
Renee Fox
ReporterRenee Fox is a reporter for 89.7 NPR News. Fox joined the WOSU newsroom from the Tribune Chronicle/Vindicator in the Youngstown area, where she’d been a reporter since 2014.
Fox has been nominated for and won several awards for her work, which ranges from local government coverage to investigative journalism and features. She’s also an Air Force veteran and former defense contractor who worked on linguistics projects at Bagram Airfield and other bases in Afghanistan. Fox served in the United States Air Force after joining in 2006 as an Airman First Class at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California where she also completed the Pashto Basic Course. She served as a specialist for a voice biometric project based at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan in 2009, and from 2010 to 2011. Fox studied International Journalism at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, and political science at the Hawaii Pacific University – Honolulu.
Contact Renee at renee.fox@wosu.org.
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Nurses at The Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center protested Thursday outside of the hospital to express their dissatisfaction with the latest contract proposal made by the hospital. The nurses are seeking better pay and working conditions.
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Columbus’ Charter Review Commission is considering four proposals for amendments to the city’s charter, including one that could change the way the city handles citizen initiative petitions.
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Business & EconomyThe café sits on the 16th floor of Franklin County’s municipal court offers a 360-view of downtown Columbus in a spacious dining room, with made-to-order food. In addition to committing to a wage of at least $15 an hour, benefits and other employee supports, the café is a training field for employees to learn new skills.
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Columbus City Council will decide during Monday's council meeting whether or not to grant a tax abatement to a Houston-based company planning to construct four distribution and warehouse buildings near the Rickenbacker Airport.
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Every election, dozens of races across the state at nearly every level of government lack competition. Whether there is a one-party dominated Congressional district or an entrenched incumbent in a state general assembly seat scaring off challengers, many voters heading to the polls will find at least one race where their vote is symbolic only.
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A program designed to give Columbus City School students a pathway to post-secondary education is boosting interest in college attendance across the board, Superintendent Talisa Dixon said Thursday.
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Columbus city officials are taking a joint, no-tolerance approach to people operating vehicles recklessly and loudly on city streets, with a particular focus on ATVs and motorbikes and help from the public.
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After a jury couldn’t agree on his guilt or innocence earlier this month, former Columbus police officer Andrew Mitchell will be retried, Franklin County prosecutors confirmed Friday.
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When voters head to the polls, they pick representatives responsible for making decisions on taxing. Those decisions can be anything from funding services in local governments to tax loopholes for corporations and tax breaks for the wealthy.
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Thousands of people piled into the Delaware County Fairgrounds Saturday to listen to former President Donald Trump relive parts of his four years in office, promote his favored candidates and to rail against Democrats.