3B
aside, Friday’s game in
West Point might even
mean more locally.
“The guys get up for
this type of game,” Noxu-
bee County coach Teddy
Young said. “They live 25
minutes down the road
from each other, so a lot
of the kids know each
other. Obviously there’s
a big opportunity here.
West Point is a state
championship program.
It’s going to be a physi-
cal, hard-fought game.”
Despite both teams
having standout sea-
sons in 2019, last year’s
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Reverse: Big Ten will try to play fall football after all
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Players were pumped.
Coaches were stoked.
Fans seemed relieved.
Even the president was
pleased.
The Big Ten is going
to give fall football a shot
after all.
Less than five weeks
after pushing fall sports
to spring in the name of
player safety during the
pandemic, the conference
ran a reverse Wednesday
and said it plans to open
its football season the
weekend of Oct. 23-24.
“Let’s goooooo!!!”
Ohio State quarterback
Justin Fields tweeted.
Amid the celebration,
a word of caution: This is
still not going to be easy.
“We can’t emphasize
enough that what we’re
putting forward still re-
quires prevention, re-
quires accountability
from everyone involved
from our student-ath-
letes to coaches to staff
to be doing the things
to prevent getting this
infection,” said Dr. Jim
Borchers, the team phy-
sician for Ohio State.
“And our progress will be
measured by their efforts
but also we hope by the
efforts to provide a clean
competition and practice
environment.”
All 14 teams will be
scheduled to play eight
regular-season games in
eight weeks, plus have
the opportunity to play
a ninth game on Dec.
19 when the conference
championship game is
played. The College Foot-
ball Playoff selections
are scheduled for Dec.
20, which means the Big
Ten’s best should be back
in the hunt for a nation-
al championship — if all
goes well.
If it does not, the
schedule does not provide
much room to adapt. Oth-
er conferences built in
bye weeks, which allows
time to deal with poten-
tial disruptions. The Big
Ten itself did that back
in early August, but now
must go forward with a
condensed schedule and
signs that things could go
awry.
Across major college
football since Aug. 26, 13
games have been post-
poned because of teams
dealing with COVID-19
outbreaks. Some have not
been rescheduled.
The Big Ten is bank-
ing on daily testing to
mitigate the risk of out-
breaks and decrease the
probability that a few
positive tests will gut ros-
ters when contact tracing
sends players into 14-day
quarantines. The Big Ten
will begin daily antigen
testing of all fall sports
athletes, coaches and
staff Sept. 30.
The Big Ten is taking
an especially cautious ap-
proach with those who do
test positive: The earliest
an athlete will be able to
return to game compe-
tition is 21 days after a
positive diagnosis, and
following a cardiac evalu-
ation and clearance from
a cardiologist.
“We’re in a better
place, regardless of how
we got here or how pain-
ful it was during the time
we waited to get this mo-
ment,” Ohio State athletic
director Gene Smith said.
“That’s all behind us.
What’s beautiful is that
we have a process and
protocols in place that’s
based on science and
based on lessons learned
since Aug. 11.”
The Big Ten said its
Council of Presidents and
Chancellors voted unani-
mously to restart sports.
The vote last month was
11-3 to postpone, with
Ohio State, Iowa and Ne-
braska voting against.
Still, the Big House
in Ann Arbor, Michigan,
and Beaver Stadium in
State College, Pennsylva-
nia, won’t be packed with
100,000 fans as is usually
the case in the fall. Not
even close. Tickets will
not be sold to the general
public for Big Ten games,
though some attendance
is expected.
That’s still an 80,000-
seat stadium that we don’t
have,” said Wisconsin
athletic director Barry Al-
varez, who had estimated
the loss of football would
cost the school $100 mil-
lion.
The decision to play
came after sharp pres-
sure from coaches, play-
ers, parents and even
President Donald Trump,
all of them pushing for
a Big Ten football sea-
son. The conference is
home to a number of bat-
tleground states in the
November election, and
Trump swifly applauded
the move.
Northwestern Presi-
dent Morton Schapiro,
chairman of the presi-
dents’ council, said the
turning point for him on
giving the green light to
football — even though
many students have not
been allowed back on
his school’s Evanston, Il-
linois, campus — didn’t
come until this past week-
end.
“For me, it wasn’t
about political pressure,
money or lawsuits,” Scha-
piro said. “It was about
the unanimous opinion
of our experts. It evolved
over the course of weeks.”
The Big Ten will take
a bow, but the conference
has been battered for a
month and businesses in
college towns from Ne-
braska to Maryland have
lost millions in sales.
First-year Commission-
er Kevin Warren was the
main target, criticized for
a lack of communication
and not providing enough
information to back the
initial decision.
“We have passionate
athletes. We have pas-
sionate families and we
have passionate fans,”
Warren said of the blow-
back. “And so I take that
from a positive stand-
point.”
The Big Ten postponed
fall sports just six days af-
ter unveiling a modified,
conference-only sched-
ule that was set to begin
Labor Day weekend, and
indicated it would try to
make up the season in the
spring. But there was no
plan in place and the re-
action included criticism
from the president.
“I called the commis-
sioner a couple of weeks
ago and we started re-
ally putting a lot of pres-
sure on, frankly,” Trump
recalled Wednesday.
“There was no reason for
it not to come back.”
Trump also took aim
at the lone Power Five
conference not yet sched-
uled to play: “There is
no reason why the Pac-
12 shouldn’t be playing
now.”
The Pac-12 followed
the Big Ten in postponing
play last month, but was
far more detailed in its
explanation and has more
hurdles to clear. Half the
Pac-12 schools are still op-
erating under statewide
restrictions that make it
impossible for teams to
even practice. The Pac-12
CEO Group is scheduled
to meet Friday to discuss
the conference’s options.
As the Big Ten and
Pac-12 bailed in August,
the other Power Five con-
ferences forged ahead,
along with three other
major college football
leagues. Games have
started, with the Big 12
and Atlantic Coast Con-
ference kicking off last
week. The Southeastern
Conference begins play
Sept. 26.
Alvarez said Big Ten
teams can begin practic-
ing immediately.
“They never lost faith.
They never lost trust.
Their behavior through
this time has been ex-
cellent, and they never
stopped fighting,” said
Ohio State coach Ryan
Day, whose team was
ranked No. 2 in the pre-
season Top 25.
The new schedule
comes with a twist. On
championship Saturday,
the plan is to provide each
team an additional game,
matching teams by their
places in the division
standings: No. 2 vs. No. 2,
No. 3 vs. No. 3 and so on.
Alvarez said those match-
ups could be tweaked to
avoid rematches.
For now, the third Big
Ten schedule of the year
should be ready in about a
week. Surely, it will rekin-
dle excitement, but how
much of it gets played is
still uncertain.
Michigan Gov. Gretch-
en Whitmer, a Democrat,
said she supports the Big
Ten’s decision but noted
COVID-19 “is still a very
real threat.”
“We’re all trying to do
what we can to engage in
some normalcy and keep
people safe,” she said.
“There’s not a perfect way
to do this.”

