Christopher Connelly
One Crisis Away ReporterChristopher Connelly is a reporter covering issues related to financial instability and poverty for KERA’s One Crisis Away series. In 2015, he joined KERA to report on Fort Worth and Tarrant County. From Fort Worth, he also focused on politics and criminal justice stories.
Before coming to Texas, Christopher covered the Maryland legislature for the NPR member station in Baltimore. He also worked at NPR as a Joan B. Kroc Fellow – one of three post-graduates who spend a year working as a reporter, show producer and digital producer at network HQ in Washington, D.C.
Christopher is a graduate of Antioch College in Ohio – he got his first taste of public radio there at WYSO – and he earned a master’s in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley.
Email Christopher at cconnelly@kera.org. You can follow Christopher on Twitter @hithisischris.
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The City of Dallas will begin admitting people to a temporary inclement weather shelter at Fair Park at 3 p.m. as frigid weather raises risks for unsheltered people. Fort Worth and Arlington nonprofits are coordinating to make sure people who need shelter can find a bed out of the cold.
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The upward march of home prices also drove a decline in affordability and increased displacement pressure around Downtown Dallas.
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Owners of an office building next to the proposed Cypress Creek at Forest Lane apartments say the City of Dallas and developers violated their property rights.
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A new report finds the food and health assistance program could start turning eligible women, infants and children away if Congress does not increase funding.
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Council members, city staff and the city's bond task force all have different priorities. But how will they decide what to ask voters to spend a billion-dollar bond on?
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The council will hear recommendations from city staff for how to allocate $1.1 billion in bond funds to address the city’s brick-and-mortar needs from housing, arts and parks to storm water management and streets.
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In North Texas, 764 homeless veterans moved into long-term housing this year, part of the 38,000 veterans housed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs this year.
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Mesquite resident Finda Koroma risks losing her home. In Texas, homeowners associations can foreclose on residents to recoup any amount of debt.
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Texas has the second-highest rate of residents at risk of going hungry in the nation. That bleak ranking comes from new data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Delays and spiraling costs on a plan to renovate an old North Oak Cliff hotel to provide homes for unhoused people drew the ire of council members on Monday.
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The effort reduced the number of people on the streets, attracted even more federal resources, and streamlined the system to help people.
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Sharon Bradford worked as KERA's volunteer coordinator and championed diversity, equity and inclusion at the public media organization.