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City converts
all debt to ‘If this is all we get to do, it means a lot’
private, risking
credit rating,
transparency
Refinancing results in
savings, but move to all
private debt ‘extremely
rare’ according to
bond expert
BY YUE STELLA YU
syu@cdispatch.com

Columbus may
lose its credit rating
by the end of the
month due to delayed
disclosure of its Fis-
cal Year 2019 audit
report, according to
an Oct. 1 press re-
Smith
lease from Moody’s
Investors Service, a rating agency
that assesses the city’s borrowing
credibility each year.
However, just days after that re-
lease, a city decision to refinance
its only publicly-rated debt as a
private bond made Columbus even
having a credit rating irrelevant,
city officials said.
Dubbed a “cost-saving” mea-
sure, the city of Columbus has re-
financed its only publicly-offered
debt as private placement — a fi-
nancial mechanism that typically
leads to a lower cost of issuance but
requires less disclosure of finan-
cial information to its bondholders.
The council unanimously voted
Oct. 6 to refinance roughly $5 mil-
lion in debt — the remaining out-
standing amount of a $8.9-million
general obligation bond issue from
2010 for street paving — as private
placement to pursue a lower inter-
est rate. The new interest rate will
be a fixed 1.98 percent, much lower
than the 4-percent interest rate, at
which the city currently pays, The
Dispatch reported.
The refinancing, city officials
said, will save $310,000 in interest
payments and $40,000-$50,000 in
cost of issuance.
By keeping all its debt bonds pri-
vately-placed, Mayor Robert Smith
announced last week that the city
no longer needs a credit rating —
a measure that informs the public
See DEBT, 6A
Isabelle Altman/Dispatch Staff
Terra Robinson and her daughters, Luxury Wordlaw, 14, and Tyerria Bryant, 21, wait by their car on Yellowjacket
Drive in Starkville for the Starkville High School parade Thursday night. The parade is one of the few major home-
coming events that still happened after both the football game and dance were canceled, the latter in response to
surging COVID-19 cases in Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District.
Starkville homecoming parade without game
highlights district’s attempts to balance safety
with normalcy as virus surges
BY ISABELLE ALTMAN to put on if other people got close.
ialtman@cdispatch.com Though a friend honked their horn
at Robinson as they drove by and
It’s a tradition for Terra Robinson Robinson waved in response, her
and her family to attend Starkville
family kept their distance from oth-
High School’s homecoming parade
er people gathered in small clusters
every year.
to watch the parade, which ended a
Robinson, a second grade teacher Isabelle Altman/Dispatch Staff
week full of surging COVID-19 cas- Joni, Michael and Aidan Prescott,
at Henderson Ward Stewart Elemen-
es throughout the Starkville-Oktib- 11, pose together in front of the
tary School, said she often has a fam-
ily member or someone she wants to beha Consolidated School District. Starkville High School baseball fields
support participating in traditional The football team is quarantined before the school’s annual homecom-
for two weeks after five people as- ing parade Thursday night. Joni and
high school homecoming activities. Michael’s other son, sophomore Joel,
This year, it was two nieces in the sociated with the program tested
positive for the virus, Athletic Di- plays trumpet in the band, and his
homecoming parade. parents said the parade may be their
So on Thursday night, she and rector Greg Owen said in a letter to only chance to see him march this
her daughters parked on the side of parents. That was after the home- year thanks to the COVID-19 pandem-
Yellowjacket Drive, walking distance coming game, originally scheduled ic causing event cancellations.
from the high school, and waited for for this Friday, was canceled due to
the familiar parade of cheerleaders, the team’s opponent, Murrah High SOCSD Superintendent Eddie Peas-
band students and floats to round the School’s, district canceling their ant wrote in an email to parents.
corner and march the last few yards sporting events. SOCSD Public Information Offi-
of the parade route to the school. The high school girls basketball cer Nicole Thomas said there were
But this year was different than team is also in quarantine due to 11 cases of the virus district-wide as
years before. She and her daugh- positive tests, and an entire elemen- of Thursday — the highest number
ters had face masks in the car ready tary class is having to quarantine, See SHS, 3A

‘I didn’t allow cancer to define me’

Mississippi State’s Nikki McCray- feast. Elder members of the
household played cards,
Mississippi Penson carries on her mother’s spirit McCray-Penson and her
cousins raced down the
State head
coach Nikki in shared bouts with breast cancer BREAST CANCER sidewalks, jumped fences
McCray-Pen- AWARENESS MONTH and, yes, played basketball,
son lost her BY BEN PORTNOY mother, Sally Coleman, pre- before everyone headed
mother, Sally bportnoy@cdispatch.com pare food for the following home for the night between
Coleman, to day. Her job, she said, was

E
6:30 and 7 p.m.
breast cancer ach October, Missis- to always lick the bowls of “I was very close to my
in July 2018, sippi State head wom- whatever remnants there
while she en- aunts, my uncles, my cous-
en’s basketball coach were of that week’s cake mother had 13 children,
dured her own ins,” she said. “Those are
Nikki McCray-Penson batter. went to Sunday school at
battle with the like my best friends.”
thinks back to the Sundays Sundays always adhered St. Mark’s Baptist Church
disease from Cemented firmly in
November of her youth. to a similar structure. The in Collierville, Tennessee.
the center of McCray-Pen-
2013 through The evening prior, Mc- cousins, of which there Regular services followed.
son’s youth was Coleman.
April 2014. Cray-Penson stayed up late were plenty given that The family then gath-
Courtesy photo into the night helping her McCray-Penson’s grand- ered in the afternoon for a See MCCRAY-PENSON, 3A

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Debate Takeaways: Round 2

highlights policy over petulance
For Trump, the matchup at Tennessee’s Belmont
University on Thursday was perhaps the final
opportunity to change the dynamics of the race
BY BILL BARROW AND ZEKE MILLER
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President
Donald Trump and Democratic
challenger Joe Biden met for the
second and last time on a debate
stage after a previously scheduled
town hall debate was scrapped after
the Republican incumbent became
one of the millions of Americans to
contract the coronavirus.
For Trump, the matchup at Ten-
nessee’s Belmont University on
Thursday was perhaps the final
opportunity to change the dynam-
ics of a race dominated, much to
his chagrin, by his response to the
pandemic and its economic fallout.
For Biden, it was 90 minutes to so-
lidify an apparent lead less than two
weeks before the election.
Here are key takeaways:
COVID-19 still a drag for Trump
Trump’s difficulty articulating
a defense of his handling of the
coronavirus remains a drag on his
campaign. The opening topic of the
debate was entirely predictable —
Trump has received variations of
the same question in interviews and
has rarely delivered a clear answer.
Asked to outline his plan for the
future, Trump instead asserted his
prior handling was without fault
and predicted a rosy reversal to the
pandemic, which has killed more
than 223,000 people in the United
States.
“We’re rounding the turn, we’re
rounding the corner,” Trump
claimed, even as cases spike again
across the country. “It’s going
away.”
Biden, who has sought to prose-
cute Trump’s handling of the virus
in his closing pitch to voters, came
prepared. “Anyone who’s responsi-
ble for that many deaths should not
remain as president of the United
States of America,” he said.
Biden added: “He says we’re, you
know, we’re learning to live with it.
People are learning to die with it.”
Trump attacks Obamacare, again
Trump and Biden each sought
to position himself as the defender
of American’s health care, keenly
aware that it ranked among the top
issues for voters even before the
coronavirus pandemic struck the
nation.
But Trump’s efforts to repeal and
undermine the Obama-era Afford-
able Care Act proved to be a liabil-
ity, as Biden hammered his efforts
to strip coverage from tens of mil-
lions of Americans and his lack of a
plan to cover those with preexisting
conditions.
Biden, by contrast, fended off
Trump’s attack that his plan to re-
inforce the Obama-era law with a
“public option” amounted to a step
toward socialized medicine by re-
lying on his well-established pub-
lic persona — and his vanquishing
of Democratic primary rivals with
more liberal health care policies.
“He thinks he’s running against
somebody else,” Biden said. “I beat
all those other people.”
Trump tones it down
Three weeks after drawing bi-
partisan criticism for his frequent
interruptions and badgering of his
Democratic rival, Trump adopted a
more subdued tone for much of the
debate.
Trump took to asking moderator
Kristen Welker for the opportuni-
ty to follow up on Biden’s answers
— “If I may?” — rather than just
jumping in, and he thanked Welker
repeatedly to boot.
From the first question, this de-
bate seemed different from round
one, when Trump’s incessant inter-
ruptions and flouting of time lim-
its derailed the 90-minute contest
from the outset.
Sure, there still were digs.
“We can’t lock ourselves up in
a basement like Joe does,” Trump
said, reprising his spring and sum-
mer attacks on Biden staying at his
residence rather than campaigning
in-person amid the pandemic.
Biden smirked, laughed and
shook his head. He mocked Trump
for once suggesting bleach helped
kill coronavirus.