Pac-12 football plans
remain in holding
pattern
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Pac-12 took a sig-
nificant step toward join-
ing the Big Ten in playing
football in the fall, getting
clearance to hold full-
fledged practices from
the states of California
and Oregon.
Early Wednesday,
the Big Ten grabbed
headlines by changing
course and agreeing to
set an eight-game football
schedule that would start
the weekend of Oct. 24.
The Pac-12 also has
considered starting its
football season this fall,
but it has more hurdles to
clear. Half of its schools
have been unable to ramp
up preparation for the
season because of restric-
tions put in place by state
and local authorities to
mitigate the spread of
COVID-19.
Later Wednesday, the
Pac-12 Commissioner
Larry Scott announced
a breakthrough with the
California and Oregon
governors that was helped
along by the conference’s
plans to soon begin test-
ing athletes daily for the
virus.
“The Pac-12 welcomes
today’s statements by Gov-
ernor Newsom of Califor-
nia and Governor Brown
of Oregon that state pub-
lic health officials will
allow for contact practice
and return to competition,
and that there are no state
restrictions on our ability
to play sports in light of
our adherence to strict
health and safety proto-
cols and stringent testing
requirements, including
our recently announced
partnership with Quidel
which will enable daily
rapid results testing,”
Scott said.
He added: “Our Cal-
ifornia and Oregon uni-
versities will now each
individually and imme-
diately reach out to their
relevant county public
health officials to seek
clarification on what is
required to achieve the
same clearance to resume
contact practice and com-
petition.”
Earlier this month, the
Pac-12 announced a part-
nership that would give
the conference’s schools
the capacity to perform
daily, rapid COVID-19
tests on athletes. Scott
has called the testing a
“game-changer” and it
certainly proved to be
so in the Big Ten. That
league’s university presi-
dents unanimously voted
to return to competition
in all fall sports and said
their schools will begin
daily antigen testing on
Sept. 30.
The Pac-12 CEO Group
is scheduled to meet Fri-
day to discuss the confer-
ence’s options. Because of
the restrictions, it might
take the teams that had
been limited, including
conference favorites Ore-
gon and Southern Califor-
nia, more than a month to
be ready to play. An Oct.
24 start, lined up with the
Big Ten, could be chal-
lenging.
California Gov. Gavin
Newsom and Scott spoke
Wednesday. While there
was some confusion
about how the state’s rule
limiting athletic activities
to groups of no more than
12 could allow for foot-
ball practice, ultimately
things landed in a good
place for the conference.
Oregon Gov. Kate
Brown’s spokesman said
the two Pac-12 schools
in that state met with the
Oregon Health Authority
on Wednesday to discuss
COVID-19 heath and
safety plans for football
and ask for a exemption
to current sports guid-
ance. An exemption has
already be given to Ore-
gon professional sports
teams.
“We have granted that
request, and, under the
new guidance, OHA must
receive written plans for
approval,” Charles Boyle
said in a statement.
Boyle said no plans
had been received yet
from the Pac-12.
“We want Oregon and
Oregon State players to
be able to focus on foot-
ball while protecting their
health and safety,” Boyle
said. “We also want to en-
sure that team practices
will not be derailed by a
COVID-19 outbreak that
would threaten the health
not only of the players and
coaches, but of their uni-
versity communities and
the wide communities of
Eugene and Corvallis.”
The Big Ten and Pac-
12 decided Aug. 11 to
postpone all fall sports
until January due to con-
cerns about the coronavi-
rus pandemic.
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MSU
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newcomers. ence-only season begins
For Simpson — who at 6 p.m. Friday at Au-
came to MSU from burn.
Kingsland, Georgia — Simpson, Armstrong
Starkville is just the said, is “obviously a very
latest stop. She lived in talented individual from
Santa Rita, Guam, from a soccer standpoint, but
age 2 before leaving for the thing that separates
Pensacola, Florida, pri- her most is her athleti-
or to fifth grade. That cism.
meant a lot of introduc- “She’s the fastest
tions throughout her player on the team; she
childhood, but the bub- could be the fastest play-
bly Simpson never had a er in the SEC, to be hon-
problem. est.”
“I think I was always Simpson said the club
open to making new coaches she had over
friends, so I was just the years typically found
kind of the girl who that out not long after
walked in and would being initially skepti-
just be like, ‘Hey, we’re cal. After each move,
besties now,’” Simpson she typically had to
said. “It was never really start at the bottom lev-
hard.” el of her new club team,
Mississippi State but roughly every year,
coach James Armstrong she’d move up a level un-
said Simpson’s adjust- til she got to the top.
ment to college has “Coaches don’t really
been similarly easy. The give you a chance when
freshman is sociable, you’re first there,” Simp-
hardworking and devot- son said.
ed to her studies. She said finding new
“She’s really added to teams was perhaps the
our team culture in the hardest part of her fam-
classroom and off the ily’s moves from Guam,
field,” Armstrong said. a U.S. territory in the
Couple that with western Pacific Ocean,
Simpson’s tremendous to Florida and on to
impact on the pitch, and Georgia. The transitions
the Bulldogs are happy were brought on by her
to have her in the fold father Daniel Simpson
when their eight-game, III’s transfers within the
Southeastern Confer- Naval Criminal Investi-
gative Service, where he
was formerly an agent
and is now the “big man
behind the desk,” Simp-
son said.
She said her parents
took advantage of her
dad’s job with NCIS —
the agency is the basis
for the CBS television
show of the same name
— to take Olivia and her
brother, Daniel Simpson
IV, on trips when they
could. When they lived
in Guam, the Simpsons
made the eight-hour trip
to Australia twice and
visited the continental
U.S. — a long jaunt ne-
cessitating three flights
and 24 hours each way—
every year to visit fami-
ly, typically in the Atlan-
ta area.
On the mainland for
those summer trips,
Simpson said, she be-
came fascinated with
the things Guam didn’t
have. Only about 30
miles long, the island
lacked size and — some-
thing a kid would notice
— didn’t have any of the
major American retail-
ers found everywhere in
the “lower 48.”
“I was like, ‘I can go
to Dollar Tree and get
five toys for $5, or I can
go to Walmart,’” Simp-
son remembered. “‘Ev-
erything’s so big here.’”
Guam, with a popu-
lation around 165,000,
isn’t tiny, though. With
flat land and beaches on
one side and mountains
on the other, Simpson
said it felt plenty big
when she lived there as
a kid.
“It’s a small island,
but it has a lot of differ-
ent dimensions,” she
said.
Coincidentally, so
does Simpson’s game.
Armstrong said he’s not
sure where the speedy
freshman will play for
the Bulldogs — she’s
capable of making a dif-
ference at any position
in the SEC, which the
coach called the most
athletic conference in
the country.
“She’s fast over a long
distance, but she can
also turn on the jets in
just one or two steps,” he
said. “It’s going to help
her regardless of what
position she plays.”
Simpson said she
honed those skills in
Guam, where everyone
plays soccer or is in-
volved in it somehow.
“My favorite coach
was also my art teacher,”
Simpson said.
She started playing at
age 8 with recreational
teams on the island, in- her next home, and Mis-
cluding those on Naval sissippi State was the
Base Guam. She was clear answer.
able to play soccer year “I loved the campus
round, too, thanks to the first time I came
constant warm weather here,” Simpson said.
on the island. The aver- “It’s such a family envi-
age high temperature ronment, and I didn’t re-
is between 86 and 89 ally feel that at any other
degrees every month, school as much as I did
though it’s typically here.”
rainy from July to No- So the National Hon-
vember and dry from or Society member en-
December to January. rolled early, coming
“For my birthday par- to campus a semester
ties in February, I would ahead to participate in
go to water parks,” Simp- spring competition with
son said. the Bulldogs. She didn’t
After moving to Pen- get to play long before
sacola, she still played COVID-19 hit, but her
rec soccer for three versatility and speed
years before she ever were on display right
got onto a competitive away against strong
travel team. competition.
“I had to beg and “Even though the
plead my parents to let spring season got cut
me do that,” Simpson short, it really kind of
said. got her a step ahead
But she stuck with of others in her class,”
it, aided when her club Armstrong said.
coach in Pensacola put in Simpson’s speed and
a good word for her with athleticism defy her rel-
a Jacksonville-area club. atively small stature,
With each year, she got Armstrong said, and
better. More eyes were they’ll serve her well
on her. when the Bulldogs hit
She starred for Cam- the field Friday.
den County High School “She’s only 5’1”, but
in Kingsland — her fa- she can jump through
ther’s hometown — and the roof,” he said. “The
soon, college was next athletic component that
up. Simpson said she she brings to the game
looked around to find is on a whole new level.”

