Jo Ingles
Journalist/ProducerContact Jo Ingles at jingles@statehousenews.org.
Jo Ingles covers politics and Ohio government 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 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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Ohio's Equal Rights Amendment would provide non-discrimination coverage to a lot of people, not just women. -
Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed one measure that Ohio school officials said would have left many districts in financial chaos. -
A bill in Congress could cut Medicaid substantially, and advocates for low-income Ohioans says the state needs to be able to respond. -
Eight of the largest school districts in Ohio are urging Gov. Mike DeWine to veto a few provisions in the budget the legislature passed last week. -
Advocates for LGBTQ Ohioans are urging Gov. Mike DeWine to veto a half dozen provisions in the state budget that Republican state lawmakers passed this week. -
A bill would allow Ohio state employees to purchase GLP-1s from manufacturers, then would require the Department of Administrative services to issue rebates for those drugs. -
Backers of the amendment to abolish property taxes in Ohio said they're now aiming for the fall 2026 ballot. -
The budget approved by Republicans in the Ohio House and Senate puts a 40% cap on how much cash K-12 schools can carry over in their budgets before having to give property tax rebates. -
Sen. Bill Blessing (R-Colerain Township) wants to allow Ohioans to decide whether to expand the state legislature. -
It's a "personhood" bill similar to others that have been introduced in the past in Ohio and other states.
