| Friday, April 13, 2018 |
| This tick bite can change what you eat | |
 | For many Mississippians, spring is a time for outdoor activities. Hiking, camping and wildlife watching are all popular and many hunters will be planting warm season food plots and doing other habitat work. But with warmer weather coming, being outdoors can put you at risk of contracting red meat allergy. "Alpha-gal is a carbohydrate," said Jerome Goddard, extension professor of medical entomology at Mississippi State University. "It's safe to say it's a sugar. It's a sugar that's in mammal cells, but not in humans." And outdoorsmen and women are sensitized to the carbohydrate by something they often encounter in warm seasons: lone star ticks. Other food allergies typically cause the human body to react within minutes, but alpha-gal takes longer. That's why diagnosing it is more difficult. "This one is like three to eight hours later," Goddard said. "That's what makes it different." |
| Green Zone training aims to expand inclusivity to student veterans on campus | |
 | "A green zone is a physical location in Baghdad that was considered a safe zone," said Brian Locke, the director of the G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery Center for America's Veterans at Mississippi State University. "That is where the green zone training name came from." Marshall University's director of Military and Veteran Affairs Johnathan McCormick, along with Locke trained volunteers on Wednesday to assist them in helping veterans on campus. "It's a great opportunity to make our students and faculty aware of our student veteran population and some of the problems they face," McCormick said. Guest speaker Locke, who has been in the military for 26 years, discussed what the green zone volunteers provided for the student veterans on campus and some of the possible obstacles. Locke said veterans have to develop a "new normal" when they come back from overseas and college complicates that further. |
| Job skills, education emphasized at Mississippi Economic Council meeting | |
 | The Mississippi Economic Council is all about jobs and education. For that reason, speakers at the council's annual meeting on Thursday talked and about where Mississippi stands in those categories. STAR students (the MEC's Student-Teacher Achievement Recognition Program) were lauded and Gov. Phil Bryant ran down a litany of rankings that show that the state is no longer on the bottom rung of the national education ladder. Similarly, the governor named the large prestige employers in the state. Governors across the country are emphasizing the term "work force" rather than "education" in recent years in their key addresses to their respective states, Bryant said. Scott Waller presided over the event, which drew about 2,000, for the first time as head of the organization. Waller succeeded 19-year President and CEO Blake Wilson. |
| Workforce training stressed at Mississippi Economic Council event | |
 | Peyton Holland, executive director of North Carolina-based Skills USA, told Mississippi business leaders Thursday that a culture change is needed to stress to students that obtaining a job skill is just as important as obtaining a four-year or graduate degree from a university. "We have to value a master's degree and a master craftsman on the same level," Holland, the keynote speaker, said at the 69th annual meeting of the Mississippi Economic Council at the Jackson Convention Complex. Holland said part of the problem is that there is not enough value placed on those professions, such as electricians and welders, that provide a better pay than many jobs where four-year degrees are required. He said in addition, about half of the college graduates each year end up working in professions where they do not need their four-year degree. |
| Speaker proposes diverting $270 million to transportation | |
| House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, is proposing taking about $270 million that normally would go toward education, law enforcement, health care and other programs and using those funds for transportation needs -- both on the state and local levels. But Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves said, while he remains optimistic House and Senate leaders will reach agreement on an infrastructure plan, the speaker's proposal does little, if any, to further the effort to hammer out a compromise. The speaker's plan, which he presented Thursday to Reeves and Gov. Phil Bryant, would cut the state income tax by roughly $160 million and increase the motor fuel tax by an equal amount -- 2 cents per gallon for four years until the tax on gasoline and diesel fuel reached 26.4 cents per gallon. |
| Speaker Gunn proposes income-fuel tax swap to pay for infrastructure; Reeves opposes it | |
