Jeff Bossert
Morning Edition HostJeff Bossert has been Radio IQ's Morning Edition host since 2017. His 25 years of hosting and reporting has been primarily with NPR member stations, including WKNO in Memphis, and Illinois Public Media/WILL in Urbana, Illinois. A big advocate for professional development, Jeff served on the Illinois News Broadcasters Association’s Board of Directors. An avid film buff, performer in church and community choirs, and die-hard Chicago Cubs fan, Jeff lives with wife Kerry and fluffy cat Toby.
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The top stories for September 22, 2026, including a new study that shows food insecurity is reaching record highs in the Commonwealth, the Roanoke Firefighters Association seeks collective bargaining rights, Floyd County high school students help rebuild a home funded through a state grant, and a sanitation group may have found an answer to groundwater concerns in Eastern Virginia. -
The top stories for September 21, 2026, including income analysis from new US Census Bureau data in Virginia, a look for solutions in West Virginia quiet zones, where cell phones aren't allowed, Roanoke Area Ministries unveils its new location, and how fisherman are using FOIA requests.
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The top stories for September 18, 2026, including a report from Virginia's Attorney General that Homeland Security may have violated a number of election laws, one candidate holds the edge in fundraising in one key congressional race, there's an effort in Harrisonburg to lure in passenger rail, and in their Friday chat, analyst Jeff Schapiro and Michael Pope look at early voting in the Commonwealth.
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The top stories for September 17, 2026, including Gov. Spanberger issuing a state of emergency to help farmers amidst low hay production, mail-in ballots are on their way to households, and community members step up in an effort to reduce gun violence in Charlottesville.
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The top stories for September 16, 2026, including the development of a naloxone patch to treat opioid overdoses, King George County's school board reverses course on blocking a club for LGBTQ students, and a former music professor from Sweet Briar College specializes in compositions for the left hand.
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The top stories for September 15, 2026, including new terms unveiled by Dominion and NextEra as part of their potential merger, Gov. Spanberger recently ended a Youngkin-era rule that limited transgender students' participation in sports, and more on what occurred Friday, when a Roanoke Valley board signed off on a purchase agreement for what opponents believe is a data center.
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The top stories for September 14, 2026, including what impact federal "rural" maps could have on Virginia's Rural Health Transformation Fund, a board in the Roanoke Valley votes for a purchase agreement for land - one opponents say is a data center plan, and a preview of November's vote for a one-percent sales tax to fund school construction across the Commonwealth.
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The top stories for September 11, 2026, including plans by the Virginia State Crime Commission to review cases from former forensic scientist Mary Jane Burton, the start of early voting in Virginia includes the mailing of absentee ballots, and an open house will be held this weekend at Hope Legacy's Equine Rescue in Afton.
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The top stories for September 10, 2026 including a look at how complaints over data centers in Virginia have made residents experts on Freedom of Information Act requests, and Waynesboro residents organize against a potential Northrup Grumman plant in Waynesboro.
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The top stories for September 9, 2026, including a Department of Corrections report on deaths in Virginia prisons, bipartisan efforts to end or limit the use of Flock cameras, previewing one of the three constitutional amendments on ballots this fall, and we meet Youssef Bouzidi, one of the top-ranked Pickleball players, who happens to live in Roanoke.