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matchup between the cumulated five sacks we’re going to need mul- great team speed and 1 overall Starkville in less and company will
two games was a com- already, with stand- tiple people to flock to play within themselves. Week One, Chambless be tasked with slow-
plete rout, with West out defensive lineman the ball. Both running I think this year they’re liked what he saw from ing down quarterback
Point dominating Noxu- Travorus Hatcher lead- backs run so hard that more competitive and his players in a bounce- Chrishaad Rupert, a
bee County 52-7. ing the team with two. it’s hard to think one seem more comfortable. back win against Tupelo dual-threat signal call-
Young said his de- But stopping the run person alone is going to I think the coaches did a in Week Two. er that has thrown
fense is much more ex- against West Point will bring them down.” great job coaching them “I think our guys did for 307 yards and two
perienced than a year be much more crucial On the flip side, up and getting ready to a good job of mentally touchdowns in 2020.
ago, considering nine than the pass rush Fri- West Point coach Chris play.” staying in the game and Bobby Shanklin is the
starters have returned. day, as West Point leans Chambless praised the Meanwhile, if his- sticking together and Tigers’ top threat out of
In its first two contests, on running backs Cam- Tigers’ defensive front tory is any indication, not panicking,” Cham- the backfield, running
Noxubee County has eron Young and JaKobe and said his team knows West Point has already bless said. “Against for 203 yards and five
only allowed a combined Pate, both of whom went not to take any opponent suffered its lone loss Starkville, I think our touchdowns thus far,
13 points. over 100 rushing yards lightly, despite any past for the season in its kids panicked a little including 113 rushing
“We’re going to need against Starkville, to results. season opener against bit. Against Tupelo, we yards in a 33-13 win over
our defensive line to get spearhead their rushing “They’re very quick Starkville. The Green stayed together. I liked Philadelphia last week.
us where we need to go,” attack. up front,” Chambless Wave have never been how our kids were on “We’re going to have
Young said. “We’re go- “Watching film, those said. “It’s going to pose beaten more than once the sidelines supporting to be Johnny on the spot
ing to need their experi- guys both run the ball a challenge anytime in the regular season each other and having on defense to stop them
ence from last year.” hard,” Young said. “To you face a front like the last four years. their backs.” for sure,” Chambless
The Tigers have ac- try and slow them down, that. Overall they have After falling to No. Defensively, Chamb- said.