| Republican House Speaker Philip Gunn on Thursday floated an infrastructure funding plan that includes a 'tax swap' --- cutting income taxes while raising the fuel tax an equal amount. But Republican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves appeared to dismiss the tax swap idea out-of-hand on Thursday. This reduces the likelihood Gov. Phil Bryant would call lawmakers into special session anytime soon for infrastructure funding. The GOP majority House and Senate have kicked around various infrastructure spending plans, but haven't been able to reach agreement for three years. The House proposal comes after Bryant on Tuesday declared a state of emergency and ordered more than 100 dangerously deteriorated county bridges closed to traffic. He said counties' failure to do so is threatening safety and federal funding. Mississippi Department of Transportation workers have begun closing bridges across the state this week. |
| Mississippi Gov. Bryant Orders More Than 100 Bridges Closed | |
 | The state of Mississippi's bridges are in such bad shape that the governor has ordered at least 102 closed this week. Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, a Republican, issued an emergency declaration, authorizing the Mississippi Department of Transportation workers to shut down the bridges, with the help of state troopers, if necessary. The department began notifying counties Thursday to shut down the bridges within 24 hours or the state would step in, according to officials. Mr. Bryant's proclamation comes as the state legislature wrestles with possible ways to fund road and bridge repair. Marty Wiseman, executive director emeritus of Mississippi State University's John C. Stennis Institute of Government and Community Development, said members of the GOP-dominated legislature have been reluctant to increase state gas taxes, as other southern states like Tennessee have done, to fund road and bridge repairs. |
| Hosemann talks politics, workforce; SoS will support Hyde-Smith in 2018, seek new office in 2019 | |
 | Delbert Hosemann isn't sure what his next political move will be, but he knows he's going to make one. The secretary of state told a group of around 50 ladies at a meeting of the Climbers Club of Brookhaven Thursday afternoon his name would appear somewhere on the ballot in next year's statewide elections, and it wouldn't be for a fourth term as secretary. He said it was time for someone else to take over that job. "But neither Lynn (his wife) nor I think it's time for me to go home," Hosemann said. "You'll probably see me on the ballot at another time." Hosemann made the stop in Brookhaven on a day-long tour promoting his office's Y'all Business initiative, emphasizing work his office is doing to bring industry, community colleges and high schools closer together for the development of workforce-ready curriculum. |
| Guv luv: Poll shows Gov. Phil Bryant approval tops even Trump | |
| Call it guv love. An NBC/SurveyMonkey poll, in collaboration with Mississippi Today, found that 67 percent of Mississippi respondents said they "strongly" or "somewhat" approve of the way Gov. Phil Bryant is handling his job. That's a better showing in the state than President Donald Trump, who scored 10 percentage points lower, at 57 percent approval. However, more Mississippi respondents polled "strongly" approve of Trump (35 percent) than Bryant (27 percent). Both U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker (61 percent approval) and retired U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (59 percent) polled better than the president but behind the governor. And Bryant has a better approval rating than the Mississippi Legislature, which garnered 56 percent approval among respondents in the state. |
| Jason Shelton, senate candidates tackle qualifying requirements | |
| Jason Shelton's senate campaign team has begun working to make certain he appears on November's special election ballot along with three other potential senate candidates. Shelton, interim U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, state Sen. Chris McDaniel and former congressman and one-time Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy have all announced the intent to qualify for the race. All candidates seeking to replace the now-retired Thad Cochran must produce a petition signed by at least 1,000 registered voters in the state. Such a petition is the normal procedure for special elections in Mississippi, which dispense with party primaries and place all candidates on an initial ballot with no party affiliation listed. As of Thursday afternoon, no prospective candidates for the U.S. senate special election have yet submitted a petition or qualifying paperwork to the Secretary of State's office, according to a media representative with the agency. |
| Governor tabs July for District 77 special House election for Andy Gipson's seat | |
 | Gov. Phil Bryant is setting a special election to fill a vacant seat in the Mississippi House of Representatives. The July 10 election will be in District 77 in parts of Rankin and Simpson counties. If a runoff is needed, it will be held July 31. The seat became empty when Bryant appointed fellow Republican Rep. Andy Gipson of Braxton to serve as the state's commissioner of agriculture and commerce. Gipson had represented District 77 since 2008. Candidates run without party labels in Mississippi special elections, although many tell voters their party affiliation. Qualifying deadline is May 21. |
