Amy Jeffries
Amy Jeffries is the Kansas elections editor, based at KCUR. She brings together coverage from a collaborative team of reporters affiliated with public radio stations and non-profit media across Kansas.
A Connecticut yankee with midwestern roots, she majored in philosophy, of course, at Wesleyan University and got her master's in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.
She has covered art in suburbia, striking public sector workers in South Africa, and the aftermath of hurricanes along the Gulf Coast. She started her career in journalism at WNPR in Hartford, and has edited and reported for Patch.com, GlobalPost, and the Associated Press.
Before coming to Kansas, she led the WRKF newsroom in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where politics is a favored sport along with LSU athletics. She still cheers for the Tigers, though she has also become a fan of the Kansas City Royals.
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U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts has ended the talk — and there's been a lot of it — about his political future. The senior senator from Kansas announced in... -
We’ve nearly arrived at a pivotal moment — the election that will determine whether Kansas continues rightward, returns to its traditional center, or... -
Now it starts to get real. Tuesday’s primary, and the early voting that wraps up at noon on Monday, could begin to clarify what direction Kansas... -
Update July 18, 1:34 p.m. Kansas City, Missouri, police say the man arrested Sunday afternoon at the house on 77th Terrace linked to the Gavin Eugene... -
"Just Say No" is not enough anymore, according to a new report from the Trust for America's Health. The health advocacy non-profit cites research...
