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Contact 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.

• The report took a look at the House-passed budget and its effect on schools in Ohio's Appalachian region.
• Ohio Democratic Party Chair Liz Walters has an explanation why the party isn't visible at many of the anti-Trump protests statewide.
• More than five dozen international students from colleges throughout Ohio have had their visas pulled by federal authorities in recent weeks.
• Bloomberg News is reporting Intel plans to lay off 20% of its workforce.
• A group of professors at Youngstown State University are leading the charge to repeal Senate Bill 1, the law that strikes down diversity, equity and inclusiveness programs on public college campuses in Ohio.
• Ohio’s Mobile Response & Stabilization Services, which provide mental, emotional, and behavioral health care to kids in crisis, are being expanded.
• State, national and international leaders are remembering Pope Francis, who died just after Easter Sunday.
• Lifewise, a Christian-based program, takes kids out of public schools with parent permission to attend religious-based programming in Ohio and other states.
• The Ohio Senate Education Committee has held multiple hearings on the bill that would require one of nine historical documents being displayed in classroom, including the Biblical precepts.
• The House-passed state budget plan sets limits on the number of times a week the group can remove Ohio kids from school for religious instruction.