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Investigative reporter working with @TheArcofTexas . @PulitzerPrizes & @LivingstonAward winner. Professional eavesdropper. #rapesurvivor . Alexdstuckey @gmail .com

Houston, Texas

Joined January 2011

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

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I am SO excited to be working with @TheArcofTexas on this project. Honestly, what a dream. If you've got any tips, have a family member with #IDD and #mentalhealth , or just want to chat about this topic, shoot me a message or email me at alexdstuckey @gmail .com

@TheArcofTexas

The Arc of Texas

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As part of our Whole Person Project, we're talking to orgs at the intersection of #mentalhealth & #IDD to get their perspective on what's working and what's not. Thrilled to welcome @alexdstuckey , Pulitzer Prize journalist, to our staff to help with this phase of learning. @TxCDD

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No power for 2 days. No water since yesterday. Smelled gas inside and outside the house so called 9-1-1 — they never came. Sat outside for three hours with three dogs until we finally reached center point emergency line. Technicians come out — major gas leak

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Gotta say, I really miss living in places where the power grids are prepared to deal with weather

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Plumbers aren’t available to fix the problem until the weekend. Meanwhile trying to work in the dark, in the cold, with the hot spot on my phone. Everything is terrible. Stay safe out there, Texas.

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If they didn’t have #COVID19 before, they probably have it now. Scene from a testing site in The Heights

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@jenradcliffe They shut the gas off so we are no longer going to blow up. I’m currently under about 40 blankets in bed with my dogs, eating French fried onions from a can.

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Journalism is not your whole identity Journalism is not your whole identity Journalism is not your whole identity

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What’s one piece of advice you would give a college journalist

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I was raped 10 yrs ago in the backseat of a stranger’ SUV. This is the scariest thing I’ve ever written — about how you never quite feel like you’ve survived it. About how hard it is to write about rape when you’re still haunted by your own @HoustonChron

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You can't outrun a nightmare: The lasting trauma of rape

Houston Chronicle reporter Alex Stuckey was attacked years before the #MeToo movement....

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Today in weird news: Buzz Aldrin butt dialed me last night. The good news: He is still very much alive. #CoronavirusOutbreak

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@LRO_NASA looked for @ISRO 's uncommunicative #Chandrayaan2 lander earlier this month. It found nothing. Story coming soon. @NASA @HoustonChron

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@ladydownintexas Hey there — any interest in talking to me about this?

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“Last year, The Houston Chronicle published a three-part series that showed Texas leaders failed to adequately fund or manage the state’s eroding mental health system.” @NBCNews @Mike_Hixenbaugh @HoustonChron

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Anyone who knows anything about me knows I would never sign an NDA. I work in the business of transparency and I was so disappointed and offended in @peterbhatia —someone who has worked in journalism for decades —for even suggesting I sign this. @Hou_Landing

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@alexdstuckey was offered three months of full severance pay if she signed this non-disparagement agreement. She refused.

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Today, as part of what the @Hou_Landing CEO called a company “reset,” I was fired . This is not what I wanted. When I asked why, I was given no conclusive answer. I’m proud of the work we’ve done under @Mizanur_TX and @John_Tedesco in the six months since we launched.

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@BetoORourke You can read this story here:

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Faced with a two-decade wait, these families had to leave Texas to receive disability services

The Houston Chronicle interviewed half a dozen families who have made the difficult...

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. @JimBridenstine & @IvankaTrump are coming to @NASA_Johnson Thursday. This is the 3rd time in less than 2 months that important Washington, D.C. people have come to Houston's @NASA center. So yea, space is pretty important again. It's an exciting time to be a space reporter.

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. @HoustonChron reporters JUST got the OK to say this on the internet. We've been fighting for this for some time. So when you see an influx of these tweets from us ... that is why.

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Black Lives Matter. This is not up for discussion or debate. This is a fact. The end.

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Dear internet: I have some news

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Spotted in my neighborhood @SpaceCityWX

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It's officially official. Friday was my last day as @HoustonChron 's @NASA reporter. Today marks my first day on the Chronicle's Investigative Team!

