Bill Zeeble
Senior 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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Mansfield ISD this week began taking applications for out-of-district students. It joins other districts like Grand Prairie and Frisco competing for nearby students — and the funding that comes with them. -
Dallas College’s roofer bootcamp admitted nearly 60 students into a free, intensive, week-long program that teaches them roof installation, sales and marketing, and office administration skills unique to this industry. Roofing companies will be at graduation offering interviews and jobs -
Celina police have ended the active investigation into former middle school coach Caleb Elliott, who allegedly recorded dozens of students in the locker room. No other suspects were named, nor was there evidence Elliott set up hidden cameras. -
Projected spending by international students in the U.S. is projected to drop $1.1 billion this fall compared to last year, a new report shows. That’s after a 17% decline in international student enrollments due, in part, to recent federal policy changes -
The Select Committees on Civil Discourse and Freedom of Speech in Higher Education were formed days after Kirk’s assassination on a Utah college campus. Members assembled Thursday in Austin for their first meeting to assess state free speech laws. -
Children at Risk put out its annual ranking of Texas public schools this week, highlighting those that succeed in low-income, low-resource communities. The number of top-rated Gold Ribbon schools grew over last year. -
Attorney General Paxton sent letters to Garland, Northwest, Judson and Liberty Hill ISDs accusing them of using tax dollars to advocate for recent school funding elections, something the districts deny. -
McKinney ISD trustees voted Wednesday to “‘repurpose”’ three schools to save money amid declining enrollment and an ongoing, multi-million dollar deficit. -
Two Cedar Hill ISD band leaders, Derrick Walker and William Johnson, no longer work for the district, a principal told families. The school board had been scheduled to discuss terminating them “for good cause” before their departures. -
North Texas voters considered more than $1 billion in school bonds and VATREs yesterday. -
Cedar Hill ISD trustees will discuss terminating two employees who were placed on leave last week amid a police investigation into “allegations involving former students.” -
Dallas ISD’s superintendent told parents of Woodrow Wilson High School students that principal Chandra Hooper-Barnett, who was removed as the school’s leader following an incident with racial elements, will not return.
