Krull Commentary: A pope who will lead with his ears
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com May 12, 2025 The world has a new pope. And, in the end, it wasn’t the mystery and the majesty—the puffs of smoke and the secretive ceremony—that was the most moving about the s “...”
Krull Commentary: Trump and Braun give it the old college try
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com May 7, 2025 President Donald Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Braun don’t have enough to do. The demands of leading a nation and a state don’t seem to be enough to occupy Trump and Br “...”
Leppert Commentary: Graduation comes so fast we don’t have time for pretending
By Michael Leppert The Indiana Citizen May 7, 2025 In “Mother Night,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” I might add: “And for how long.” I was invited to join a small group of students last week to “...”
Hicks Commentary: Two Key Economic Lessons in One Bill
This column was originally published on the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research Weekly Commentary blog. By Michael Hicks May 4, 2025 Indiana’s 2025 legislative session offered a valuable pair of economic lessons. The first is that there are no perfec “...”
Krull Commentary: Mike Pence’s profile in courage
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com May 5, 2025 More than 50 years ago, I read John F. Kennedy’s “Profiles in Courage” for the first time. I was in the fourth or fifth grade. It was five or six years after an ass “...”
Leppert Commentary: Stories endangering women and civil rights are like ships passing in the night
By Michael Leppert The Indiana Citizen April 30, 2025 Since the measure was first coined by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, the “First 100 Days” is the standard we exclusively give new presidents “as a symbolic window to set the tone” of their administration. “It “...”
Krull Commentary: Micah Beckwith teaches history that never was
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com by John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com April 28, 2025 If Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith ever took a U.S. history class in either high school or college, the teacher should retroactively flunk him. Because it’s clear Be “...”
Hicks Commentary: Time to Fix Economic Development Policy
This column was originally published on the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research Weekly Commentary blog. By Michael Hicks April 27, 2025 Media reports identified significant accounting problems at the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC). In “...”
Kennedy Commentary: NO, NO, NO
This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy April 27, 2025 The Trump Administration may be the pre-eminent example of lunacy in government, but the current super-majority in Indiana’s legi “...”
Kennedy Commentary: A Battle Plan
This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy April 25, 2025 Twice in the month of April, thousands of people turned out to protest the Trump coup. Here in Red Indiana, thousands gathered on A “...”