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“He’s either going to have pect after concluding his Chubb a season ago. and one-time Michi- making some plays and “ We can draw up
the speed on somebody or high school career at Perhaps the biggest gan tailback could find having success.” plays and get you five,
the power on somebody Carver High School in question mark of those a more solidified role In 2019, just two 10 yards — I mean I
else.” Atlanta with 6,391 yards in Mele’s group is senior this fall, or next season Washington State run- could probably get two
Though Hill should be rushing, 275 yards re- Kareem Walker. Taking should he take advan- ning backs carried the and a half of those five
the bell cow in Leach’s ceiving and 554 return an academic redshirt a tage of the extra year of ball more than 20 times yards if you draw it up
inaugural season in yards, while Johnson season ago after trans- eligibility being offered all year. But with a sta- and block it up right,”
Starkville, the Bulldogs’ concluded his prep days ferring from Fort Scott to players this fall cou- ble of capable options
Mele said. “ We get
backfield should run with 1,668 rushing yards Community College in pled with Hill’s expect- both on the ground and
those guys five yards,
deeper. and 24 touchdowns de- Kansas, Walker earned ed departure. running routes out of
Freshmen Jo’quavious spite splitting time with praise from former coach “He’s a good team- the backfield, it ’s an- and then they get to
Marks and Dillon John- Oregon pledge Trey Ben- Joe Moorhead’s staff for mate — always vo- ticipated Hill and his the second level and it ’s
son have both earned son. his work on scout team. cal, joking, laughing cohort will f lash a new- their show. It ’s just fun
rave reviews through- Sophomore Lee With- A nd though Walker pro- around,” junior receiv- look identity few MSU to watch those guys do
out fall camp. Marks ar- erspoon even earned files more as a bruiser er Austin Williams said running back rooms in what they’re born and
rived at MSU as the 2020 comparisons to former than a pass-catcher, the of Walker last week. “... recent memory have talented (enough) to
class’ highest-rated pros- all-SEC performer Nick former four-star recruit I’ve seen him out there ever sniffed. do.”
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Hamels yields 3 runs in Braves debut, a 5-1 loss to Orioles
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BALTIMORE — Cole
Hamels could have easi-
ly dismissed the results,
attributing the lackluster
numbers in his Atlanta
Braves debut to rustiness
after an unaccustomed
layoff.
Instead, the 36-year-old
deemed his performance
to be well below his own
high expectations.
Pitching for the first
time since last September,
Hamels allowing three
runs to the Baltimore
Orioles before reaching
his predetermined pitch
count in the fourth inning
of a 5-1 loss Wednesday
night.
“It’s just for me it’s un-
acceptable. I’ve got to be
better,” Hamels said.
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ZITS
GARFIELD
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BABY BLUES
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
Hamels signed a one-
year contract with Atlan-
ta in December and was
expected to be a major
contributor in the rotation.
But he arrived at spring
training with a sore shoul-
der and developed triceps
tendinitis during summer
camp before being placed
on the 45-day injured list
on the eve of the season
opener.
Adding to Hamels’
frustration was that he
had made at least 20 starts
in each of his previous
14 seasons. And so, after
enduring the long, unfa-
miliar process of rehabili-
tating a significant injury,
Hamels came off the IL on
Wednesday and finally got
to work.
The four-time All Star
gave up a first-inning sin-
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gle and retired the side in
order in the second before
running into trouble in the
third. Austin Hays hit a
leadoff double and Hamels
got an 0-2 count on No. 9
hitter Andrew Velazquez
before issuing a walk.
Hanser Alberto followed
with an RBI double, José
Iglesias hit a run-scor-
ing grounder and Ryan
Mountcastle delivered a
sacrifice fly for a 3-0 lead.
After finally getting the
third out, Hamels slumped
his shoulders and took
about 10 steps toward
the dugout. He then spun
around and walked back
to the mound to pick up
his rosin bag, a habit that
probably will take some
getting used to for a pitch-
er not yet accustomed to
baseball’s new set of rules
during the pandemic.
Hamels returned to get
one out in the fourth be-
fore being removed after
his 52nd pitch. Hours ear-
lier, manager Brian Snit-
ker said he would allow
the left-hander to throw
between 50-55 pitches.
“Looks like he may
have gotten a little tired,”
Snitker said afterward.
“I didn’t expect him to be
perfect first time out.”
Neither did Hamels
(0-1), but he sure wasn’t
satisfied with giving up
three runs, three hits and
a walk.
“A three-spot is defi-
nitely not the type of
number you want to put
up,” he said. “This is
kind of the part where no
matter if it is the begin-
ning of what I’m trying
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
My husband
is currently
at a job that, at
first, he com-
plained was a
“drag.” It later
became a place
he seemed to be
OK working at.
A new male
employee was
