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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At its Thursday morning meeting, the Ohio Ballot Board voted unanimously to leave the recently proposed “Prohibition of Construction of a Data Center” amendment intact. -
Ohio’s death row wait time now stretches longer than 22 years, with more and more inmates dying from natural causes—or by suicide—than from a sentence. -
Ohio has executed 56 men since 1981 and vacated the convictions of 12 other men. Over the course of five decades, that’s a roughly 1-in-5 executed-to-exonerated ratio. -
Officials flocked to southern Ohio last Friday to detail plans for a data center so large it needs a $33.3 billion natural gas plant to power it. -
The powerful and private arm that pursues economic projects on Ohio’s behalf has been under fire in recent weeks after revealing it gave money to a podcaster. -
The facilities, including the behemoth 10 gigawatt data center, will be constructed on revitalized U.S. Department of Energy land in Piketon.
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March 19 was the deadline to stay some measures in Senate Bill 56 by a statewide referendum. Signature gatherers say they ran out of time. -
Ohio and its county governments will be on the hook in the fall for about $50 million worth of additional costs to administer SNAP. -
An Ohio senator has introduced legislation to more strictly regulate minors’ access to online games. -
Brought forward last year by Sen. Terry Johnson (R-McDermott), Senate Bill 87 makes the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism the law.
