Shabazz Commentary: As God Is My Witness, I Thought Prices Could Fly
By Abdul-Hakim Shabazz, Esq. IndyPolitics.org September 27, 2026 I spent the weekend in Cincinnati, the town that gave us Charles Keating, Larry Flynt and WKRP. Keating spent a good part of his life trying to put guys like Flynt out of business, and WKRP spent one Thanksgiving le “...”
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 “...”
Krull Commentary: Rokita and Beckwith in black and white
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 25, 2026 Now we know. Neither Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith nor Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita likes the job he has. Each would prefer to be doing something else. Beckwith wants to be the worst coach in the WNBA. He made that “...”
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 “...”
Krull Commentary: An old lesson made new
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 23, 2026 Indiana Sen. Spencer Deery, R-Lafayette, sent me a note the other day. In it, he took me to task—gently, respectfully and fairly—for a line I’d written about him in a column. That column discussed the distressing tenden “...”
Shabazz Commentary: Same Suit, Different Day
By Abdul-Hakim Shabazz IndyPolitics.org September 23, 2026 Can you imagine an elected official literally banning media he or she doesn’t like from their news conferences and other media events? Well, I can, because it was me five years ago. In October 2021, Attorney General “...”
Krull Commentary: Trump’s tricks no longer entertain–or work
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 21, 2026 When a con man’s shtick grows old, the distractions and misdirection he relies on to divert attention from his failures stops working. That’s what President Donald Trump is discovering now. Ever since he descended the gol “...”
Shabazz Commentary: Sleepless in Seattle
By Abdul-Hakim Shabazz Indy Politics September 21, 2026 I took my vacation in Seattle this week, and I got five days of sunshine and 70 degrees. I packed for 55 and rain. The locals insist this never happens. I told them I bring my own weather. Meanwhile, back home, Indianapolis “...”
Krull Commentary: Coming up, a mud wrestling match
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 18, 2026 The race to be Indiana’s next secretary of state is about to get ugly. Sabato’s Crystal Ball, which is named after famed political analyst Larry Sabato and run by the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, whi “...”
Krull Commentary: Mitch Daniels, page by page
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 16, 2026 Mitch Daniels hasn’t lost his touch. As I read “Impatience is a Virtue,” the memoir just published by the former Indiana governor and Purdue University president, I find myself thinking of a moment not long after Daniel “...”