Chris Welter
Chris Welter is an Environmental Reporter at WYSO through Report for America. In 2017, he completed the radio training program at WYSO's Eichelberger Center for Community Voices. Prior to joining the team at WYSO, he did boots-on-the-ground conservation work and policy research on land-use issues in southwest Ohio as a Miller Fellow with the Tecumseh Land Trust.
He is a graduate of Antioch College with a self-designed B.S. in Environmental Journalism and a French Language & Culture focus. He edited the The Antioch Record and later served as chair of the newspaper's advisory board. Through the college's cooperative education program, he interned with an environmental education non-profit in Ypsilanti, MI and worked as a paralegal assistant at a criminal defense firm in Chicago and a bankruptcy center in Philadelphia.
Chris is a lifelong Ohioan, born and raised in Columbus and currently living in Yellow Springs with his two cats, Beaver and Franklin. He moonlights as a mediocre disc golfer and also loves to cook, hike, and read about Ohio history.
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The rejected lawsuit came after Bethel schools decided last year to let students use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity. -
William T. Cooley will retire from the Air Force as a colonel and lose tens of thousands of dollars in retirement income each year because of the lowered rank. -
Citizens Against Mining, Mad River Township (CAM) has been advocating against the deep limestone quarry since 2017. The group members are concerned about air, noise and water pollution from the site. -
The Ohio Power Siting Board denied the application for a utility scale solar project in Greene County today. The proposed Kingwood Solar project would cover hundreds of acres of private farmland in Xenia, Cedarville, and Miami Townships. -
Former President Donald Trump is at a rally for JD Vance in Dayton on Monday. Some have been waiting since Sunday and have traveled hours to get the best seat possible. -
Donald Gronbeck was indicted by a Greene County Grand Jury last week. Authorities allege that over a period of several years, Gronbeck sexually assaulted 15 women, all of whom were his patients. More information has been released about a former Yellow Springs doctor who has been arrested and accused of sex crimes. -
Senate Candidates Tim Ryan and JD Vance had their final debate this week. They didn’t agree about much. However, both Ryan and Vance expressed their support for the growth of the natural gas industry. -
The non-profit said the employees in the relatively new role face challenges because of rapidly changing abortion laws in Ohio. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentIf the study’s modeling is correct, that means the region will have days in the summer where it feels like it's one hundred and twenty five degrees. -
A Navy program helped to bring home the remains of an Ohio sailor who died at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941. Musician First class Joseph Hoffman was aboard the USS Oklahoma during the attack.
