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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An eleventh-hour effort before summer recess to send regulations on data centers in Ohio to Gov. Mike DeWine died late Wednesday night. -
The GOP-majority legislature concurrently advanced major, related modifications of mail-in voting to an unrelated bill originally meant to get homeless Ohioans ID cards. -
Brand new regulations of the data center industry might clear the Ohio General Assembly in less than 48 hours after introduction. -
A rushed effort to ask voters whether to amend Ohio’s constitution and add existing voter identification requirements is likely on deck for final votes Wednesday. -
As Ohio sees a slew of nuclear energy investments, a new trade association has formed for the industry. -
Ohio lawmakers grilled lobbyists with Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft for hours Thursday. -
Under existing law, Ohioans generally need a state driver’s license or ID card, a United States passport or passport card or a military ID to do so. -
Seven lawmakers fielded more than four hours of testimony Monday afternoon from several dozen researchers, activists, environmentalists, and even Ohioans as young as 12. -
About two dozen hikers trekked more than 100 miles north then west the last two weeks, ending their “Great Ohio Climate March” on Thursday morning. -
Senate Bill 443, introduced last Wednesday by Sen. Bill Blessing (R-Colerain Twp.) and Sen. Kent Smith (D-Euclid), would establish a dozen new accountability measures.
