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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Voting rights advocates gathered outside of AT&T’s corporate headquarters in downtown Dallas on Thursday to call on the company to stop donating to lawmakers who want to limit voting access. -
In February, Texas launched a program to help people who had missed rent payments because of the pandemic. By the end of March, only 250 people had actually got help paying for rent out of 72,000 completed applications.
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In 2014, Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas did something churches don't often do: It acquired a credit union in order to could offer small, short-term loans to people with poor credit.
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Ten years ago, Dallas passed the first city ordinance in Texas regulating payday and auto-title loans. It was the result of a broad, city-wide anti-poverty coalition, fueled in no small part by Black faith leaders and church members.
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Dallas city officials joined the family of Botham Jean on Saturday to rename a street in honor of the 26-year-old accountant shot and killed by an off-duty police officer.
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The Collin County sheriff is calling the death of a 26-year-old Black man in his jail a “profound tragedy,” and asking the community for patience as investigations proceed.
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After years in the headlines for suing local law enforcement agencies for violating the civil rights of Black people, Lee Merritt decided this week to try a new approach to justice: Become the state’s top lawyer.
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The gift from Harrison Barnes is expected to help about two dozen people find more permanent housing.
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Children in Texas are facing higher rates of hunger and hardship during the pandemic than children in all but two other states.
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Denton is still digging out from a financial crunch caused by astronomically high electricity prices during Winter Storm Uri.
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Texans who managed to keep the lights on during the winter storm are getting sky-high electric bills, the product of a deregulated industry that allows power companies to charge variable rates.
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Most Texans have gotten power back, but water remains a challenge.
