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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Government agencies are warning Ohioans to be cautious of “very dangerous” summer storms battering much of the state. -
The order ends in 120 days, but DeWine has asked a legislative committee, the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review, to codify it. -
Elected officials and candidates in Ohio have said for months the debate over data centers ranks among the major issues for voters heading into the November election. -
A northeast Ohio race for U.S. Congress is in the national limelight over claims of domestic violence and child abuse dating years back. -
Ohio voters will have a whole slate of statewide candidates to choose from this fall, but just one ballot issue is going before them. -
For the last week, the Ohio State Fair has had near back-to-back ribbon cuttings, a huge sigh of relief for one of the fair’s biggest fans: Gov. Mike DeWine. -
Thousands of Haitians in central and western Ohio have lost their work permits and fear immigration raids are imminent. -
The 2026 Ohio State Fair butter cow and its butter calf are joined by a butter Statue of Liberty and more to mark America’s 250th birthday. -
Production is underway on autonomous combat aircrafts 30 minutes south of Columbus, just 18 months after Anduril Industries announced its Asheville facilities. -
With cannabis legal in Ohio, both medically and recreationally, attitudes toward a once-taboo substance have been shifting.
