Bret Jaspers
Dallas Accountability ReporterBret Jaspers is a reporter for KERA. His stories have aired nationally on the BBC, NPR’s newsmagazines, and APM’s Marketplace. He collaborated on the series Cash Flows, which won a 2020 Sigma Delta Chi award for Radio Investigative Reporting. He's a member of Actors' Equity, the professional stage actors union.
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Workers in North Texas have more options now than they’ve had in recent decades, leading local governments scrambling to appeal to prospective —and current — employees. -
A judge has voided an agreement between the city of Dallas and a landlord it’s accused of not maintaining safe apartments.
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Dallas County reported its first heat-related death for 2022.
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COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and emergency room visits in DFW have accelerated in recent weeks. It’s led Dallas County to raise its infection “risk level” and brought renewed calls from officials and health leaders for people to get vaccinated and take other precautions.
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Andony Ybarra of Carrollton said he first considered moving after Donald Trump won in 2016. He and his partner have parents in North Texas but are thinking more seriously about settling elsewhere.“With the new Supreme Court, it’s kind of broadened to, do we want to leave the state, or do we want to leave the country?” he said.
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Brittany Jones said she’s experienced mold, insect infestations, and a lack of air conditioning during her four years at Hillcrest Apartments in Mesquite. She’s written apartment management, advocated in the media, and even founded a tenant's union at Hillcrest.
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Dallas City Manager T. C. Broadnax’s future may be on the line. Mayor Eric Johnson and some city council members want to consider firing him.
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For the owner of two apartment complexes in Northeast Dallas’ Vickery Meadow neighborhood, the issue is religious freedom. He says the city of Dallas targeted him and his tenants with “harassing inspections,” and city employees wanted to rid the property of “religiously motivated organizations and community prayer.”
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The Dallas County Commissioners Court on Tuesday passed a resolution asking Gov. Greg Abbott to bring the state Legislature back to Austin to work on new gun control bills, including universal background checks and raising the age to buy an assault rifle to 21.
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The Dallas County Jail passed a new state inspection. A release from the sheriff’s office said it passed an unannounced inspection that ended Thursday.
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Another employee at the Dallas Arboretum has alleged gender and sexuality-based discrimination and has filed an EEOC complaint. The Arboretum promises its own investigation.
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Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus will qualify for a city grant of up to $5 million if it keeps a certain portion of its employees at a headquarters in the city of Dallas.
