Andy Marso
Reporter, Kansas News ServiceAndy Marso is a reporter for KCUR 89.3 and the Kansas News Service based in Topeka.
Andy previously covered state government for the Topeka Capital-Journal where he shared the Burton W. Marvin Kansas News Enterprise Award and received the Great Plains Journalism Award for investigative/project reporting.
He has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas. He previously wrote for The Olathe News, the St. Cloud Times and the Washington Post. His memoir, “Worth the Pain: How Meningitis Nearly Killed Me – Then Changed My Life for the Better,” was named a 2014 Kansas Notable Book.
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The head of an advocacy group for Kansas providers of disability support services said this week that the Brownback administration is trying to combine… -
Kansas public colleges will have to allow firearms on their campuses starting in July. But they’re still battling with the gun lobby over how people… -
For years Kansas Sen. David Haley has introduced bills to stiffen penalties for hate crimes and they’ve gone nowhere.But Haley and others think his bill… -
An adult stem cell center established by the Kansas Legislature in 2013 is almost ready for its first clinical trial.Buddhadeb Dawn, executive director of… -
Kansas legislators heard testimony against physician-assisted suicide Monday from a former state representative.“This is a direction we don’t want to go,”… -
Kansas continues to rank among the worst states when it comes to sedating nursing home residents with powerful antipsychotic drugs.Janell Wohler and Kate… -
When the Kansas Senate comes back after this week’s midsession break, it may consider legislation to form a comprehensive state plan to fight… -
Dr. Saeedeh Salmanzadeh became a U.S. citizen at a naturalization ceremony in October 2015.When the presiding official asked if any of the new citizens… -
The five-year fight over Gov. Sam Brownback’s efforts to remake Kansas income tax code came to a head Wednesday, and 16 senators voted to let it… -
KanCare is a $3 billion program that provides health insurance to more than 425,000 Kansans — complex and bureaucratic by its nature.And lately it seems…
