Sam Zeff
Sam grew up in Overland Park and was educated at the University of Kansas. After working in Philadelphia where he covered organized crime, politics and political corruption he moved on to TV news management jobs in Minneapolis and St. Louis. Sam came home in 2013 and covered health care and education at KCPT. He came to work at KCUR in 2014. Sam has a national news and documentary Emmy for an investigation into the federal Bureau of Prisons and how it puts unescorted inmates on Grayhound and Trailways buses to move them to different prisons. Sam has one son and is pretty good in the kitchen.
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Voters can usually count on local candidates to appear with their opponents at public forums and to talk to newspaper editorial boards. Not this year.
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Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens made a rare stop in Kansas City Wednesday to sign four bills into law. One measure would start the process of creating four...
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In a very critical report, the Missouri auditor called into question incentive payments made to top executives of the University of Missouri System. In...
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Electing a new president is usually not a cause for great alarm in schools. But teachers say Donald Trump’s election is causing students to turn on one...
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The Kansas Supreme Court will hear two hours of oral arguments Wednesday in the Gannon school funding case. It's hard to imagine an educator, lawmaker...
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Missouri has been crowing about how the state has kept down tuition increases for undergraduate, in-state students. In April, Gov. Jay Nixon came to...
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The postmortem on the primary election in Kansas is still going on. How did moderates oust so many incumbent conservatives? One big reason is the...
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The number of teachers leaving Kansas or simply quitting the profession has dramatically increased over the last four years. The annual Licensed...
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While most school districts in Kansas prepare for a possible shutdown at the end of the month, educators are looking for some guidance from the state...
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The regular meeting of the Kansas Board of Regents Wednesday already had a bit of a somber tone; all six universities came in with tuition hike requests...