Bret Jaspers
Bret Jaspers is a reporter for KERA. His stories have aired nationally on the BBC, NPR’s newsmagazines, and APM’s Marketplace. He collaborated on the series Cash Flows, which won a 2020 Sigma Delta Chi award for Radio Investigative Reporting. He's a member of Actors' Equity, the professional stage actors union.
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A lawsuit filed by former inmates against Smith County, east of Dallas, has prompted others to speak out. -
The Texas Fair Defense Project is representing three former Smith County inmates who claim they were held beyond their sentences. -
People waiting in Texas' county jails to have their mental competence restored before trial have faced long delays before a state hospital bed is available. -
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s controversial political rise began in Collin County as a "consensus builder." It may end in Austin with impeachment. -
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. -
April 30 marked what’s known as the Fall of Saigon. That’s the day the capital of South Vietnam fell to the communist regime of North Vietnam in 1975.
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It's primary day in Texas. Voters there will decide who to nominate for governor, attorney general and a host of other offices.
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New voting maps in Texas are already facing legal challenges for discrimination, but that's just the start of how gerrymandering affects the nation's democracy.
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COVID-19 vaccine mega-sites across the U.S. are closing down due to the drop in demand for the shot. Much of the hard work of getting people vaccinated will now fall on primary care providers.
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Texans are experiencing the winter storm of the century: sub-freezing temperatures, frozen precipitation and prolonged power outages. The storm is reaching as far south as the Gulf Coast.
