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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Carolyn Rodriguez's attorney says her arrest was a violation of her First Amendment rights. -
Tarrant County residents sue the county, commissioners court and Judge Tim O'Hare over redistrictingTarrant County adopted a new GOP-friendly commissioners court precinct map on Tuesday. Opponents have accused Republican commissioners of racial gerrymandering. -
Democrats have criticized the redistricting process as an attempt at racial gerrymandering. Republicans say their goal is to increase their majority in commissioners court. -
The unusual mid-decade map drawing process has drawn concern from Democrats, who say Republicans are trying to racially gerrymander the commissioners court. Republicans say what they're doing is purely political. -
Republican commissioners have said they want to grow their majority on the Tarrant County Commissioners Court by redrawing the maps. Democrats, including U.S. Congressman Marc Veasey, say commissioners are achieving that through racial gerrymandering. -
Republicans say redrawing the maps to make one of the commissioners precincts more conservative will help the county in the long run. Democrats call it racial gerrymandering. -
Tarrant County's Republican commissioners pushed for a redistricting plan that would redraw one precinct in their favor. -
Kimberly Phillips, 56, died on Feb. 18. The local medical examiner’s office ruled she died of complications of dehydration and malnutrition. -
Tarrant County's Republican commissioners pushed for the redistricting process, calling it long overdue. Democrats contend they're trying to draw Commissioner Alisa Simmons out of her seat. -
Tarrant County's Republican commissioners outvoted the Democrats last month to start an unusual mid-decade redistricting process. -
Democratic County Commissioner Alisa Simmons represents Precinct 2, which includes Arlington. She has accused Republicans of trying to draw her out of her seat. -
Simmons, a Democrat, says the Republican-led redistricting effort is trying to silence minority voters. Republicans say redistricting needs to happen.
