Christopher Connelly
Christopher Connelly is a KERA reporter based in Fort Worth. Christopher joined KERA after a year and a half covering the Maryland legislature for WYPR, the NPR member station in Baltimore. Before that, he was a Joan B. Kroc Fellow at NPR – 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. He also has deep Texas roots: He spent summers visiting his grandparents in Fort Worth, and he has multiple aunts, uncles and cousins living there now.
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A new report finds that Texas courts use very different yardsticks to decide who’s poor enough to get a court-appointed lawyer. That patchwork often leaves people without the legal defense in a criminal trial that the Constitution promises. -
Los fondos se entregan en forma de subsidios a los propietarios de viviendas que reúnen los requisitos; no se trata de un préstamo que haya que devolver. Un hogar puede recibir hasta $40,000 de ayuda para el pago de la hipoteca y hasta $25,000 para los impuestos sobre la propiedad, el seguro de la vivienda y las cuotas de la Asociación de Propietarios.
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State officials have rolled out a "Texas Homeowner Assistance Fund" that is designed to help homeowners who’ve fallen behind on mortgage payments and other housing costs during the pandemic.
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More than 165,000 Texans have been helped by the state’s $1.9 billion rental assistance program that launched during the pandemic, but people have “slipped through the cracks,” advocates say.
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Fighting among Texas officials over mask mandates has created muddled messaging, as the highly contagious delta variant is sending people to the hospital in numbers that rival the worst months of the pandemic.
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New research looking at data from millions of stops made by police in Texas in 2020 found that officers search Latino people more than any other racial or ethnic group. But, those searches turn up far less contraband than searches of white people.
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When it launched in February, the Texas Rent Relief program struggled to help tenants who'd fallen behind on rent due to the pandemic. In the first six weeks, just 250 Texans got help, out of the 72,000 people who applied.
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Dallas city officials joined the family of Botham Jean on Saturday to rename a street in honor of the 26-year-old accountant shot and killed by an off-duty police officer.
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New research from the Texas Council on Family Violence shows that most of the victims were women killed by men. Most were shot with a gun. And that was before a surge of domestic violence during this year's lockdowns.
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More than 1 in 9 Texans reported that their household didn’t have enough food to eat in the previous week, according to the Census Bureau. Many Texans are turning to food banks to help feed their families.
