Dan Margolies
Reporter and Editor, KCURDan Margolies is editor in charge of health news at KCUR, the public radio station in Kansas City. Dan joined KCUR in April 2014. In a long and varied journalism career, he has worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Business Journal, The Kansas City Star and Reuters. In a previous life, he was a lawyer. He has also worked as a media insurance underwriter and project development director for a video production firm.
Dan was born in Brooklyn, NY, and moved to Kansas City with his family when he was eight years old. He majored in philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis and holds law and journalism degrees from Boston University.
He is a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism and the recipient of numerous first-place awards from the Missouri Press Association, Kansas City Press Club and the Association of Area Business Publications.
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At issue in Tuesday’s ruling is whether the casinos’ health plans, which included a $50 monthly tobacco surcharge, violated the federal law governing employee health plans. -
DeValkenaere’s indictment by a Jackson County grand jury in June 2020 came amid heightened scrutiny of police practices across the United States following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. -
A lawyer for the plaintiffs said he dismissed the suit because the middle-school plaintiff was at risk of "vitriol, rumors, and innuendo from bad actors." -
Krucial Staffing sent thousands of nurses to COVID-strained hospitals in New York, Texas and Louisiana. Meanwhile, the company's now-former CEO, and his family, may be behind Johnson County's anti-mask lawsuit. -
The vaccine requirement applies to all employees, affiliated staff and contractors, students and volunteers. -
Medical records show Dr. Scott Taggart Roethle has been sanctioned in at least 10 states for prescribing medications via telemedicine to patients with whom he did not have a physician-patient relationship. -
Long seen as a crisis afflicting rural communities, the opioid epidemic in recent years has surged in Black communities. -
Altogether, the government will have paid out nearly $17 million in claims over the scandal. -
The case concerns whether Mylan sought to monopolize the EpiPen market after it dramatically hiked the price of the lifesaving device. -
The attackers were able to obtain some personal health information about deceased donors and organ recipients, including names, dates of birth and types of organ donation or transplantation procedures.
