Frank Morris
National Correspondent, KCURI’ve been at KCUR almost 30 years, working partly for NPR and splitting my time between local and national reporting. I work to bring extra attention to people in the Midwest, my home state of Kansas and of course Kansas City. What I love about this job is having a license to talk to interesting people and then crafting radio stories around their voices. It’s a big responsibility to uphold the truth of those stories while condensing them for lots of other people listening to the radio, and I take it seriously. Email me at frank@kcur.org or find me on Twitter @FrankNewsman.
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La pandemia causada por el COVID-19 ha disparado los precios de la vivienda en todo el país en lugares que durante mucho tiempo se mantuvieron estables. Los pueblos rurales que están muy remotos, donde los precios de los bienes raíces se mantuvieron bajos durante décadas, están viendo ahora aumentos desmesurados de precios sin precedentes, que están agravando los problemas de la gente pobre rural. -
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked high housing prices all across the country in places long insulated from them. Remote, rural towns where real estate prices remained low for decades are now seeing unprecedented price spikes, which are compounding problems for the rural poor.
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Labor issues are making staples of school dining hard to find, triggering the worst supply chain headaches these institutions have faced in years. "It's like a ginormous hurricane," says the nutrition services director at the Hickman Mills school district in Kansas City. -
Kyle Wilkens, an agriculture policy expert in U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s office in Higginsville, Missouri, has already helped evacuate 30 people from Afghanistan. Among them is Zamzama Safi, who escaped execution by the Taliban but whose family remains at risk. -
The increasingly desperate scramble to get Afghans who worked with U.S. troops out of their country is stretching the abilities of people from Kabul to Washington to a small farm outside Higginsville, Missouri. -
In Kansas, voter registration groups are suing to stop a new elections law. Some organizations have stopped doing voter drives for fear of charges being filed against their volunteers. -
The company made concessions, but the workers found themselves in a much stronger position than any in recent history to get the workplace and the wages they were bargaining for. -
After production disruptions and shipping delays, fireworks are expensive and in short supply. Some retailers have shut down, and others warn customers their stock might be gone before July Fourth. -
The Kansas City tenant’s rights group has proposed setting up a trust fund to build low-income housing and aid renters, with most of the money coming from the police budget. -
McDonald's workers across the country staged a one-day strike to demand higher pay and a union. After working to raise the minimum wage for eight years, activists say they are starting to see results.
