Jo Ingles
Journalist/ProducerContact Jo Ingles at jingles@statehousenews.org.
Jo Ingles covers politics and Ohio government for the Ohio Public Radio and Television Statehouse News Bureau. She reports on issues of importance to Ohioans including education, legislation, politics, and life and death issues such as capital punishment.
After working for more than a decade at WOSU-AM, Jo was hired by the Bureau in 1999. Her work has been featured on national networks such as National Public Radio, Marketplace, the Great Lakes Radio Consortium and the BBC. She is often a guest on radio talk shows heard on Ohio's public radio stations. In addition, she's a regular guest on WOSU-TV's "Columbus on the Record" and WBNS-TV's "Face the State." Jo also writes for respected publications such as Columbus Monthly and Reuters News Service.
She has won many awards for her work across all of those platforms. She is currently the president of the Ohio Radio and TV Correspondents Association, a board member for the Ohio Legislative Correspondents Association and a board member for the Ohio Associated Press Broadcasters. Jo also works as the Media Adviser for the Ohio Wesleyan University Transcript newspaper and OWU radio.
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Families who depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as food stamps, won't get their EBT cards reloaded on Saturday if the shutdown continues. -
The Ohio Redistricting Commission has until the end of the day Friday to come up with such an agreement. -
1.4 million Ohioans currently rely on SNAP or food stamps. -
If a bipartisan congressional map isn’t adopted by the Ohio Redistricting Commission by Friday, state lawmakers could adopt a map without a single Democratic vote. -
The Ohio Redistricting Commission operated its first meeting without an approved set of rules because there wasn't bipartisan support for them. -
If the shutdown continues into November, many SNAP, WIC, or TANF recipients in Ohio could lose funds they rely on to avoid going hungry. -
The Republican who heads the Ohio Senate’s Education committee has a plan that he says will solve the over-reliance on local property taxes to pay for education. -
Ohio Democrats unveiled a map in September that was quickly rejected by the Republican supermajority, but the GOP has not yet publicly unveiled a map it will support.
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Many prosthetics and orthotics that are now covered by insurance in Ohio cannot get wet and do not give the wearer enough flexibillity to run or swim. -
More than 10,000 Ohioans were estimated to attend Saturday's protest at the Statehouse.
