Krull Commentary: Teacher Tom Jefferson fails Braun and Rokita
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com January 27, 2025 New Indiana Gov. Mike Braun has plans for the state’s education system. He wants to make the Hoosier state’s voucher system—already one of the most expansive a “...”
Krull Commentary: Mike Braun’s odd moment of victory
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com January 13, 2025 If Indiana’s new governor, Mike Braun, wanted to make clear he was the most sane, balanced and truthful of the three men taking oaths of office on inauguration da “...”
Krull Commentary: Jimmy Carter, in all his humanity
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 30, 2024 Few presidents and former presidents have been more misunderstood than Jimmy Carter. During his years in the White House, he was caricatured as a naïve, moralizing “...”
Krull Commentary: Hill, Beckwith and ‘vindication’
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com by John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 11, 2024 If only Indiana Lt. Gov.-elect Micah Beckwith and former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill held the same reverence for the truth that they do for the sound of th “...”
Krull Commentary: Micah Beckwith speaks for everyone, all the time
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com November 25, 2024 Micah Beckwith wants to own free speech. It’s not that the incoming Indiana lieutenant governor wants to understand the issue of unfettered expression in all its complexities. Nor does he care to be a champion of human being “...”
Krull Commentary: This problem won’t solve itself
This commentary was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile November 20, 2024 Politicians never should be trusted with policing themselves. Maybe they can’t do it. Possibly they won’t do it. Inevitably they don’t do it. Organization Day “...”
KRULL COMMENTARY: How the courts went wrong
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull The StatehouseFile.com October 16, 2024 So, the three justices on the Indiana Supreme Court up for retention in November now face an organized opposition from Hoosiers angered about Indiana’s draconian “...”
KRULL COMMENTARY: Todd Rokita and the art of the slow-moving disaster
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 27, 2024 It appears the slow-motion trainwreck that is Todd Rokita’s Indiana attorney generalship will inch even more slowly than thought to its inevitable smashup. Maril “...”
KRULL COMMENTARY: The problem with polls
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 16, 2024 Destiny Wells’ campaign released the results of a poll a few days ago. The poll said that Wells, the Democratic candidate for Indiana attorney general, and Jenni “...”
KRULL COMMENTARY: Richard Lugar and a path forward
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 4, 2024 They gather on a gorgeous late summer day to recall a man who embodied all they believed in and a moment in time when his virtues could shape history. The crowd gat “...”