VOTER HELP: Election Protection hotline, other assistance available for Hoosiers during voting process
Staff Report The Indiana Citizen October 8, 2026 With the start of early voting in Indiana, Common Cause is, again, offering Hoosier voters assistance to ensure they can cast a ballot and their ballots will be counted. The nonprofit, nonpartisan voter-advocacy organization has la “...”
ROUND TWO: SOS candidates trade jabs on voting and investigations during second debate
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen October 8, 2026 In their second debate for Indiana secretary of state, the four candidates stayed mostly on message, outlining their priorities if elected, but they showed some of their sharpest divisions on whether an audit of the office a “...”
‘THEY CONTROL THE IDEOLOGY’: Beckwith urges greater attention on school board races at Clarksville town hall
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen October 6, 2026 CLARKSVILLE, Ind. — Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith urged both churches and voters Monday night to pay closer attention to Indiana’s school board races, arguing that local boards have an outsized influence over public education, in “...”
VOTING ISSUES: How Ballard, other SOS candidates stand on election reform in Indiana
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen October 5, 2026 When Greg Ballard stepped before reporters for another news conference at the Statehouse last week, he announced his newest proposal for what has become a key issue in his campaign: election administration. All the candidate “...”
TRANSPARENCY ISSUES: Gov. Braun appoints new public access counselor after complaints mount
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen October 5, 2026 Former Bartholomew County Circuit Court Magistrate Judge Brittney Long has been named Indiana’s public access counselor, replacing attorney Jennifer Ruby, whose 18-month tenure in that job was marked by long delays in resp “...”
‘UNDER A MICROSCOPE’: AG Rokita reveals slew of disciplinary actions, nearly $500K attorney bill
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen October 2, 2026 In a lawsuit filed against members of the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita details multiple disciplinary grievances that prompted investigations into his actions while he ha “...”
MARATHON HEARING: Anger over August power outages erupts during legislative committee meeting
By Olivia O’Neal TheStatehouseFile.com September 30, 2026 Lawmakers sat through a six-hour committee meeting on Wednesday, grappling with understanding what happened on Aug. 11, when Hoosiers in the Northwestern part of the state lost power for up to two weeks after severe “...”
HOMESTEAD TAX: Constituents skeptical of Sen. Mishler’s plan to revamp property taxes
By Dan Spalding News Now Warsaw September 30, 2026 WARSAW — A trio of top Republican state lawmakers unveiled a plan on Tuesday in Warsaw to revamp the state’s property tax system by using local income tax money to cover all of the homestead property tax credit. The plan woul “...”
‘SENSELESS ACT OF VANDALISM’: Arson suspected in destruction of polymer statue of Benjamin Harrison
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen September 29, 2026 A life-size statue of President Benjamin Harrison, installed less than two weeks ago at the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site in Indianapolis as part of a new collaboration to create public art, was destroyed by fire ea “...”
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Supreme Court says Indiana and other states can use SAVE tool; critics cite voting barriers
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen September 28, 2026 Indiana will again be able to use the federal SAVE system to check Hoosier voters’ citizenship status, following Friday’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that allows all states to access the database that voter-right “...”