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It's absolutely sickening to watch all these news orgs not only reporting on Ted Cruz' daughter's suicide attempt, but naming her -- A MINOR. It's no one's business. And using the reasoning that he is a public official is an unacceptable excuse.

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#Txame @HoustonChron

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3 years

Reading @feliciasonmez ' lawsuit and literally crying. Everything that happened to her at @washingtonpost is what I feared FOR YEARS would happen to me at paper's if I disclosed my assault. There are no 2 sides to this issue. Sexual assault is bad and also illegal

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Israel is on track to attempt a lunar landing Thursday and, I gotta say, I'm HELLA excited. If they're successful, they'll become the fourth country to land on the moon. @HoustonChron @TeamSpaceIL

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Will Israel become the fourth country to land on the moon? We'll find out Thursday

Israel is on track to attempt a moon landing Thursday and, if successful, the tiny nation...

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What @feliciasonmez is experiencing at @washingtonpost is exactly what I was terrified would happen when I was writing about #sexassault in Salt Lake. And it’s why I didn’t ask for help when I was falling apart. What the post is doing to her is absolutely horrifying

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I spent two decades starving myself, trying to make myself as little as possible. I was ruining my life. Two years ago, I found yoga, specifically Pam Urcid at @BlackSwanYoga . It changed my life @HoustonChron

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How yoga helped me find the strength I’d been searching for

By the start of the pandemic, I was practicing yoga regularly. I could finally do crow...

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@KBYip This place is on my way to the grocery store. I’ve driven past it maybe three times since isolation started and typically they have cars lined up around the block. This is the first time I’ve seen people out of their cars and honestly where are the HC professionals right now?

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@usedgov @EDcivilrights If student raped by classmate, steps shld be taken so they don't have class together. Equal access to education. The whole goal of #TitleIX

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#Journalism movie idea: @RachelAMcAdams spends an entire 3-hour movie fact checking one spreadsheet. There's sighing. There's crying. She's rubbing her eyes and eyeliner is all over her face. Her hair is in such an intense messy bun it has become a dread. Her pants are pajamas

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@BiologyLost Right?? The answer, apparently, is bad things

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When @ShelettaIsFunny tried to get autism services for her 3 children, she was told it would be a 10-year wait. That's on the conservative end. @HoustonChron investigation found there are 200k ppl waiting for disability services -- some for nearly 20 yrs

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Faced with a two-decade wait, these families had to leave Texas to receive disability services

The Houston Chronicle interviewed half a dozen families who have made the difficult...

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🧵My favorite thing about working at @Hou_Landing was how supportive everyone was. Every Friday, we did #shoutoutFridays and it was so inspiring to see everyone supporting each other. I can't take part in this ritual internally anymore, so I'm doing it here.

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BREAKING NEWS: Eight years after graduating @ohiou , I have paid off my student loans.

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After five years, today is my last day at @HoustonChron . I have a new, soon-to-be-announced job on the horizon, where I will continue to write stories to help Texans in need. If you need me in the interim, you can reach me at alexdstuckey @gmail .com

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My final act at @Hou_Landing , though I didn’t know it would be at the time, was to go through 200 obituaries to make this list. People's stories matter. People’s lives matter. We did good work @MarieDennise . I love you.

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No one had truly quantified how prevalent this problem was until @alexdstuckey created a comprehensive database. She collected documents from across Texas to discern how many people had a documented mental health concern before they died from unnatural causes in a jail.

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In 2019, I stumbled across a murder case at state mental hospital. That case revealed a system in crisis, where the mentally ill languish for a year in jail; where deaths are rarely investigated by @CMSGov ; where families receive no answers @HoustonChron

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How Texas fails the mentally ill: one man's death reveals a secretive system in crisis

Funding cuts and growing demand have left hundreds of thousands of Texans to struggle...

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It may not be “snowfall,” but @MarieDennise , @John_Tedesco @Mizanur_TX , our designer and contract developer worked incredibly hard to make this layout for our “deadly detention” series. I’m so proud of the work @Hou_Landing did/continues to do @peterbhatia

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Deadly Detention

Reported by Alex Stuckey | Staff writerMarie D. De Jesús | Director of photography Edited by John Tedesco | Managing editor Contributing Photographers Mark Mulligan Designed by Annie Stuckey | Web...

