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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Gov. Sam Brownback’s office released a budget proposal Wednesday that is likely to put him at odds with large swaths of the Legislature.Legislators in… -
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback began a quest to preserve his legacy with Tuesday’s State of the State address.Facing an immediate budget crisis and a… -
As they gavel in Monday for the 2017 session, Kansas legislators are considering delaying juvenile justice reforms enacted last year.Last year’s bill was… -
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback unveiled a two-part plan Friday to bring more doctors to the state and quell health care shortages that he said threaten to kill… -
After four years of filling out four different sets of paperwork to join Kansas Medicaid, or KanCare, health care providers will soon only have to fill… -
Jill Wagner’s life changed the day her then-10-month-old son, Dean, was hospitalized after a series of seizures.Tests revealed that Dean had a rare… -
The Medicaid application backlog in Kansas is on its way back up, threatening months of progress on a coverage problem that has vexed health care… -
Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration has requested a one-year extension of the current KanCare program while delaying a proposal for an updated version of… -
Kansas Sen. Vicki Schmidt is regaining the chairmanship of the state Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee for next year.“I’m certainly excited to… -
A task force chaired by Kansas Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer to address problems in rural health care determined that expanding telemedicine, addressing workforce…
