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鈥檚 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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National Guard members from Ohio and elsewhere were deployed to major cities at President Donald Trump鈥檚 orders in what his administration claims is an effort to crack down on crime. -
An Ohio lawmaker wants to reintroduce an electricity peak demand program for small commercial and residential consumers. -
Labor Day has long been an arbitrary benchmark in Presidential Election years. Midterm elections are different, and the year before them, even more so. -
Kratom, a botanical herb from Asia, has naturally-occurring trace amounts of mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine, which can have both stimulant and sedative effects. -
The former Cincinnati Children鈥檚 Hospital Medical Center鈥檚 chaplain is an Egyptian national who was granted 鈥渋ndefinite鈥� asylum status in 2018. -
The Ohio Democratic Party is considering 鈥渆verything,鈥� from a fight in the courts to a referendum on the ballot. -
Money started flowing into Ohio's 2026 U.S. Senate race within hours of Sherrod Brown鈥檚 announcement that he wants to run against U.S. Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH). -
Without any evidence of extensive voter fraud, President Donald Trump said Monday he wants states to dump the machines used to electronically record and calculate votes. -
As fights about redistricting boil over nationwide, advocates in Ohio are readying their defenses against districts yet to be drawn by the GOP-majority legislature. -
Gov. Mike DeWine will continue its fight to block $900 million worth of federal funds from going to Ohioans who didn鈥檛 have jobs between summer and fall 2021.