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⁦ @Hou_Landing ⁩ CEO Peter Bhatia told me this morning that his staff was in open revolt after he fired ⁦ @Mizanur_TX ⁩ and ⁦ @alexdstuckey ⁩. Inside the week that has shaken one of the country’s best-funded nonprofit newsrooms to its core

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I feel physically ill. I am horrified just thinking about the chilling effect this is going to have to survivors in newsrooms across the U.S. Solidarity with @feliciasonmez .

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NEW: A judge has dismissed @feliciasonmez ’s discrimination lawsuit against The Washington Post

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I've been thinking about writing an essay like this for years, but the words just wouldn't come. Until last week when I was up in the middle of the night, trying to suppress a panic attack. Seeing it in print takes my breath away @HoustonChron

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I am so proud of my former colleagues for standing up for what is right and good. Damn @Mizanur_TX you really built an incredible team — one that understands the importance of being ethical and demanding transparency. I know you’re just as proud of them as I am. @Hou_Landing

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Michael Hardy

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BREAKING: Yesterday the nonprofit news site @Hou_Landing abruptly fired its editor-in-chief @Mizanur_TX and top investigative reporter @alexdstuckey . Tonight the site's remaining reporters and photographers sent this letter to the board of directors. Full story TK

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OMG I can't stop watching (and laughing at) this.

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Hey @nytimes : @jenny_deam has written at least 6 stories about this. This was an INVESTIGATION not a 1-off story. If you're going to poach local journalism, attribute appropriately -- and don't try to downplay a journalists hard work so it makes you look better. @ReedAbelson

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“The Houston Chronicle featured one couple who was left with more than $100,000 in unpaid medical bills. Trinity said most members are satisfied with its services.” via @NYTimes

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Moby is exhausted from binge reading @keribla ’s book last night. 10/10 recommends the puppy scenes

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. @sltrib laid 34 people off almost yr 2 the day of @PulitzerPrizes ceremony, where five of us collect award. That work wldnt have been possible w/out rest of staff picking up our slack/helping us when we were drowning. Hard to imagine how that level of work will be possible again

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Honestly, still cannot believe this happened yesterday. I am so honored and humbled by this recognition and I hope that it will bring more attention to the broken mental health system in the United States. We can and should treat our mentally ill neighbors better.

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Announcing the 2022 Livingston Award winners in the local, national and international reporting categories:

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Dear media, #DeshaunWatson was accused of sexual assault, not sexual misconduct. These are very different things. Please get it right. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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I wish it was socially and professionally acceptable to send 🙄 any time an agency denies your records request for reasons that are not at all legal

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The thing about reporters is … they always get the receipts

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Lordy, there are tapes. The @Hou_Landing story gets even worse. Kudos to @willsommer and @washingtonpost

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🧵It's taken me a minute to come to terms with my @TexasEditors awards. I'm having a lot of emotions about winning for a place I helped start & no longer work at (against my will). But damn am I proud of the work my colleagues did under @Mizanur_TX & @John_Tedesco 's leadership.

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Houston Landing journalists took home nine awards from the @TexasEditors journalism contest at the group’s annual conference this weekend, including first-place awards in feature writing and specialty reporting.

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I got fired without cause or explanation ~2 weeks ago and the hardest part of it all is knowing that @MarieDennise and I can’t do more work like this. We had huge plans for 2024. I’m sorry, Marie, that we didn’t get more time. But damn was it incredible to share that byline.

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🔍 A Houston Landing investigation found that nearly 200 people in Texas had been flagged as potentially mentally ill but died in jail instead of getting the care they needed. Here's a comprehensive look: And a thread 🧵:

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When your paper’ Sunday sports section front gives you absolute chills. Proud to work at @HoustonChron

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Sunday's @HoustonChron Sports cover

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Remember when @GregAbbott_TX and @DanPatrick went repeatedly touted TX's low death rate? They were wrong -- and undercounting thousands of deaths. And they used the flawed data to justify reopening the state. By me, @jordan_rubio , @byjayroot , @zachdespart

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Death reporting delays led state officials to offer false assurances about Texas’ death rate

While Texas’ reporting lagged, Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick repeatedly...

