By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com July 14, 2023 So, Curtis Hill has launched a campaign to be Indiana’s next governor. If there is a more compelling sign this state’s political structure has moral rot at its core than the disgraced former Hoosier attorney general thinking h “...”
June 5, 2023 Sometimes, I tell my students, it’s important just to let the facts speak. To illustrate that point, I tell them about a story I once reported. Years ago, a former Indiana public school superintendent was murdered. He had moved to Florida, where he headed up anothe “...”
Former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Indiana, once told me a story. It was about the late U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Indiana, and the way Congress once worked. Hamilton said he and Lugar had been friends for decades. The two got to know each other when Lugar was at the start of his p “...”
Now we know why Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita was so desperate to move his crusade to persecute Dr. Caitlin Bernard out of a courtroom and in front of the state’s Medical License Board. Political appointees are much more pliant—and far less likely than judges to consid “...”
When Mitch Daniels, then Indiana’s governor, was pondering a presidential run, he famously called for “a truce on the so-called social issues.” “We’re going to just have to agree to get along for a little while” to focus on budget and economic issues Daniels said in a “...”
With all the time, energy and money Todd Rokita devotes to dealing with the petty feuds he’s started, the crises he’s created for himself and the self-manufactured scandals in which he’s engulfed, does he have any left to spend doing the people’s business as Indiana’s a “...”
Years ago, Republicans bought tickets on the Donald Trump train to political self-destruction. Now, following a jury’s determination that the former president was liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll, the only question that remains is how far they’ll tr “...”
The transformation is complete. In Indiana, the Republican Party now is the party of big government—the political faction that wants to use state power to control people’s choices and lives. That much became clear when Gov. Eric Holcomb signed into law the “name” bill pas “...”
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita seems to have just two problems with being a public servant. He doesn’t much care for the “public” part. And he absolutely detests the “servant” piece. That much is made clear by the lengths to which the attorney general will go to p “...”
The 2023 legislative session of the Indiana General Assembly has ended. It was a long march, one filled with hardship for the lawmakers. There were times during the four months of their labors that the legislators came perilously close to running out of innocent Hoosiers they cou “...”