From The Newsroom: A Working College, State Of The State

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published February 18, 2015 at 7:59 AM CST

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

At Paul Quinn College in southern Dallas, students are about to be put to work. And Governor Greg Abbott delivers his first "State of the State" address.

You can listen to the top local news stories weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

Courtney Collins

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.

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