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Today in records hell ... #partylikeajournalist

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Also y'all shout out to @kenduque for this amazing illustration. We are so lucky to have him.

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Elizabeth Waller came to me with her story months ago —she was frustrated. She we heartbroken. She wanted justice for her son. The story she shared with me — backed up by hundreds of pages of medical records— left me absolutely speechless @houstonchron

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'HELP ME!': A Texas man begged for aid as his mental health spiraled, but the system failed him

Stetson Hoskins, a 24-year-old diagnosed as bipolar and with schizophrenia, gave doctors...

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Houston! The day has finally come! I’m so excited to finally announce the launch of @hou_landing , a new, non-profit newsroom based in the city I’ve come to call home. I’m so excited to be the Landing’s founding investigative reporter!

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We want to speak up on this coverage, in a climate when training on writing about sexual assault is still severely lacking. But if we do, will we end up banned from that coverage in the future? Will we end up like @feliciasonmez ?

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I went public with my trauma in 2019. And ever since then I have been terrified that I will be barred from covering sexual assault -- or that I will be blacklisted from jobs in the future because of my trauma.

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Black Lives Matter. This is not up for discussion or debate. This is a fact. The end.

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I’m so proud of the work we’ve done, including the DOJ filing a lawsuit that mirrored the findings on colony ridge of @cadoyle_18 @MarieDennise @MonroeTrombly and @DanyaPH ’s story

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Colony Ridge sold over 35,000 properties. Nearly half ended up back in its hands.

A Houston Landing investigation reveals an unusually high turnover rate of Latino-owned properties in Colony Ridge, Liberty’s County’s largest developer.

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Happy Valentine’s Day to the man who supported my decision to not sign an overly broad NDA from @Hou_Landing despite three months severance tied to it. You’re a gem, @theRobSlone , and I’m so lucky to have you

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Yesterday was my 1 yr anniversary at @sltrib . It's been amazing to work with this badass group of women on these imp stories. What a year.

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When you find out your favorite teacher in high school framed the news article about you winning a @PulitzerPrizes and hung it on his classroom wall

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I was sexual harassed as intern & know what it does 2 your psyche, how it cripples you professionally/emotionally, how long it takes 2 move on. We don't yet know details of Matt Lauer's "inappropriate sexual behavior," but @scrippsjschool owes it 2 students 2 make sure they're OK

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This news horrifies me, esp because @scrippsjschool sends interns to @TODAYshow BECAUSE of Matt Lauer. Terrible men of the world: get it together, take a page out of the books of the respectful men and stop being god damn creeps. #MeToo

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I am so proud of my friends. It took them just six weeks from the unexplained firings of @Mizanur_TX and I to form a union. Miz is a leader who encourages his people to stand up and fight for what is right. And oh boy have the @Hou_Landing journos lived up to his legacy.

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Read more about our priorities in our mission statement below:

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Y’all. I knew @mPinoe was amazing. Obviously. I’ve watched her play over and over again. But seeing her in person ... Holy. Hell. Every touch of the ball was effortless. What is it like to be that good at something? @USWNT

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. @rob_slone and I just got our (sorta) wedding photos back and Y'ALL. How is this even real?!

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Six months ago, @mmorris011 , @emfoxhall and I set out to determine the behind-the-scenes decision making for keeping the rodeo open for so long despite the threat of COVID-19. What we found was alarming

@HoustonChron

Houston Chronicle

4 years

Today on A1 from @emfoxhall , @mmorris011 and @alexdstuckey : Part 1 of our Exposed investigation details the institutional failures surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak in Houston.

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With a 200k person waitlist, families are counseled to put their loved ones with intellectual and developmental disabilities on all 6 Medicaid waiver lists. What they’re not counseled for coming to the top of lists and being denied again and again

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‘Everything is so broken’: Disabled Texans face arduous process while waiting for state’s help

The vast majority of Texans do not have the means or ability to leave for another state...

