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October 06 2026

Kennedy Commentary: Early Voting Starts Today In Indiana

By Sheila Suess Kennedy October 6, 2026 Early voting starts today in Indiana. Later today, my husband and I intend to cast our ballots, and I encourage every registered voter reading this in Indiana–or in any state where early voting has begun– to do the same. I’ve previo “...”

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September 29 2026

Kennedy Commentary: Indiana’s Embarrassing Senator

By Sheila Suess Kennedy September 28, 2026 A recurring question with which many of us grapple is: How did we get here? What were the flaws in our systems, in our institutions, in too many of our people that allowed–facilitated!– the elevation of a morally repulsive, demonstra “...”

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September 28 2026

Kennedy Commentary: Subsidizing Religion

By Sheila Suess Kennedy September 25, 2026 As I have noted, I recently participated in an event sponsored by the Fort Wayne chapter of Hoosiers United for Separation of Church and State. (Hoosiers is part of the umbrella organization Americans United for Separation of Church and “...”

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September 24 2026

Kennedy Commentary: About those ‘Christian’ nationalists

Publisher’s note: The Indiana Citizen covered the Hoosiers United event to which Sheila Kennedy refers in her column below. That story can be found here.    By Sheila Suess Kennedy September 24, 2026 A few days ago, I participated in an event sponsored by the Fort Wayne c “...”

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September 14 2026

Kennedy Commentary: Early voting matters more this time – a lot more

By Sheila Suess Kennedy September 14, 2026 As the midterm elections near, Trump and the GOP are becoming more and more frantic, and engaging in a wide variety of tactics to suppress votes. A recent example: email and text messages urging recipients to check their registrations at “...”

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September 02 2026

Kennedy Commentary: Defining ‘wasteful spending’

By Sheila Suess Kennedy August 31, 2026 Indiana’s Secretary of State race gets more interesting–as well as more annoying–every day. For those of you who don’t live in our backward Red state, a short explanation: Indiana has laws that protect the power and status of the tw “...”

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August 31 2026

Kennedy Commentary: What school vouchers really do

By Sheila Suess Kennedy August 29, 2026 Can you stand one more diatribe about school vouchers? I have posted dozens of blogs addressing the multiple negative consequences of starving the nation’s public schools in order to funnel tax dollars into the pockets of people who mostl “...”

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August 27 2026

Kennedy Commentary: The toast is burning…

By Sheila Suess Kennedy August 25, 2026 A story my mother used to tell really sums up the state of the American experiment. A young boy failed to talk. His parents took him to specialists, all of whom said he was normal, but still, he never spoke. Then one day, when he was nearly “...”

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August 11 2026

Kennedy Commentary: A Ban On No-Fault Divorce?

This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy August 9, 2026 When women assert that bans on abortion are part of a wide-ranging war on women, the pious “Christian” activists behind these b “...”

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August 07 2026

Kennedy Commentary: About that Lincoln Party…

This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy August 5, 2026 Here in Indiana, our status as a reliably “Red” state has depended to a significant degree on a lack of electoral competition. “...”