David Condos
Host, Up From DustDavid Condos is the host of the KCUR Studios podcast Up From Dust.
He currently works as KUER’s southern Utah reporter based in St. George, covering the dynamics shaping life in communities across the southern part of the state with a focus on environmental issues.
His reporting has earned several prestigious honors, including three National Edward R. Murrow awards, six Public Media Journalists Association awards and seven Regional Edward R. Murrow awards. His radio stories have also regularly aired on NPR’s national programs Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Here & Now.
Prior to joining KUER, Condos spent two and a half years covering rural Kansas for High Plains Public Radio and the Kansas News Service. He grew up in Nebraska, Colorado and Illinois and graduated from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Email him at dcondos@kuer.org.
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Cotton growing is on the rise in Kansas, but it still only accounts for a small fraction of the state’s farm production. Now, a combination of global warming, dwindling water and new infrastructure might set the stage for southwest Kansas to become cotton country.
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As the number of coyotes in Kansas grows, hunting contests have sprung up as a way to remove potential threats to livestock. But the resilient canine keeps finding ways to survive, no matter what humans throw at it.
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Extreme winds and drought fueled widespread grass fires across western and central Kansas earlier this month. Now, the ranchers, farmers and communities who lost so much begin to pick up the pieces.
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At memorial services in the former presidential nominee's hometown and the state Capitol in Topeka, Kansans paid their respects to one of the state's most well-known leaders.
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Statewide housing shortages continue to lock middle class Kansans out of home ownership and threaten the state’s economic growth. A new study highlights some solutions.
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Al suroeste de Kansas en un par de comunidades predominantemente hispanas, dos mujeres tratan de convertirse en las primeras latinas elegidas para un cargo local. Las elecciones celebradas a principios de este mes muestran que tan lejos han llegado las candidatas latinas tanto como las numerosas barreras a las que todavía se enfrentan.
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In a pair of predominantly Hispanic southwest Kansas communities, two women try to become the first Latinas voted into local office. Elections earlier this month show both how far Latina candidates have come and how many barriers they still face.
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Four decades ago, a town in Kansas and a town in Colorado competed to become home to a giant meatpacking plant that, at the time, was the largest of its kind in the world. Here’s what has happened to them since.
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Murals have become a trend across rural Kansas. Here's why more small towns are starting to turn to larger-than-life outdoor artwork.
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Kansans who help resettle refugees are preparing to welcome 500 people from Afghanistan to the state. Many are destined for Wichita and Kansas City, but they'll be scattered across Kansas.