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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Two appointees to State Board of Education have resigned ahead of an expected vote in the Ohio Senate to remove Laura Kohler and Eric Poklar from the Ohio Board of Education. -
Lawsuits over those checks continue, though the federal program financing them ended last month. -
Senate President Matt Huffman (R-Lima) says the maps are the only ones introduced are were constitutional. -
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) called it an "important public health measure." -
The bill to ban all vaccine mandates and "vaccine passports" hasn't been scheduled for another hearing. -
Nan Whaley says the governor has that power, even though a new law would allow legislators to vote to overturn it. -
Fallout from HB6 continues -
Republicans will continue to dominate the legislative branch of Ohio government in the 134th General Assembly. -
Ohio on Wednesday reported its second-highest number of confirmed deaths from COVID-19, and the third day this week that death totals hit the triple digits. -
COVID-19 cases are rising across the Midwest — and so are hospitalizations and deaths. Some hospitals are facing a flood of patients with fewer staff because their own employees have tested positive or are in quarantine. And they’re still seeing COVID deniers.
