PNS story: Three-Fifths comments ignite Indiana controversy
This story was originally published by Public News Service. By Joe Ulery, anchor/producer Public News Service May 8, 2025 An Indiana debate over history and power is growing. Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith recently defended the Three-Fifths Compromise in a social media video. The compro “...”
ICC story: Indiana elections chief defends voting ban on ‘unsecured’ student IDs after legal challenge
This story was originally published by the Indiana Capital Chronicle. By Leslie Bonilla Muñiz Indiana Capital Chronicle May 8, 2025 Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales on Wednesday celebrated the state’s forthcoming student ID voting ban — just two days after he and oth “...”
SCHOOL VOUCHER Q&A: Using state tax dollars to pay private school tuition ‘a huge part’ of Christian nationalist agenda, scholar says
By Steve Hinnefeld The Indiana Citizen May 7, 2025 Michigan State University education policy professor Josh Cowen has spent two decades studying and writing about voucher programs, in which state tax dollars pay students’ private school tuition. Early studies of small, targete “...”
TSF story: Braun waits until Tuesday’s deadline to sign the final bills from the 2025 session into law
This story was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By Anna Cecil TheStatehouseFile.com May 6, 2025 On April 24, the Indiana General Assembly concluded the 2025 legislative session after nearly four months of deliberation over each of the 243 bills that made it to Gov. M “...”
TSF story: Indiana’s energy policy looks to accommodate both data centers and average Hoosiers
This story was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By Olivia O’Neal TheStatehouseFile.com May 5, 2025 How can the energy sector provide for data centers and the average Hoosier at the same time as being environmentally sound and safe? This was a question during th “...”
WFYI story: Can local health departments serve everyone under Indiana’s new laws?
This story was originally published by WFYI. By Benjamin Thorp WFYI April 25, 2025 Language included in bills passed at the end of Indiana’s legislative session included limits on the populations local health departments could serve using state funding. Indiana’s budget bill “...”
LESSONS IN VIRTUE: Legal scholar peruses Founding Fathers’ libraries and gains new understanding of meaning behind ‘the pursuit of happiness’
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen May 2, 2025 Stuck at home with extra time on his hands courtesy of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, legal scholar and author Jeffrey Rosen started diving into the treatises and tomes the Founding Fathers read as they crafted the nation’s found “...”
‘PROPAGANDA MILL’? Lt. Gov. Beckwith lauds WallBuilders think tank accused of eroding separation of church and state
By Sydney Byerly and Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen May 1, 2025 When Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith cited WallBuilders to defend his controversial comments about the Three-Fifths Compromise, he called the Texas-based nonprofit “the gold standard for learning the real his “...”
ICC story: Indiana University alumni blast board of trustees changes slipped into state budget
This story was originally published by the Indiana Capital Chronicle. By Casey Smith Indiana Capital Chronicle May 1, 2025 A coalition of ranking Indiana University alumni voiced “alarm and anger” Wednesday to new state policy that eliminates alumni input in the selection of “...”
TSF story: Indiana lawmakers highlight best and worst bills from 2025 legislative session
This story was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By Anna Cecil TheStatehouseFile.com April 30, 2025 Less than a week ago, the Indiana General Assembly declared “sine die,” effectively ending the 2025 legislative session. Out of the hundreds of bills that made it t “...”