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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Amid local and national shortages, Fort Worth ISD bus drivers and attendants are getting a pay boost effect Saturday, Oct. 9. -
That's a key recommendation from Mayor Eric Johnson's Ethics Task Force, which just issued its multipage report.
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In a federal class action suit filed Wednesday, parents say the life and health of their children are unconstitutionally threatened because the school district enforces no mask mandate.
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Pilot unions of both major North Texas-based carriers say the companies haven't adequately managed pilots' schedules, let alone pandemic recovery. So they may picket to press home their point.
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At the beginning of next month, more than 650 new state laws take effect. Leading up to Sept. 1, public radio reporters from across Texas are explaining some of the most high profile and consequential of those laws. Today: HB 3979, which targets teaching critical race theory in schools.
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One North Texas school marked the return of in-person classes by getting students outside the classroom to learn more about science and technology.
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The Texas House member from Waxahachie faced a few hurdles in his race for the Congressional District 6 seat.
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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.
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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.
