Skip To Main Content
Becca Costello on Muck Rack

Becca Costello

Verified
Cincinnati, Lincoln
As seen in: WVXU-FM (Cincinnati, OH), NPR, The World from PRX, WCPO-TV (Cincinnati, OH), EIN News, WLRN-FM (Miami, FL), WTIU-TV (Bloomington, IN), WOSU-FM (Columbus, OH), WAMU-FM (Washington, D.C.), WOSU-TV (Columbus, OH), Plus and
*inactive account* Local Gov Reporter at @917WVXU Cincinnati | Listen to Backed Up, a 6-episode podcast about sewer infrastructure! Tips: bcostello@wvxu.org.

Get in touch with Becca

Contact Becca, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Articles

Conference will mark nearly 25 years since Cincinnati's historic collaborative agreement

|
By Becca Costello Verified
| WVXU-FM (Cincinnati, OH) Verified
A three-day conference next week will celebrate more than two decades since Cincinnati’s historic collaborative agreement. The 2002 agreement outlines the city’s commitment to bias-free policing; it was originally a court-supervised settlement to a lawsuit alleging racial bias in the Cincinnati Police Department. Although federal oversight is no longer in place, city officials from every administration since have re-committed to the goals.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Council to debate spending leftovers from grant to prevent homelessness

|
By Becca Costello Verified
| WVXU-FM (Cincinnati, OH) Verified
Cincinnati Council is divided over how to spend about a million dollars leftover from a grant aimed at preventing homelessness. A few council members with opposing plans agree on one thing: the process for funding outside organizations, known as leveraged support, is broken. City Council will return from summer recess on Sep. 8.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

What is a 1,000-year storm and why does it matter?

|
By Becca Costello Verified
| WVXU-FM (Cincinnati, OH) Verified
Parts of Cincinnati experienced heavily concentrated rainfall on July 17, which caused flash flooding and hundreds of sewer backups. Local officials are calling it a 1,000-year storm, emphasizing how rare a storm of this severity is. That caused frustration for some residents on the city’s East Side, which has flooded several times over the past decade.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 1,584 articles