Miranda Suarez
Tarrant County Accountability ReporterMiranda Suarez is 四虎影院鈥檚 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鈥檚 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 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 鈥� whether it鈥檚 or . Outside of journalism, she loves reading, road trips and Dungeons & Dragons.
-
Raunaq Alam had to turn himself in Wednesday in the middle of a press conference after he found out he was indicted on a charge of perjury. -
The two Democrats on the court did not attend last week's meeting. Commissioner Roderick Miles Jr. returned Monday, which allowed the vote to take place. -
Javonte Myers died in his Tarrant County Jail cell in 2020, and investigators found Darien Kirk and Erik Gay had lied about checking on him. Both have now been sentenced. -
Democratic Commissioners Roderick Miles Jr. and Alisa Simmons say the proposed tax rate is too low to keep up county services. Republicans passed a budget amendment that will slash their staff and travel funds, which could be reversed when they return. -
Raunaq Alam, a pro-Palestine activist, was accused of spray painting "F*** Israel" on a Christian church in Euless. Prosecutors argued he committed a hate crime, and his defense attorneys said he was making a protected political statement. -
Julia Venzor took the stand against Raunaq Alam as part of a deal with prosecutors. They're accused of spray painting "F*** Israel" on a church in Euless. -
Tarrant County prosecutors say Raunaq Alam committed a hate crime when he and two others graffitied "F*** Israel" on a church in Euless. His defense attorney says foreign countries are not defended by hate crime laws. -
Criticizing Israel isn't the same as being antisemitic, the Texas branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says. Tarrant County prosecutors say the indictments are 'based on the evidence.' -
Charles Hermes was arrested for clapping out of turn at a Tarrant County Commissioners Court meeting in January. -
In recent years, Democrats and Republicans on the commissioners court have voted together on tax savings. Now, Democrats are warning the cuts are getting too close to the bone.
-
In an email read aloud to county commissioners Wednesday, Sheriff Bill Waybourn said he would not give any more briefings called by Democratic Commissioner Alisa Simmons. -
The new congressional map puts Black and Hispanic voters in Fort Worth in districts with more rural populations. Longtime Democratic Congressman Marc Veasey gets cut out of his hometown of Fort Worth altogether.
