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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Texas is among several states that have rolled back diversity, equity and inclusion — or DEI — programs at state colleges and universities. As a result, every Texas public college closed DEI departments in January, and in April, two Texas schools fired more than 80 DEI staff total.
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House Bill 900 requires books sold in the state be rated for sexual content by the book seller, similar to how Hollywood rates movies.
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UT Dallas's announcement that it's laying off about 20 faculty and staff to comply with SB 17 comes a week after UT Austin announced its own mass layoffs. "It's a chilling effect."
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For years, fewer men than women have been graduating college, according to national statistics. A program at Dallas College is providing support to help students cross that finish line.
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In recent weeks, several Mansfield residents challenged the eligibility for both Place 2 hopefuls, Angel Hidalgo and Jandel Crutchfield. But now, the district says both will appear on the May 4 ballot.
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First- and second graders in Dallas ISD West Dallas STEM School benefited from some of the dozens of astronomers from Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, who flew to Dallas for Monday’s full solar eclipse. In partnership with Dallas’ Perot Museum of Science and Nature, several of them taught STEM students eclipse lessons Thursday.
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T. Lamar Goreehas been superintendent of Caddo Parish Schools in neighboring Louisiana since 2013, overseeing a district with three blue ribbon schools. Goree also taught and led schools in Texas for 14 years.
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County and state records show Mansfield ISD Place 2 candidate Angel L. Hidalgo wasn’t registered to vote in Tarrant County when he filed to run. Some residents are urging the school board to remove him from the ballot.
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Richardson Superintendent Tabitha Branum says the closures are the only option to avoid a $28.5 million deficit. But prior to the vote, more than two dozen frustrated parents and students urged trustees to reject the plan.
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Northwest ISD parents and the school board president defended the middle school teacher whose home and campus were sent hoax bomb threats last week after a post on Libs of TikTok. Meanwhile in Lewisville ISD, speakers once again spoke in support of a teacher targeted for wearing a dress at school.
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Hoax bomb threats against a teacher at home and the Northwest Independent School District campus she works at led to investigations this week by local and federal authorities. The school district was closed for spring break, so officials suspect the perpetrator was not local.
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Dallas Stars unveil larger-than-life statue of Mike Modano, who helped team win its only Stanley CupPostponed because of rain, the Dallas Stars hockey team unveiled the Mike Modano statue during the first intermission of Saturday’s sold-out game against Los Angeles.