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Rick Holter

Vice President of News

Rick Holter is KERA's Vice President of News. He oversees news coverage on all of KERA's platforms – radio, digital and television. He returned to Dallas after six years at NPR, where he edited Weekend All Things Considered and Day to Day, and supervised the Digital News operation. Before that, Rick spent 15 years at The Dallas Morning News, after editing stints at what was then the St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times) in Florida and the News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C.

He’s collected honors including USC-Getty Arts Journalism Fellowships in 2005 and 2011, a National Headliners Award (2010), a NLGJA Award (2009) and numerous newspaper design awards; he also edited and designed a Pulitzer Prize-winning feature series (1992). A graduate of the University of Maryland, he grew up on a dairy farm in Middletown, Md.

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Texas News
4:31 pm
Wed June 12, 2013

Shiny New Honors On KERA's Awards Shelf

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The State Integrity Investigation – a 50-state project that KERA was part of last year – has won a national Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting from the Radio Television Digital News Association.

It's the latest honor in a record year for the station's news team, which won three regional Murrow awards, six from the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters Association and four Anson Jones, MD, Awards from the Texas Medical Association.

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11:44 am
Wed June 12, 2013

FEMA Won't Give More Money To Rebuild Town Of West

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The federal agency says in a letter that the impact of the fertilizer plant explosion “is not of the severity and magnitude that warrants a major disaster declaration.” FEMA has provided emergency funds to individual residents of the town.
WEST, Texas - The Federal Emergency Management Agency is refusing to provide money to help rebuild the small Texas town where a deadly fertilizer plant explosion leveled numerous homes and a school, and killed 15 people.
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3:19 pm
Tue June 4, 2013

Dallas Tea Party Leader Says GOP 'Doesn’t Want Black People To Vote,' Then Apologizes

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"That was a mistake," Ken Emanuelson says of his statement at a May 20 event organized by the Dallas County Republican Party. His full quote then: “I’m going to be real honest with you. The Republican Party doesn’t want black people to vote if they are going to vote 9-to-1 for Democrats.”
The Republican Party of Texas is distancing itself from comments made about black voters by a Dallas Tea Party leader. In an audio recording that Democrats sent out to news outlets Tuesday, Tea Party leader Ken Emanuelson of Dallas can be heard saying that the state GOP doesn't want to encourage blacks to participate in elections if they overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.
Read More: http://www.texastribune.org
Texas News
2:08 pm
Thu April 25, 2013

LISTEN: The West Memorial Service

Credit Bill Zeeble / KERA News
Flag draped coffins inside Baylor's Ferrell Center.
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As many as 10,000 people have crowded into the Ferrell Center at Baylor University in Waco for a memorial service honoring the first responders and residents of West, Texas, who died last week when the town's fertilizer plant exploded.

Inside The Bush Center
7:59 am
Thu April 25, 2013

WATCH: Archived Video Of The Bush Center Dedication

Credit Dane Walters / KERA News
The George W. Bush Presidential Center, which opens Thursday, earned LEED "Platinum" status for its eco-sensitive design. Among its green features is a 15-acre park.
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The live stream of the George W. Bush Presidential Center dedication has ended. We'll post archival video as soon as it is available.

6:57 pm
Tue April 23, 2013

Justice Department Sues Lance Armstrong, Says He Was 'Unjustly Enriched'

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The U.S. Postal Service paid $40 million to sponsor Armstrong's Tour de France team. Now the Feds are joining a whistleblower lawsuit brought by former Armstrong teammate Floyd Landis. In January, Armstrong admitted using performance-enhancing drugs after years of denials,
Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas -- The Justice Department laid out its case in a lawsuit against Lance Armstrong on Tuesday, saying the cyclist violated his contract with the U.S. Postal Service and was "unjustly enriched" while cheating to win the Tour de France.
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National News
10:53 am
Fri April 19, 2013

LIVE VIDEO: 'NewsHour' Covers The Boston Manhunt

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The city of Boston and surrounding suburbs are locked down as hundreds of law enforcement officers bear down on the one living suspect. PBS NewsHour is covering the story live.

1:23 pm
Thu April 18, 2013

The FAQ On Fertilizer

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The Washington Post's WonkBlog has a standout look at the fertilizer business. One choice tidbit: The U.S. imports far more fertilizer ($13 billion worth) than it exports ($4.5 billion). And the biggest suppliers? Canada, Russia, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Fertilizer production comes with some occasional risks. The ammonium nitrate that’s commonly used for synthetic fertilizer can explode if ignited at very high temperatures. That’s fairly rare, but it does happen — there have been at least 17 major explosions worldwide since 1921. So here’s a basic overview of the industry — how big it is, how common explosions are, how often plants are inspected:
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Texas News
9:52 pm
Wed April 17, 2013

UPDATE: West, Texas, Blast Site 'Just Like Iraq,' DPS Official Says

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Update, 12:15 a.m.: "An unbelievable tragedy" -- that's how D.L. Wilson of the Department of Public Safety described Wednesday night's fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas. Speaking to the media just after midnight, he added that he'd toured the blast zone, and it looked "just like Iraq, just like the Murrah building in Oklahoma City," which was bombed 18 years ago this week.

Wilson said more than 100 were injured, and he confirmed that people have died, though he gave no number.

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4:18 pm
Tue April 16, 2013

'Wait Wait's Peter Sagal Shares A Blind Runner's Tale Of Bravery

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The NPR host was running the Boston Marathon with William Greer, a blind marathoner from Austin. Peter writes: "He ran the bravest and toughest mile of his life, not even able to see clearly what he was doing, just because he wanted to be able to say he did it, and by doing so, he crossed the line alive."
So William Greer was really hurting, in that very particular, very painful way known only to Boston Marathon rookies, the hurt that comes from taking the first half too fast and getting hammered by the Newton Hills, and he kept wanting to walk. "How far is the 24-mile marker?" he asked.
Read More: http://www.runnersworld.com

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