hired — a man
who is on his
second mar-
riage — and he
became friendly
with my husband.
Dear Abby
Over the last few
months I have noticed my hus-
band texting him quite often
during his days off, including
very late at night.
One day I confronted him
after I checked his phone to
see what they were texting
and saw he had deleted some
messages, even those he had
shared with me as they were
texting. He admitted that he
had asked him about his first
marriage and divorce since we
were having some issues and
said that’s why he deleted the
messages.
When my husband starts
drinking at home, he starts
texting him, occasionally
throughout the night until he
goes to bed (it could be until
5 a.m.). He deletes all those
messages so I can’t see them.
What do you think is going on?
Even on days he is off, he goes
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Sept.
17). Of your many talents, the
one that gleams at the top of
this new cycle is your knack for
finding and making mutually
beneficial arrangements. You
bring people together and
create scenarios that only you
could. An exciting breakthrough
in your personal and financial
life happens in January. Aquar-
ius and Pisces adore you. Your
lucky numbers are: 4, 39, 2, 50
and 13.
ARIES (March 21-April
19). Competitive urges can be
exciting to follow, but there’s
risk here, too. Some of your
impulses will be to do danger-
ous things and you’ll quickly rule
to do, I’ve obviously done
this for a long time and I
need to be able to put up
zeros.”
What really counts,
though, is that Hamels is
back in action for a team
that expects to be play-
ing well into October.
“He’s been through
a lot since we started in
February,” Snitker said
before the game. “It will
be nice to have him on
our side.”
Rookie Keegan Akin
struck out nine over five
scoreless innings to earn
his first big league victo-
ry and help the Orioles
win the deciding match-
up of a three-game set
against the NL East lead-
ers.
The Braves got only
six hits — all of them
by his job to take
care of some-
thing or help out.
— SUSPICIOUS
IN TEXAS
DEAR SUS-
PICIOUS: What I
think is going on
is less important
by far than what
YOU think is go-
ing on. It appears
your husband has
found a kindred
spirit in this new
employee — or
something more.
Dumping on his
co-worker about
problems in your marriage
won’t lead to satisfactory
conclusions.
The two of you need to
resolve your issues — in-
cluding the fact that you no
longer trust him — by talking
them through with a licensed
marriage and family counselor.
Please don’t wait until the
situation deteriorates further
to consult one.
DEAR ABBY: I was involved
in a nearly fatal car accident
some years ago. My problem
is people are always telling me
I should be over it by now, and
there shouldn’t be any more
complaints or pain at this late
date.
Well, that one day changed
my life drastically. I’m still heal-
ing emotionally, not to mention
there are lifelong injuries I will
never be able to overcome. My
them out or water them down to
a more appropriate intensity.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
It’s like you’re waiting for some-
thing to happen, though you’re
not sure what since nothing
has been ordered, planned or
promised. This is your intuition
turned all the way up.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
It seems counterintuitive, but
coming across tremendous
good fortune is generally not
what makes people happy,
unless they feel that the luck
is earned. Small earned luck
brings more gladness than big
dumb luck.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
You’ll be very busy, and mainly
singles — and their lone
run scored on a balk. At-
lanta hasn’t won a series
in Baltimore since 2004.
Akin (1-1) allowed
three hits and a walk in
his fourth career start.
In his previous outing,
the lefty didn’t make it
out of the first inning of a
10-1 loss to the Yankees.
In this one, he notched
six straight strikeouts at
one point and allowed
only one runner past first
base.
“It felt good,” Akin
said. “It was real good for
the confidence after that
last start.”
Manager Brandon
Hyde said of Akin:
“That’s a real good line-
up to go five innings
scoreless. To do what he
did was impressive.”
back is in constant pain, and
I can no longer lift anything. I
also get daily horrific mi-
graines. Because of that, I lost
the best job I ever had, which
has affected me more than
anything.
People can be insensitive,
patronizing and just plain rude
if I mention any current issues
regarding my condition. Most
times I respond aggressively;
at others, I try my best not to
be offended by their lack of
empathy. While I certainly don’t
want or need pity, the fact
that my near-death experience
is shrugged off as just an
“incident” bothers me greatly.
What more can I do? Or should
I just stay silent and count my
blessings? — SURVIVOR IN
MISSOURI
DEAR SURVIVOR: There is
nothing more you can do, other
than politely refuse if you are
asked to do something that’s
now beyond your capacity. As
you have discovered, respond-
ing aggressively is counterpro-
ductive.
Because these individuals
have conveyed that they no
longer want to hear about
your accident, you may have
to confide in a willing friend
or a licensed therapist when
you need to get things off
your chest. The latter might
be more satisfying than trying
to talk to people who can no
