Texas Politics and Policy
New policy blocks transgender Texans from changing sex on driver’s licenses
‘Battle for the soul’: Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan headed to runoff with Trump-backed challenger
Sutherland Springs
‘They’re all shot.’ One Sutherland Springs family loses three members in church shooting
One of the first reporters on the scene in Sutherland Springs, I spent two days with a family who lost two children and a mother in the mass shooting. The story won the Texas APME award for deadline writing.
Sutherland Springs’ morning of horror: a lone gunman, two strangers and a broken town
This tick tock contained exclusive details of the shooting obtained through interviews and records by Dallas Morning News reporters.
Hurricane Harvey
‘Flash flood alley.’ Colorado River jumps banks, floods central Texas towns
Texas Tracker and The 85th
I conceptualized and helped design two different interactive websites to help readers better navigate breaking news during the Texas legislative session. In 2017, The Dallas Morning News launched “The 85th: Your Texas, Your Issues,” the newspaper’s first ever interactive site tracking legislative coverage .
In 2019, The News launched The Texas Tracker, a simplified version of The 85th.