| Mississippi Medicaid work requirement: twisting arms or a leg-up? | |
| Officials expect 5,000 Mississippians, mostly low-income mothers, to fall off the Medicaid rolls every year for the next five years under the state's proposed job training program. The Mississippi Division of Medicaid applied for a federal waiver to implement a work requirement on over 50,000 low-income parents or caretakers on Medicaid, many of whom will be exempt from the requirement. The state is awaiting a decision from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on the proposal, first submitted in October. "This is an effort to give this small group of able-bodied adults some additional tools to assist them in their search for employment and self-sufficiency," said Medicaid spokesman Matt Westerfield. |
| 'Untruthful slime ball': Trump blasts Comey as details emerge from scathing book | |
 | President Trump on Friday lashed out at former FBI director James B. Comey on Twitter, calling him a "weak and untruthful slime ball" who deserved to be fired "for the terrible job he did." "It was my great honor to fire James Comey!" Trump wrote in his first remarks since advance copies surfaced of Comey's upcoming book that includes blistering descriptions of Trump and his presidency. Trump's tirade came in response to news stories Thursday on leaked copies of "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership," a 304-page tell-all by Comey that describes Trump's presidency as a "forest fire" and portrays the president as an ego-driven congenital liar. |
| Republican Farm Bill Calls On Many SNAP Recipients To Work Or Go To School | |
 | If Republicans in Congress have their way, millions of people who get food aid through the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) will have to find a job or attend job training classes for about 20 hours each week, or lose their benefits. That's the biggest and most controversial part of a Republican-drafted Farm Bill unveiled this week by Michael Conaway, R-Texas, chairman of the Agriculture Committee in the House of Representatives. The rest of Conaway's proposal, however, represents continuity. Existing subsidies for farmers would continue in their current form. Democrats -- even those who support subsidies to farmers -- are vowing to fight Conaway's draft bill because of its changes to the SNAP program. SNAP helps more than 40 million needy individuals, and nutrition programs account for approximately 80 percent of the cost of the current farm bill. |
| Farm Bill Ties Food Stamps to Work, Adjusts Farm Aid | |
 | The House Agriculture Committee released its 2018 farm bill Thursday with proposals to reshape the nation's largest domestic food aid program, consolidate conservation efforts and tweak farm aid. The bill arrives amid controversy over its focus on shifting funding within the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, into work and training programs. Agriculture Chairman K. Michael Conaway scheduled a markup for the bill April 18. It does not have the support of Democrats, who worry that some states could use the tougher work requirements in the bill to push thousands out of the program by making it difficult to meet the terms. The five-year farm bill reaches into virtually every aspect of the rural economy and into the broader U.S. economy by setting policy for programs and research addressing food safety, nutrition and the environment. The current farm bill expires at the end of September. |
| Mississippi Book Festival welcomes Salman Rushdie in August | |
| The Mississippi Book Festival announced Friday that one of the world's most acclaimed writers, Salman Rushdie, is speaking at the festival on Aug. 18. The challenging and provocative writer is coming as a guest of the Eudora Welty Foundation. Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses" in 1989 led the then ruler of Iran, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, to call for his assassination, forcing the writer into hiding. "The Eudora Welty Foundation's primary purpose is to preserve the literary legacy of Eudora Welty," said Holmes Adams, chairman of the Eudora Welty Foundation. "The Welty Foundation fulfills that purpose by encouraging and supporting both writers and readers. The Eudora Welty Foundation is pleased to partner with the Mississippi Book Festival by hosting Mr. Rushdie." |
| Oxford-University Transit taking precautions against tuberculosis | |
| After the Mississippi State Department of Health announced Monday that an active case of tuberculosis was confirmed in a student at the University of Mississippi's Oxford campus, the Oxford-University Transit System is taking some safety precautions with its bus drivers. OUT Superintendent Ron Biggs said Wednesday that it's unknown whether the student with tuberculosis rode the bus; however, he'd rather be proactive and take steps to ensure the safety of the bus drivers and riders. Biggs told the Oxford-University Transit Commission that buses are being washed down and disinfected daily and face masks are being provided to those drivers who choose to wear them. "We are going to have all the drivers tested as well," he said. |
