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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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. -
Ohio voters greenlit almost two-thirds of the local property tax levies on ballots across the state Tuesday, according to the Ohio School Boards Association. -
The state can’t make the change without the federal government rolling back an almost 90-year-old law, the Fair Labor Standards Act. -
The Ohio constitution lets the Ohio General Assembly remove a judge, in rare instances, by a two-thirds vote in both chambers. -
Among them, medical practitioners would have to conduct private interviews and document possible abuse-related injuries to add to the patient’s medical records. -
The state will now avoid a lengthier fight over a mandated redraw of boundaries for the 15 members of Congress from Ohio. -
The map the commission released tilts districts in Cincinnati and Toledo further right and Akron further left.
