Kennedy Commentary: The Phoenix Declaration
This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy December 7, 2025 What–you may ask–is the Phoenix Declaration, recently adopted by Florida educators? The Declaration is a product of the Herit “...”
Hicks Commentary: Redistricting Is Both More and Less Than It Seems
This column was originally published on the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research Weekly Commentary blog. By Michael J. Hicks December 7, 2025 I have been reluctant to write about the redistricting debate in Indiana. After all, there is no original sin t “...”
Krull Commentary: A tale full of sound and fury
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 5, 2025 So many idiocies abound. And there is so little time to point them out. The Indiana House of Representatives adopted its ill-conceived plan to redistrict the state†“...”
Krull Commentary: Decency takes a stand
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 1, 2025 Sometimes, basic decency asserts itself in unexpected places. Sometimes, it even trumps ideology and partisanship. In the past few days, two Indiana state senators “...”
Hicks Commentary: Challenging Economy Poised to Worsen
This column was originally published on the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research Weekly Commentary blog. By Michael J. Hicks November 30, 2025 Few American families made it through Thanksgiving without noticing the cost of their classic American meal. T “...”
Krull Commentary: No more toddlers need apply
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com November 28, 2025 More and more, what I look for in a leader is a simple human quality. The ability to own and own up to a mistake. It doesn’t matter if he or she is a Republican “...”
Krull Commentary: Trump’s ugly gift to the GOP
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com November 26, 2025 Two numbers explain the intensity of the struggle within the Republican Party over President Donald Trump’s frenzied campaign to further gerrymander red states. “...”
Krull Commentary: Trump, MTG and the MAGA family feud
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com November 24, 2025 Maybe, just maybe, this is how the end begins. The announcement by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, that she would be resigning her seat in Congress ju “...”
Hicks Commentary: Hoosier Heritage is Safe
This column was originally published on the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research Weekly Commentary blog. By Michael J Hicks November 24, 2025 If you lived in Indiana as late as 1990, you have met, spoken with or smiled at a former member of the Ku Klux “...”
Krull Commentary: The spirit of Jan. 6 lives on
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com November 21, 2025 It turns out that Jan. 6, 2021, was just a preview of coming attractions, not the Donald Trump show itself. In what increasingly is looking like just another day i “...”