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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The Biden Administration is fighting legal challenges in federal courts in Texas from business interests trying to kill its consumer protections. -
A Feeding America report found almost 1 in 4 Texas households with children are food insecure, with almost 1.7 million children at risk of getting inadequate nutrition. -
The report details charges Texas tenants face on top of rent that are often hidden, duplicative, or exceed the actual cost of services, driving up housing costs. -
A new report finds the food and health assistance program could start turning eligible women, infants and children away if Congress does not increase funding. -
Texas has the second-highest rate of residents at risk of going hungry in the nation. That bleak ranking comes from new data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. -
The Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau’s funding structure. Many observers worry about catastrophic consequences. -
Eviction filings have surged in the wake of the pandemic, but those numbers only count formal cases filed in courts. It's not clear how many people are forced out when landlords shut off their air conditioning or harass them, tenants' rights advocates say. -
Critics say the ‘Omnibase’ program — designed to spur people to pay off old tickets — often leaves poor Texans trapped in a cycle of debt. -
Michael Lockhart was an eyewitness to a chaotic shooting in Fort Worth's Como neighborhood over the July Fourth holiday that left three people dead and eight wounded. -
Texas cities may soon have less power to protect the air you breathe, work site safety or guarantee your rights as a renter after the Texas Legislature passed HB 2127.
