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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The City of Dallas and the Dallas Independent School District are looking for feedback on study aiming to make high speed internet accessible and equitable for all Dallasites. -
Cracking down on Critical Race Theory is on Gov. Greg Abbott's agenda for the Texas legislative special session that began this week. But Texas educators say they don't teach it, and experts say most people — including critics — don’t even know what is.
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The Dallas Police Department is joining with Safe Place and Dallas Hope Charities to encourage hate crime victims to report hate crimes. They encourage businesses to partner with them as they focus on the LGBTQ community.
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Dallas ISD says suspensions for minor offenses too often turn kids away from school, sometimes permanently, instead of punishing them and putting them back on the right track.
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In 2009, only 7% of Dallas ISD students earned any kind of secondary credits within 6 years of graduating high school. Now, more than 10% of Dallas ISD seniors are expected to graduate with both their high school diploma and associate degree.
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It's been said over time that historically Black colleges and universities have low graduation rates. Professor and writer Ivory Toldson said that's often not only a mis-read of statistics, but an unfair and biased assessment of HBCUs.
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As a result of Sunday's walkout by Democrats that effectively ended the legislative session, Abbott vowed to defund lawmakers for not doing their job.
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The school district says it expected that some qualified students weren't getting special education services because of last year's pandemic shutdown. But the problem is worse than expected and began years before the COVID-19 closures.
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The district is putting up internet towers to provide more students with WiFi access. It also wants every student to take full-day summer classes to combat learning loss.
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Groups such as Black Voters Matter and the Next Generation Action Network will have seminars, rallies and more to honor and remember George Floyd a year after he was killed.
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The American Association of University Professors is looking into allegations that Collin College professors were dismissed for speaking up about COVID safety issues, among other comments.
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The Dallas school district began busing willing teens to get COVID-19 shots this week after officials approved the Pfizer vaccine for those 12 and older. Previously, vaccines were only available to those at least 16.