GOP-led Senate panel advances Barrett as Democrats boycott

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ident Donald Trump’s pick
on track for confirmation
WASHINGTON — before the Nov. 3 election.
Senate Judiciary Commit- Democratic senators
tee Republicans powered refused to show up in pro-
past a Democratic boycott test of the GOP’s rush to
Thursday to advance Amy install Trump’s nominee
Coney Barrett’s Supreme to replace the late Justice
Court nomination to the Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
full Senate, keeping Pres- Never has the Senate con-
firmed a Supreme Court
nominee so close to a pres-
idential election.
All 12 Republicans on
the committee voted in fa-
vor of Barrett, a conserva-
tive judge. No-show Dem-
ocrats left behind posters
at their desks of Ameri-
cans they say have bene-
fited from the Affordable
Care Act, now being chal-
lenged at the high court.
Senators plan to convene
a rare weekend session
before a final confirmation
vote expected Monday.
“Big day for America,”
Trump tweeted after the
committee vote.
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SHS
Continued from Page 1A
of cases in one week since the
school year began, Peasant said
in his email.
Now, SHS Principal Howard
Savage said, school administra-
tors have canceled the tradition-
al homecoming dance.
“Everything was going so
great at a particular time, but
now we’ve had some cases,” he
said. “We think it’s just best not
to have that many students out
there (at) a dance.”
While parents and other on-
lookers gathered on Yellowjack-
et Road waiting on the parade
Thursday night didn’t seem too
worried about the virus — at
least not worried enough to stay
home instead of watching the
parade — many of them wore
masks even when not within
six feet of others and many of
the small groups of families and
friends stayed away from other
groups.
“We’re disappointed (about
the football team), but we kind
of figured due to COVID and
practicing without masks and
stuff like that,” Robinson said.
“But we’re disappointed be-
cause so much (has) already
been taken away. But we under-
stand due to safety reasons and
things like that. I was excited
they still continue with home-
coming.”
Madison Shultice, a senior
maid in SHS’s homecoming
court, and her friend Audrey
McReynolds said they were
glad to be involved in the pa-
rade at all, given they hadn’t
known what events they could
expect going into their senior
year of high school in the mid-
dle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I was obviously sad that
it would be different and I
wouldn’t get the entire senior
experience, but I did expect to
have some sort of homecom-
ing,” Shultice said after the
parade, standing alongside the
car she’d waved from on the
route from Lynn Lane to Yel-
lowjacket Drive. “But we’ve ac-
tually gotten to do more than I
thought we would end up being
able to do.”
“I think they’re just trying
to make sure we can stay away
from people as much as possible
and try to have as many events
outside as we can,” McReynolds
agreed. “That’s why this was
able to happen. Everyone was
outside, distanced.”
Loss of student culture
The surge in cases, com-
bined with 400 of SHS’s 1,067
students already being virtu-
al-only, means students are
missing out on traditional parts
of high school culture, Savage
said.
“I always try to put myself
in the shoes of a student,” he
said. “When I was a student,
these things were so important.
I’m 44 years old, and I can still
remember my homecoming
dance. I remember graduating,
and I remember my mom yell-
ing my name and how it made
me feel.”
It’s particularly relevant in
light of last year, when students
finished out the spring term vir-
tual-only and major events like
prom and traditional in-person
graduation were canceled.
“Students have had to deal
with a tremendous loss of their
culture and their experience at
high school, and (through) no
fault of their own,” Savage said.
“I think part of our job as edu-
cators and as leaders in educa-
tion is to try to give them some
sense of normalcy where we
can, where it’s safe within the
guidelines.”
With that in mind, Savage,
student leadership and dis-
trict administrators all wanted
to hold what events they still
could.
For students, that meant
thinking outside the box when
it came to planning homecom-
ing and other events, said Sara
Fraza, a special education
teacher and the student council
adviser at SHS.
“With everything that hap-
pened in the spring time ...
the kids, when we brought up
homecoming, they seemed a lit-
tle sad and they thought that we
couldn’t do anything,” she said.
“Once we talked about thinking
outside the box and trying to
come up with different ways to
still have fun but try to do it in
a more distanced or safe way,
then they started to perk up
and got excited about thinking
about things.”
The homecoming parade
ended up being one of the eas-
ier events to plan since it was
outdoors, she said. Though the
parade moved from its tradition-
al downtown route to a shorter
one closer to the school, stu-
dents still could decorate their
floats, with the understanding
that there would be a limited
number of people on each float
and that they would be wearing
masks.
For other events, she said,
students and staff had to think
about venue. A traditional bas-
ketball game between students
and teachers that is typically
held in a “packed” gymnasium
turned into an outdoor dodge-
ball game. The school play went
from being an in-person event
to a virtual one streaming on
YouTube. During next week’s
dress-up day — part of a tradi-
tional homecoming week — vir-
tual students will be able to par-
ticipate by uploading pictures of
themselves in their costumes.
Where events simply can’t
be held because of safety, ad-
ministrators have tried to put
something in their place. Sav-
age said the budget that would
have gone to a homecoming
dance will instead go to a spring
dance currently scheduled for
March. The homecoming court
will be presented at 6 p.m. next
week at the SHS football field
in a ceremony where everyone
will be socially distanced and
wearing masks.
“Kids are so happy to be
back in school,” Savage said.
“Behaviors are great. Their re-
sponse to learning in the class-
room is great. And we just want
to build on that by trying to give
them some sense of normalcy.”
Appreciating ‘some’ normalcy
Parents, too, said they were
happy about that sense of nor-
malcy at the parade.
Joni and Michael Prescott,
whose son Joel is a sophomore
trumpet player in the band, said
the parade may be the only time
they get to see their son march
this year. Joel was also excited,
they said.
“He wanted to make sure
that we were here,” Michael
said.
They said they weren’t nec-
essarily worried about surging
cases of the virus — in fact,
they originally had their chil-
dren enrolled for virtual learn-
ing and changed their mind
after the semester had already
begun, to allow the students
more interaction with teachers
and friends.
Both he and Joni said they
thought school officials had
been doing a good job bal-
ancing normalcy with safety.
When Michael drops Joel and
his younger brother Aidan off
at their schools every day, staff
members are there ready to
check students’ temperatures,
and everyone is wearing a mask
— more reminders that this
year is different than previous
years.
“I appreciate the fact that
they’re still trying to do some
type of normalcy,” Joni said.
Even without homecoming
games and dances, the parade
is important, McReynolds and
Shultice said.
“Not knowing if we’d get to
do something was terrible,”
Shultice said. “It being our last
year, I was literally emotional
about it because I thought we
wouldn’t get to do anything, so
it means a lot to just do this. If
this is all we get to do, it means
a lot.”

McCray-Penson
Continued from Page 1A
The two were close. Mc-
Cray-Penson notes she
gets a lot of her personal-
ity from the family matri-
arch. It’s part of the rea-
son Coleman’s death in
2018 after a second bout
with breast cancer that
arose just four and a half
years after McCray-Pen-
son’s own diagnosis hit so
hard.
“She was a hard work-
er, loving, caring,” Mc-
Cray-Penson said. “Every-
body loved to be around
my mom. She was just
kind of like a beacon of
light.”
‘She was as brave as
anyone could be’
McCray-Penson’s per-
sonal battle with breast
cancer began in Novem-
ber 2013 when she no-
ticed a lump while taking
a shower.
Then an assistant at
South Carolina under
Dawn Staley, she men-
tioned what she had
found to another assistant
coach. Urged to get the
lump checked out on Fri-
day, she was in the doc-
tor’s office the following
Monday.
McCray-Penson under-
went lengthy testing, in-
cluding an ultrasound and
biopsy. The following day
she was diagnosed with
breast cancer.
“I think for about one
hour, I cried for every
single second — hard,”
she said “After that, (I)
just started to have a plan
of attack. Got a team to-
gether that gave me a lot
of confidence. Got a lot of
opinions about which way
to go, and I never looked
back. I didn’t allow cancer
to define me.”
In the weeks that fol-
lowed, McCray-Penson
endured a volatile cock-
tail of treatments — radi-
ation and chemotherapy
among them.
When she received
her chemotherapy treat-
ments, Staley and asso-
ciate head coach Lisa
Boyer were always by Mc-
and McCray-Penson’s re-
lationship dated back to
the United States Olympic
teams of the mid-1990s.
Still a college standout
when she first played with
Team USA’s senior squad,
McCray-Penson and Sta-
ley shared the same back-
court during gold medal
runs at the 1996 and 2000
Olympics in Atlanta and
Sydney, Australia, respec-
tively.
Among Staley’s first
hires after she was of-
fered the head coaching
job at South Carolina,
McCray-Penson, Boyer
and assistant coach Carla
McGhee even lived in Sta-
ley’s house upon arrival in
Columbia, as no one else
on staff had secured a
home at the time.
“I had to talk Nikki
into some things because
she would second-guess
it, and she knows me from
being that way with her,”
Staley said in April of
coaxing McCray-Penson
into taking an assistant
job with her. “I am just
like, ‘Let’s go. There’s
no black and white. You
know what we’ve got to
do.’”
During McCray-Pen-
son’s treatments, Staley
always kept a watchful
eye over her friend. She
scheduled practices
around McCray-Penson’s
appointments to ensure
she could be a presence
on the floor.
“(Staley) kept it normal
for me,” McCray-Penson
said. “And I just really
appreciate that because
being in a chair (receiv-
ing chemo) and them be-
ing at practice would’ve
been hard, especially for
six months you’re doing
that.”
The 2013-14 season
proved a breakout one for
the Gamecocks. Staley,
Boyer and McCray-Pen-
son helped guide the
program to the Sweet 16,
its best postseason result
since an Elite Eight more
than a decade earlier.
On March 10, the final
Associated Press Top 25
ery day to get better.”
A mother’s
(second) battle
The revelation Cole-
man had been diagnosed
with breast cancer in 2006
was shocking. The impact
was felt even harder when
she was re-diagnosed in
2018.
Having just complet-
ed her first season as the
head coach at Old Domin-
ion, McCray-Penson was
toiling through a rebuild
at a once-proud program.
Under head coach Wendy
Larry, the Monarchs won
17 Colonial Athletic Asso-
ciation championships be-
tween 1987 and 2011. Old
Dominion even reached
the national championship
game in 1997, losing to
Tennessee and legendary
coach Pat Summitt.
But with her mother
stricken with breast can-
cer for the second time,
McCray-Penson took a
leave of absence to be with
the woman who raised
her. In the months that fol-
lowed, Coleman entered
hospice care in Collier-
ville. From April until her
death in July, McCray-Pen-
son was by her mother’s
side just as Staley and Boy-
er had been by hers.
Coleman shared
countless stories with
her daughter and the
slew of family members
who visited in her final
months. During a time
that could’ve been marred
by sorrow, instead there
were laughs and smiles.
Each waning moment was
cherished.
“You’re just really hold-
ing on to every second,”
McCray-Penson said.
“And just taking advan-
tage of the time that you
have together and enjoy-
ing every minute.”
A legacy to be carried
Perched behind the
podium in the underbelly
of Humphrey Coliseum,
McCray-Penson steps
before a camera to share
thoughts on the Bull-
departure of Vic Schae- ments are getting better one day they find a cure,”
fer to Texas. An 886-mile and women are beating McCray-Penson contin-
move from Norfolk, Vir-
ginia, to Starkville amid
cancer every day. ued. “That would be my
“I just pray and hope hope.”
the COVID-19 pandemic
ensued.
A little more than two
years on from her moth-
er’s death, McCray-Pen-
son remains an advocate
for breast cancer research.
During an Oct. 10 excur-
sion to the nail salon, she
and a handful of her play-
ers had their nails painted
pink as a nod to the dis-
ease — the second-most
commonly occurring can-
cer in women, according
to the National Library of
Medicine.
Perhaps most impor-
tantly, McCray-Penson
also serves as the keeper
of Coleman’s memory —
the late Saturday nights
licking leftover cake bat-
ter out of the bowl and the
recurring Sunday family
gatherings in Collierville.
“Anytime you’ve gone
through an experience
you have an opportunity
to share,” she said. “A lot
of women go through this
every day and just to be
able to share that they’re
not alone (and) that treat-
SOLUNAR TABLE
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Cray-Penson’s side. poll of the year ranked dogs’ first week of prac- peak-feeding times for fish and game.
Fri. Sat.
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anyone could be,” Boy- the country. Just a few season. Donning a pink- Major 6:57a 7:51a
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er told The Dispatch in weeks later, McCray-Pen- tinged shirt as a nod to Courtesy of Mississippi Department
of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks
April. “She was really a son’s cancer was declared breast cancer awareness

fighter. I can’t say enough
about her … will to fight
through things and to
handle the situation. She
never brought that to the
office. She never missed a
day at work.”
Then in their sixth sea-
son in Columbia, Staley’s
in remission following
roughly six months of
treatment.
“It wasn’t about feeling
sorry for (me) — it was
not that,” McCray-Pen-
son said. “We just played
hard. We loved each oth-
er. We just competed ev-
month, it’s also a subtle
reminder of the impact
the disease has had on her
life.
The past few months
have been anything but
normal. McCray-Penson
was hired by MSU in early
April following the sudden
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OUR VIEW
The best Halloween ever is within our grasp
H
alloween is just eight
days away and falls on a
Saturday, which under
normal circumstances would be
ideal — no school-day bedtimes
and the whole day to celebrate.
Halloween parties and trick-
or-treating are not likely to be
the focal point of the holiday
this year. Columbus Mayor Rob-
ert Smith has asked people to
forgo trick-or-treating, and we
suspect other area mayors will
do the same. Additionally, many
of us will feel safer staying away
from larger Halloween parties.
But being cautious doesn’t
have to mean being boring.
With the right creative spirit,
Halloween this year has the
potential to be transformed and
improved.
Every holiday tradition - in-
cluding those we associate with
Halloween, began with a novel
idea, a new wrinkle, a spirit of
adventure.
With eight days to prepare,
parents have plenty of time to
re-imagine the holiday for their
home-bound kids.
The possibilities are endless.
You can gather around the
fire-pit in the backyard and tell
ghost stories, perhaps helping
children discover new stories
and letting them share their
favorites around the fire.
For those longer-term Co-
lumbus residents who know the
legend, perhaps it’s a good night
for a drive down “Three Legged
Lady Road.”
In lieu of trick-or-treating,
drive around and look at deco-
rations then bring the kids to
the kitchen and help them make
their own candies and treats.
Another car-bound idea is to
make the short drive to Carroll-
ton, Alabama to see the “face
in the courthouse window.” A
marker there will explain the
legend.
Invent stories, based on
the kids costumes, that can be
staged as living-room plays for
children and parents to act out
(Parents are always good in the
role of “unwitting victim”).
Play games, watch scary
movies.
With a little imagination,
families have an opportunity to
rewrite the script for Halloween.
Who knows? Some of these
2020 concessions to the pan-
demic may evolve into new
family traditions that will live in
the memories of children — and
adults — throughout their lives.
The lesson for Halloween
— like for most of this year —
could be that the key to a happy
life is not so much what hap-
pens, but how you respond to
what happens.
This Halloween has the po-
tential to be the best ever.
Don’t waste the opportunity.

