Associate writer
Infrastructure · Government accountability · Public health
Alex Reyes covers infrastructure, accountability, and the government failures that don't make headlines until the water stops running.
Alex Reyes is an associate writer at This Might Sting.
Alex Reyes is an associate writer at This Might Sting, focused on the slow-moving disasters that governments ignore until they become impossible to explain away.
He writes about the gap between what officials promise and what residents actually live with — and why that gap keeps widening.
From the desk
Investigation
Jackson, Mississippi spent years being told its water problems were being fixed. The reality was considerably murkier — and a federal appeals court just ruled the Constitution doesn’t guarantee you clean water.
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