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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IN recent days, there have been bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio after the spread of false claims on line and by politicians that vilify Haitians in the city. Many Haitians say they feel unsafe and they gathered to speak out during a virtual conversation.
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Smoke from a massive industrial fire in Indiana has displaced scores of residents because of possible harmful particles in the air. The fire is contained, but it's expected to burn for days.
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Ohio is home to a delicious, native fruit that many have never heard of, or even tasted. The pawpaw has more vitamin C than an orange and it tastes–well, it’s hard to describe–but most people think it’s somewhere in the ballpark of a pineapple, mango, or kiwi. -
A group called Vote Common Good that targets evangelicals who are not comfortable with extreme right-wing politics held a public training at Central Christian Church in Springfield for about 20 people last week. -
The nonprofit said the employees in the relatively new role face challenges because of rapidly changing abortion laws in Ohio. -
The Women's Med Center Dayton will start to do surgical and medication abortions again as early as this Friday, September 16. -
Women's Med Center is set to close its Dayton and Indianapolis locations next week because of laws that restrict abortions in both states. If Women’s Med does close in Ohio and Indiana, a few staff are planning to open a new clinic in one of the closest states where abortion is legal.
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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.
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Ohio added 879 new jobs in the solar energy industry in 2021.
