David Condos
ReporterDavid Condos is High Plains Public Radio's western Kansas correspondent. Based in Hays, he reports on issues that shape rural communities across the Great Plains — from water and climate change to agriculture and immigration. His coverage of western Kansas has earned him several prestigious awards, including a National Edward R. Murrow award, two national Public Media Journalists Association awards and three regional Edward R. Murrow awards.
His work reaches audiences across Kansas through the Kansas News Service, a statewide collaboration of public radio stations. The stories he’s reported from western Kansas have also aired nationally on NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Here & Now and have been published in newspapers nationwide.
After growing up in Nebraska, Colorado and Illinois, Condos graduated from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.
You can email him at dcondos@hppr.org and follow him on Twitter @davidcondos.
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A busload of hungry tourists and a restaurant kitchen with a near-empty pantry: What could have been a disaster turned into an improvised recipe that's been pleasing crowds for nearly six decades.
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A busload of hungry tourists, a restaurant kitchen with a near-empty pantry. What could have been a disaster turned into an improvised recipe that's been pleasing crowds for nearly six decades.
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Geothermal energy has been limited to places with subtera reservoirs of hot water. A new technology being proven in Utah is expanding it to exploit dry hot rock underground.
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The Wizard of Oz and Kansas have been inseparable since farm girl Dorothy Gale first skipped down the yellow brick road. But a Dust Bowl 1930s image may also hold Kansas back from what it wants to be.
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Temperatures have been over 100 degrees for days at Zion National Park. Is it keeping the tourists away? No, even as two hikers in a nearby state park died of apparent heat-related causes Saturday.
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Extreme temperatures boost wildfire danger, and the forecast for some Southwestern states include high winds. That means warnings are being issued for fires that could start and spread quickly.
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The Wizard of Oz and Kansas have been inseparable since farm girl Dorothy Gale first skipped down the yellow brick road. But having an enduring image from the Dust Bowl 1930s might also hold Kansas back from what it wants to be today. -
Water levels in the Ogallala Aquifer continue to plummet as farm irrigation swallows an average of more than 2 billion gallons of groundwater per day statewide. But after decades of mostly inaction from Kansas leaders, the state’s approach to water conservation might finally be starting to shift. -
Towns across the Great Plains are shrinking. Some families in western Kansas are now looking to youth rodeo as a way to preserve their rural lifestyle.
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As small town populations decline, people in places like western Kansas look for ways to keep their rural farming and ranching lifestyle alive for the next generation. Some families think youth rodeo might be part of the answer.
