Karen Kasler
Karen 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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An analysis of Ohio voter registration data also suggests that there's a significant gender gap among new registrants, with women in the lead.
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The challenge to Bob Paduchik, a former adviser to Donald Trump who was elected Ohio Republican Party chair in February 2021, comes as the party approaches a major statewide election this fall.
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News that Ohio may be the site of the new plant comes eight months after the announcement that Intel will build a $20 billion computer chip manufacturing facility in central Ohio.
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The flag, which was created to show support for law enforcement, is considered controversial by some who note its use by white supremacists and other racist groups.
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The bus driver shortage started building last year, but even after campaigns to hire bus drivers, the state's school districts say there still aren't enough.
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Teachers and their advocates suggest several reasons for the shortage, and a new study from a progressive group backs up at least one of them.
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Boards of elections around the state are getting requests for lots of material from the 2020 election, in which Donald Trump won Ohio and has never been credibly disputed.
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The Republican governor and lieutenant governor say they advocated for legislation to help Ohio's two nuclear power plants, but that was the extent of their involvement in the controversial bailout plan.
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This Tuesday, the primary for just Ohio House and Senate districts and state party central committee offices will be unprecedented and mostly unnoticed.
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The Republican governor, who signed the six-week ban on abortion now in effect, said lawmakers need to clarify state laws surrounding abortion.