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Supports medical marijuana ballot initiative
I have one thing in common with Czar Nicholas
II. We both had hemophiliac sons. The Czar granted
enormous power to a monk, because the monk was
mysteriously able to ease his son’s suffering. Today,
he could have expelled Rasputin and used opiates
and marijuana. Hemophilia is an agonizing disease,
especially for adults. My son avoided opiates (they
left him muddled and dull, and were addictive) and
his pain was heartbreaking. Then Michigan legal-
ized medical marijuana. Marijuana is less effective
than opiates, but it dramatically reduced his pain,
without brain fog.
There are many medical conditions that mari-
juana helps. Nausea from chemotherapy is one. My
partner’s son has multiple sclerosis. Marijuana both
reduces pain from MS and reduces spasms from the
disease. He now lives in a place with legal medical
marijuana.
My mother had shingles. Her pain was so severe
that she considered severing the nerves in the afflict-
ed arm. Marijuana made her pain bearable.
I will vote for Proposition 65. It is a no brainer.
Just Prop 65, not Prop 65A.
Bill Gillmore
Columbus
Editor’s note: Sunday’s Dispatch will contain sam-
ple ballots for the upcoming election in addition to an
analysis of Mississippi ballot measures.

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The DOJ is taking the gloves off against Big Tech

T
he internet has been
a powerful source of
innovation and opportu-
nity in the half-century since
the first electronic message
was sent between experimental
nodes at UCLA and Stanford.
And in some industries, it
remains a great equalizer —
giving upstart creators and
service providers the sort of
access that used to be the
exclusive province of big corpo-
rations.
That’s why policymakers in
the United States have been
loath to intervene online,
worried that any rules they set
would be counterproductive
or quickly rendered obsolete
by the rapid pace of change.
“Don’t regulate the internet”
became a frequent rallying cry,
and for the most part, lawmak-
ers and governmental agencies
handled the emerging online
powerhouses with kid gloves.
The gloves have now
officially come off. The U.S.
Department of Justice filed
a much-anticipated lawsuit
Tuesday accusing Google of
abusing its dominant position
in online search and advertis-
ing to cement its market power.
The lawsuit, which was joined
by 11 state attorneys general,
is likely to be just the first
in a salvo of antitrust cases,
legislative proposals, rule-mak-
ings and other governmental
initiatives to rein in Big Tech
companies.
We won’t prejudge the Jus-
tice Department’s allegations
that Google unfairly blocked
competitors and raised the cost
of online advertising to the
detriment of consumers across
the country. But we can’t help
but notice the similarities be-
tween the case against Google
and the Justice Department’s
successful antitrust lawsuit
against Microsoft in the late
1990s, when the software giant
used its deals with computer
manufacturers for the Win-
dows operating system to
impede competition in the
emerging areas of web brows-
ers and digital media players.
According to the Justice De-
partment’s complaint, Google
has used exclusive contracts
with manufacturers and mobile
phone services to make sure
Google would be the default
search service on browsers
and mobile devices, and to
guarantee that its apps would
be placed prominently on prod-
ucts’ screens. This conduct led
it to control more than 90% of
the searches, the complaint
alleges, while also buttressing
its dominant position in online
advertising.
Google defended its actions
and argued that consumers are
free to choose other services
for their searches.
Failing a negotiated settle-
ment, the courts will ultimate-
ly decide whether Google’s
behavior crossed the legal line.
But with California and three
dozen other states still inves-
tigating Google, there will
almost certainly be more cases
filed, just as there are more
concerns about the company
than the Justice Department
addressed, including whether
Google competes unfairly
by favoring its own products
(such as YouTube and Google
Maps) in its search results,
and whether Google inappro-
priately uses its advertising
network to boost its own prod-
ucts by collecting data from
consumers on competitors’
sites.
The lesson of the Microsoft
case that seems apt here is not
that it’s illegal to be big and
successful. It is that once a
company reaches that pinna-
cle, the aggressive tactics it
used to grow and succeed can
no longer be used to maintain
its dominance. Monopolies
aren’t necessarily illegal —
efforts to preserve them are.
That’s why antitrust author-
ities at the state and federal
level are also scrutinizing
Facebook, which has a track
record of trying to gobble up
or crush companies that could
compete with its social net-
work, and Amazon, which has
been accused of competing
unfairly with the many small
and midsize businesses that
sell products and services
through its platform. Apple has
come under the microscope
too even though its products
aren’t the top sellers in any
category; its critics say the
company is extracting unfairly
high fees from the companies
that want to make and sell apps
for Apple’s iPhones and iPads.
And then there is the flak
that Twitter, Facebook and
YouTube (which, like Google,
is owned by Alphabet) have
taken for the way they limit
what users can say or post on
their platforms. No one would
care about these companies’
policies if their platforms
hadn’t grown to such an epic
global scale. But they are such
powerful amplifiers of speech
that some Republicans want to
regulate them to ensure that
they don’t discriminate against
content from conservatives,
offering potentially damaging
fixes to a dubious problem;
and some Democrats want to
regulate them to ensure that
they aren’t filled with misin-
formation, a real dilemma that
defies easy solutions.
Meanwhile, California is
leading the push by states to
give consumers more control
over the personal data that
have become the internet’s
unofficial currency. The more
that consumers learn about
how their data are being used
online, the more demand there
will be for stronger privacy
protections.
For Big Tech, it’s a reck-
oning that’s been a long time
coming. The internet is still
capable of supporting vigorous
competition and a free-flowing
exchange of ideas, and rapidly
changing technology still has
the potential to disrupt mar-
kets and topple once-dominant
corporations. But as much
as lawmakers and regulators
need to keep those realities in
mind, they also need to make
sure dominant companies
don’t leverage their power
to choke off competition and
leave consumers with too few
good alternatives and too little
innovation.
Los Angeles Times
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STARKVILLE —
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In addition to her par-
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siblings, Mary Thomas
and Bobbie Jackson
both of Columbus; and
five grandchildren.
Rickey Hines
COLUMBUS — Rick-
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Grave-
In addition to his
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children, Dyamin Bow-
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both of Columbus; and
siblings, Nancy Taylor
of Joliet, Illinois, Cassie
Taylor, Barbara Dodd
both of Columbus and
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Lisa Heath
Memorial Services:
Friday, Oct. 30 • 11 AM
Calvary Baptist Church
Burial
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College St. Locaiton
Betty Weaver
Services:
Saturday, Oct. 24 • 11 AM
Main Street Presbyterian Church
Burial
Friendship Cemetery
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Alan Keith Brown, 56,
died Oct. 19, 2020, at his
residence.
Memorial services
were at 4 p.m. Thursday,
at Otts Funeral Home
Chapel, with Jeff Chaf-
fin and Dallas Garrett
Bozeman officiating.
Otts Funeral Home of
Sulligent was in charge
of arrangements.
Mr. Brown was born
Nov. 11, 1963, in Amo-
ry, to the late Hubert
Brown and Maurine
Stone. He attended Sul-
ligent Schools and was
formerly employed as a
truck driver.
He is survived by his
children, Sasha Brown
of Foley and Erin Roseo-
ny of Chicago, Illinois;
stepchildren, Teresa
dria Lillie Dionne Ware Hines
services
and LeeAnn Herscher; will be at 1
mother, Willie Mae p.m. Saturday, in Chris-
Colquitt; sister, Karen
tian Hill M.B, Church
Ware; and one grand- Cemetery of Brooks-
child.
ville, with the Rev. Bob-
by Bowen officiating.
Willie Lyons Visitation is from 2-6
COLUMBUS — Wil- p.m. today, at Carter’s
lie Mae Lyons, 67, died Funeral Services. Car-
Oct. 13, ter’s Funeral Services of
2020. Columbus is in charge
Grave-
of arrangements.
side Mr. Hines was born
services Jan. 27, 1966, in Macon,
will be at to Archie Lee Taylor
11 a.m. and Daisy Mae Pippins.
Saturday, He was a graduate of
in Memo- Lyons Noxubee County High
rial Gar- School. He was formerly
dens, with Rene Reed employed with Colum-
officiating. Visitation is bus Fence Company
from 2-6 p.m. today, at and was a member of
Carter’s Funeral Ser- Christian Hill M.B.
vices. Carter’s Funeral Church.
Jonathan Lovelady
Visitation:
Saturday, Oct. 24 • 1-2 PM
Beersheba Cumberland
Presbyterian Church
Services:
Saturday, Oct. 24 • 2 PM
Beersheba Cumberland
Presbyterian Church
Burial
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Presbyterian Church Cemetery
College St. Location
Henry Basinger
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Does the flu vaccine af-
fect my chances of getting
COVID-19?
The flu vaccine protects
you from seasonal influen-
Henry Basinger
Henry Conner Basinger, 88,
of Caledonia passed away on
Wednesday, October 21, 2020,
at Baptist Memorial Hospital in
es have such similar early Columbus.
symptoms that people who Services will be Saturday,
get the flu may mistakenly October 24, 2020, at 4:00 P.M.
think they have COVID-19, with visitation at 3:00 P.M. at
said Dr. Gregory Poland, the 2nd Avenue North location
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midst of the coronavirus
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ing at 6 months of age, and
suggests getting it by the
end of October.
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cine will not cause you to fall
ill with the flu, and that the
protection it provides takes
about two weeks to kick in.
Betty Weaver
Mrs. Betty Greenhaw Weaver, age 80, of
Columbus, MS, passed away October 19, 2020, at
The Arrington.
Funeral services will be Saturday, October 24,
2020, at 11:00 AM at Main Street Presbyterian
Church with Rev. Todd Matocha officiating.
The interment for family and close friends will
immediately follow at Friendship Cemetery.
Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home &
Crematory 903 College St. location is in charge
of arrangements.
Breck Ladd officiating.
Mr. Basinger was born on January 30, 1932, to
the late Arthur Leo Basinger and Beulah Nixon
Basinger in Columbus, MS. He was also preceded
in death by his first wife, Mary Emma Blair
Basinger; his second wife, Georgia Catherine
Sanders Basinger; his sisters, Elizabeth
Basinger, Elise Smith, Edith Blanchard and
Peggy Cash; his brothers, Arthur Basinger, Jr.,
Thomas Basinger and Billy Basinger.
Mr. Basinger is survived by his daughter, Anna
Couch (Bobby) and granddaughter, Kendall
Couch all of Caledonia; his grandsons, Clint
Couch (Haley) of Laurel and Matt Couch of Biloxi;

