Andy Lusk
RFA Mid-cities Communities ReporterAndy Lusk is KERA's mid-cities communities reporter. He is a returning Report for America corps member, having spent two years with KUCB, the NPR member station serving Alaska’s Aleutian and Pribilof Islands. While in Alaska, Andy was an award-winning general assignment reporter with a focus on local and tribal government. When he's not reporting, he's usually out hiking. Andy is an alumnus of New York University.
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Bedford city staff is saying goodbye to Caryn Riggs, assistant city manager and chief financial officer since 2022. As Riggs moves into the private sector, two other experienced local government employees will take over her titles. -
Former Texas House representative and former Dallas County Republican Party chair Rodney Anderson won the special runoff election for Grand Prairie City Council Place 8 on Saturday. -
Mike Del Bosque, who represented District 3 in the Grand Prairie City Council since 2017, died Friday. -
Two candidates for Grand Prairie City Council Place 8, Rodney Anderson and Ana Coca, are headed for a runoff election March 14. -
North Richland Hills officials are removing fake clothing donation boxes that have recently shown up in local big box store parking lots. -
The city council voted unanimously to approve the interlocal agreement between DART and the city for general mobility program funds. It then voted 7-2 in favor of cancelling the election. -
Despite the job’s inherent challenges, when it comes to bringing in recruits and getting them to stick around, Irving firefighters say they’re doing something right. -
With Irving and Plano, DART's largest member cities, now saying they’ll reconsider holding withdrawal elections, it’s not clear what happens next. But Irving officials said in a press release they’ll discuss the election at their next city council meeting. -
The campus, planned for a roughly 37-acre patch of land on the east side of the city, would house three buildings each two stories high. -
The discussion came as DART works to negotiate with member cities thinking about leaving the transit system, with a potential deal that would stave off elections already on the table. -
Some residents are concerned about their ability to get to work, attend medical appointments and reach services like a local inclement weather shelter. -
Joshua James Berkau resigned days after his links to white nationalist group Patriot Front surfaced.
