Karen Kasler
Ohio Public Radio and TV Statehouse Bureau ChiefKaren 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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In the ruling striking down Ohio's new legislative maps, Republican Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor wrote that Ohioans "have the power to again amend the Ohio Constitution."
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Ohio was the leader of the 27 Republican-run states that opposed the mandate and brought it to the high court.
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Those safety net services are now struggling with the same issues the people they serve are trying to manage.
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Guard members deployed to hospitals overwhelmed by COVID can't go to those health care facilities unless they get shots against the virus.
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Ohio's hospitals have some of the nation's highest numbers of COVID patients. And with staffing levels suffering, nearly 2,000 Ohio National Guard personnel are being deployed to help.
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The Ohio School Boards Association says the bill could mean lots of work for overburdened teachers.
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Gov. Mike DeWine has deployed more than a thousand Guard personnel to health care facilities.
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And the year ends with two highly-anticipated rulings on Ohio's new legislative and Congressional maps are expected soon.
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The hospital leaders asked officials at the state's more than 600 school districts to consider asking kids to wear masks when they return from the holiday break next week.
