Mississippi Edition

• Monday, May 21: Flood Recovery
  
  Excerpt () | Air date 05/21/12
  One year after flooding in Miss; Everyday Technology; Volunteers promote classical music
• Friday, May 18: Two of Us
  
  Excerpt () | Air date 05/18/12
  Program offers hope for teen moms; Religion and Teen Pregnancy; Home HIV Test could arrive soon; Movies
• Thursday, May 17: Pregnant Teens
  
  Excerpt () | Air date 05/17/12
  Religion and Teen Pregnancy ; Business Break; Food on Wheels; Healthy Eating
• Wednesday, May 16: Foster Families
  
  Excerpt () | Air date 05/16/12
  New economic development leader for MS; Religion and Teen Pregnancy; Finding 100 New Foster Families; Mississippian wins Poetry Out Loud
• Tuesday, May 15: New Job Laws
  
  Excerpt () | Air date 05/15/12
  Bryant promotes economic agenda; Teen pregnancy; Gaming Industry still big in Miss
• Monday, May 14: Guntown
  
  Excerpt () | Air date 05/14/12
  MS town reacts to kidnapping; Everyday Technology; Teen pregnancy with State Health Officer, Dr. Mary Currier
• Friday, May 11: Wilco's Pat Sansone
  
  Excerpt () | Air date 05/11/12
  Agency helps mentally ill teens transition to adulthood; A book for moms; Wilco's Sansone returns home; Weekend movies
• Thursday, May 10: Kids fitter or fatter?
  
  Excerpt () | Air date 05/10/12
  Are MS kids winning the battle of the bulge?; Business Break; Children's Book Week
• Wednesday, May 9: Hosemann on DOJ
  
  Excerpt () | Air date 05/09/12
  Hosemann has strong words for DOJ; Tourism important to MS economy; What redistricting means for parties

Meet Karen Brown

Karen Brown, as you can probably tell by listening to her, is not from around these parts.  Born and raised in New Jersey, Karen made her first foray into radio news in South Dakota where she lived for 17 years following college and graduate school.  A ten-year stay in west central Illinois and a job co-hosting a morning news/talk radio program followed. Then it was on to Columbus, Mississippi for a year before settling in the Jackson area in the summer of 2007.   

Karen hosts “Mississippi Edition” and “Morning Edition” on MPB but she has worn many a hat in the past, including theatre director and manager, newspaper columnist, theatre critic, PR consultant and freelance writer.  She is the proud mother of two remarkable boys, Casey (15) and Jesse (14).  While Karen has embraced most of the attributes of southern living with great enthusiasm, she is a hold-out on one definitive serving of Southern cuisine – grits.   She’s not fixin’ to eat them anytime soon.  Bless her heart.