Jonah Chester
Jonah Chester is Wisconsin Public Radio's 2022-2023 Mike Simonson Memorial Investigative Reporting Fellow embedded in the Wisconsin Watch newsroom. He most recently worked at Public News Service, a national radio news service, where he covered Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. He previously produced the 6 O'Clock News at WORT 89.9 FM in Madison, where he won numerous awards from the Milwaukee Press Club and Wisconsin Broadcasters Association for his reporting on issues in Dane County and south-central Wisconsin.
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Wisconsin, which once provided a driver’s license pathway for residents who entered the country illegally, now leaves them with few safe options. -
Over the past several years, misinformation about elections and election administration have spread like wildfire, fueling partisan election reviews and conspiracy theories. A new campaign aims to dispel those myths by teaching more Wisconsinites how the electoral process functions. -
Planned Parenthood of Illinois and Wisconsin are partnering to improve abortion access for Wisconsinites. -
In its next session, the U.S. Supreme Court will weigh a congressional gerrymandering case from North Carolina, and the court's ruling could have a significant impact on the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission. -
Wildlife advocate questions how bear dogs are trained in Wisconsin -
Illinois' abortion clinics are bolstering their services along the state's borders, in an effort to handle a surge of out-of-state patients who now will need to come to Illinois for reproductive health care. -
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering a ban on lead ammunition on several national wildlife refuges, a move some wildlife advocates want to see replicated at the state level in Wisconsin -
With the end of Roe v. Wade in sight, Wisconsin needs to contend with a tangled web of abortion laws stretching back to the state's earliest years. -
According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, about 22,500 juveniles were arrested in Wisconsin in 2020, the lowest number in at least ten years. -
Illinois has enacted a new law to prohibit the incineration of some PFAS-based substances
