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.
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A small group of Tarrant County residents challenged more than 15,000 voter registrations last year. A new software could help the county keep ahead of those challenges, the elections administrator said. -
Chasity Congious gave birth in her cell in 2020. Her baby later died. -
The Public Interest Legal Foundation is the same law firm hired to lead Tarrant County's controversial redistricting process. -
The contract would hire the Public Interest Legal Foundation to defend the county in the lawsuit. It's the same conservative law firm that led the controversial mid-decade redistricting process. -
Carolyn "Carolina" Rodriguez shouted and swore at a meeting in January. A jury ruled she was criminally disruptive. -
Carolyn "Carolina" Rodriguez was charged with hindering a proceeding by disorderly conduct when she swore and shouted during a Tarrant County Commissioners Court meeting in January. -
Two Texas House members from Tarrant County 鈥� a Democrat and a Republican 鈥� filed bills in response to outcry over deaths in Tarrant County Jail custody. -
Carolyn Rodriguez's attorney says her arrest was a violation of her First Amendment rights.
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Tarrant County residents sue the county, commissioners court and Judge Tim O'Hare over redistrictingTarrant County adopted a new GOP-friendly commissioners court precinct map on Tuesday. Opponents have accused Republican commissioners of racial gerrymandering. -
Democrats have criticized the redistricting process as an attempt at racial gerrymandering. Republicans say their goal is to increase their majority in commissioners court. -
The unusual mid-decade map drawing process has drawn concern from Democrats, who say Republicans are trying to racially gerrymander the commissioners court. Republicans say what they're doing is purely political. -
Republican commissioners have said they want to grow their majority on the Tarrant County Commissioners Court by redrawing the maps. Democrats, including U.S. Congressman Marc Veasey, say commissioners are achieving that through racial gerrymandering.
