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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Rep. Michelle Beckley from Carrollton, who didn't attend the first day of the legislative session, is one of the lawmakers in self-isolation. -
Michael Sorrell has led Paul Quinn College since 2007. Years earlier, he served in the Clinton Administration for a year and a half. Now that Democrats control both houses, he hopes they rapidly appoint judges and address the census.
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Republican Jason Villalba, a former member of the Texas House of Representatives, says President Trump has turned some conservatives into extremists who act on his lies. He said he hopes the Republican party can regroup and return to its traditional identity.
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Shooting guns into the air and setting off fireworks are illegal and many local police departments will be on the lookout for those activities. Many departments will also be out in force to catch drunk drivers.
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The Dallas Symphony has found a way to continue in-person concerts during the pandemic, thanks to ongoing COVID testing, survival management, trust between musicians and the front office, and donor support.
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Field trips have gone virtual, and Dallas' Holocaust and Human Rights Museum is offering a live experience where tour guides actively engage with students.
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Collin College will cease in-person classes until after the new year. And for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, the college of 35,000 mostly-commuter students is also posting an online COVID-19 dashboard.
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Though the decision is the city manager’s — not his — Johnson wants an experienced big-city police leader with a record of reducing crime.
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Instead of pulling more than $2 million from a limited budget to fund the buyout, Lancaster ISD trustees table the motion and wonder if it's worth it.
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The family of Atatiana Jefferson, a Black woman, has sued the city of Fort Worth and former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean for the wrongful death of Ms. Jefferson in October of 2019.
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Every year, Children At Risk rates the state's public schools, based partly on standardized test scores. The pandemic temporarily put those tests on hold, so this year's pandemic edition of campus rankings looks at the past three years.
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The monoclonal antibody therapy bamlanivimab is designed to treat high-risk coronavirus infections and has shortened or prevented hospitalizations.
