Celia Hack
News ReporterCelia Hack is a health reporter for Signal Cleveland. While working for KMUW, she often focused on housing, environmental issues, Sedgwick County government, and everything in between. She was a reporter at KMUW from 2022–2025.
Prior to joining KMUW, she worked at The Wichita Beacon covering local government. She also spent time freelancing for The Shawnee Mission Post and the Kansas Leadership Center’s The Journal. She is originally from Johnson County, Kansas.
In her free time, Celia enjoys reading, attempting to stay updated on pop culture, and (sometimes) playing kickball.
Celia has most recently been honored with statewide Kansas Association of Broadcasters awards for her coverage of housing, mental health, the environment, and more. In addition, she received a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Sedgwick County has the most evictions in Kansas. One landlord is responsible for a quarter of them.
You can reach her at celia@signalcleveland.org.
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Steve Feilmeier, the former chief financial officer of Koch Inc., opened the social impact fund Wichita Affordable Housing LLC in 2024. -
The law allows the city to fine landlords who are found to have retaliated against tenants for complaining to the city’s code enforcement department. -
Layton has been serving as Wichita's city manager since 2009. -
An analysis by KMUW found the city fined fewer than 200 property owners it took to court between 2019 and 2023 for housing and building code violations. -
The new plan removes most references to climate change, greenhouse gases or environmental justice. But many of its goals, outside of the community-wide greenhouse gas reduction target, remain unchanged. -
Daily Wichita markets itself as a community newsletter aiming to “make local news more accessible, highlight extraordinary people in our community, and support local organizations.” -
The center was set up in 2023 as part of former President Joe Biden’s emphasis on addressing communities with disproportionately-high levels of pollution. -
The Multi Agency Center Board Inc. will take over operations of the current emergency winter shelter on April 1, the first step in establishing the multi-agency center. -
The city of Wichita created a land bank in 2021 to ease affordable housing development in the center of the city. But four years later, city staff have suggested dissolving it, saying it faces too many obstacles. -
Kaylee Fritchen has worked at the U.S. Forestry Service since 2022, spending half the year undertaking intense manual labor to clear trails in an Idaho forest.
