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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With rental assistance on the way, communities are scrambling to get ready to actually hand out the money to people who need it. -
Hospitalizations in North Texas due to COVID-19 have already set new and dismal records in the New Year.
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The economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the financial lives of many Texans, leaving many renters unable to pay rent.
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The new stimulus bill passed by Congress late Monday will avert a potentially catastrophic and historic wave of evictions, at least temporarily. Lawmakers agreed to a $900 billion relief deal that would, among its provisions, send another $25 billion in rental assistance and extend a nationwide eviction moratorium.
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Some faith leaders are saying it’s time to update the city’s rules to protect consumers from new loan products they call predatory.
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The Capital Good Fund offers an alternative to payday and auto title loans, and other credit services that come with high costs and a lot of risks for borrowers.
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Researchers at Tarleton State University will focus on how data can be used to improve the quality of policing in Texas. The Institute for Predictive Analytics in Criminal Justice will dig into hot button issues in policing and try to find answers using science.
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Drug laws are the same all across Texas, but enforcement varies from county to county. And in Tarrant County, District Attorney Sharen Wilson says rehabilitation is a better way to deal with drugs.
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Two North Texas hospitals hit capacity this week, as the share of hospital beds devoted to COVID-19 patients hit new records across the region. It’s an ominous sign ahead of an expected surge in cases contracted as people gathered for Thanksgiving celebrations.
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The holiday shopping season kicked into high gear Friday, and despite COVID-19, the average North Texan plans to spend significantly more on the holidays than they did last year.
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The Tarrant County District Attorney wants to make it easier people caught with a small amount of marijuana to get their charges dismissed. The idea, DA Sharen Wilson said Monday, is to encourage sobriety and rehabilitation.
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Both Republican Rep. Ron Wright and his Democratic challenger, lawyer Stephen Daniel, want Congress to approve more coronavirus aid. Exactly what should be in that bill is only the start of their disagreements about the economy.