Jonathan Lovelady
Jonathan Maurice Lovelady, age 32, of
Birmingham, AL, passed away October 21, 2020,
in Birmingham, AL.
Funeral services will be Saturday, October
24, 2020, at 2:00 PM at Beersheba Cumberland
Presbyterian Church with Rev. Tim Lee
officiating. The interment will immediately follow
in Beersheba Cemetery. Visitation will be from
1:00 PM until the time of the service. Memorial
Gunter Peel Funeral Home & Crematory 903
College St. location is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Lovelady was born April 4, 1988, in
Birmingham, AL. He worked in the construction
business for a number of years.
Survivors include his fiancé, Sarah Brogden
of Woodstock, AL; father, Maurice Lovelady
of Columbus, MS; mother, Shirley Dupree of
Brierfield, AL and her husband Charlie Provost;
son, Josiah Brogden of Alabaster, AL; daughters,
Zella Gilmore and Emma Gilmore both of
Woodstock, AL; brothers, Timothy Dupree and
Dallas Martin; paternal grandparents, Rachel
and Bill Heywood of Columbus, MS; maternal
grandparents, Betty and Billy Dupree of
Alabaster, AL; and good friend, Luke Parker.
Pallbearers will be family and friends.
Memorials may be made to the Beersheba
Cemetery Fund, 1736 Beersheba Rd., Columbus,
MS, 39702.
Betty was born October 13, 1940, in Boonville,
MS, and grew up in Columbus, MS. She
graduated from S. D. Lee High School in 1958
and M.S.C.W. in 1962. One week after graduation,
she married Robin Weaver, Jr., her husband of
58 years, and worked as a legal secretary before
dedicating time to raising three boys. Betty was
a life member of the Columbus Junior Auxiliary.
She enjoyed singing in the church choir with her
husband, the Women in Church, the BSF study
group, Belle Fleur Garden Club, and spending
time with her eleven grandchildren. Betty was a
wonderful woman who was extraordinarily kind
to all who knew her.
She was preceded in death by her father,
William C. Greenhaw; and her mother, Maxine
Greenhaw Graham.
Betty is survived by her husband, Robin
Weaver, Jr.; her siblings, Judi Godsey and Larry
Greenhaw; children, Bill Weaver of Chicago, IL,
Stan Weaver of Atlanta, GA and Steve Weaver of
Memphis, TN; eleven grandchildren, Elizabeth
Crosetti, Hannah Leonard, Thomas Weaver,
Andrew Weaver, Jonathan Weaver, Austin
Weaver, Brooks Weaver, Adam Weaver, Brad
Weaver, Megan Weaver and Jennifer Weaver;
and one great-grandson, George Crosetti.
Pallbearers will be her grandsons.
Memorials may be made to Main Street
Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 26, Columbus,
MS, 39703, or to the charity of your choice.
his sister, Ida Mae Rose of Center Moriches, NY;
and his sister-in-law, Sara Basinger of Warner
Robins, GA. He was Uncle Henry to 14 nieces
and nephews, 24 great-nieces and nephews and
21 great-great nieces and nephews.
Henry Basinger was a graduate of S.D. Lee
High School and Mississippi State University
where he received a degree in accounting.
While in college, Henry played on the MSU
baseball team. He was nicknamed “Buck” by his
teammates.
Mr. Basinger honorably served his country on
active duty in the United States Air Force from
1951-1955. He retired from the United States Post
Office after 32 years of service. He was a member
of the National Association of Letter Carriers for
over 50 years serving as president for several
years. After retirement, Mr. Basinger worked
briefly as a bailiff for Lowndes County. He was a
member of Kolola Springs Baptist Church.
Always a Bulldog, Henry enjoyed watching
MSU sports. He loved fishing and listening
to gospel music. Most of all, he enjoyed
spending time with his family, especially his
granddaughter, Kendall.
Pallbearers will be Bill Basinger, Cliff
Basinger, Randy Fotinakes, Jonathan Fotinakes,
Tim Sewell, Jackie Jones and Christian Pearson.
Honorary pallbearers will be employees of the
United States Post Office.

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and investors the risk of
the city’s payback ability.
Smith said in an Oct.
10 statement that is not
the reason why the city
refinanced its bonds as
private placement. In-
stead, he said, retroac-
tively rating all the city’s
debts does not make “eco-
nomic sense.” He prom-
ised the city will pursue a
rating when it returns to
the public market.
“If it makes economic
sense to secure a rating
on future bonds of the
city, you can be assured
that the city will seek a
rating on those bonds,”
he said.
While city officials say
the move will save the city
hundreds of thousands of
dollars in issuance, in-
terests and rating fees,
studies and investment
experts say that private
placement bonds could
lead to reduced transpar-
ency under less stringent
disclosure requirements,
whereas publicly-offered
debt offers more investor
protection.
It is not uncommon for
municipalities to pursue
private placement bonds,
said Dennis Hunt, head of
public finances and vice
president of Stephens
Capital, Inc., an Arkan-
sas-based investment
banking firm. However,
it is very “rare” for a mu-
nicipality to have all its
debt privately placed, he
said. For example, both
the city of Starkville and
Lowndes County hold a
mix of publicly-offered
and privately-placed
debts, Starkville’s Alder-
man Sandra Sistrunk and
County Administrative
Officer Jay Fisher told
The Dispatch.
“Of the issuers we
deal with, it is extremely
rare (to have all its debt
privately placed),” Hunt
said. “If you looked at
all issuers in the United
States, it’s probably ...
less than 5 percent (of the
issuers) have exclusively
privately placed debt.”
Publicly-rated versus
privately-placed
When issuing mu-
nicipal bonds, a city can
either issue the debt to
investors on the public
market — including indi-
viduals and institutional
investors such as insur-
ance companies, banks or
corporations — or direct-
ly issue them to private
investors, who are usual-
ly institutional investors
with industry knowledge,
according to a Stanford
University study in 2017.
The city’s bond issu-
ance process is the same
regardless of whether
the bond is publicly-of-
fered or privately placed,
City Attorney Jeff Tur-
nage told The Dispatch.
AROUND THE STATE
Voters to decide whether
to relocate Confederate
monument
HATTIESBURG — Vot-
ers will have a voice is de-
ciding whether to relocate
a Confederate monument
that’s outside the Forrest
County courthouse.
The Hattiesburg Ameri-
can reports the referendum
was placed on the Nov.
3 ballot after the Forrest
County Board of Supervi-
sors couldn’t agree on what
to do with the monument in
June.
The monument question
on the ballot reads: “Please
vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’ on wheth-
er the Confederate monu-
ment should be moved to
a more suitable location.”
The non-binding measure
is meant to give supervi-
sors guidance on where
their constituents stand.
Hattiesburg Mayor Toby
Barker and City Council
members have voiced their
opposition to the monu-
ment remaining downtown,
but the city doesn’t have
any authority to move it.
A municipal bond dealer,
or “underwriter,” often
reaches out to dozens of
potential bond buyers
on behalf of the city and
takes bids from them,
said Lindsey Rea, man-
aging director of invest-
ment banking firm Ray-
mond James’ Mississippi
branch, which served as
underwriter for the city’s
private placement bond
issuance.
The underwriter pri-
vately determines the
lowest and best bid and
presents the bid to the
city, she said. The council
then votes publicly on the
issuance, and the infor-
mation disclosed to the
public — including the in-
terest rate and the princi-
pal and interest payment
schedule — is the same
as done in public offer-
ings, she said.
However, publicly of-
fered bonds are subject
to more stringent rules
to disclose financial in-
formation to investors,
which offers them more
protection, according to
studies and investment
experts.
With publicly-offered
bonds, governments are
required to disclose to its
investors certain finan-
cial information, such as
the purpose of the issu-
ance, how the debt will be
repaid and the financial
standing of the issuer,
according to the web-
site of Municipal Securi-
ties Rulemaking Board
(MSRB), an organization
that regulates the munic-
ipal bond market. They
are also required to make
“continuing disclosure,”
which means they have
to disclose after the issu-
ance certain operating in-
formation, notices about
specific events affecting
the issuer, the debt or the
project the money is used
for, according to the web-
site.
The disclosure offers
public investors vital pro-
tections, said Mark Kim,
chief executive officer of
MSRB.
“When state or local
governments issue bonds
publicly, there are im-
portant investor protec-
tions in place to ensure
transparency,” Kim told
The Dispatch in a state-
ment last week. “(MSRB)
operates the free Elec-
tronic Municipal Market
Access (EMMA) website
as the official platform
through which state and
local governments dis-
close important informa-
tion to investors and the
market. This information
includes annual financial
disclosures and period-
ic disclosures of events
that could have a material
impact on a state or local
government’s ability to
repay investors.”
With private place-
ment bonds, however,
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issuers often also do not
have to go through an as
stringent disclosure pro-
cess — such as continu-
ing disclosure — because
the debt is generally sold
to only one or two inves-
tors who are “sophisti-
cated” institutions such
as banks, Hunt said. The
cost of issuance is there-
fore lower than what the
issuer would pay on pub-
licly-offered bonds, he
said.
“The mere fact that
you don’t have to do …
disclosure, which is a
requirement under most
public offerings, that is
eliminated.” Hunt said.
Municipalities usually
find private bonds “attrac-
tive” because of “fewer
disclosure requirements
and issuance costs,” ac-
cording to the Stanford
University study, but
that can also bring about
transparency concerns.
“Reduced disclosure
requirements are of par-
ticular concern, because
information about a mu-
nicipality’s debt affects
its creditworthiness as
determined by ratings
agencies and potential
and current investors,”
the study states.
Another study pub-
lished by Moody’s in
2014 identified a growing
number of municipalities’
use of private placement
bonds over the years.
The trend and the lack of
timely disclosure that fol-
lowed are alarming, the
study states.
“(I)ssuers have not
provided consistent dis-
closure of the details of
private financings,” the
study says. “Even in cas-
es in which a private fi-
nancing does not include
provisions that increase
risks to other creditors,
absence of disclosure un-
dermines proper risk as-
sessment.”
In response to the
concerns voiced by local
residents
on social
media, Tur-
nage told
The Dis-
patch Oct. 9
he does not
have any
concern re- Turnage
garding the
city’s financial transpar-
ency or loss of its credit
rating.
“The public will still
have our audit report.
They can review that,” he
said. “I’m not too worried
about that.”
State law requires
municipalities to submit
their audit reports to
the state auditor’s office
within the calendar year
following the end of each
fiscal year. Yet, the city’s
audit reports for FY 2018
and 2019 have suffered
delays, and findings from
the 2018 audit resulted
in former Chief Finan-
cial Officer Milton Rawle simply will wait until they invest in debts issued by
being charged with em- get their audit,” he said. the municipality without
bezzling $290,000 in city “They will turn in the au- knowing the risk.
funds. dit to the rating agency “If bondholders real-
and then the rating agen- ize that this is a recurring
Credit rating cy restores the rating for situation,” he said, “then
The city’s decision to that particular municipal- their willingness to buy
refinance the bonds also ity.” bonds from that issuer in
came days after Moody’s Municipalities without the future is probably im-
threatened to withdraw a credit rating are usually pacted.”
the city’s credit rating faced with higher inter- Smith said Oct. 10 he
for insufficient informa- est rates, Hunt said. But was confident the city’s
tion. The rating agency compared to debt issuers, credit rating would not
relies on the city’s audit- bondholders are more have dropped if the city
ed financial information likely harmed by the re- hadn’t switched to pri-
each year to reassess the moved rating, because vately-placed bonds.
rating, Moody’s spokes- an unrated debt is hard “The city had no rea-
person David Jacobson to trade if they are trying son to believe that the
told The Dispatch. Co- to sell the bonds, he said. 2010 Bonds were going
lumbus officials have not If the withdrawal is a re- to be downgraded,” he
disclosed the city’s Fiscal curring problem, he said said. “... There is no need
Year 2019 audit report to potential bondholders on to retroactively rate any
the public market will of the city’s bonds as that
the agency, he said, and
also likely be less incen- would not benefit the city
failure to submit it by the
tivized in the long run to in any way.”
end of October will lose
the city its credit rating.
“If it does not give us
this data by the end of
the month, we are going
to have to withdraw the
rating because we don’t
have data that we need to
properly see if the rating
is correct,” Jacobson said.
Credit rating agen-
cies, such as Moody’s,
regularly assign ratings
to municipal debt issu-
ers like Columbus. The
ratings help current and
potential bondholders in
the public market deter-
mine the risk level of the
city’s repayment ability.
Downgrades in the rating
could affect the city’s bor-
rowing capacity as well as
interest rates, Jacobson
said.
Moody’s rates cit-
ies’ credit risk level on
tiers Aaa, Aa, A, Baa,
Ba, B, Caa, Ca, and C.
Each category has three
levels. Due to a plunge
in its general fund bal-
ance and mounting debt,
Moody’s downgraded Co-
lumbus’ rating from A1,
the highest rating in the
“upper-medium low risk”
category, to A3 in 2018.
That is three notches low-
er than the median rating
for a city in the United
States, which is Aa3, Ja-
cobson said.
Chief Operations Offi-
cer David Armstrong told
The Dis-
patch the
d is clos u re
process
is delayed
due to vari-
ous reports
the city
needs to Armstrong
file during
the COVID-19 pandemic.
Turnage told The Dis-
patch Oct. 9 the FY 2019
audit report was under
review by the State Audi-
tor’s Office.
It is not uncommon for
a rating agency to with-
draw credit ratings for
municipal issuers and
restore the ratings when
they disclose the audited
finances, Hunt said.
“Oftentimes, the city
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New Hope expecting — not just hoping for — win over Lafayette
BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
New Hope football
coach Wade Tackett still
feels like his team can
hang with anyone.
The Trojans have done
it all season, after all.
“We’ve been in every
single game until the end
this year,” Tackett said
Thursday. “For various
reasons, we haven’t been
able to pull it off.”
Self-inflicted wounds
have been a major prob-
lem for New Hope (2-5),
which has three games
left to play this season.
But Tackett pointed out
that his team is barely
over halfway in MHSAA
Class 5A, Region 1 play
so far — with a strong run
to close out the season,
the Trojans can create
enough “chaos” to make
the playoffs.
That postseason push
begins today with a home
game against Lafayette
(5-2), which holds the tie-
breaker over Center Hill
for the No. 1 spot in the
region. Tackett said he’s
worried by the strength of
the Commodores’ defen-
sive line — one of the best
in Class 5A — and said
other coaches have told
him Lafayette’s defense is
the best in the region.
The Trojans certain-
ly remember that from
last year’s contest, which
was switched at the last
minute from Friday to
Saturday and from New
Hope to Oxford because
of weather. With injuries
New Hope quarterback Ty Crowell (9) scrambles before throwing an incomplete pass in the first quarter against
Saltillo on Oct. 8 in New Hope. Crowell and the Trojans have lost two consecutive games, but New Hope feels
confident headed into Friday’s home game against Lafayette.
mounting and a tough
matchup in Lafayette
quarterback — and Class
5A “Mr. Football” winner
— Randy Anderson, the
Commodores notched a
28-7 win.
“We played hard for
four quarters, gave them
a bit of a scare,” Tackett
said.
This time, the Trojans
don’t feel “outmatched”
like they did last October
and think they will “get
over that hump” and pull
off the win today.
“We’re expecting a vic-
tory,” Tackett said. “We
don’t go out there just
hoping.”
Heritage Aca. (6-2)
at Washington
School (1-7)
Heritage Academy
came out flat against La-
mar School on Oct. 9 in
Meridian after a bye the
prior week.
So coach Sean Harri-
son knows he has to get
his players prepared for
the first-round playoff bye
they’ll soon be facing.
The Patriots travel to
Greenville today to take
on Washington School, a
team they beat 51-0 last
year, in the final game of
the 2020 regular season.
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By virtue of clinching the
district last week with a
27-18 win over Starkville
Academy, Heritage Acad-
emy will get a week off
before hosting a game in
the second round of the
playoffs.
“Hopefully, we’ll go
over there and do what
we’re supposed to do
and then jump right back
in it next week to keep
the competitive level up
to be ready for the sec-
ond-round game,” Harri-
son said.
Harrison said his
players will have to be
“self-starters” and main-
tain the motivation need-
ed to beat the Generals,
a team the coach said is
still talented despite inju-
ries that have come at the
expense of victories this
year.
“We can’t just show up
and win,” Harrison said.
“We’re going to have to
go do our job.”
South Pontotoc (4-3)
at Caledonia (2-4)
Caledonia coach Mi-
chael Kelly isn’t exact-
ly sure what it will take
for his team to make the
Class 4A playoffs this
year.
“I just know we need
to win each and every
week,” Kelly said. “We’ll
let the standings and stuff
take care of itself after the
end of the season.”
The playoff picture
is certainly muddled by
Caledonia’s 37-12 home
loss to Pontotoc last week
in a game in which dis-
tractions and other things
got in the way, Kelly said.
“Our kids didn’t play
very well last week,” the
coach said. “We didn’t ex-
ecute very well.”
That will have to
change tonight against
South Pontotoc in Caledo-
nia’s final home game of
the season.
“Our kids need to
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GIANTS 21
Wentz rallies
Philly to win
over Giants
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHILADELPHIA —
Hurried, harassed and
hit repeatedly, Carson
Wentz completed the
comeback this time.
Wentz threw an 18-
yard touchdown pass to
Boston Scott with 40 sec-
onds remaining and the
Philadelphia Eagles over-
came an 11-point deficit
in the final seven minutes
to beat the New York Gi-
ants 22-21 on Thursday
night.
Wentz led a depleted
offense to 22 fourth-quar-
ter points only to miss a
2-point conversion at the
end in a 30-28 loss to Bal-
timore on Sunday.
Morton quietly becomes dominant postseason pitcher
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARLINGTON, Texas — Charlie Morton
has slowly and quietly become one of the
most dominant postseason pitchers ever.
He starts World Series Game 3 for the
Tampa Bay Rays on Friday night with a
chance to tie Orlando Hernandez’s record of
eight consecutive winning postseason deci-
sions, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
By beating the Los Angeles Dodgers and
winning his sixth straight postseason start,
he would move within one of Bob Gibson’s
record.
How unlikely for a pitcher traded by Pitts-
burgh for a minor leaguer five years ago, a
right-hander who turns 37 in three weeks
and didn’t make his first All-Star team until
2018,
“I do not wake up in the morning and say
it’s my time to shine. I would say that I wake
up in the morning and I question if I’ve done
what I was supposed to do to get ready for
what I’ve been asked to do,” Morton said. “I
wake up with the humble recognition that
what I’m about to do is an opportunity that
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
not many people get to experience, and I try
to prepare for it just like that.”
Ace Walker Buehler starts for the Dodg-
ers, who won the opener 8-3 and were beaten
6-4 in Game 2. While there is no travel in the
first neutral-site World Series, the teams had
the day off, giving bullpens some recovery
time.
Both teams decided against full workouts,
though some players threw in Globe Life
Field’s outfield under the closed roof and a
few pitched off mounds in the bullpens.
Morton beat Houston on Saturday in
Game 7 of the AL Championship Series at
San Diego, allowing two hits in 5 2/3 score-
less innings to become the first pitcher with
victories in four winner-take-all games. He
pitched Houston over the New York Yankees
in Game 7 of the 2017 ALCS and the Dodg-
ers in Game 7 of the 2017 World Series, then
signed a $30 million, two-year contract with
the Rays after the 2018 season and defeated
Oakland in the 2019 AL wild card game.
Morton is 3-0 with a 0.57 ERA in this
year’s postseason, allowing 11 hits in 15 2/3
innings with 17 strikeouts and four walks.
“He’s definitely a postseason stud,” Rays
manager Kevin Cash said. “I think it’s the
approach, the demeanor that he takes. You
don’t see any difference. You don’t see any
anxiety. It’s very much a been-there, do-
ne-that approach. And if you see anything,
it’s that he has a knack for finding that extra
gear.”
He was 46-71 through his first nine big
league seasons with Atlanta, Pittsburgh and
Philadelphia, overcoming Tommy John sur-
gery in 2012 and hip operations in 2012 and
2015. He is 47-18 since.
Morton was limited to four starts in 2016
by a torn left hamstring, then signed a $14
million, two-year deal with Houston, which
noticed his average sinker velocity had in-
creased by about 2.5 mph to nearly 95 mph.
The Astros encouraged him to increase fast-
ball use from less than 5% to about 30%, and
he went 29-10 with a 3.36 ERA for Houston
and made the All-Star team twice. He en-
tered Game 7 of the 2017 Series at the start of
the sixth inning, struggled with his first four
batters, then retired the final 11 Dodgers in
order in a 5-1 win.

