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, 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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Voting rights advocates are raising red flags over identical Ohio House and Senate bills that would make a host of changes to state election laws, again, in the name of election integrity. -
The Ohio House unanimously advanced the School Bus Safety Act on Wednesday, which has gone through many revisions in two years. -
Ohio's House and Senate will now hash out the differences between their versions behind closed doors, in what is called conference committee. -
With U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno’s defeat of Sherrod Brown last fall, Democrats hold only one elected office statewide: a seat on the state’s highest court. -
The latest draft of House Bill 96, Ohio’s biennial state budget, has proponents of expanded passenger rail concerned. -
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) was poised to benefit from more than $30 million from fracking. This bill would tie that money to its regular budget. -
Ohio Senate lawmakers unveiled hundreds of amendments to House Bill 96, the biennial state budget, which is due June 30. -
As schools are letting out for the summer across Ohio, state lawmakers are looking ahead to the next academic year. -
With another week of back-to-back marathon hearings behind them, members of the Ohio Senate are getting ready to release their version of the biennial state budget. -
The newest version of Ohio Senate Bill 56—modifying state marijuana laws—still puts limits on how potent THC products can be. But it allows use at some outdoor concerts.
