Karen Kasler
Ohio Public Radio and TV Statehouse Bureau ChiefKaren is a lifelong Ohioan who has served as news director at WCBE-FM, assignment editor/overnight anchor at WBNS-TV, and afternoon drive anchor/assignment editor in WTAM-AM in Cleveland. In addition to her daily reporting for Ohio’s public radio stations, she’s reported for NPR, the BBC, ABC Radio News and other news outlets. She hosts and produces the Statehouse News Bureau’s weekly TV show “The State of Ohio”, which airs on PBS stations statewide. She’s also a frequent guest on WOSU TV’s “Columbus on the Record”, a regular panelist on “The Sound of Ideas” on ideastream in Cleveland, appeared on the inaugural edition of “Face the State” on WBNS-TV and occasionally reports for “PBS Newshour”. She’s often called to moderate debates, including the Columbus Metropolitan Club’s Issue 3/legal marijuana debate and its pre-primary mayoral debate, and the City Club of Cleveland’s US Senate debate in 2012.
Karen is a graduate of Otterbein College, and earned her Master’s as a Fellow in the Kiplinger Program for Mid-Career Journalists at The Ohio State University. Karen has been honored by the Associated Press, the Association of Capitol Editors and Reporters, the Cleveland Press Club/Society of Professional Journalists, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences/Ohio Valley Emmys, and holds a National Headliner Award.
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State officials and Intel leaders have said federal funding is needed for expansion of the newly announced computer chip manufacturing project in central Ohio. -
The Ohio Supreme Court invalidated the maps last week and ordered new maps by Monday, January 24. -
There's been no official announcement or details, but sources say that's coming next week. -
Ohio was the leader of the 27 Republican-run states that opposed the mandate and brought it to the high court. -
Guard members deployed to hospitals overwhelmed by COVID can't go to those health care facilities unless they get shots against the virus. -
Ohio's hospitals have some of the nation's highest numbers of COVID patients. And with staffing levels suffering, nearly 2,000 Ohio National Guard personnel are being deployed to help.
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Five Republicans have signed onto the Ohio Fairness Act this time around. -
Ohio's Democratic US Senator says talks are going well, so the next step in President Biden's economic agenda will come up for a vote in short order. -
The lawsuit was filed on the same day that the federal government announced when its "vaccine or test" rule for businesses will take effect. -
The two members would have to be confirmed by the Senate to replace two appointees who turned in letters of resignation to Gov. Mike DeWine Friday.