longer tolerate hearing about
something they have no solu-
tion for.
it’s your own fault. You are
so vivacious, knowledgeable
and attractive that everyone
wants a piece of your time and
attention.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Ca-
sual elegance, kindness, world-
liness — these are qualities
you are attracted to in others,
you aspire to embody and you
are credited with today, though
maybe behind your back.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
People make decisions for the
reasons that make sense to
them. You’d love to know those
reasons. Was a choice made
out of desire or a lack of other
options? You’ll learn answers
you can bank on.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
Be careful what you acknowl-
edge in others because you
can count on getting more of it.
Focus on the kindnesses you’d
enjoy an abundance of. If you
give lots of attention to bad be-
haviors, they will continue, too.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). Today brings a suspenseful
scenario, so enjoy the exquisite
tension of mystery at play. You
could guess 12 times and still
not predict this one.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). It will be the daily kind-
nesses — feeding someone,
driving them, listening to them
— that add up to the stuff
of good relationships. Even
so, you’ll throw in the extras
because it’s so easy for you to
give in that way.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). There is no persuasion
without observation, no influ-
ence without understanding the
needs and wants of others. If
all you do is open an inquisitive
mind to the behaviors of others,
you’ll grow in influence.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). It’s like a wind-up toy:
you turn the key, set it on the
ground and release. It should be
predictable, what happens next,
but somehow it isn’t. The same
movement in a different environ-
ment changes the outcome.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). It’s the higher virtues that
call to you today — courage,
nobility, loyalty — the ones
that work as well in the modern
world as they did in more feudal
times.
Hot dog
SOLUTION:
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Business
Global stocks retreat on lack of new Fed action
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING — Global
stocks and U.S. futures
sank Thursday after the
Federal Reserve indicat-
ed its benchmark interest
rate will stay close to zero
at least through 2023 but
announced no additional
stimulus plans.
Indexes in London,
Frankfurt and other Eu-
ropean markets dropped
after Shanghai, Tokyo,
Seoul and Hong Kong all
closed lower.
The Fed said Wednes-
day it won’t raise interest
rates until inflation reach-
es 2%, which the U.S.
central bank’s own pro-
jections say won’t happen
until late 2023. Chairman
Jerome Powell promised
the Fed “we will not lose
sight” of unemployed
Americans but gave no in-
dication of new stimulus.
Markets “hoped for
the Fed to put policy mon-
ey where the mouth is”
but “ended up a tad dis-
appointed,” Mizuho Bank
said in a report. The Fed
was “long on talk and
short on action.”
Also Thursday, the
Japanese and British cen-
tral banks left their inter-
est rates unchanged and
gave no sign of more im-
minent stimulus.
The FTSE 100 in Lon-
don lost 0.5% to 6,048 and
the DAX in Frankfurt
shed 0.7% to 13,166. The
CAC 40 in Paris lost 0.7%
to 5,036.
On Wall Street, the fu-
ture for the benchmark
S&P 500 index fell 1% and
that for the Dow Jones
Industrial Average lost
0.8%.
In Asia, the Shang-
hai Composite Index
lost 0.4% to 3,270.44 and
the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo
sank 0.7% to 23,319.37.
The Hang Seng in Hong
Kong retreated 1.6% to
24,340.85.
The Kospi in Seoul
shed 1.2% to 2,406.17
while Sydney’s S&P-
ASX 200 declined 1.2% to
5,883.20.
India’s Sensex retreat-
ed 0.5% to 39,088.73. New
Zealand and Southeast
Asia markets all retreat-
ed.
Global markets have
recovered most of this
year’s losses, boosted by
central bank infusions
of credit into struggling
economies and hopes for
a coronavirus vaccine.
Forecasters warn,
however, that the mar-
ket rise might be too big
and fast considering the
uncertain economic out-
look.
U.S. investors are
counting on Congress for
a new support package af-
ter additional unemploy-
ment benefits that help to
support consumer spend-
ing expired, but legisla-
tors are deadlocked on its
possible size.
Powell said the U.S.
economy has recovered
more quickly than ex-
pected.
The Fed forecast the
economy will shrink 3.7%
this year, an improvement
over its June outlook of a
6.5% drop. The Fed pro-
jected an unemployment
rate at the end of the year
of 7.6% instead of the 9.3%
projected in June.
“A full economic re-
covery is unlikely until
people are confident that
it is safe to re-engage in a
wide variety of activities,”
Powell said.
In energy markets,
benchmark U.S. crude
oil for October delivery
rose 18 cents to $40.34
per barrel in electronic
trading on the New York
Mercantile Exchange.
The contract rose $1.88
on Wednesday to $40.16.
Brent crude oil for No-
vember delivery gained
21 cents to $42.43 per
barrel in London. It
gained $1.69 the previous
session to $42.22.
The dollar declined to
104.63 yen from Wednes-
day’s 105.01 yen. The
euro edged up to $1.1804
from $1.1801.

