Krull Commentary: Not easy being left
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com October 16, 2026 Not long before he died, former four-term Indianapolis Mayor Bill Hudnut talked with me about the Republican Party to which he had devoted most of his career. This was in the days after Donald Trump had taken the ride down the “...”
Krull Commentary: Trump’s uppercase shamelessness
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com October 14, 2026 Donald Trump is a special kind of shameless. A friend of mine gave me copies of a letter and a $500 check President Trump sent to him. The money, the president said, was a one-time rebate because the administration of President “...”
Shabazz Commentary: In Praise of Boring
By Addul-Hakim Shabazz IndyPolitics.org October 14, 2026 I went to two candidate forums this week, and I have a confession. They were boring. Not boring in the stare-at-your-phone, scroll social media, count-the-ceiling-tiles sense. The candidates had plenty to say. They were bor “...”
Compton Commentary: Newsroom profile of Black Indy LIVE
By Tracey Compton Indianapolis Public Editor October 14, 2026 Love it or hate it, digital news outlet Black Indy LIVE has more social media followers than the city’s 131-year-old Black press. The outlet, which focuses on Indianapolis’ Black community, is hard to ignore gi “...”
Kennedy Commentary: Rokita Again
By Sheila Suess Kennedy October 12, 2026 I have wasted far too many pixels over the years on Todd Rokita, Indiana’s pathetic Attorney General. (I really should put quotation marks around “Attorney General,” because Rokita has shown scant interest in the actual job, preferri “...”
Krull Commentary: The SOS debate, illuminating in spite of itself
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com October 9, 2026 The four candidates to be Indiana’s next secretary of state came to their biggest debate with varied challenges to meet and different roles to play. Democrat Beau Bayh had to fight on at least two fronts. He had to convince pr “...”
Krull Commentary: Baseball and seasons of heartbreak
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com October 7, 2026 CLEVELAND, Ohio—Baseball exists to break one’s heart. I’m back in Cleveland, the city where I was born. It’s the city where, more than 60 years ago, my father tried to teach me the game he loved most, tossing underhand p “...”
Compton Commentary: You’re not crazy. Voting in Indiana is intimidating.
By Tracey Compton Indianapolis Public Editor October 7, 2026 Voting in Indiana is not an easy process. Doing your civic duty requires optimism and nimbleness. There’s very little state voter education, and registration deadlines fall almost a month before the November 3rd elect “...”
Shabazz Commentary: The Ghosts of Elections Past
By Abdul-Hakim Shabazz, Esq. IndyPolitics.org October 7, 2026 This week I had a flashback, from the ghost of elections past. In 2002, I was working for Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan, who topped the Republican ticket as the nominee for governor. Also on that ballot was a subu “...”
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 “...”