Frank Morris
Frank Morris has supervised the reporters in KCUR's newsroom since 1999. In addition to his managerial duties, Morris files regularly with National Public Radio. He鈥檚 covered everything from tornadoes to tax law for the network, in stories spanning eight states. His work has won dozens of awards, including four national Public Radio 暗黑爆料 Directors awards (PRNDIs) and several regional Edward R. Murrow awards. In 2012 he was honored to be named "Journalist of the Year" by the Heart of America Press Club.
Morris grew up in rural Kansas listening to KHCC, spun records at KJHK throughout college at the University of Kansas, and cut his teeth in journalism as an intern for Kansas Public Radio, in the Kansas statehouse.
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The corn and soybeans growing in Glenn Brunkow鈥檚 fields in the rolling Flint Hills north of Wamego, Kansas, got some much needed rain recently and look... -
Most remote towns are shrinking, whether they like it or not. But if they take inspiration from industrial Eastern Europe after the Cold War, they can improve even as they get smaller. -
Keep It Local: Rural Foundations Encourage Designating Towns, Counties As Heirs To Stem Wealth DrainIt鈥檚 a common story: Ambitious kids move from small towns to larger cities, never to look back. When their parents die, the family wealth that鈥檚 been... -
Dollar General stores thrive in low-income rural towns, and the deep-discount chain has opened hundreds of new shops in the past year. -
"Justice is not rescuing Sgt. Bergdahl from his Taliban captors, in the cage where he was for years, only to place him in a cell," said his defense. But prosecutors say he must be held responsible. -
If you pull a fire alarm in any large U.S. city, it's likely that paid firefighters waiting at a nearby station will quickly respond. But seven out of... -
If you get in a car accident on a rural stretch of highway in Kansas, one volunteer firefighter says, you'd better hope it happens near a county with a well-equipped fire department. -
There have always been Americans worried about some pending religious, social or natural cataclysm. The business of catering to those fears and helping... -
More Americans are looking for a second home 鈥� on wheels. After crashing hard in the recession, RV sales have rebounded and are on track to approach record levels this year. -
Some Kansas City software developers built what they believe is the world's fastest Rubik's Cube-solving robot. They built it in their spare time, partly because one of the guys wanted something to do with his new 3-D printer. Their machine can sort out a scrambled Rubik's Cube in just a little over one second. That's much faster than the second fastest robot and not quite five times faster than the quickest "human speed solver." A judge from the Guinness Book of World Records will judge the robot.