He wouldn’t be denied
against the Giants.
“He battled, faced
adversity and hung in
there,” Eagles coach
Doug Pederson said.
“He’s taking a step in the
right direction to be one
of the top quarterbacks in
the league.”
Daniel Jones shook off
a stumble that prevent-
ed him from an 88-yard
touchdown run and had
the Giants leading 21-10
following a 2-yard pass
to Sterling Shepard with
6:17 left.
But Wentz rallied an
offense missing eight
starters. His 3-yard pass
to Greg Ward cut it to 21-
16. After the 2-point con-
version failed, the Eagles
got the ball at their 29
with 2:02 to go.
Wentz completed
passes of 11 and 30 yards
to Richard Rodgers. On
third down from the 5, a
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Big Ten, like other leagues, might see sloppy play to start
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “You’ve heard the
stories about a couple
The Big Ten will start of teams not doing any
playing football at what live tackling going into
normally would be mid- the game. I don’t think
season. I needed to hear that to
Don’t expect the teams know that that’s proba-
to be in midseason form. bly not a good idea,” Ne-
The pandemic limited braska coach Scott Frost
or eliminated most spring said. “Obviously, you
practices across the coun- don’t want to get a punt
try. Positive COVID-19 blocked. That’s cost some
tests and precautions, people some games.”
along with uncertain- According to Associ-
ty about whether there
ated Press and NCAA
would even be a season, research comparing sev-
caused disruptions in en-week averages this
summer workouts and season with the 2019
preseason practices. full-season averages, pen-
As a result, confer- alties are up 7.6% nation-
ences that started their ally and blocked kicks or
seasons before the Big punts are up 38%.
Ten saw a lot of early The per-team scoring
games filled with gaffes average of 30.3 points is
on special teams and poor more than a point higher
tackling, among other than it was last season
problems. and slightly ahead of the
record of 30 points per
game in 2016. The total
offense average of 412
yards is on pace to be the
second-highest since the
NCAA started keeping
records in 1937, behind
417 yards per game in
2016.
“There does appear to
be a lot of high-scoring
games, that’s pretty obvi-
ous. Entertaining games,”
Indiana coach Tom Al-
len said. “As a defensive
coach, it’s rough to watch
sometimes. When we
were in the pandemic pe-
riod, you couldn’t do a lot
of defensive things. We
couldn’t do seven-on-sev-
en, so that favors the of-
fense. You couldn’t tackle
during the pandemic. So I
think there’s a lot of vari-
ables.”
Clemson and Alabama,
the Nos. 1 and 2 teams in
the Top 25 and the dom-
inant programs of the
2010s, are both averaging
double-digit missed tack-
les for the first time since
Pro Football Focus began
tracking that statistic in
2014.
Wisconsin safety
Collin Wilder, whose
team opens Friday night
against Illinois, said when
he has watched games,
he’s noticed drop-offs in
tackling and communica-
tion among defenders.
“Obviously, because
of all the COVID proto-
cols and the delay of the
season, I’m sure (for) ev-
erybody across the board
tackling is one of the
toughest things to work
on during that time off,”
Wilder said. “The big-
gest thing that I want us
as a defense to do is just
to make sure that right
from the gate, that we can
tackle really well, that we
can tackle consistently.
I think that’s going to be
one of our biggest chal-
lenges because that’s just
what the pattern is show-
ing in college football
right now.”
No. 5 Ohio State, which
opens at home against
Nebraska on Saturday, is
considered the Big Ten’s
best hope of making the
College Football Playoff.
Coach Ryan Day won’t
predict how sharp his
Buckeyes will be.
“I feel like it’s been
so long since we played
a game,” he said. “Some-
times you don’t know, just
trying to figure out what
kind of team you have.”
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CALENDAR
Today
Prep Football
Columbus at West Point,
7 p.m.
Heritage Academy at Wash-
ington School, 7 p.m.
Lafayette at New Hope, 7
p.m.
South Pontotoc at Caledo-
nia, 7 p.m.
Okolona at West Lowndes,
7 p.m.
Choctaw County at Noxu-
bee County, 7 p.m.
Columbus Christian Acad-
emy at Calhoun Academy,
7 p.m.
Winona Christian at Oak
Hill Academy, 7 p.m.
Humphreys Academy at
Hebron Christian, 7 p.m.
Saturday
College Football
Auburn at Ole Miss, 11
a.m.
Southern Miss at Liberty,
noon
Alabama at Tennessee,
2:30 p.m.
Women’s College Soccer
Missouri at Mississippi
State, 6:30 p.m.
ON THE AIR
Today
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
6:30 p.m. — Tulsa at
South Florida, ESPN
7 p.m. — Illinois at Wis-
consin, BTN
7 p.m. — Louisiana (Lafay-
ette) at UAB, CBSSN
GOLF
4 p.m. — PGA Tour: the
Zozo Championship,
Second Round, Sherwood
Country Club, Thousand
Oaks, Calif., GOLF
MLB BASEBALL
7 p.m. — World Series: LA
Dodgers vs. Tampa Bay,
Game 3, Globe Life Field in
Arlington, Texas, FOX
Saturday
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
11 a.m. — Nebraska at
Ohio State, FOX
11 a.m. — Oklahoma at
TCU, ABC
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Continued from Page 1B
make sure they play well,
and we need to execute on
all cylinders to give our-
selves a chance to win,”
Kelly said.
Like Caledonia, South
Pontotoc saw a lot of
growth from last season
to this one. Caledonia
won the matchup between
the two 62-21 last season,
but the Cougars are much
improved, Kelly said, and
they’ll pose a tough test
today.
“We need to rise up to
the challenge,” Kelly said.
Okolona (1-6) at
West Lowndes (4-3)
Because of injuries at
the quarterback position,
West Lowndes had to
change its entire offensive
philosophy.
With starter Melvin
Crawford Jr., backup Mar-
quez Shelton and even
third-stringer Fredrick
Rice all banged up, coach
Anthony King traded in
the Panthers’ spread of-
fense for a power running
game.
So far, it’s paid off.
West Lowndes has posted
a 48-26 win over Smith-
ville and a 37-7 blowout of
Noxapater.
Tonight, the Panthers
will test their new offense
again when they host
Okolona, currently win-
less in district play. King
admitted he knows his
team can’t take anything
for granted after a 28-13
win over the Chieftains
last year that was close all
the way through.
With three home
games to go, West Lown-
des still has a shot at the
No. 2 seed in Region 2-1A
and a first-round playoff
game at home, so the Pan-
thers hope to continue
their success today.
“It’s homecoming, so
we just want to get out
there and try to get this
win,” King said.
Choctaw County (5-2)
at Noxubee County
(4-1)
Noxubee County coach
Teddy Young is well aware
Choctaw County will be
out for revenge against
Young’s Tigers tonight in
Macon.
After the Tigers beat
the Chargers in last year’s
Class 3A state semifinal,
it’s to be expected, Young
said.
“They’re going to have
a chip on their shoulder
coming into tomorrow
night’s game,” he said
Thursday.
As the defending north
state champion, Noxubee
County has seen plenty
of teams gunning for an
upset win over the Tigers
this season. Only one
school — West Point —
has succeeded, though
that victory was hardly an
upset.
Choctaw County man-
aged to knock off Noxu-
bee County in Ackerman
during the 2019 regular
season, with the Tigers
heavily victimized by
turnovers.
Young said ball secu-
rity and winning in the
trenches will be funda-
mental once again today.
“If we take care of the
football and win at the line
of scrimmage, we’ll give
ourselves a good chance
of winning that game,” he
said.
Columbus Christian
Aca. (1-8) at Calhoun
Aca. (4-4)
Columbus Christian
Academy wraps up its
regular season tonight in
Calhoun City.
The Rams, coming off
a 32-12 home loss to He-
bron Christian School,
will be on the road at Cal-
houn Academy this week.
The Cougars have a
.500 record featuring wins
over Hebron, West Mem-
phis Christian School (Ar-
kansas), Prentiss Chris-
tian School and Kemper
Academy. They’ve lost to
Lee Academy (Arkansas),
Delta Academy, North
Sunflower Academy and
DeSoto School (Arkan-
sas).
Winona Christian (7-2)
at Oak Hill Aca. (3-5)
Oak Hill Academy like-
ly secured a playoff berth
with last week’s win over
Central Holmes Christian
last week in Lexington.
The Raiders can head
into the postseason on a
hot streak by beating Wi-
nona Christian tonight in
West Point.
Winona has two
straight victories after a
loss to Carroll Academy
on Oct. 2. The Stars also
lost to Indianola Academy
on Sept. 18.
Humphreys Aca. (7-2)
at Hebron Christian
(3-6)
Hebron Christian
rounds out the regular
season at home against
Humphreys Academy to-
day.
The Eagles are com-
ing off their road win
at Columbus Christian
Academy to take on Hum-
phreys, which started 6-0
before losing two of its
next three games to Man-
chester Academy and Del-
ta Streets Academy.
Hebron is currently the
No. 11 seed in Class 2A
and is likely to play on the
road in the first round of
the playoffs.
Thursday’s score
Pickens Academy
(Ala.) 33, Meadowview
Christian (Ala.) 14

