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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Gov. Mike DeWine took administrative action Wednesday afternoon over a slew of unregulated products containing cannabinoid derivatives. -
Domestic violence deaths have surged in Ohio, according to the most recent annual fatality count by the Ohio Domestic Violence Network. -
Summer recess is in the rearview. The Ohio General Assembly faces a busy schedule this fall. -
About $40 billion have been and will be invested in data centers around the state through 2030, according to a study released Thursday. -
Cities and school districts can levy taxes on properties to fund different programs in more than one way. -
State lawmakers will miss the first benchmark for Congressional redistricting, meaning the Ohio Redistricting Commission must reconvene, facing an Oct. 30 deadline. -
U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) sent Intel’s chief executive a letter Friday making several asks of the tech designer and manufacturer. -
This move will more than double Centrus’s workforce locally in a major expansion of operations in southern Ohio. -
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel is back on the air Tuesday night, although some local television affiliates won’t carry his show, including four in Ohio. -
The two men addressed a standing room only crowd, which included lawmakers and lobbyists, at The Boat House near downtown Columbus on Monday.
