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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The district says a lack of state funding, high inflation and falling enrollment have left it with a looming $28.5 million deficit.
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Experts in the first Equity Summit, presented by the advocacy non-profit Children at Risk, said low-income students and students of color have unequal access to good health care, nutrition, quality housing and education.
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Superintendent Tabitha Branum said RISD has 9,000 empty seats, hasn’t received additional funding from the legislature in years, and, like every Texas district, has had to deal with dramatically rising inflation. “All are reasons we are considering a variety of budget reductions and enhancements, including elementary school consolidations.”
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After a record-setting open to the season, serious injuries to four top players on Texas Christian University’s women’s basketball team led mostly to losses. The Horned Frog’s roster was so depleted, the coach invited any students to try out. Is it enough to help restore the victories?
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Texas Christian University's women's basketball team has had so many injuries it had to forfeit games and hold an open try-out for walk-ons.
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Texas Christian University's women's basketball team has had so many injuries it had to forfeit games and hold an open try-out for walk-ons.
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Flight attendants unions representing more than 100,000 members have organized the largest collective action in aviation history. It's scheduled for Tuesday.
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At least a million Ukrainians have fled to Poland since Russia attacked their home almost two years ago. Roughly a third of those are children who cannot speak Polish. But an internationally recognized project at Texas Woman’s University in Denton is helping to teach them, despite the distance.
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Prosper High School senior James Kim is the new co-host for the fourth season of PBS NewsHour's On Our Minds, a podcast about mental health made by and for teens.
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Senate Bill 17 banned diversity, equity and inclusion programs at state colleges and universities. Schools are complying – while still working in support of DEI goals.
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Dallas public school officials say the pandemic increased the need for more school psychiatrists — but they're in high demand, and more expensive.
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The district will permit schools to hire chaplains as counselors so long as they meet the job requirements. “The district is not hiring chaplains to be just chaplains,” said board President Cameron Bryan.