11 a.m. — N.C. State at
North Carolina, ESPN
11 a.m. — Kansas at
Kansas State, FS1
11 a.m. — Auburn at Ole
Miss, SECN
11 a.m. — Rutgers at
Michigan State, BTN
11 a.m. — Syracuse at
Clemson, ACCN
11 a.m. — Georgia South-
ern at Coastal Carolina,
ESPNU
1 p.m. — Tulane at Central
Florida, ESPN2
2:30 p.m. — Alabama at
Tennessee, CBS
2:30 p.m. — Notre Dame
at Pittsburgh, ABC
2:30 p.m. — Iowa State at
Oklahoma State, FOX
2:30 p.m. — Baylor at
Texas, ESPN
2:30 p.m. — Penn State
at Indiana, FS1
2:30 p.m. — Houston at
Navy, CBSSN
2:30 p.m. — Iowa at
Purdue, BTN
3 p.m. — Kentucky at
Missouri, SECN
3 p.m. — Georgia Tech at
Boston College, ACCN
4:30 p.m. — West Virginia
at Texas Tech, ESPN2
6 p.m. — South Carolina
at LSU, ESPN
6 p.m. — Utah State at
Boise State, FS1
6 p.m. — Wyoming at
Nevada, CBSSN
6:30 p.m. — Michigan at
Minnesota, ABC
6:30 p.m. — Maryland at
Northwestern, BTN
7 p.m. — Virginia at Mi-
ami, ACCN
7 p.m. — Louisiana Tech
at UTSA, ESPNU
8 p.m. — Cincinnati at
SMU, ESPN2
9:15 p.m. — Texas State
at BYU, ESPN
9:30 p.m. — UNLV at San
Diego State, CBSSN
9:30 p.m. — Air Force at
San Jose State, FS1
Sunday
NFL FOOTBALL
Noon — Pittsburgh at
Tennessee, CBS
Noon — Carolina at New
Orleans, FOX
3:25 p.m. — San Francis-
co at New England, CBS
7:20 p.m. — Seattle at
Arizona, NBC
NFL
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defensive holding penal-
ty gave the Eagles a first
down at the 3. But three-
time All-Pro center Ja-
son Kelce was called for
a facemask penalty that
pushed it back to the 18.
No big deal.
Wentz threw a per-
fect strike to Scott and
the backup running back
made an excellent catch
to give Philadelphia the
lead. The 2-point conver-
sion failed, but Jones was
sacked by Brandon Gra-
ham and fumbled on the
ensuing possession.
“We never faltered. We
never panicked. We knew
we were gonna win,” Scott
said. “Carson led us and it
was a great team effort.”
The Eagles (2-4-1) and
Giants (1-6) are right in
the mix in the NFC East,
led by Dallas (2-4).
“This was huge for us,”
Wentz said. “The NFC
East is wide open.”
Wentz threw for 359
yards and two TDs and
ran for a score. He was
sacked three times and
absorbed several hits.
Jones had only the end
zone ahead of him away
when he took off running
from the Giants 12 in the
third quarter. He was well
ahead of everyone chas-
ing him until he stumbled
and got tackled before he
could get up at 8.
A pass interference
penalty against Nickell
Robey-Coleman on third
down gave the Giants an-
other try, and Wayne Gall-
man ran in from the 1 to
give them a 14-10 lead.
Jones’ 80-yard run was
the longest by a Giants
quarterback and tied for
the fourth-longest in team
history.
The Giants ended up
losing a game they led
by 11-plus points in the
fourth quarter for the
first time since they blew
a 31-10 lead and lost 38-31
to the Eagles on DeSean
Jackson’s punt return TD
on Dec. 19, 2010.
“The focus is not frus-
tration. The focus is on
correcting mistakes and
moving forward and that’s
where we have to steer it
as a team,” Giants coach
Joe Judge said.
Jones threw a 39-yard
TD pass to Golden Tate
in the first quarter. He
also had a pick and two
turnovers. Evan Engram
dropped a third-down
pass in Philadelphia’s ter-
ritory that would’ve pre-
vented the Giants from
punting the ball to the
Eagles for their go-ahead
drive.
“One hundred percent
I have to make that,” En-
gram said. “We definite-
ly let one get away. It’s
just not a good feeling.
We played a great fourth
quarter and at the end we
didn’t finish.”
Questionable play-call-
ing cost the Eagles ear-
ly in the fourth quarter.
Wentz completed a 40-
yard pass to Travis Ful-
gham and the Eagles
reached the 7 when Ja-
len Hurts came in to run
an option and gained no
yards. After Wentz ran to
the 3, Pederson went for it
on fourth down. The call
was a fade to No. 5 tight
end Hakeem Butler, who
has no career catches. Lo-
gan Ryan broke it up.
The Giants then drove
97 yards to take a 21-10
lead.
Using a no-huddle of-
ten on the opening drive,
Wentz led the Eagles 75
yards and ran in from the
1 for his fifth TD rush-
ing to make it 7-0. Wentz
scrambled 3 yards on
fourth-and-1 to keep the
drive going and connect-
ed with Richard Rodgers
for 18 yards to the 1 to set
up the score.
But the Eagles revert-
ed to their mistake-prone
ways until the final 6 1/2
minutes.
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GOLF
Munoz in the lead and Woods with his worst score at Sherwood
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the first time in his 1,277 had a hot finish. Hatton and a few bad breaks
rounds on the PGA Tour won the European Tour didn’t help his cause. He
THOUSAND OAKS, as a pro, he made bogey flagship event at Went- pushed his tee shot on the
Calif. — The scorecards or worse on three par 5s worth, flew to Las Vegas par-5 11th to the right,
of Sebastian Munoz and in a single round. That led for the CJ Cup and tied normally not a big deal
Tiger Woods were unusu- to a 4-over 76 — by two for third. Thomas shot 29 except the ball stopped
al for different reasons shots his worst score in on the back nine at Sher- rolling in the dirt between
Thursday in the Zozo 49 rounds at Sherwood wood. They each had a 65. two trees about 18 inches
Championship at Sher- Country Club — that left Whether it was shock- apart. Woods couldn’t be-
wood. That was only good him 12 shots out of the ing to see Woods so far lieve it when he got to his
news for one of them. lead and in no mood to back on this course is a ball and wasted no time
Munoz twice holed out talk. matter of perspective. inverting a sand wedge to
for eagle from a combined Munoz, the Colombi- He is a five-time winner hit out left-handed.
distance of 219 yards. He an who played his col- at Sherwood, along with That didn’t make it
also had eight birdies. lege golf at North Texas, five runner-up finishes, back to the fairway, and
Throw in a wild tee shot finished off his bizarre against small fields in a the rough is thicker than
for double bogey, three round by saving par from holiday exhibition. He he ever saw it in the 12
bogeys and only five pars a narrow section of the was playing only his third previous times playing
and it added to an 8-under front bunker with a 15- competitive round in the Sherwood in Decem-
64 and a one-shot lead. foot putt on the 18th hole. last seven weeks, and his ber. The course recent-
“Not a normal round,” He was one shot ahead first since missing the cut ly over-seeded with rye
Munoz said. of Tyrrell Hatton, the hot- in the U.S. Open a month and the grass is thick, as
That especially was test golfer this month, ago. it was at Shadow Creek.
the case for Woods. For and Justin Thomas, who The rust was evident, He laid up from there and
Comics & Puzzles
DILBERT
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY: I
was married
for more
than 30 years and
have two grown
children. The mar-
riage wasn’t per-
fect, and I admit
there were times
when I badly want-
ed to walk out the
door. My husband
was charismatic
ZITS and talented, but
he was also an
addict. I covered
up most of his bad
behaviors so our Dear Abby
children would
be protected from being hurt.
He passed away suddenly. My
children adored him but never
really knew how hard it was for
me to keep our family together.
Fast-forward to today: I am
dating an old family friend I’ll
call “Jeff,” who knew my hus-
band well. He saw my spouse at
GARFIELD his best and his worst, so I don’t
have to sugarcoat my feelings
with him. My issue is, I was so
hurt during my marriage that I
have a hard time trusting any-
one. My anxiety is sometimes
overwhelming.
Jeff is supportive and under-
standing and loves me despite
my emotional behavior at times.
My adult children are upset that
I am dating and try to make
me feel bad about it, which
CANDORVILLE
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct.
23). Inspired by strange muses,
you’ll veer from predictable
outcomes and make a series of
incredibly interesting choices.
You’ll enjoy new relationships of
all kinds. In a most satisfying
turn at the start of 2021, an old
story gets a twist. You’ll have
command of something you
never thought you would. Aries
and Sagittarius adore you. Your
BABY BLUES lucky numbers are: 8, 18, 3, 33
and 10.
ARIES (March 21-April
19). Whatever the issue, at
its very root, it’s as old as a
people is. What’s been written
about it? Look it up and you’ll
find that the problem has been
as well-addressed in the last
decade as it was in the last
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
FAMILY CIRCUS
made bogey.
On the par-5 13th, he
sent his tee shot again
to the right, partially
blocked by a tree. He
tried to gouge out a mid-
iron and it didn’t make it
to the second section of
fairway. Another vicious
swing from thick grass
advanced it only 130
yards to a bunker some
50 yards to the hole. The
sand shot didn’t quite
reach the green. His putt
from 55 feet didn’t reach
the hole He made double
bogey.
And then on the par-
5 16th, a tee shot down
the right side took a wild
bounce to the right, and
a marshal carefully going
down the bank toward the
creates more
stress. I don’t
want them to
know all the hell
I went through,
but at the same
time, I don’t think
their belittling me
is appropriate.
Is there a tactful
way to explain
to them that I
just want to be
happy and have
the freedom to
move forward? —
READY FOR THE
FUTURE
DEAR READY:
A polite, but assertive, way to
convey your message might be
to say: “I have just one life to
live, kids, and I intend to live it
to the fullest. Jeff and I are old
friends — he’s not a stranger.
I don’t need your approval to
move on with my life. If you
can’t stop belittling and sec-
ond-guessing me and treat my
friend with respect, you will be
seeing a lot less of me.”
DEAR ABBY: My brother has
married a pushy woman who
is incessantly forcing her way
in where it is not wanted. With
the recent death of our father,
she has started sticking her
nose into the family’s business
affairs. This is not about money;
our father died in debt.
I finally took exception to
millennium.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20). You feel like you’re just
making up reasons to celebrate,
and maybe you are, but if you
don’t do this, when exactly will
celebrations occur? Not nearly
often enough.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
Fear is not the enemy; it’s just
a message that goes off when
triggered, like a car alarm. Also
like a car alarm, it often goes
off for reasons other than it was
designed for.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
Your body has a deep, ancient
and intuitive intelligence, which
is separate from your mind.
Your health gets better when
you think less, listen to your
body and give it what it needs.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2020 3B
creek was not a good sign.
He took a penalty drop,
laid up and sent wedge
just over the green, forc-
ing him to get up-and-
down for bogey. Smiles
were rare on this day.
Munoz smiled in disbe-
lief. His round began with
a three-putt bogey from
7 feet. He followed with
four birdies on the next
five holes — he missed a
7-foot birdie putt on the
par-5 fifth — and then he
hammered a 9-iron from
168 yards that faded gen-
tly toward the hole and
rolled in for an eagle.
“Once you see the guy
throw up the touchdown
sign, it’s good,” Munoz
said of a volunteer behind
the green.
her overbearing behavior, and
now I’m afraid I have damaged
my relationship with my brother.
What can be done? — COR-
NERED IN KENTUCKY
DEAR CORNERED: The
“pushy” woman your brother
married is now a member of the
family. When there is a death
in the family, emotions can run
high. If you feel you were too
rough on your sister-in-law, you
owe her an apology.
DEAR ABBY: A young,
attractive female co-worker of
my husband’s addresses him
by his first name ending with
“ly” (example: “Georgely”).
When I asked how the name
was acquired, both of them
claimed they didn’t remember.
They know I do not approve,
particularly on social media for
the world to see.
I consider pet names a
term of endearment, to be
reserved for one’s significant
other. Am I out of line, or are
they? — NAME-DROPPING IN
WISCONSIN
DEAR NAME-DROPPING:
What the pet name may signify
is that your husband and his
co-worker may have a closer
personal relationship than sim-
ply a professional one. And in
most cases, that isn’t good for
business. That he would allow
this to persist publicly, knowing
it bothers you, is disrespectful,
and THAT is what is out of line.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The
key to amassing friends who
truly enrich your life is to be ex-
cellent at spotting the stranger
or acquaintance who has great
potential. First impressions
are key. You can trust today’s
perceptions.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
The way to win the competition
will be to not compete. If you
sense someone is trying to
outdo you, give them the props
they are looking for, and then
take yourself out of the game.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
Is it possible to be always at
peace in a world that is not?
Well, if anyone can do it, you
can. As you accept, bit by bit,
the reality you’re living in, you
see ways to work with what is in
order to create what might be.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). They warn against burning
bridges. What about just disap-
pointing the bridge a little? It
may be impossible not to. It’s
inevitable that a bridge will get
a bit worn out by the crossing,
and that’s the nature of the
journey.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21). To enjoy pleasurable
moments and then let go makes
for a happier experience, though
it’s difficult to pull off. It’s only
human to try to keep pleasure
on the line, even though plea-
sure will always cut bait.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). Reconsider your shopping
cart before you press the buy
button. As the scholar Roger
Corless said, “Trying to be hap-
py by accumulating possessions
is like trying to satisfy hunger by
taping sandwiches all over your
body.”
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). As much as you’d like to
be sure that committing to an
action will bring the intended
result, such assurances are not
always on offer, and even when
they are, they are not always
true. Take the next step and see
what happens.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). Every decision has an
obvious price and a payoff, as
well as many subtle effects
that are not obvious at all. But
you, being astute, will pick up
on them and account for them
accordingly.
Life in the fast lane
SOLUTION:
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Divided reactions in US as pope backs same-sex civil unions