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Just a few months after my project, "In Crisis" was published, Texas lawmakers have allocated nearly $400M to adding inpatient psychiatric beds across the state, as well as rebuilding aging hospitals @HoustonChron

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Texas lawmakers allocate nearly $400 million to state psychiatric hospitals

State lawmakers took a critical step forward in expanding Texas’ psychiatric hospital...

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I was lucky enough to interview Poppy Northcutt, the first woman to work in mission control, recently. She’s amazing and her struggle against gender discrimination is an awful one. Read my story here: @HoustonChron @NASA

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Blazing a trail: First woman at Mission Control later launched career as activist

Mathematician Poppy Northcutt later became a lawyer and activist.

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I wrote a story about #Apollo11 's @AstroMCollins as part of my #missionmoon series. Give it a read here: @HoustonChron #Apollo50

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An underappreciated hero: Apollo 11 pilot had bird’s eye view of history

Former astronaut Michael Collins doesn’t regret his role in the first lunar moon...

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Teddy Amenabar

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Damn. A reader commenting on the news out of Santa Fe.

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@Mike_Hixenbaugh I’m sorry … what?

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

7 years

I am even MORE concerned about this part of new campus #sexassault guidance. (1/2) #TitleIX @usedgov @EDcivilrights

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

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The beauty of being unemployed is that, the second your friend’s first book is delivered on your doorstep, you can immediately rip open the package and start reading. @Mike_Hixenbaugh this book is a triumph. I’m so dang proud of you 💙

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

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I owe Miz so, so much. He is the greatest editor I have ever had and honestly one of the greatest humans I have ever met. Even knowing this outcome for us, I would follow Miz to @Hou_Landing again in a heartbeat. I got an extra year to learn with him and from him

@Mizanur_TX

Mizanur Rahman

9 months

I was fired yesterday as the founding editor in chief of the @Hou_Landing . We launched fully 6 months ago. I was not given a clear reason for this decision other than our CEO saying we needed a more "digital first" direction. This is confusing because we are digital only. 2/5

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

4 years

Update: The power is on (who knows how long that will last). Still no heat or water. We're using a hair dryer to try to heat our bedroom. It is not working well. It is very cold.

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

4 years

No power for 2 days. No water since yesterday. Smelled gas inside and outside the house so called 9-1-1 — they never came. Sat outside for three hours with three dogs until we finally reached center point emergency line. Technicians come out — major gas leak

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After reading horrifying stories about kids in psych hospitals, @stephanierlamm and I decided to looked at access to mental health providers in schools. Not a single TX school district had the rec'd number of all four positions ⬇️⬇️

Texas schools don't have enough mental health providers. As leaders fail to fix it, kids suffer.

Half of all mental illness begins by age 14. And the U.S. Department of Education...

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

4 months

We lost the most incredible woman this weekend. I owe so much to @_SusanCarroll and I am so absolutely devastated. I don’t know how to navigate this well of grief. She is the one who brought me onto the investigative team, fulfilling a dream I’ve had since college

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

7 years

This news horrifies me, esp because @scrippsjschool sends interns to @TODAYshow BECAUSE of Matt Lauer. Terrible men of the world: get it together, take a page out of the books of the respectful men and stop being god damn creeps. #MeToo

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CBS News

7 years

NBC News has fired long-time TODAY Show host Matt Lauer over inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

3 years

If eliminating rape was an option why did we do it decades ago?

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

9 months

@Amari_Clare And @MarieDennise and I not only got @LinaHidalgoTX to drop $645k into competency restoration at @HCSOJail but also a law was passed that will for the first time document how many inmates have been denied mental health care

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Texans with mental illnesses are dying in Houston-area jails. They didn’t need to be there.

A Houston Landing investigation found that about 46 percent of jail inmates who died of unnatural causes had a record of mental illness.

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

2 years

I’m so honored to be named a finalist for the Livingston award this year!! And to be among so many talented journalists including my girl @m_jfrench !

