Jo Ingles
Jo Ingles is a professional journalist who covers politics and Ohio government for the Ohio Public Radio and Television for the Ohio Public Radio and Television Statehouse 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 Ohio Public Radio/TV News 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 ONN’s “Capitol Square”. Jo also writes for respected publications such as Columbus Monthly and the 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 Correspondent’s Association, a board member for the Ohio Legislative Correspondent’s 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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On the same day the Republican-dominated Ohio House voted for a resolution to put Canada on the religious freedom watch list, the Ohio Senate passed a bill that critics say could give a lucrative deal to a Canadian business to run the state’s lottery. -
Democratic lawmakers say the bill is attempting to address an issue that doesn't exist. The Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) said there are about 400,000 Ohio high schoolers participating in sports right now, and only one transgender athlete on a girls' sports team. -
The special election is expected to have a low turnout and some Ohio lawmakers said it shouldn't be happening at all -
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Nan Whaley is proposing the state use federal funding from the American Rescue Plan to give rebates to an estimated 7.4 million Ohioans who are feeling the pinch from inflation. -
Members of the Ohio House of Representatives voted to attach an unrelated, controversial amendment to a bill that provided resources and mentorship opportunities for new teachers. -
Republican lawmakers said the constitutional change to keep non-citizens from voting is needed while Democrats call it a ploy to drive GOP turnout. -
The bill would do away with the requirement that students who don't pass a third grade reading test must be retained and repeat the grade. -
Democratic state lawmakers are sponsoring legislation that they say would make life easier for parents and healthier for infants and children. -
A new bill fashioned after a Texas abortion law has been introduced in the Ohio legislature. The latest abortion bill from Republican lawmakers is already scheduled for its first hearing. -
The legislation, commonly known as a "trigger" law, would ban abortion in almost all cases.