| Pine Belt college students complain about frequency of fire alarms | |
 | It was 12:30 a.m. on a Thursday and Jennah Eddins was getting ready for bed. The Jones County Junior College sophomore was in her dorm, showering before turning in, when she heard a dreaded noise: the fire alarm was going off again. "I have these ugly black work clogs and I ran downstairs in my towel and my clogs," she said. "It's so terribly inconvenient. I think that (alarm) went off because someone made ramen noodles and forgot to put in the water." The sensitivity of the alarms may be necessary for schools that put student safety above all else. But the frequency raises the question of whether student urgency in evacuating could be impacted during a real fire. Administrators say no, but one thing is certain: students sense the alarms are going off far too often. |
| Alcorn hosting 38th annual jazz fest Saturday | |
| Renowned jazz composer, pianist, keyboardist and 22-time Grammy Award winner Chick Corea will be the featured performer Saturday for the 38th annual Alcorn State Jazz Festival at the Vicksburg Convention Center. Corea's evening concert will close the daylong program, which will feature performances by high school, community college and university bands from across the South. Jazz festival director Dr. David Miller said he has been trying to get Corea for sometime. "I've been working on it, and he happened to be between tours, a U.S. tour and a European tour, and so that (Saturday) was the one date we could get him, and it just worked out this year." The Alcorn Jazz Festival began in 1971. Miller took over the program seven years later, and has worked to keep it going. |
| U. of Florida researcher tests self-driving cars for blind | |
 | In 2012, Steve Mahan, who is blind, climbed into the driver's seat of a self-driving car and rolled up to the drive-thru of a Taco Bell in a video that's been viewed more than 8 million times online. The piece, produced by Google, captured the potential of autonomous-car technology to change the lives of the visually impaired. But six years after Google's viral video, national advocates for the estimated 1.3 million legally blind people in the U.S. are worried the industry is not factoring their needs into the design of the new technology. In a University of Florida study, blind people are using experimental software that could be easily installed in cars and peoples' phones. |
| U. of Missouri System facing long-term funding shortfall | |
 | The University of Missouri System faces a budget shortfall of as much as $200 million a year by fiscal 2023 without new sources of revenue and additional spending, Chief Financial Officer Ryan Rapp told the Board of Curators on Thursday. The past three years are unique in the university's history, according to a report prepared by Rapp. It is the only stretch since the 1960s when state aid, tuition revenue and enrollment have all declined. And if cuts proposed by Gov. Eric Greitens are enacted for the coming year, it will be the first three-year period with declining state support that did not occur during or after a recession. With the national economy in its ninth consecutive year of growth, a recession is becoming more likely, Rapp told the board. When it comes, he said, it will put pressure on the university to maintain the fiscal health of its retirement plans while the state deals with declining tax revenue. "It will hit us in more than one way," Rapp said. |
| U.S. should lower alcohol recommendation because booze shortens our lives, study says | |
 | It's official, everyone: We're drinking too much booze and it's cutting us short of precious life. And that's not just a warning to heavy boozers. Even the most casual drinkers among us, including those following U.S. government recommendations, can see months and years taken away by steadily hitting the hooch, according to a new study by an international team of researchers. The study, led by Dr. Angela Wood of the University of Cambridge, analyzed about 600,000 drinkers around the world. Their findings indicate the U.S. recommendation for alcohol is too high, could be leading to shorter life expectancies and therefore should be lowered. "This study has shown that drinking alcohol at levels which were believed to be safe is actually linked with lower life expectancy and several adverse health outcomes," co-author Dan G. Blazer of Duke University told The Lancet, which published the study Thursday. |
| How the March For Science Became a Movement | |
