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November 09 2025

Krull Commentary: Nancy Pelosi, consummate vote herder

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com November 7, 2025 Somehow, it’s appropriate that former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, announced her retirement when she did. Pelosi long has been a lightning rod f “...”

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November 07 2025

Krull Commentary: Dick Cheney’s lesson for us

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com November 5, 2025 When former Vice President Dick Cheney died, so many people relied on the same word to describe his legacy. “Complicated.” They settled on that word because of “...”

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November 05 2025

Krull Commentary: A time to use your ears

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com November 3, 2025 Indiana Sen. Greg Goode, R-Terre Haute, made national news the other day by doing something that once was commonplace but now is rare. He held a town hall to discus “...”

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November 02 2025

Krull Commentary: The scourge of fools and kings

This column was original published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com October 31, 2025 From time to time, I get a note that sounds a familiar theme. The writer always asks why I make fun of elected officials in my columns. Why do I not take them as serio “...”

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October 30 2025

Krull Commentary: Trump, Braun and twisted ties

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com October 29, 2025 Indiana Gov. Mike Braun often seems to want to outsource both his job and his thinking. When he was in the U.S. Senate, he made clear from the beginning of his six- “...”

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October 29 2025

Krull Commentary: The East Wing and the hunger to be king

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com October 27, 2025 Years ago, I took a tour of the White House. I was surprised at how small it was, how relatively modest the décor appeared. Not long before I traipsed through the “...”

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October 26 2025

Krull Commentary: Trump and the art of redistricting

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull The Indiana Citizen October 24, 2025 Donald Trump now is teaching Indiana Republicans a hard lesson about what it means to serve a president who cares only about himself. Trump and his vice president, JD “...”

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October 22 2025

Krull Commentary: Truth emerges from the past

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com October 22, 2025 MARION, Ohio—It all came out in the end. It always does. I’m back in this town where I spent a slice of my boyhood. It was a sleepy place then. Now, it’s anot “...”

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October 20 2025

Krull Commentary: IU and the wrong lesson

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com October 17, 2025 Mark Cuban mentioned what should be the most important consideration in the imbroglio engulfing Indiana University and its student newspaper, The Indiana Daily Stud “...”

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October 16 2025

Krull Commentary: One’s conscience is one’s own property

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com October 15, 2025 Math class took an odd turn that day. This was 50 years ago, when I was a sophomore in high school. We just had settled into our seats when, for some reason that nev “...”