Leila Goldstein
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Leila Goldstein [LY-luh GOLD-steen] is a contributor to WYSO. While working at the station she has covered the economic effects of grocery cooperatives, police reform efforts in Dayton and the local impact of the coronavirus pandemic on hiring trends, telehealth and public parks. She also reported Trafficked, a four part series on misinformation and human trafficking in Ohio.
You may have heard her work on the airwaves (or the internet) on Marketplace, NPR, New Hampshire Public Radio, Wondery and the Coney Island History Project. Prior to her work in radio she taught ESOL in New York City and Banda Aceh, Indonesia. She is a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and Oberlin College. Leila grew up in Northern Virginia and has family roots in Dayton.
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The Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial has been going on for nearly two months in Washington D.C. One of the five defendants is Jessica Watkins of Champaign County. The defense rested its case on behalf of Watkins on Thursday. WYSO’s All Things Considered Host Jerry Kenney spoke with reporter Leila Goldstein who has been watching the case from the courthouse. -
Jessica Watkins and four others face seditious conspiracy charges. Jessica Watkins’ fiance, Montana Siniff of London, Ohio, said he thought Watkins entering the Capitol building on Jan. 6 was a “stupid idea.”
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Jessica Watkins, of Champaign County, is on trial in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
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Republicans have built careers on combatting child sex abuse. Abortion bans complicate that history.How can Republicans square abortion bans without rape exceptions with a history of tough on crime rhetoric about sexual violence?
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Ohio – a state that voted twice for Obama – and then twice for Trump – appears to have been fertile recruiting ground for the Jan. 6 insurgents. Why did so many people in the state believe they needed to, in their view, “Stop the Steal”?
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The Montgomery County Land Bank is waiting to find out if the nearly $15 million it requested will be approved.
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WYSO digs into the impact Ohio's new legislative maps will have on local races
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The annual event was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Military judge Col. Christina Jimenez ordered that the two-star general forfeit over $50,000 of his pay and receive a written reprimand.
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Major General William Cooley is now the first Air Force general convicted of a crime in a court martial. The two-star general was found guilty this weekend of one count of abuse of sexual contact. He was acquitted on two other counts.