‘Homosexual people
have the right to be
in a family’
Pope Francis
BY DAVID CRARY
AND ELANA SCHOR
The Associated Press
LGBTQ Catholics and their
allies in the U.S. welcomed
Pope Francis’ endorsement of
same-sex civil unions, the first
time he’s done so as pontiff,
while some prominent mem-
bers including a bishop said
Wednesday that he was blatant-
ly contradicting church teach-
ing.
Bishop Thomas Tobin of
Providence, Rhode Island, was
one of the first conservative
Catholic leaders to go public
with criticism.
“The Pope’s statement clear-
ly contradicts what has been
the long-standing teaching of
the Church about same-sex
unions,” Tobin said in a state-
ment. “The Church cannot sup-
port the acceptance of objec-
tively immoral relationships.”
In contrast, Francis DeBer-
nardo of New Ways Ministry,
which represents LGBTQ Cath-
olics, hailed the pope’s com-
ments as a “historic” shift for a
church that has a record of per-
secuting gays.
“It is no overstatement to say
that with this statement not only
has the pope protected LGBTQ
couples and families, but he
also will save many LGBTQ
lives,” DeBernardo said.
The pope’s comments
came midway through a fea-
ture-length documentary,
“Francesco,” that premiered
Wednesday at the Rome Film
Festival.
“Homosexual people have
the right to be in a family. They
are children of God,” Francis
says in the film. “You can’t kick
someone out of a family, nor
make their life miserable for
this. What we have to have is
a civil union law; that way they
are legally covered.”
The comment came in the
final lap of a U.S. election cam-
paign in which both President
Donald Trump and Democratic
nominee Joe Biden have avid-
ly courted Catholic voters. It’s
not yet clear whether it could
indirectly benefit Biden, whose
team has run ads spotlighting
his lifelong Catholicism, but
some liberal-leaning faith advo-
cates saw plenty of shared val-
ues to highlight with Francis’
message of inclusion.
“Pope Francis’ words will
highlight the inclusive, accept-
ing essence of Christianity that
so many people care about,”
said Guthrie Graves-Fitzsim-
mons, a fellow with the faith ini-
tiative at the liberal Center for
American Progress think tank.
“The way conservative
Christians … distort this mes-
sage of love and justice that
Jesus proclaimed” can have an
alienating effect, he said.
Carolyn Woo, former presi-
dent of Catholic Relief Services
and a co-chair of Catholics for
Biden, said Francis’ empha-
sis on the “dignity of people,”
without any conditions, aligns
well with values Democrats es-
pouse.
“Overall the Democratic
platform is: We’ve got to help
people where they are at. We’ve
got to protect their rights, we’ve
got to help them flourish,” she
said, emphasizing the impor-
tance of Catholics using “pru-
dential judgment in how we
honor life.”

