Bill Zeeble
ReporterBill Zeeble has been a full-time reporter at KERA since 1992, covering everything from medicine to the Mavericks and education to environmental issues.
He’s won numerous awards over the years, with top honors from the Dallas Press Club, Texas Medical Association, the Dallas and Texas Bar Associations, the American Diabetes Association and a national health reporting grant from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Zeeble was born in Philadelphia, Pa. and grew up in the nearby suburb of Cherry Hill, NJ, where he became an accomplished timpanist and drummer. Heading to college near Chicago on a scholarship, he fell in love with public radio, working at the college classical/NPR station, and he has pursued public radio ever since.
His first real radio gig was with a classical station in Corpus Christi, where the new Texan was dubbed “Billy Ted”; he was also a manager at WNO-FM in New Orleans.
Several stories he covered on television for KERA 13 helped homeowners avoid losing their homes.
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A professor’s social media posts about Vice President Mike Pence led the college president to issue a letter, calling the posts “hateful, vile and ill-considered.” -
Texas has allowed curbside voting for decades, for anyone physically unable to enter a polling place. Voters ask for help when they get to a polling location, and an election officer will bring a ballot to the car.
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The incumbent and the challenger levelled accusations at each other for an hour online that largely echoed national party-line talking points.
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U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was in Garland on Thursday, learning how some schools are teaching through COVID-19. She found positives in a year of negatives.
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The Dallas Stars and Tampa Bay Lightning are charting new territory for the NHL — it's the league's first all-southern Stanley Cup series. Dallas fans haven't waivered in their dedication to the team, despite not being able to watch the championship bouts in person.
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"We loved the teachers, the faculty, everybody. But with all of the COVID regulations, it seemed hard for them to learn in front of a computer screen for 8 hours a day," Trisha Gilchrist said.
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LeNona Shields doesn't have internet access at home, and neither do a lot of her southern Dallas neighbors. Technology issues spurred her to pull her three kids out of Dallas schools and turn to home schooling.
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"We are currently experiencing technical issues with our phone lines and website," was a message in Dallas, Fort Worth and many districts nationwide that shared the same problem causing a first-day-of-school slowdown.
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Interim Superintendent Don Hooper has resigned after several days of protests over controversial social media posts. And during a special meeting Sunday, the school board unanimously rescinded the voluntary resignation D’Andre Weaver submitted last week.
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Dallas and Fort Worth schools will start online this year. Both districts say they've increased training and have added online tools to make virtual learning smoother than it was at the start of the pandemic.
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The DeSoto school board had accepted the resignation of its superintendent. But then he said he didn't intend to resign.
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Some parents can't wait for in-person school to start. But in a lot of districts, that won't happen for a while. For the first few weeks or more of class, learning will be online only. Like it or not, students will still be home.
