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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Some Dallas County workers are still waiting on pay from last month's election, although the problem doesn't appear as serious as it was in the spring.
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Newly reelected Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot has reversed a policy exempting people from prosecution for low-level thefts not for economic gain.
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An exception to Texas’ public information law is helping the Dallas County Jail keep COVID-19 information — including how many prisoners have died — shielded from public view.
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Dallas County is looking at an all-Democratic commissioners court.
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Dallas County commissioners approved a tax abatement for Nike, the athletic apparel powerhouse, for a distribution center in the southern part of the county. The vote came despite concerns over the diversity of the company’s top leadership.
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The lone Republican on the Dallas County Commissioners Court, J.J. Koch, is facing a tough re-election fight against a Democrat allied with County Judge Clay Jenkins.
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Dallas County Elections Administrator Michael Scarpello said voters this fall will have a new tool to help them wade through election misinformation and disinformation: a dedicated place on the department’s website where his agency will debunk false rumors.
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An apartment landlord to Dallas refugees lost a big verdict. Will it affect city’s push for repairs?A Vickery Meadow landlord embroiled in a lawsuit with the City of Dallas has lost a jury trial in a separate case. It may complicate whether repairs happen at his apartments, as the city wants.
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A flyer advertising a pop-up clinic for monkeypox vaccines in Dallas this month had information about the date, time, and location. It had a QR code so people could book appointments. But it also contained something disturbing: a cartoon drawing of a solitary African American man smiling about his new vaccine.
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The corporate sports apparel juggernaut Nike has its sights set on building a “major distribution center” in Wilmer, Texas, in southeast Dallas County. The company is seeking ten years' worth of county tax breaks in order to commit to the project.
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Dallas County Commissioners approved a budget of about $1.8 billion for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1 — an increase of over $266 million from the previous fiscal year.
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Felony judges in Dallas County are pushing back against accusations from commissioners that they need to do more to move criminal cases to reduce overcrowding in the Dallas County Jail.