BUILDING PERMITS
City of Columbus
Sept. 7-11, 2020
n Joshua and Rachel Pitman;
431 Hickory Ridge; install
shop and lean-to; same
n Anthony O’Neal; 2405
11th Avenue North; renovate
residence; same
n Lehmberg Crossing
Partners LLC; 923 Alabama
Street; sign for King’s Smoke/
Tobacco; Waleed Saleh
n Granby Partners LLC;
210 5th Street South, Apts
and 8 windows; Prestige
Painters Inc.
n Ronald O Richardson; 2401
Highway 45 North, Suite B;
signs for Endless Beauty;
Prestige Painters Inc.
n Terence Seals; 1013 Shady
Street; electrical; Nell’s Elec-
trical Contractors
n Pelican LLC; 1006 3rd
Street South; electrical; Living-
ston & Sons
n Gene Coleman; 140 Rolling
Fork Drive; electrical; Weldon
Electric
set up mobile home; Bouldes
Electric
n Milan Williams; Sand Road;
move mobile home; Regional
Enterprise
n Kevin Selvie; Mike Parra
Road; set up mobile home;
West Malone,Jr.
n Kevin Selvie; Mike Parra
Road; move mobile home;
McNairy Mobile Homes
n Sinitra Hines; Plum Grove
Road; set up mobile home;
owner
n Sinitra Hines; Plum Grove
Road; construct s/f residence;
Mike McElhenny
n Mike and Stacy Robinson;
Hillbrooke Way; construct
s/f residence; Andrew Hill
Construction
LOCAL GAS PRICES
Source: gasbuddy.com
COLUMBUS
1.83 MURPHY USA
1913-A US-45 N

