As you speed down Interstate 55, you might just miss McComb, Mississippi. For many — well, for most — it is just another dot on the map somewhere between Jackson, Mississippi and New Orleans, Louisiana. Once a city boasting a colorful downtown, and even more colorful residents, it has now become another victim of brain […]
Author Archives: Elizabeth Lacy Nelson
Small Town, Big News
Departing Jackson, Mississippi, headed south on Interstate 55, you will see signs for McComb, Mississippi — a small town along the interstate just shy of twenty miles north of the Mississippi-Louisiana line. While the signs leaving Jackson might be large, if you blink driving past McComb, you might just miss it. With just over 13,000 […]
Washington, Digital Communications
“You’ve Got Mail” In 1965, Ray Tomlinson sent the first electronic message at Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass. Over 15 years later, electronic messaging — or email as it is more commonly known — started to gain traction with businesses and the general public. Though it was not until 28 years after the […]
Transforming the City of Brotherly Love into the City of Multi-Family Housing Love: How Solutions Journalism Connects a Housing Plan in Portland to Philadelphia
Separated by two time zones and almost 3,000 miles, it might seem trivial to think a housing solution in Portland, Ore. would work in Philadelphia, Pa. — despite the two cities both being in the same country. It is easy in a place as big as the United States to sometimes think of ourselves as less […]