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Christian McPhate

Christian McPhate is an award-winning journalist who specializes in investigative reporting. He covers crime, the environment, business, government and social justice. His work has appeared in several publications, including the Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star Telegram, the Miami Herald, San Antonio Express News and The Washington Times.

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Reefer Madness: Compassionate Use Laws Leave Some Texans Out

By Christian McPhate
Nov 30, 2021

Peggy had just left the hospital when she went to visit her cannabis dealer in Denton. A retail cashier in her mid-60s, she was struggling to pay her bills and buy the drugs prescribed to treat an inoperable brain tumor. She needed the cannabis to give her an appetite when...
Nearly Four Years After Amanda Clairmont's Murder, Corinth Police Still Searching for Answers

By Christian McPhate
Oct 11, 2021

In November 2017, Amanda Clairmont’s body was found in her car, parked next to a fence in a vacant parking lot along the service road off Interstate 35 in Corinth. Her passenger door was open. Clairmont, a 21-year-old a business major at the University of North Texas, had been shot...
Wrongly Deported as a Teen, Jakadrien Turner Speaks Out About the Lawyer Who Defended Her

By Christian McPhate
Sep 7, 2021

Jakadrien Turner had survived a lot. In early January 2012, at 15 years old, she made her first appearance on CNN. Turner wore a denim jacket and her blondish-brown curls beneath a dark hat as she walked through the DFW airport with her mother, Johnisa Turner, and grandmother Lorene Turner...
Megadeth and Lamb of God Are Bringing 'Metal Tour of the Year' to Dallas

By Christian McPhate
Aug 5, 2021

“Sweating bullets” is what metal legend Megadeth plans for Dallas fans as lead singer Dave Mustaine returns to the stage in the States for the first time since his battle with throat cancer.
Jim Schutze's Seminal Book The Accommodation Is Set for Republishing

By Christian McPhate
Jul 30, 2021

Some considered it the most dangerous book in Dallas, a moniker coined by D Magazine years after it was published. The Accommodation: the politics of race in an American City, traces race relations and politics in Dallas from slavery to the early '80s. It argues slavery was crueler in North Texas...