Originally published Feb. 18, 2021 for The PLS Reporter. The second full semester of school in a pandemic is underway, and nationwide the debate over whether or not learning should occur in person has heated up once again. Unlike in the fall, COVID-19 cases are significantly higher, and while vaccine distribution is ongoing, in most […]
The Promise, Season 2 As an intern with Nashville Public Radio, I worked on season two of The Promise, an award winning podcast that in its first season explored life in public housing in Nashville, and in its second dove into the persistent segregation of Nashville schools. I conducted archival research and used my academic […]
Originally published Dec. 23, 2020 for Nashville Public Radio. Architect Alan Hayes was driving home from his Brentwood office when he noticed something lighting up the downtown skyline. “It was probably the fall, and the daylight saving time had happened, and all you see is this bright flashing … lights that look like movement on […]
Originally published Dec. 11, 2020 for The PLS Reporter, behind a paywall. In the last week, six Pennsylvania prisons have reported their first COVID-19-related deaths, as case counts rise not only in the prison system, but the entire state. Amidst the surging pandemic, the Department of Corrections announced Friday a reorganization plan that they claim […]
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Originally published Dec. 8, 2020 for The PLS Reporter. On the heels of a PA Schools Work report last week that concluded that Pennsylvania has failed to keep up with the rising costs of special education, comes a new report which found that poor school districts received less emergency CARES money compared to their wealthy counterparts. The […]
Originally published Aug. 27, 2020 for The PLS Reporter. Thousands of Pennsylvania public school students started classes this week, and thousands more will go back to school in the coming weeks amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Local education agencies spent the summer months preparing for the fall semester, as policymakers and stakeholders continue to argue […]
Originally posted April 14, 2020 for WPLN Randy Nash is bracing for the day the virus inevitably ends up in his office. He runs Sumner County Funeral and Cremation Services. From his office, he says, he can see the Gallatin Center for Rehabilitation and Healing, where nearly 100 patients recently tested positive for COVID-19. “Every […]
Originally posted March 20, 2020 for WPLN Kirsten Bailey is a Vanderbilt senior currently living on the university’s mostly empty campus. She’s staying there as long she can – she has an internship in Brentwood, and her parents, back in Cincinnati, are immunocompromised. She worries about putting them at risk. She requested to remain on […]
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Originally published online and in print Sept. 13, 2019 for Nashville Post Esports is hitting its stride. Since video games entered the consumer market in earnest in the 1970s — long before we had today’s world for professional competitive gaming — players found ways to battle it out. They lugged their equipment to others’ houses […]
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Originally published July 18, 2019 for the Nashville Post Musical instrument manufacturer Furch Guitars has opened its flagship U.S. distribution and service center in Nashville, part of the Czech Republic-based company’s effort to expand its footprint in the American guitar market. Located at 1856 Air Lane Drive, the distribution center will handle all U.S. operations for the […]