CALL TO PIONEERS: Board game at Harrison Presidential Site prompts players to collaborate to reach statehood
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen September 4, 2026 After a night of playing the board game Catan, Lindsey Beckley was observing one of her colleagues teach a group of young students about Indiana’s early history when she had a “hmm, I wonder” moment. The director of “...”
PRIVATE PROPERTY: Democrats question Beckwith town hall at former congressional candidate’s home
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen September 4, 2026 Indiana Democrats are criticizing Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s plan to hold a town hall meeting later this month — as part of his official duties — at the private residence of a former Republican congressional candidate. “...”
NO PUBLIC DISCLOSURE: Trial court allows state to keep private the names of nearly 600K Indiana voters sent to USCIS
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen September 3, 2026 In a one-page order issued on Monday, a Marion County Superior Court judge has blocked access to the list of nearly 600,000 Hoosier voters that the Indiana attorney general and Indiana secretary of state turned over to the “...”
‘REVISITING FIGHTS’: Democrat lawmaker, Indiana AG take opposite sides of mail-in ballot battle
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen September 2, 2026 As the effort to block the Trump administration’s proposed restrictions on mail-in voting continues to whipsaw between the U.S. Supreme Court and federal district and circuit courts, Indiana voting-rights advocates are e “...”
BOOSTING TURNOUT: SOS rivals spar over proposed voter guide, other ways to fight apathy
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen September 1, 2026 During last week’s debate among the secretary of state candidates, Lincoln Party candidate Greg Ballard was able to show what he would do to improve Indiana’s voter turnout – he held up a copy of his proposed voter “...”
INCREASED VISIBILITY: 4 candidates share viewpoints at public forum in once-overlooked SOS race
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen August 27, 2026 In remarks prior to the debate between the Indiana secretary of state candidates, Matt Mindrum, president and CEO of the Indy Chamber, noted the significance of the 2026 race for that office. Republicans have handily held th “...”
WEEKEND PROTEST: Events planned across Indiana to call for end to ICE detention
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen August 27, 2026 Activists calling on Gov. Mike Braun to end the state’s agreement to house federal immigration detainees at Miami Correctional Facility say they plan to hold rallies, prayer vigils, marches and teach-ins this weekend in m “...”
CONTESTED HISTORY: League of Women Voters’ event examined meaning behind ‘separation of church and state’
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen August 25, 2026 MUNCIE, Ind. — As debates over religion in public life play out in Indiana and across the country, a group of Muncie residents gathered Saturday to examine a question that has been contested since the nation’s earliest “...”
JUDICIAL REVIEW: Indiana Supreme Court accepts appeal in Deery-Copenhaver primary fight
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen August 24, 2026 The Indiana Supreme Court has decided to wade into the Republican nomination fight between Sen. Spencer Deery and Paula Copenhaver for state Senate District 23, requesting front-and-back images of the six disputed ballots an “...”
‘A LONG PROCESS’: Black leaders in Indiana prepare for tough fight to restore MWBE program
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen August 21, 2026 Although the 43-year-old Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise program was eliminated in the blink of an eye this summer, leaders of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus concede the brewing fight to restore the init “...”