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January 06 2025

Kennedy Commentary: Rally scheduled to reaffirm commitment to e pluribus unum

  (Editor’s note: The Reclaim Rebuild Resist Rally from 10 a.m. to noon Monday, Jan. 20, has been moved indoors to the Broadway United Methodist Church, 609 E. 29th St., Indianapolis.) This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A jaundic “...”

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December 30 2024

Krull Commentary: Jimmy Carter, in all his humanity

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 30, 2024 Few presidents and former presidents have been more misunderstood than Jimmy Carter. During his years in the White House, he was caricatured as a naïve, moralizing “...”

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December 12 2024

Krull Commentary: Hill, Beckwith and ‘vindication’

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com by John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 11, 2024 If only Indiana Lt. Gov.-elect Micah Beckwith and former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill held the same reverence for the truth that they do for the sound of th “...”

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December 03 2024

Kennedy Commentary: Rokita Again…

This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy’s blog. By Sheila Kennedy December 3, 2024 Among the worst results of the recent election was the local–and sadly predictable–victory of Indiana’s statewide Republican ticket. Mike Braun can be expected to obedien “...”

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November 26 2024

Krull Commentary: Micah Beckwith speaks for everyone, all the time

By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com November 25, 2024 Micah Beckwith wants to own free speech. It’s not that the incoming Indiana lieutenant governor wants to understand the issue of unfettered expression in all its complexities. Nor does he care to be a champion of human being “...”

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November 20 2024

Krull Commentary: This problem won’t solve itself

This commentary was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile November 20, 2024 Politicians never should be trusted with policing themselves. Maybe they can’t do it. Possibly they won’t do it. Inevitably they don’t do it. Organization Day “...”

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November 12 2024

ICC Commentary: Nothing describes our civic health better than voter participation

This commentary was originally published by the Indiana Capital Chronicle By Michael Leppert Indiana Capital Chronicle November 12, 2024 There is no substitute for just showing up. Sometimes I wish there was one, but there just isn’t. The relentless polling that exhausted Ameri “...”

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October 23 2024

HAMILTON COMMENTARY: Young people lack trust in the American Dream

This column was originally published by the Lee Hamilton on Foreign Policy blog. By Lee Hamilton October 23, 2024 I spend a lot of time in student-oriented settings and in the company of young people. I’m always impressed by their energy, their idealism and the breadth of their “...”

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October 17 2024

KRULL COMMENTARY: How the courts went wrong

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull The StatehouseFile.com October 16, 2024 So, the three justices on the Indiana Supreme Court up for retention in November now face an organized opposition from Hoosiers angered about Indiana’s draconian “...”

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September 27 2024

KRULL COMMENTARY: Todd Rokita and the art of the slow-moving disaster

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 27, 2024 It appears the slow-motion trainwreck that is Todd Rokita’s Indiana attorney generalship will inch even more slowly than thought to its inevitable smashup. Maril “...”