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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Sparsely populated communities face unique challenges, such as isolation and cultural stigmas about mental health, that call for tailored suicide prevention approaches.
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With aggressive growing patterns and sinister tactics, Old World bluestem is crowding out native grass species and remaking Kansas prairies.
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A lack of child care options in rural Kansas leaves families desperate and threatens the future of small towns.
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The state's Farm to School initiative pairs Kansas family farms with school districts that want to buy food for student meals. But pandemic-related uncertainty about the coming school year makes it harder to form those connections.
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The federal government has begun sending billions of dollars in advance child tax credits to families across America. But among refugees in southwest Kansas, a lack of communication about the monthly payments in their native languages is already hindering the rollout.
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Warmer weather and plentiful roadkill have created a welcoming home for turkey vultures in parts of Kansas. And once they find a place to roost, there's not much towns can do to make them leave.
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As the more contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus fuels new outbreaks in southwest Missouri, public health officials in southeast Kansas redouble their COVID vaccination push.
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The federal government plans to send payments to Black farmers this summer to compensate for loans and aid they lost out on during generations of discrimination. In Nicodemus, Kansas, farmers say the help has come too late.
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Even as demand for rural housing grows, a shortage of lumber, labor and lending means developers are often priced out of building new affordable homes in small towns.
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More people appear willing to get inoculated against the virus, but those who are reluctant are becoming even less willing to consider the shots.