Mississippi State School
Ministry
Mississippi State School
of Ministry will be taking
applications for enrollment into
their online degree granting
program. Earn your Certifica-
tion, Associates, Bachelor,
Master and Doctoral Degree
in Religious Studies. We are
an accreditation School of
Ministry authorized through
State of Mississippi and Fed-
eral Government. Our degrees
are for ecclesiastical purposes
only. We accept transcripts
and your life experience also
can also be used for degree
granting purposes. For further
information feel free to call
662-425-8443
Fellowship Dinner,
Youth Service
Pleasant Ridge Faith
Center, 923 Ridge Road, hosts
a fellowship dinner and youth
service every third Sunday.
Gospel Book Club
Friendship M.B. Church,
1102 12th Ave. S., invites the
public to join its Community
Gospel Book Club from 6-7
p.m., on the fourth Friday of
RELIGIOUS BRIEFS
each month, to study and
share views of the Holy Bible.
Open to all ages and ethnic-
ities. For more information,
call Barbara Mattison or Lillian
Murray, 662-570-5595.
Grief Support Group
The Oil of Joy for Grief and
Mourning offers a grief support
group at 6 p.m. every second
Thursday of the month at Unit-
ed Christian Baptist Church,
232 Yorkville Road East.
“Making your grieving journey
easier.” For more information,
call 662-327-0604 or e-mail
unitedchristian@cableone.net.
Celebrate Recovery
The Assembly Church,
2201 Military Road, and
Meadowview Church, 300
Linden Circle in Starkville, host
Celebrate Recovery at 6 p.m.
every Sunday at The Assembly
Church (next to Lowe’s) and
at 6 p.m. every Tuesday at
Meadowview Church. Get help,
healing and support for any
habit, hurt or hang-up using the
Christ-centered 12 steps.
Prayer for Youth
Every second and third
Saturday, Pleasant Ridge Faith
Center hosts a prayer for the
youth from 2-3 p.m.
Prayer, Free Coffee
Mount Zion Missionary
Baptist Church, 2221 14th
Ave. N., hosts free coffee and
a prayer community outreach
service from 8-9 a.m. every
fifth Saturday. For information,
contact Jesse Slater, 662-328-
4979.
Radio Program
Apostles Patrick Perkins
invites the public to tune in to
WTWG, radio 1050 AM for Per-
fecting the Saints Broadcast,
Wednesdays 8:30 a.m.
Women Prayer,
Worship Service
Church of the Eternal Word,
106 22nd St. S., holds a prayer
and worship service every
Thursday from 5-6 p.m. Call
Marie Nabors, 662-549-4322
or 662-329-1234, for prayer
requests.
Prayer Ministry
New Beginning Everlasting
Outreach Ministry invites the
public to call in with their prayer
requests at 662-327-9843.
Prayer Service
Church of the Eternal
Word, 106 22nd. St. S., Co-
lumbus, holds prayer service
Thursday nights 5-6 p.m.
Contact Marie Nabors, 662-
549-4322. Church service
times: Sunday school 10
a.m.; Sunday worship 11:15
a.m.; Tuesday Bible study 7
p.m. For information, call Pas-
tor District Elder Lou Nabors,
662-329-1234.
Fitness
Transformations
The Transformational
Church, 2301 Jess Lyons
Road, hosts boxing lessons
Mondays and Wednesday from
5-7 p.m., weight-loss boot
camp Tuesdays and Thursdays
5-7 p.m. and both on Satur-
days 9-11 a.m.
Youth Fellowship
The Transformational
Church, 2301 Jess Lyons
Road, hosts Youth Fellowship
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HOUSES pursuant to said
Leases is authorized to sell the
personal property to satisfy the
past due and any other
charges owed to it by the fol-
lowing tenants.
NOW THEREFORE, notice is
hereby given that FRIENDLY
CITY MINI-WAREHOUSES will of- County, Mississippi in Cause
fer for sale, and will sell at auc- No. 2020-0209-DE, on the
tion to the highest bidder for
cash all personal property in
storage units leased by the fol- gister such claims with the
lowing tenants at FRIENDLY
CITY MINI-WAREHOUSES 4504 Lowndes County, Mississippi
Highway 69 South, Columbus,
MS. Auctions will begin at 8:30 first publication hereof, will bar
A.M. on the 6th day November, such claims.
A.D. 2020 at 308 Shoney
Drive, Columbus, MS and will
continue to all FRIENDLY CITY
MINI-WAREHOUSE locations in
the following sequence: 903
Alabama Street, Columbus,
MS; 44 Beatty Road, Colum-
bus, MS; 4504 Highway 69
South, Columbus, MS. All auc-
tions are with reserve and
therefore all units can be with- 11/6/2020
drawn from the sale at any
time by the auctioneer/man-
ager.
Title to the personal property to
be sold is believed to be good,
but at such sale, FRIENDLY
CITY MINI-WAREHOUSES will
convey only such title as is ves-
ted in it pursuant to its lease
with the following and its al-
lowed under Mississippi Code
Annotated Section 85-7-121 et
seq (Supp 1988).
Tresspasser - H72
Stacy Norris - H64
Shawnetta Poe - H18
Charity Swanigan - H49
Edward Preston - H3
Bessie Montgomery - H27
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE on
this the 7th day of October,
A.D. 2020.
FRIENDLY CITY
MINI-WAREHOUSES
By: C.H.L.
Publish: 10/9, 10/16 &
10/23/2020
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
ESTATE OF MARTHA JANE
RICHARDS, DECEASED
MELISSA CLARK, EXECURTIX
NO.: 2020-0133-RPF
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Letters Testamentary having
been granted on the 1st day of convey only such title as is ves-
September, 2020, by the Chan- ted in it pursuant to its lease
cery Court of Lowndes County, with the following and its al-
Mississippi, to the under-
signed Executrix of the Estate
of Martha Jane Richards, AKA
Martha Jane Niles, Deceased,
notice is hereby given to all
persons having claims against
said Estate to present the
same to the Clerk of this Court
for probate and registration ac- William Thomas III - N223
cording to law, within ninety
(90) days from the first publica- Erin Kyles - N115
tion of this notice, or they will
be forever barred.
RICHARDS, DECEASED
MELISSA CLARK, EXECURTIX
NO.: 2020-0133-RPF
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Letters Testamentary having
been granted on the 1st day of convey only such title as is ves-
September, 2020, by the Chan- ted in it pursuant to its lease
cery Court of Lowndes County, with the following and its al-
Mississippi, to the under-
signed Executrix of the Estate
of Martha Jane Richards, AKA
Martha Jane Niles, Deceased,
notice is hereby given to all
persons having claims against
said Estate to present the
same to the Clerk of this Court
for probate and registration ac- William Thomas III - N223
Legal Notices
cording to law, within ninety
(90) days from the first publica- Erin Kyles - N115
tion of this notice, or they will
be forever barred.
THIS the 20th , day of October,
2020.
s/ Melissa Clark
Melissa Clark
Executrix of the Estate of
Martha Jane Richards, AKA
Martha Jane Niles Deceased
Of Counsel:
Chance C. Fair
Tompkins Law Firm
P.O. Box 1804
Columbus, MS 39703
Published: 10/23, 10/30 &
11/6/2020
The following vehicles have
been abandoned at Marty's
Service Center, 1233 Gardner
Blvd, Columbus, MS.
2014 DODGE JOURNEY
VIN# 3C4PDCBG2ET191767
1993 CADILLAC FLEETWOOD
VIN# 1G6DW5274PR720708
1998 LEXUS ES300
VIN# JT8BF28G2W0134018
1997 FORD EXPLORER
VIN# 1FMDU32E0VZC40163
1999 FORD EXPLORER
VIN# 1FMYU22E0XUA61116
2002 CHEVROLET CXI
VIN# 1GKEC16Z82J267557
2004 HYUNDAI TIBURON
VIN# KMHHN65F84U144443
1999 TOYOTA CAMRY
VIN# 4T1BG22K4XU603224
2005 VOLVO S60
VIN# YV1RH52755248202
2000 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX
VIN# 1G2WP52K9YF199225
1993 HARLEY DAVIDSON
XLH883
VIN# 1HD4CFM1XPY206533
2008 HONDA HAS
VIN# 1HGCS12378A020564
2005 CHEVROLET MALIBU
VIN# 1G1ZS52F45F340300
2000 MAZDA B3000
VIN# 4F4YR16V3YTM25831
IF THESE VEHICLES ARE NOT
CLAIMED THEY WILL BE PUT
UP FOR PUBLIC SALE ON THE
16TH DAY OF NOVEMBER,
2020, AT 10:00 A.M. AT
MARTY'S SERVICE CENTER,
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE this
23rd day of October 2020.
1233 GARDNER BLVD, COLUM-
BUS MS. /s/ OWNER
PUBLISH: 10/16, 10/23 &
10/30/2020
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN RE: ESTATE OF PATSY ANN
MCCLOSKEY, DECEASED
MELISSA A. VAN SOMEREN,
EXECUTRIX
NO. 2020-0209-DE
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that all
persons having claims against
the Estate of PATSY ANN MC-
CLOSKEY, Deceased, are re-
quired to have the same pro-
bated and registered by the
Clerk of the Chancery Court of
Lowndes County, Mississippi;
that Letters Testamentary were
granted to the undersigned
MELISSA A. VAN SOMEREN, by
the Chancery Court of Lowndes
20th day of October, 2020;
that a failure to probate and re-
Clerk of the Chancery Court of
for ninety (90) days, from the
Witness my signature on this
the 19th day of October, 2020.
/s/ Melissa A. Van Someren
MELISSA A. VAN SOMEREN, Ex-
ecutrix of the Estate of PATSY
ANN MCCLOSKEY
PUBLISH: 10/23, 10/30 &
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF LOWNDES
NOTICE OF SALE
WHEREAS, the following ten-
ants entered into leases with
FRIENDLY CITY MINI-WARE-
HOUSES for storage space in
which to store personal prop-
erty and
WHEREAS, default has been
made in the payment of rent
and FRIENDLY CITY MINI-WARE-
HOUSES pursuant to said
Leases is authorized to sell the
personal property to satisfy the
past due and any other
charges owed to it by the fol-
lowing tenants.
NOW THEREFORE, notice is
hereby given that FRIENDLY
CITY MINI-WAREHOUSES will of-
fer for sale, and will sell at auc-
tion to the highest bidder for
cash all personal property in
storage units leased by the fol-
lowing tenants at FRIENDLY
CITY MINI-WAREHOUSES 308
Shoney Drive Columbus, MS,
at 8:30 am on the 6th day of
November, A.D. 2020 and will
continue to all FRIENDLY CITY
MINI-WAREHOUSE locations in
the following sequence: 903
Alabama Street, Columbus,
MS; 44 Beatty Road, Colum-
bus, MS; 4504 Highway 69
South, Columbus, MS. All auc-
tions are with reserve and
therefore all units can be with-
drawn from the sale at any
time by the auctioneer/man-
ager.
Title to the personal property to
be sold is believed to be good,
but at such sale, FRIENDLY
CITY MINI-WAREHOUSES will
lowed under Mississippi Code
Annotated Section 85-7-121 et
seq (Supp 1988).
Hiyoshida McGee - N141
Tiesha Robinson - N125
Robert Snow - N88
drawn from the sale at any
time by the auctioneer/man-
Ads appear in The Commercial Dispatch,
ager.
Title to the personal property to
The Starkville Dispatch and Online
be sold is believed to be good,
but at such sale, FRIENDLY
CITY MINI-WAREHOUSES will
lowed under Mississippi Code
Annotated Section 85-7-121 et
seq (Supp 1988).
Hiyoshida McGee - N141
Tiesha Robinson - N125
Legal Notices
Robert Snow - N88
William Rollins -N163
Jasmine Fields - N133
Camaryn Barry - N40
Lashea Atiana Stagat - N161
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE on
this the 7th day of October,
A.D. 2020.
FRIENDLY CITY
MINI-WAREHOUSES
By: C.H.L.
Publish: 10/9, 10/16 &
10/23/2020
State of Mississippi
Notice of Sale
WHEREAS, the following ten-
ants entered into leases with
Gateway Center Mini Storage
for storage space in which to
store personal property and
WHEREAS, default has been
made in the payment of rent
and Gateway Center Mini Stor-
age pursuant to said Leases is
authorized to sell the personal
property to satisfy the past due
and any other charges owed to
it by the following tenants.
NOW, THEREFORE, notice is
hereby given that Gateway Cen-
ter Mini Storage will offer for
sale all personal property in
storage units leased by the fol-
lowing tenants at Gateway Mini
Center Storage 217 McCrary
Road, Columbus, MS 39702 at
10:00 am the 14th day of
November 2020, office loc-
ated 201-J Alabama Street,
Columbus, MS 39702. All auc-
tion's are with reserve and
therefore all units can be with-
drawn from the sale at any
time by the auctioneer/man-
ager. The following tenants
have the right to pay the entire
amount due, including ex-
penses incurred, prior to sale.
You can thereby avoid the sale
and retrieve your personal prop-
erty. Title to the personal prop-
erty to be sold is believed to be
good, but at such sale, Gate-
way Center Mini Storage will
convey only such title as is ves-
ted in it pursuant to its lease
with the following and its al-
lowed under Mississippi Code
Annotated Section 85-7-123.
10/23/2020
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