Sarah Donaldson
Reporter/ProducerContact Sarah at sdonaldson@statehousenews.org.
Sarah Donaldson covers government, politics and elections for the Ohio Public Radio and Television Statehouse News Bureau. Sarah regularly files from Columbus for National Public Radio and is a frequent guest on WOSU-FM's All Sides, WOSU-TV's Columbus on the Record, WVXU's Cincinnati Edition, and Ideastream's Sound of Ideas. She has been awarded for her work by the Press Club of Cleveland and the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists.
Prior to joining the bureau in 2023, Sarah worked for a year as a digital reporter/producer for WCMH-TV, where she covered Columbus city government, regional business and technology, and growth in Licking County. She's been published in national and local outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, ABC News, and the Columbus Dispatch.
She is an Ohio University alumna, but was born and raised north of Pittsburgh. During her four years in Athens, she worked for southeast Ohio affiliate WOUB Public Media.
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If signed, the final version of Senate Bill 56 that cleared the Ohio Senate on Tuesday afternoon bans most intoxicating hemp within 90 days. -
Although state law says the Ohio Power Siting Board should make decisions within 150 days, it often drags much longer, averaging 18 months, the study concluded. -
Migrants from the country in east Africa, fleeing civil war, started calling the city of Columbus home in the 1990s. -
China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela under the regime of Nicolás Maduro are considered foreign adversaries, according to the secretary of state’s office. -
A bill moving through the Ohio General Assembly would force history and social studies teachers statewide to hang at least four historical documents on their walls. -
The Community Energy Pilot Program would allow for as many as 1,500 megawatts of small-scale facilities across Ohio, including renewable facilities. -
A six-member committee of Ohio lawmakers met to recommend a slew of changes to cannabis law as well as a ban on intoxicating hemp, including hemp-derived beverages. -
The 43-day-long federal government shutdown ended last week, but the issue at the center of the shutdown went unresolved: whether to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies. -
House Bill 359 is named after Joshua Al-Lateef, Jr., a 6-year-old from West Chester who fatally drowned near his home just hours after going missing in November 2024. -
House Bill 170 has so far been backed by oil and gas associations. Environmentalists are largely against it.