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Wallace House Center for Journalists

@UMWallaceHouse

2 years

Announcing the 2022 Livingston Award finalists in the local, national and international reporting categories. See their names and reporting:

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

7 months

. @Mizanur_TX ripped the bandaid off so I guess it’s time for me to come out of mourning and do it, too. I find myself in the market for a job. If anyone is looking for an investigative reporter, my DMs and emails (alexdstuckey @gmail .com) are open.

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

4 years

Come on @nytimes . Be better

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Mike Hixenbaugh

@Mike_Hixenbaugh

4 years

This line in the @nytimes about the hospital crisis in Houston made me laugh. “A local newspaper” Pro-level shade ... 😂

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

1 year

ANOTHER death at the Harris County Jail--that makes six this year. I've been analyzing the deaths at the jail for the @Hou_Landing , a story I felt needed to be done after 27 people died there in 2022. Read my story here:

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Texans with mental illnesses are dying in Houston-area jails. They didn’t need to be there.

A Houston Landing investigation found that about 46 percent of jail inmates who died of unnatural causes had a record of mental illness.

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

2 years

For years, I've been hearing about the long waitlist for IDD services. It was worse than I could have ever imagined. There are 170,000 people waiting for care through Medicaid waiver programs. Some have been on the list for as long as 18 and 19 years.

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Nearly 200,000 disabled Texans are waiting for the state’s help — some for longer than a decade

Experts estimate that there are more than 500,000 Texans like Chase living with...

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

4 years

My team and I have been working on this project since March. Starting Sunday, we'd appreciate it if y'all would read it. @HoustonChron @srileychronicle

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From the editor: New investigative series 'Exposed' reveals government's failure to prepare for...

On Sunday, we’ll publish the first part of a new investigative series, “Exposed,” a...

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

4 years

Y’ALL I am so proud of my friend, @keribla . What a freaking badass. @LastWeekTonight @MarshallProj

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

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Wow, y'all. Just wow. I am so overwhelmed by everyone's support yesterday -- and their willingness to share their stories. I tried to respond to everyone's messages, but y'all crashed my Twitter multiple times yesterday and it was hard to keep up. Thank you. Just ... thank you

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

6 years

I’ve been covering @NASA for @HoustonChron for a year now and I just got my first reader message about aliens. I’ve made it guys.

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

3 years

I'm sorry, but what journalist doesn't expect this things from all governments?

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Michelle Kosinski

3 years

As an American journalist, you never expect: 1. Your own govt to lie to you, repeatedly 2. Your own govt to hide information the public has a right to know 3. Your own govt to spy on your communications Trump's unAmerican regime did all of these. No one should accept this.

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

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The # of public psychiatric hospital beds in Texas on a per-capita basis has declined 95% since 1955. With nowhere to go, more and more people ended up on the streets and, ultimately, in jail. Read part 2 of my "In Crisis" series for @HoustonChron here

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

6 years

OK that parachute deployment was HELLA cool @SpaceX

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

3 years

For everyone wondering how the mental health system is doing in Texas ... there are now 1,838 people waiting to get bed in a state hospital. @TexasHHSC

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

4 years

Because I know everyone is craving this content, look at my dog IN A TUXEDO

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

7 years

Good news, people! For reasons @SpaceCenterHou can't quantify, their tours of @NASA_Johnson still on despite #GovernmentShutdown . @NASA originally said all public tours of its facilities would be halted. Not the case in Houston @HoustonChron

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Tours of mission control at Johnson Space Center still on during shutdown

Despite the federal government shutdown, Space Center Houston still is offering tours of...

@alexdstuckey

Alex Stuckey 🐘

7 years

I've already heard from one person since Friday night who's lifelong dream of seeing mission control at @NASA_Johnson was dashed by the #GovernmentShutdown . Are you experiencing something similar? I'd love to hear from you. Email me at alex.stuckey @chron .com @HoustonChron @NASA

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

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@usedgov @EDcivilrights Old guidance said schools shld quickly eliminate hostile environ so victims cld keep learning-the point of #TitleIX .

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Alex Stuckey 🐘

6 years

On today's @HoustonChron front page: My third story in the #ChasingOrion series, in which I chronicle the build up to the April launch testing @NASA_Orion 's emergency abort system. Much of the work is being done at @NASA_Johnson @NASA

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