1 & 2; replace eight upstairs
windows; Housing Inc.
n Lori and Bernard Wilson;
n Raavi Properties LLC; 1207
Highway 45 North, Suite 1;
electrical; booker electric/
Road; move mobile home;
McNairy Mobile Homes
n Deborah Moye; 107 Jimmy
1.86 KROGER
1829 US-45 N

1.87 SPRINT
1919 Bell Avenue; repair Fire HVAC LLC Phillips Road; set up mobile
damage; Sammie Hill Con- n Anthony O’Neal; 2405 11th home; owner 712 N. 5th St.

struction Avenue North; plumbing; same n Deborah Moye; 107 Jimmy

n Thomas Michael Smith;
438 Winterset Drive; Install
LVL beam; Southern Custom
Renovations
n Golden Triangle Investment
Co Inc; 1915 North Rober-
son Street; plumbing; Tabor
Plumbing
Phillips Road; move mobile STARKVILLE
home; McNairy Mobile Homes
1.69 WALMART
n Philip White; 486 Sylvester 105 Market St.
Dr.; set up mobile home;

1.69 SPRINT MART

n Doris Bankhead; 1522 n Kegdra Gray; 337 Ponder- owner
26th Street North; refoof s/f osa Drive; plumbing; Shotz n Philip White; 486 Sylvester 817 MS-12 W

house; Miller Roofing Plumbing Dr.; move mobile home; Re-

n Jackson Square LLC; 2003
Highway 45 North; install fire
gional Enterprise
n Faith Bontrager; 5569 Hwy
1.75 SHELL
801 Blackjack Rd.

wall; Lex Jackson Lowndes County 12 E; remodel s/f residence;

n Pelican LLC; 1006 3rd Sept. 15, 2020 owner
Street South; replace drywall n Milan Williams; Sand Road; n Clay Anderson; S. Evans

US charges 5 Chinese ceedings. In unsealing three

citizens in global
hacking campaign
WASHINGTON — tration to call out cyber-
The Justice Department
has charged five Chinese
citizens with hacks target-
ing more than 100 com-
panies and institutions
in the United States and
abroad, including social
media and video game
companies as well as uni-
versities and telecommu-
nications providers, offi-
cials said Wednesday.
The five defendants re-
main fugitives, but prose-
cutors say two Malaysian
businessmen charged
with conspiring with the
alleged hackers to prof-
it off the attacks on the
billion-dollar video game
industry were arrested in
Malaysia this week and
now face extradition pro-
The indictments are
part of a broader effort
by the Trump adminis-
crimes by China. In July,
prosecutors accused
hackers of working with
the Chinese government
to target companies de-
veloping vaccines for the
coronavirus and of steal-
ing hundreds of millions
of dollars worth of intel-
lectual property and trade
secrets from companies
across the world.
Though those allega-
tions were tailored to the
pandemic, the charges
announced Wednesday —
and the range of victims
identified — were sig-
nificantly broader and in-
volved attacks done both
for monetary gain but
also more conventional
espionage purposes.
related indictments, offi-
cials laid out a wide-rang-
ing hacking scheme
targeting a variety of
business sectors and ac-
ademia and carried out
by a China-based group
known as APT41. That
group has been tracked
over the last year by the
cybersecurity firm Man-
diant Threat Intelligence,
which described the
hackers as prolific and
successful at blending
criminal and espionage
operations.
The hackers relied on
a series of tactics, includ-
ing attacks in which they
managed to compromise
the networks of software
providers, modify the
code and conduct further
attacks on the companies’
customers.
SOURCE: AP
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moved. 662−364−0552. $20 each. 662−386−4707 Five Questions:
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