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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About a third of the mail-in ballots scanned so far in Tarrant County were printed with a defective barcode. The ballots will be remade, a process that is already common when people send in damaged ballots. -
Researchers from UT Southwestern and Texas Health Resources are looking for volunteers for an ongoing study that will help figure out where the coronavirus is spreading in Dallas-Fort Worth and why it's disproportionately affecting African American and Latino communities.
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Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn is running for reelection this year. His main job is to run the Tarrant County Jail, and he has found himself defending his first term from critics who say his policies have put inmates in danger.
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This year's World Series between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Los Angeles Dodgers is a first, being played at the Texas Rangers' new stadium in Arlington. Even during historical emergencies, baseball perseveres.
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It's the first anniversary of Atatiana Jefferson's death. She was killed by a white Fort Worth police officer on Oct. 12, 2019. Her name has become a rallying cry for racial justice in the city and beyond.
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Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn is running for re-election, and he's taking heat for the 10 inmates who've died in his jail so far this year. COVID-19 is responsible for only one of those deaths.
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Jonathan Price, a Black man from Wolfe City, died Saturday night after being shot and killed by a local police officer. Officer Shaun Lucas was arrested on Monday and charged with murder in connection with Price's death.
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People can vote from their cars at Tarrant County's mail-in ballot drop-off location. Since the county only had one site, it won't be affected by Gov. Abbott's restrictions on ballot drop-off locations.
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Mike Wilson, who has led the Dallas Morning News for almost six years, announced on Tuesday he will leave his role at the end of the year.
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The new project hopes to build trust in medical professionals, particularly in Black and Latino communities that have been greatly affected by COVID-19 and have traditionally been wary the healthcare system.
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Fort Worth had COVID-19 and the recession in mind when putting together this year's budget. The City Council passed it unanimously on Tuesday.
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Fort Worth was the biggest city in Texas without some form of outside police oversight until Kim Neal started as the city's first police monitor in March.
