Sarah Donaldson
Reporter/ProducerContact Sarah at sdonaldson@statehousenews.org.
Sarah Donaldson covers government, policy, 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 with Anna Staver, WVXU's Cincinnati Edition, and Ideastream's Sound of Ideas.
Prior to joining the bureau in 2023, she 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.
Sarah 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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Election Day is four weeks from Tuesday, and across Ohio, the earliest voters turned out to cast their ballots at their boards of elections. -
Monday is the last day to register to vote in Ohio and public officials and political organizers say Ohioans should check their registration prior to the deadline. -
Democrats in Ohio and nationwide are seeing erosion among the organized labor that once reliably backed them. Union involvement, period, has been declining for decades. -
Tuesday is a chance for both vice presidential candidates to introduce themselves to the nation amid a turbulent election cycle. -
Reproductive rights advocates argue that both access to abortion and birth control is on the ballot in Ohio this year—though more indirectly than in 2023. -
Democratic lawmakers are arguing property tax inaction at the Ohio Statehouse is a problem of Republican priorities. -
The bill redefines “misbranded” food, adding definitions for lab-grown and insect-based or plant-based proteins in Ohio that resemble traditional meat and egg products. -
Center for Disease Control preliminary data shows a pronounced decline in overdose deaths in Ohio that started last fall. -
Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose said it’s not his job to further investigate for evidence of possible Ohio election law violations before he flags them to prosecutors. -
Bernie Moreno visited Springfield on Saturday morning and said he believes its semi recent influx of Haitian immigrants is a “total disgrace.”
