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 general assignment 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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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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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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In June 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that LGBTQ people are protected from employment discrimination under federal law. This month, a Texas court decided the same applies to state law, too.
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The Fort Worth Botanic Garden and Botanical Research Institute of Texas and its partners got nearly $2 million in grants to study blueberries in North America and ferns in Colombia. But, the COVID-19 pandemic is making both projects more complicated.
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Gov. Greg Abbott told healthcare providers to give out all the vaccine they have — don't hold on to it to make sure people get their second doses, because more doses are on the way.
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The need for substance use treatment didn’t go away when the COVID-19 pandemic began. Organizations in North Texas had to get creative this year to make sure there is help for people who want it.
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Food banks have been slammed with unprecedented demand this year, as the COVID-19 pandemic forced more and more people to seek help feeding themselves and their families. The vaccine is on the doorstep, but the need is not going away.
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A local teacher has opened two free pantries and fridges in Fort Worth since September, and there's a third on the way.
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A new report from the UNT Health Science Center says it's possible that hospitals in Dallas and Tarrant Counties will be full in the next 30 days.
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Morale is low at North Texas hospitals as COVID-19 numbers spike once again. Record-breaking positive cases have led to rising hospitalizations, and some healthcare leaders worry about having enough staff to cover the surge.