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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Daycares run by Somali Americans and immigrants, at the center of the rumors, have been targeted with threats and vandalism. -
The 43-day-long federal government shutdown ended in November, but the issue at the center of it is still unresolved going into 2026. -
Just one year ago, now U.S. Sen. Jon Husted was mulling a major decision: whether to abandon his seemingly inevitable run for Ohio governor and take a seat in the Senate. -
Ohioans for Cannabis Choice said over email it sent both the Ohio Secretary of State and Ohio Attorney General’s offices more than 1,000 signatures. -
As Ohio’s still-young recreational marijuana industry bloomed, the Ohio House and Senate negotiated and finalized its omnibus bill changing state cannabis statute. -
Although Ohio legislators introduced more than 900 bills in 2025, only a few dozen made it to the governor’s desk.
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All "intoxicating” hemp, including hemp-derived THC and CBD beverages, will be illegal in Ohio under this new law, but opponents plan to go to the ballot. -
U.S. Sen. Jon Husted officially filed his candidacy with the Ohio Secretary of State’s office on Friday. -
The herbal extract from Asia has naturally occurring trace amounts of the alkaloids mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine, which in high doses have sedative effects. -
If signed, the final version of Senate Bill 56 that cleared the Ohio Senate on Tuesday afternoon bans most intoxicating hemp within 90 days.
