Sam Zeff
EDUCATION REPORTER, Kansas News ServiceSam covers education for KCUR and the Kansas News Service. Before joining the station in August 2014 he covered health and education for KCPT.
Sam began his career at KANU in Lawrence. He hosted Morning Edition at WHYY in Philadelphia where he also covered organized crime, politics and government corruption.
The Overland Park, Kansas, native has won a National News and Documentary Emmy for investigative reporting, four Edward R. Murrow awards and four National Headliner Awards. Sam was assistant news director at the ABC station in the Twin Cities, executive producer at the NBC station in St. Louis and executive producer of special projects at the CBS stations in Minneapolis and Kansas City.
Sam was educated at the University of Kansas.
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(This story was updated at 3 p.m.) The latest defections from the Kansas Republican Party — two Johnson County legislators — show politicians in some...
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In a post-election bombshell, a moderate Republican from Mission Hills, Kansas, has defected to the Democrats just ahead of the 2019 legislative…
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The blizzard only lasted a few hours, but it dropped inches of snow and wreaked plenty of havoc Sunday, closing 235 miles of Interstate 70 in Kansas for...
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Six months ago, very few people in the Kansas 3rd Congressional District even knew Sharice Davids’ name. Now she has made history. Davids is the first...
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Millions of dollars have been spent on the governor's race in Kansas. Money has poured in from all over the country. But a new player has entered the...
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In the final month before the November elections, Republicans and some Democrats are asking: where is Sharice Davids? Davids, a Democratic newcomer,...
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Rep. Kevin Yoder acknowledged Wednesday that he may lose his campaign for a fifth term in Congress. “Well, I think we may be the underdog in this race,"...
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Democrat Sharice Davids walloped incumbent Rep. Kevin Yoder in fundraising last quarter. The Davids campaign says the first-time candidate raised $2.7...
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The National Republican Congressional Committee has pulled more than $1 million in advertising support from Rep. Kevin Yoder's re-election campaign in...
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All four major political ratings organizations currently consider the race for Kansas' 3rd Congressional District a toss-up. FiveThirtyEight moved the...