 | In January 2017, what started as a subreddit thread about the new White House scrubbing all mention of climate change from its official government website became, just three months later, the single biggest pro-science demonstration in the history of humankind. On April 22, more than a million people across all seven continents took to the streets (and dirt roads and snowfields) to declare themselves, not dispassionately, for the fundamental political value of science. The idea that the rules that govern society should be based on evidence, not partisan caprice, is an assertion seemingly so noncontroversial that before last year's inaugural March for Science, most people had never even thought about raising a latex glove-covered fist in the air to defend it. In the intervening 12 months, the March for Science has evolved from a collection of defiant Facebook event pages into a national, decentralized network of individuals and organizations fighting for science in their home communities. |
| Never Solved, a College Dorm Fire Has Become One Man's Obsession | |
 | Students awoke to what they thought was the murmur of children playing. They awoke to what they assumed was a pesky classmate banging on the door to borrow a textbook. They awoke from a lifelike dream that they were at a barbecue, could even smell the smoke. There was smoke. It was just after 4 in the morning. The dorm was on fire. It had ignited in the basement lounge of the Cornell Heights Residential Club, a repurposed motel on the northern fringe of the expansive Cornell University campus in Ithaca, N.Y. Its principal residents were in the initial class of an experimental program inviting gifted students to earn a Ph.D. in six years. Bleary students scrambled to escape. It was April 5, 1967. |
| C-Spire breaks a decades old telco monopoly | |
| Mississippi newspaper publisher and columnist Wyatt Emmerich writes: "Competition is the lifeblood of success, so it's good news to finally see some competition in the bidding for statewide landline telecommunication services to state agencies, schools, libraries, universities and other governmental entities. After decades of a virtual AT&T monopoly, Mississippi-based C-Spire has won the bid and will save the state $32 million. For decades, AT&T was the only real statewide landline provider,' Hu Meena, C-Spire CEO, told me in a telephone interview. 'Over the last 15 years, we've being putting in thousands of miles of fiber network in the state of Mississippi, so we were able to compete and put in a very attractive bid that allowed us to win most of the services over the next eight years.' With a good backbone of fiber from one end of the state to the next, C-Spire will now be able to complete the connections to the specific governmental offices." |
SPORTS
| Bulldog baseball building momentum | |
| Mississippi State seems to be hitting its stride on the diamond. The Bulldogs are coming off their first Southeastern Conference series victory over Ole Miss last weekend and have won four of their last five games overall. "It's good for our team to know we can beat a good team and win a series but then you've got to go out and prove it again," said MSU interim head coach Gary Henderson. MSU will get a chance to do just that this weekend as it travels to Auburn for a three-game series. Tonight's game is scheduled for 7:30 on the SEC Network followed by Game 2 Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday's finale at 1 p.m. Auburn will run out Casey Mize to start the series on the mound tonight. The junior right-hander is considered the top collegiate pitcher for the upcoming MLB Draft and is 6-1 with a 2.17 earned run average and leads the league in strikeouts with 77. |
| Mississippi State takes momentum into SEC baseball series | |
 | Mississippi State still has plenty of work to do in order to get to where it wants to be in the Southeastern Conference baseball landscape. The Bulldogs are breathing much easier this weekend as they head to Auburn though after a momentum-building week. As MSU (18-16, 4-8) prepares to battle the Tigers (23-11, 4-8) Friday night at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m., the Bulldogs are on the heels of a stretch that has seen them win four of their last five games. This followed a stretch in which State had lost four of five. However a pair of non-conference wins as well as a series victory over instate rival Ole Miss last weekend suddenly has the Bulldogs believing in themselves. |
| Auburn hopes players-only meeting leads to better results against Mississippi State | |
 | Conor Davis texted Casey Mize about it after Saturday's game. He overheard catcher Brett Wright talking about with a few players, too. "Hey, I think it's time," Davis' message read. "We have to talk." Auburn had just suffered embarrassing 13-2 loss to Arkansas, its eighth in the last 12 games. A players-only meeting was called to discuss what had happened to the team that won 19 of its first 20 games to open the season. "We needed to talk about it with ourselves without the coaches and nobody else. We need to figure it out," Davis, the team's sophomore left fielder, said Thursday. The meeting hasn't quite had its desired effect yet going into this weekend's series against Mississippi State at Plainsman Park. No. 23 Auburn took a 4-0 lead over Arkansas in Sunday's finale but blew it in a 5-4 loss, then got drubbed 12-3 at Samford on Tuesday. But all is not lost for the Tigers, even after losing four straight games and six of their last seven. That was one of the messages stressed during that Saturday meeting. |
