Jon Kovash
Former News Correspondent - MoabOriginally from Wyoming, Jon Kovash has practiced journalism throughout the intermountain west. He was editor of the student paper at Denver’s Metropolitan College and an early editor at the Aspen Daily News. He served as KOTO/Telluride’s news director for fifteen years, during which time he developed and produced Thin Air, an award-winning regional radio news magazine that ran on 20 community stations in the Four Corners states. In Utah his reports have been featured on KUER/SLC and KZMU/Moab. Kovash is a senior correspondent for Mountain Gazette and plays alto sax in “Moab’s largest garage band."
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Mark Maryboy has been a key Bears Ears consultant for Utah Dine Bikeyah and the five tribe coalition. I spoke with him at the Twin Rocks Café in…
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I spoke with Phil Lyman, San Juan County Commissioner, in Monticello where last week he proclaimed on the court house steps that the Bears Ears…
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A new plan is in the works for National Forests in Southeast Utah. It's been 31 years since the Forest Plans were last updated, and one of the bigger…
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Moab recently concluded it’s sixth annual Pride Festival, and this year’s guest of honor was noted slam poetry pioneer Regie Cabico, who conducted poetry…
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It’s been called “cryptogamic” or “microbiotic” or cryptobiotic.” It’s that thin crust of lichens, fungus and moss that grows where nothing else will…
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In the last year in Utah, three people - all women - have died after their Polaris ATV caught fire. The second and third deaths occurred on September 2 on…
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Twice a year, the Cameco uranium mine in central Wyoming sends a truckload of a mining byproduct known in the trade as “barium sludge” to the White Mesa…
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This week Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is visiting multiple towns in Southeast Utah to hear local concerns about federal lands. Jewell is traveling…
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Do young people care more about climate change than old people? That’s part of the premise of a new outreach effort by the Grand Canyon Trust. Back in…
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In a few weeks, Utah’s Federal District Court will begin deliberations on the White Mesa uranium mill, and whether it threatens the health of the local…