DIRECT APPEAL: Interfaith coalition meets with governor’s staff to discuss death penalty
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen December 22, 2025 One day after the year anniversary of Joseph Corcoran’s execution, Indianapolis First Friends Quaker Meeting and Shalom Zone were able to meet with Gov. Mike Braun’s staff to discuss ending capital punishment in Indian “...”
HELP FOR HOOSIER FAMILIES: Democrat, Republican leaders seek ways to curb rising costs
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen December 19, 2025 Indiana legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle agreed affordability is a problem for many Hoosier households, but they disagreed on how to ease the strain on family finances and even how much state government shoul “...”
‘HOPE IN ACTION’: Annual Giving Machine tradition highlights Hoosier generosity
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen December 19, 2025 CARMEL, Ind. — They may look like ordinary vending machines from the outside, but the Light the World Giving Machines, now a growing holiday tradition, open a window into how Hoosiers help one another. Operated by The Churc “...”
‘GIVES US HOPE’: Faith groups see opening as they deliver appeal to Gov. Braun to end executions
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen December 17, 2025 After months of getting brushed off by state agencies, members of an interfaith coalition seeking an end to the death penalty in Indiana got an encouraging response from Gov. Mike Braun’s office this week. Indianapolis F “...”
‘IS SOMEONE LYING?’: Gov. Braun calls Lt. Gov. Beckwith’s claims about redistricting fallout for federal funding ‘fake news’
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen December 17, 2025 Gov. Mike Braun is at odds with Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith over how President Donald Trump’s administration will respond to Indiana’s failure to approve new congressional maps, with Braun forcefully rejecting Beckwith’s cl “...”
NOMINATING CHANGE: Beckwith says lieutenant governor selection bill would undercut parties’ grassroots power
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen December 17, 2025 Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith says a bill aimed at changing how Indiana’s candidates for lieutenant governor are selected – eliminating the role of party conventions, where he defeated Gov. Mike Braun’s hand-picked candidate “...”
FRUSTRATION SHOWS: Lt. Gov. Beckwith tangles with protesters, live posts amid failed redistricting bid
By Marilyn Odendahl and Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen December 12, 2025 Speaking to NewsNation shortly after the Indiana Senate squashed the redistricting effort, Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith, who was an early and pugnacious supporter of redrawing the state’s congressional distr “...”
From the Statehouse to the White House, reactions to Indiana’s defeat of redistricting
By TheStatehouseFile.com December 12, 2025 From the White House to the Statehouse, reactions to Thursday’s defeat of mid-cycle redistricting in the Indiana Senate have been pouring in, and many lawmakers are explaining their votes. Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray, R-Ma “...”
REDISTRICTING DEFEATED: Indiana Senate votes against redrawing congressional map
By TheStatehouseFile.com and The Indiana Citizen December 11, 2025 Voting 31-to-19 against redrawing the state’s congressional district map, the Indiana Senate brought to a close on Thursday a four-month brawl over redistricting that split the Republican supermajority and drew “...”
PRO-REDISTRICTING STANCE: Voices for redrawing map grow louder as Senate vote nears
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen December 10, 2025 Standing away from the redistricting opponents, who were waving signs and yelling outside the Indiana Senate chamber on Monday, Brian Pease offered a simple remedy for the state legislators who are against redrawing the ma “...”