Miranda Suarez
Tarrant County Accountability ReporterMiranda Suarez is KERA’s Tarrant County accountability reporter.
Before coming to North Texas, she was the Lee Ester News Fellow at Wisconsin Public Radio, where she covered statewide news, including election security and politics, as well as local police and military issues in the city of Madison.
Originally from Massachusetts, Miranda started her journalism career at WTBU, Boston University’s student radio station. Her first public radio jobs were at WBUR, where she was a newscast intern and later a fellow on the business desk. During an internship at Boston 25 News, she conducted an investigation into mental health counseling services at Massachusetts colleges and universities that was nominated for a 2019 New England Emmy.
Miranda is always looking for stories of the weird and wonderful — whether it’s following a robot around a grocery store or sampling cheeses at a Wisconsin cheese contest. Outside of journalism, she loves reading, road trips and Dungeons & Dragons.
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"Our Man in Vietnam" displays photos Schieffer took while covering the Vietnam War as a correspondent for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram from 1965 to 1966. -
Fort Worth's Will Rogers Memorial Center is busy year-round with equestrian events, dance recitals and more. -
KERA News has identified another man who died after a Tarrant County jailer knelt on him. The federal government has cautioned against kneeling on handcuffed people. -
Anthony Johnson Jr. died after Tarrant County jailers pepper sprayed him, and one knelt on his back. His death was ruled a homicide by asphyxiation. -
Tarrant County's Republican commissioners redrew the precinct map in their own favor this year, leading to two lawsuits accusing them of racial gerrymandering. -
A group of Tarrant County residents have withdrawn a lawsuit accusing the county of packing Black and brown residents into a single precinct to dilute their voting power. -
Fort Worth and Tarrant County officials reduced how often they meet to prioritize efficiency, they said. Some residents say their voices are being stifled. -
The Fort Worth nonprofit Center for Transforming Lives is running the program with $2.3 million in county funding. It expects applications to reopen after Thanksgiving. -
Earlier this month, there were about 180 vacant jobs in the Tarrant County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office. Understaffing can make the jail less safe for detention officers and the people incarcerated there. -
Critics of the new maps say they are racially discriminatory. Republican commissioners say they just wanted to gain another seat on the Tarrant County Commissioners Court.
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Republicans have focused on the issue of illegal noncitizen voting, although research has found noncitizens rarely vote. -
The Tarrant County Commissioners Court now only meets once a month. Local progressive groups are filling the gap with their own strategy meeting.
