Redistricting deadline bill sails through Indiana House, amendment for nonpartisan process fails
(Photo/Xain Ballenger of The Statehouse File) By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen February 21, 2024 Despite an earlier unsuccessful attempt to insert language that would have pushed Indiana toward a nonpartisan redistricting process, Senate Bill 135, which extends the deadlin “...”
TENANT SETBACKS: Failures in legislation at Statehouse lead to calls for a housing commission
(Photo/Pexels.com) By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen February 21, 2024 At least 10 bills, aimed at tackling various aspects of Indiana’s housing crisis, including negligent landlords, foreclosures induced by medical debt and biased appraisals, were introduced at the start “...”
ICC story: Attorney General discipline targeted in amendment
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has been publicly reprimanded for misconduct by the Indiana Supreme Court and is under a second investigation by the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission. This story was published by the Indiana Capital Chronicle, a Free Press Indiana “...”
HYDE COMMENTARY: What’s civics got to do with Future Presidents?
“Citizenship has its duties as well as its privileges” –President Benjamin Harrison History and civics have everything to do with Presidents Day, and—more broadly—should be central to the way in which we prepare and educate students to be good fellow communit “...”
Rust asks Indiana Supreme Court for quick relief from stay so he can be on GOP primary ballot
(Photo/Pexels.com) By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen February 16, 2024 Within hours of the Indiana Supreme Court issuing a stay that allows the Indiana Republican Party to keep egg farmer John Rust off the 2024 primary ballot, Rust filed a motion asking the justices for rel “...”
SOCIAL TIES: Improving Hoosiers’ connections to their communities might boost voter participation, prof says
Hoosiers, united by personal battles with cancer, gathered at the Indiana Statehouse recently and got a pep talk before meeting with lawmakers and asking them to support the biomarker testing bill. (Photo/Marilyn Odendahl) By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen February 1 “...”
Bill to extend redistricting deadline, prevent more lawsuits, clears House panel
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen February 15, 2024 Indiana municipalities and school corporations that failed to redraw their district maps following the 2020 U.S. Census could be getting a little reprieve as Senate Bill 135 continues to steamroll through the Statehouse. F “...”
Lucas responds to gun-flash controversy by offering safety course to teens
Indiana Rep. Jim Lucas, R-Seymour, said his Statehouse colleagues have been supportive of him since he created a national controversy by flashing his handgun to a group of high school students. (Photo/Eddie Drews at The StatehouseFile.com) By Kyra Howard TheStatehouseFile.com Feb “...”
ICC story: Indiana high court weighs Rust’s challenge to appear on primary ballot in U.S. Senate race
The Indiana Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in the case involving Indiana businessman John Rust’s attempt to get on the Republican ballot. (Photo/Xain Ballenger at TheStatehouseFile.com) This story was published by the Indiana Capital Chronicle, a Free Press India “...”
ELECTION SCRUTINY: Concerns about legality of HB 1264 grow during Senate committee hearing
Author of House Bill 1264, Rep. Timothy Wesco, R-Osceola, said the measure strengthens election security in Indiana. (Photo/courtesy of Indiana House Republicans) By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen February 13, 2024 As House Bill 1264, the elections security bill, arrived in “...”