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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A “mega-bill” containing several provisions related to licensure of medical professionals survived a rules dispute to pass just before the Kansas… -
Legislative budget negotiators have agreed to insert a provision in the state budget preventing Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration from consolidating… -
The Kansas Legislature passed a bill Saturday banning tanning salons from serving minors, a measure advocates say will reduce cancer.Free-market advocates… -
The Kansas House shot down a plan to return some 330,000 Kansas businesses back to the income tax rolls Friday, voting 45-74 on the measure.A tax… -
The departure of UnitedHealthcare could leave Kansans shopping on the federal online marketplace with only one choice of insurer, but Kansas Insurance… -
A bill to legalize hemp oil at the state level has drawn the ire of Kansas medical marijuana advocates who say it’s too watered down to do any… -
Members of the Legislative Post Audit Committee again declined Tuesday to request an investigation into whether the Kansas Department for Children and… -
When Shannon Lindsey moved from Missouri to Kansas two years ago, she decided she wanted to go to Johnson County Community College to get a nursing degree… -
Two employees of Larned State Hospital made rare public comments Monday about difficult working conditions at the mental health facility.Kyle Nuckolls and… -
Representatives of 15 groups that advocate for Kansas Medicaid populations sent a letter to state leaders this week urging them to eliminate a Medicaid…
