SHABAZZ COMMENTARY: Rokita’s famous last words
By Abdul-Hakim Shabazz IndyPolitics.org December 4, 2023 “Curtis Hill has put himself ahead of his elected office and our values because of his bad judgment, not just on one night, but in a long pattern of inappropriate behavior. Personal responsibility is saying you’ “...”
COMMENTARY: A few cures for electile dysfunction
By Abdul-Hakim Shabazz IndyPolitics.org October 26, 2023 While a lot of folks, well, probably not a lot, let’s say 25 to 30 percent of the eligible voters in Indiana are paying attention to local municipal elections, it’s never too early to talk about 2024. Just ask t “...”
Commentary: Independency of Thought and America’s Hoosier President
This column was written for The Indiana Citizen by Charles Hyde, president and CEO of the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, in honor of the Hoosier president’s 190th birthday. “Independency of thought is the first requisite of the responsible citizen” –President Benjam “...”
John Krull commentary: Todd Rokita shows how special he is
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com July 27, 2023 Todd Rokita sure is a piece of work. Indiana’s attorney general has, shall we say, an expansive notion of just how much privacy he is entitled to as a public servant. But plain, ordinary citizens of the state of Indiana? Not so “...”
John Krull commentary: Curtis Hill and Indiana’s moral slide
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com July 14, 2023 So, Curtis Hill has launched a campaign to be Indiana’s next governor. If there is a more compelling sign this state’s political structure has moral rot at its core than the disgraced former Hoosier attorney general thinking h “...”
John Krull commentary: Just the facts, folks, just the facts
June 5, 2023 Sometimes, I tell my students, it’s important just to let the facts speak. To illustrate that point, I tell them about a story I once reported. Years ago, a former Indiana public school superintendent was murdered. He had moved to Florida, where he headed up anothe “...”
John Krull commentary: Lee Hamilton, Richard Lugar and an old path that needs to be rediscovered
Former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Indiana, once told me a story. It was about the late U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Indiana, and the way Congress once worked. Hamilton said he and Lugar had been friends for decades. The two got to know each other when Lugar was at the start of his p “...”
John Krull commentary: Rokita finds a phantom argument
Now we know why Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita was so desperate to move his crusade to persecute Dr. Caitlin Bernard out of a courtroom and in front of the state’s Medical License Board. Political appointees are much more pliant—and far less likely than judges to consid “...”
John Krull commentary: DeSantis, Daniels and fights rather than solutions
When Mitch Daniels, then Indiana’s governor, was pondering a presidential run, he famously called for “a truce on the so-called social issues.” “We’re going to just have to agree to get along for a little while” to focus on budget and economic issues Daniels said in a “...”
John Krull commentary: Todd Rokita keeps digging holes for him to fall into
With all the time, energy and money Todd Rokita devotes to dealing with the petty feuds he’s started, the crises he’s created for himself and the self-manufactured scandals in which he’s engulfed, does he have any left to spend doing the people’s business as Indiana’s a “...”