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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Brought forward last year by Sen. Terry Johnson (R-McDermott), Senate Bill 87 makes the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism the law. -
Ohio’s major sales tax break for data centers survived the latest biennial state budget, and now, stakeholders are urging lawmakers to leave it alone. -
Gov. Mike DeWine drew from his own legacy for his final State of the State address but made a few last requests of the legislature, with mixed reaction. -
Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday he wants to get a bond issue before voters this November to secure long-term funding for H2Ohio. -
Gov. Mike DeWine will deliver his final State of the State remarks from the Ohio House chamber Wednesday, and H2Ohio was one of his earliest initiatives as governor. -
Several measures amended into House Bill 96, Ohio's biennial budget, sought to make adult content websites verify users’ ages before letting them access anything. -
In July, American Electric Power got the green light from the state regulatory body the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to move forward with its data center tariff. -
Through nuclear fusion, which after decades is still not yet commercially viable, smaller atoms are combined. -
For what might be the first time, the Prairie Lincoln Elementary School library came fully into focus Tuesday afternoon for second-grader Tesannya and six other students. -
Ohio has not gone through with an execution since July 2018, closing in on eight years, and extending the entirety of Gov. Mike DeWine’s tenure.
