Jo Ingles
Journalist/ProducerContact Jo Ingles at jingles@statehousenews.org.
Jo Ingles covers politics and Ohio government for the Ohio Public Radio and Television ±¬ÁÏ³Ô¹Ï News Bureau. She reports on issues of importance to Ohioans including education, legislation, politics, and life and death issues such as capital punishment.
After working for more than a decade at WOSU-AM, Jo was hired by the Bureau in 1999. Her work has been featured on national networks such as National Public Radio, Marketplace, the Great Lakes Radio Consortium and the BBC. She is often a guest on radio talk shows heard on Ohio's public radio stations. In addition, she's a regular guest on WOSU-TV's "Columbus on the Record" and WBNS-TV's "Face the State." Jo also writes for respected publications such as Columbus Monthly and Reuters News Service.
She has won many awards for her work across all of those platforms. She is currently the president of the Ohio Radio and TV Correspondents Association, a board member for the Ohio Legislative Correspondents Association and a board member for the Ohio Associated Press Broadcasters. Jo also works as the Media Adviser for the Ohio Wesleyan University Transcript newspaper and OWU radio.
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The provision has not had hearings and was shoved into the "Christmas Tree" bill passed by Ohio lawmakers very early Thursday morning. -
The bill called "The Parents' Bill of Rights" requires K-12 schools to notify parents if sexuality is discussed plus it requires schools to allow release time for religious education. -
Neither will Ohio's county commissioners, judges and statewide elected officials, after a proposal to hike their pay stalled in lame duck. -
The 17 Ohio electors cast their ballots for President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance. -
Secretary of State Frank LaRose said emergency crews responded Sunday night after a powdery substance was discovered in a threatening letter mailed to his Columbus-area home. -
The bill would more control to Ohio's attorney general in potentially more opportunity to stall the process of putting a referendum on a statewide ballot. -
Attempts to attach an amendment to ban the federal government from using local and state police entities to enforce national firearms laws in Ohio failed. -
The "LifeWise" bill requires K-12 school districts to develop policies for programs that allow, with parent permission, for outside religious groups to take children off school premises for religious instruction. And it has been added to another bill known as the "Parents Bill of Rights." -
The Republican-backed ban would be applied to applications for admission or employment at public colleges and universities in Ohio. -
There’s an effort underway to bring a proposed constitutional amendment before voters that seeks to provide equal protection for Ohioans regardless of gender, age or sexual orientation.
