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鈥攚here 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.
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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Right now, there鈥檚 the referendum on Senate Bill 1, and then more than one proposed constitutional amendment: to end qualified immunity, to end real property taxes. -
Under Gov. Mike DeWine鈥檚 initial budget, a hike of taxes on cigarettes and e-cigarettes would have funded a child tax credit, but Ohio House GOP lawmakers rejected it. -
Gov. Mike DeWine has pushed Ohio lawmakers to set rules for the largely unregulated products since late 2023. -
House Bill 15 passes as Ohio stares down eventual electric shortages from growing demand. -
A citizen鈥檚 coalition that wants to ask Ohio voters whether to end qualified immunity for public workers, like police officers, cleared another hurdle Tuesday. -
Ohio's Republican Treasurer Robert Sprague said he is not sold on a bill suggesting he invest taxpayer dollars in digital currencies. -
The budget appropriates $10 million to pilot a 鈥渢ri-share鈥� program, which creates cost-sharing of child care costs between workers, their work and the state government. -
A new coalition of the state's largest business groups is lobbying for wider reform of the oldest tax Ohio has. -
Moreno said the historic Chillicothe paper mill, owned currently by Pixelle Specialty Solutions, will pause its permanent closure until December. -
The standstill is due in part to pharmaceutical companies鈥� opposition to use of their products in the drug concoction that creates a lethal injection in Ohio Dr.
