Reporting Portfolio

The Dallas Morning News: 

• ‘Marcos was like our son’: Justice sought after teen is killed at a Church’s Texas Chicken, August 2024.

• For a Denton couple, a new program for undocumented spouses could offer a clearer future, July 2024. 

• Active shooter defense is becoming big business in Texas. Experts ask if it’s paying off, February 2024. 

• How a delay in DACA renewal threatens a Goldman Sach worker's livelihood in Dallas, January 2024.

• Mixed Signals: Texas economy exists in two realities heading into 2024, December 2023.

• As China concerns and costs grow for manufacturers, is Mexico's time now? November 2023. 

• One of nation's key labor leaders, North Texan Robert Martinez, is retiring, October 2023. 

• U.S. economy waits in limbo as UPS workers threaten to walk out over contract talks, July 2023.  

• Employers across Dallas-Fort Worth rely on guest worker programs amid labor shortages, July 2023. 

• Deep Ellum's dueling personas: Business hub by day, Dallas hot spot by night, June 2023. 

• For the 78,000 people released from prisons in Texas every year, finding a job isn’t easy, May 2023. 

• ‘You’re not coming in’: Clock runs out on Title 42, straining immigration system, May 2023. 

• Black woman awarded $366 million over firing calls FedEx racial bias ‘next level’, November 2022. 

• ‘Shorty’s Dream Shop’ showcases Latino car culture through a Midlothian garage, October 2022. 

• U.S. says it’ll reject new requests for temporary worker visas, as cap is exceeded, September 2022.

 

USA TODAY:

• Latino families expected to pull biggest gains in U.S. homeownership over next two decades, October 2021.  

• 'How many talents were lost?' Tennessee families of USS Indianapolis crew lost in WWII still mourning, July 2021.

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The Tennessean:

• Rising costs and stagnant wages are financially squeezing Nashville families unlike before,  June 2022. 

• High-rise developer Tony Giarratana is remaking Nashville's skyline,  May 2022. 

• Tennessee bill penalizing homelessness passes legislature, April 2022. 

• Buildings in downtown Nashville keep getting taller. But how tall is too tall? March 2022. 

• Waverly residents got financial aid after the deadly flooding. But it wasn't enough. March 2022. 

• 'No place like home': Ex-Nissan exec Greg Kelly returns after 3-year detainment in Japan, March 2022. 

• Nashville area boaters want to see more spots available to dock downtown,March 2022.

• Global social club SoHo House opens site in Nashville. Here's a look inside, March 2022.

• Plans for new townhome community leave Madison low-income seniors scrambling to find housing, February 2022.

• How the labor shortage is hampering Middle Tennessee's construction boom, January 2022.

• As development sprouts along the Cumberland, some eye new era of river recreation, transit, January 2022.

• Nashville's next chapter is being written on the banks of the Cumberland, January 2022.

• More than just a local street paper, 'The Contributor' has helped house scores of vendors, November 2021. 

• Where will flood survivors live? No direct housing assistance, few long-term options, September 2021.  

• Rebuilding after the flood: Long, unclear path ahead for Waverly, August 2021.