| Lineup changes push Mississippi State men's tennis team higher | |
 | It's not that the Mississippi State men's tennis team had significant problems as the calendar turned from January to February -- it was ranked No. 15 in the nation at that point and had won four of its five spring matches. Still, in that run, coach Matt Roberts knew something could be better, so he took a risk. He more or less shuffled his entire doubles lineup. Since then, MSU is 12-0 and has climbed to No. 7 in the nation. That run has No. 7 MSU (16-1, 10-0 Southeastern Conference) poised to host the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament and playing in a 6 p.m. Friday match at No. 5 Texas A&M that is essentially for the SEC regular season championship. |
| Mississippi State's Victoria Vivians goes to Indiana Fever at No. 8 in WNBA draft | |
| The wait is over. Victoria Vivians is a pro. The Indiana Fever made it official Thursday night when they selected the Mississippi State senior with the No. 8 pick in the first round of the WNBA draft. Vivians joins Ohio State guard Kelsey Mitchell (first round, No. 2 overall) and OSU forward Stephanie Mavunga (second round, No. 14) in joining the Fever, who are coached by former LSU coach "Pokey" Chatman. Vivians is the fourth MSU player drafted in the opening round, and the first since Chanel Mokango was selected ninth overall in 2010. Tan White was taken second overall in 2005, two years after LaToya Thomas became the first Mississippian taken with the No. 1 overall pick. |
| Big stage: Mississippi State's Victoria Vivians take by Fever with No. 8 pick in WNBA Draft | |
| Years of representing the state of Mississippi as the face of women's basketball won't end any time soon for Victoria Vivians. One of the most decorated high school girls basketball players of all time and Mississippi State's All-American guard is now taking that face and her game to the big stage in the WNBA. Vivians walked across the stage at the New York Nike headquarters and accepted a first round selection as the No. 8 pick overall to the Indiana Fever. "I'm so relieved to get picked, especially with all of the buildup that's been going on, but the experience has been awesome," Vivians told the Starkville Daily News. "I've talked to coach (Pokey) Chatman a couple of times and she's actually one of the coaches I was hoping to play for so I'm glad they picked me." |
| WNBA Draft: Mississippi State's Victoria Vivians selected eighth by Indiana | |
| Mississippi State's Victoria Vivians was the No. 8 overall pick, by the Indiana Fever, at the WNBA Draft on Thursday night. A'ja Wilson was the top pick by the Las Vegas Aces. The South Carolina star post player will bolster the relocated franchise's frontcourt. The Aces, who moved from San Antonio this past winter, had the first pick for the second straight season. Vivians led Mississippi State to the Final Four in consecutive seasons, averaging 19.8 points and 6.1 rebounds, with 69 3-point field goals, as a senior. She was a first-team All-American by USA Today and the AP. Vivians was a double-figure scorer through four seasons at MSU, averaging 17.0 points for her career. Training camps open up on April 29 and the 22nd season of the WNBA begins play on May 18. |
| Mississippi State's Victoria Vivians is headed to WNBA's Indiana Fever | |
| Victoria Vivians is moving to Indiana. The Mississippi State legend was selected eighth overall in the 2018 WNBA Draft by the Indiana Fever on Thursday in New York City. The Fever is rebuilding and used the No. 2 overall pick on Ohio State guard Kelsey Pitchell. It acquired the No. 8 pick in a trade and was clearly looking for a versatile wing with that pick. That turned out to be Vivians, who improved her draft stock as much as anyone during her senior season at Mississippi State. "She can defend. She's a dog. She'll really help Indiana on that end of the floor," ESPN analyst LaChina Robinson said during the broadcast. Thursday marks the next step for Vivians, who created a legacy for herself at Mississippi State that will not soon be forgotten. |
| Spring game warm-up at U. of Florida: beer garden | |
| Florida is pulling out all of the stops to create a festive atmosphere for Saturday's spring football game. That includes the stoppers keeping the beer from flowing. Before the Orange and Blue Game, one of the features on the North lawn outside the stadium will be a beer garden. With restrictions of course. "We talked a lot about the Gator Walk area and what we could do, what creative ideas we could come up with to make that a gathering place," said UF associate athletic director Laird Veatch. "That's the thing about a spring game. It's a chance to try things differently." The North lawn experience will include a closed section of University Avenue (as it is for regular home games) and food trucks that will extend out onto the sidewalks. But the addition of a beer tent is something that is certainly different. Just two years ago, Florida began selling beer and wine in its premium seating areas at the stadium. |
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