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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Some retired justices and judges are making the case against what they see as increased partisanship and eroded trust in the American judicial system. -
The technology, invented by Ohio-based researcher Batelle and used commercially by Revive Environmental, uses extreme heat and water oxidation to destroy PFAS. -
The Ohio Casino Control Commission is finalizing its rule to ban credit card transactions for sportsbooks, an agency spokesperson said. -
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act overwhelmingly cleared both chambers of Congress last Monday and Tuesday via bipartisan votes. -
An Ohio commission gave the green light Monday for several bidders to frack under state lands, almost exclusively in southeast Ohio. -
Submetering is when middlemen buy electric and other utilities at wholesale cost to resell it. It’s common in multi-tenant housing. -
As the end of another session comes quickly, it’s unlikely nursing staffing bills will move before December, when all legislation either goes to Gov. Mike DeWine or dies. -
In a mad dash before summer recess, state lawmakers sent him a heavily-amended House Bill 472 two weeks ago. It originally sought to give homeless Ohioans free ID cards. -
Earlier this year, lawmakers introduced bills establishing stricter government oversight into the powerful and private arm that pursues state economic projects. -
In 1981, the longtime elected official, then an Ohio Senate member, voted for the law to reinstate the death sentence. Decades later, DeWine has changed his mind.
