Hi — I’m Emily Cochrane, a correspondent for The New York Times. After overlaying Congress for 4 years in Washington, D.C., I moved to Nashville to cowl the American South. This consists of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, each Carolinas and Tennessee.

As I begin this new job, I’m particularly interested in how the problems I lined on Capitol Hill — from infrastructure to inflation — are affecting individuals within the area. The price of groceries, entry to well being care and what’s being taught in faculties are nationwide points, however what issues most to you? What makes your life distinct, and what’s our protection lacking because the South continues to vary?

There are lots of people for me to satisfy and locations for me to go, plus loads of telephone requires my two cats to interrupt. But on prime of all that, a technique I plan to report on the South is by reaching out on to readers.