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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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s controversial political rise began in Collin County as a "consensus builder." It may end in Austin with impeachment.
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Texas cities may soon have less power to protect the air you breathe, work site safety or guarantee your rights as a renter after the Texas Legislature passed HB 2127.
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Homeowners in Dallas County have until Monday, May 22, to protest their annual property appraisals (or until 30 days after their notice of appraised value, whichever is later).
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Republicans who control the Texas Legislature want to dramatically limit what local governments can regulate – including wages, hours, evictions, and the environment.
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Officials who run the Dallas County Jail are breathing sighs of relief — for now — after passing a review by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards.
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Dallas County Commissioner Andy Sommerman says he was denied juvenile department documents that would show how long detained children spend alone in their rooms.
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April 30 marked what’s known as the Fall of Saigon. That’s the day the capital of South Vietnam fell to the communist regime of North Vietnam in 1975.
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Both Dallas and Tarrant counties received a failing grade for ozone pollution in this year’s “State of the Air” report.
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A coalition of activists, academics and governments is building a network of low-cost air quality sensors. It says it is missing a key collaborator — the City of Dallas.
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A tense meeting at Dallas County Commissioners Court ended Tuesday with John Wiley Price being replaced on the juvenile oversight board he's served on for two decades.
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The county has a brand-new center for people needing mental health care. They want police officers to use it more to keep people from sitting in jail.
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Dallas County's elections department looked at turnout and travel data and held weeks of meeting with community groups to arrive at a reduced number of vote centers.