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Person of the Day | Georgianna McKenny: MSMS Student, NPR Podcast Finalist
MSMS student Georgianna McKenny won NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge for her project on the Jackson water crisis.
Torsheta Jackson
June 23, 2023
MSMS student Georgianna McKenny won NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge for her project on the Jackson water crisis.
One Lake backers and opponents gathered in Jackson to share views on the project that could have major downstream effects on the Pearl River.
“With her years of teaching experience (19 as of now), her brilliance, her curiosity, her wit and her stunning work ethic, I knew Torsheta Jackson was the kind of reporter Mississippi, and America, needs and deserves covering education,” Donna Ladd writes.
U.S. Small Business Administration Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman said in a Sept. 15, 2022, press release that the federal disaster loans available for businesses in and around Hinds County that the Jackson water crisis has affected will help the “communities recover and rebuild.”
Jackson businesses that have suffered losses amid the Mississippi capital city’s ongoing water crisis will be able to apply for as much as $2 million in federal Economic Injury Disaster loans, Gov. Tate Reeves announced Wednesday.
Mississippi, homegrown musicians Kyle Graves, Wyatt Brady, Joe Cranfield and Ryan Purser—collectively known as Four Way Stop—recently took top honors for Best Rock Duo/Group Song of the Year at the Josie Music Awards in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., for their song “Wicked Woman.”
Dissatisfied with digital photography, and hankering for the straightforward yet mysterious allure of classic photographs, Amanda and Jason Ray researched alternatives. They found a medium format Yashica Mat-124G twin lens reflex camera from the 1970s, and rediscovered real film photography.
Since May, local officials in Mississippi have changed polling-place locations for at least 55 precincts—more than triple the 17 precinct changes that Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson announced last week, affecting about 65,000 Mississippi voters.
Four new lawmakers are joining the Mississippi Legislature after voters in two House districts and two Senate districts voted in special elections to fill the vacant seats on Thursday. Though the candidates appeared on the ballot with no party identification because state special elections are non-partisan, they did share their party allegiance on the campaign trail.
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