Miranda Suarez
Miranda Suarez is KERA’s Fort Worth 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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Unofficial election results show Jake Ellzey will replace U.S. Rep. Ron Wright, who died in February after contracting COVID-19. -
Voters in Texas’s 6th Congressional District will choose a replacement for U.S. Rep. Ron Wright, who died in February after testing positive for coronavirus.
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Tarrant County’s Controversial ICE Contract Is Here To Stay. This Is What To Know About The Program.Tarrant County Commissioners voted last year to renew a program that allows sheriff’s deputies to act as ICE agents in the county jail. It’s the last time they planned to vote on it.
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A new report finds Dallas, Fort Worth and Arlington have some of the most expensive mid-tier apartments in Texas. A decent place to live is hard to reach for low-wage workers across the state.
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Dallas is now part of a national program that aims to reconnect immigrants with the careers they started abroad.
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A health care company called Curative is bringing pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinics to neighborhoods around the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Making vaccination more convenient is key.
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Mattie Parker, the city's new mayor, and four other city council members were sworn in at a ceremony on Tuesday night.
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Mattie Parker will be sworn in as Fort Worth mayor on June 15. Unity was one of the main themes Parker and her opponent Deborah Peoples focused on while campaigning.
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The proposal would get rid of traditional bus service and build a bus rapid transit system. That means buses would get their own lane, free from regular traffic.
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Parker, who'll be sworn in June 15, runs an education nonprofit and was longtime chief of staff to the woman she'll replace, Mayor Betsy Price. Her opponent, Deborah Peoples, would've also made history if elected, as the city's first Black mayor.
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Mayoral races in Tarrant County's two biggest cities were the marquee matchups of runoff election day in North Texas. If the margins hold up, Mattie Parker will succeed Betsy Price in Fort Worth and become the youngest mayor in the nation's 25 biggest cities. KERA will bring you results throughout the weekend.
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The initially crowded field has been whittled down to two candidates -- Mattie Parker and Deborah Peoples.
