SCHOOL VOUCHER Q&A: Using state tax dollars to pay private school tuition ‘a huge part’ of Christian nationalist agenda, scholar says
By Steve Hinnefeld The Indiana Citizen May 7, 2025 Michigan State University education policy professor Josh Cowen has spent two decades studying and writing about voucher programs, in which state tax dollars pay students’ private school tuition. Early studies of small, targete “...”
TSF story: Braun waits until Tuesday’s deadline to sign the final bills from the 2025 session into law
This story was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By Anna Cecil TheStatehouseFile.com May 6, 2025 On April 24, the Indiana General Assembly concluded the 2025 legislative session after nearly four months of deliberation over each of the 243 bills that made it to Gov. M “...”
TSF story: Indiana’s energy policy looks to accommodate both data centers and average Hoosiers
This story was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By Olivia O’Neal TheStatehouseFile.com May 5, 2025 How can the energy sector provide for data centers and the average Hoosier at the same time as being environmentally sound and safe? This was a question during th “...”
LESSONS IN VIRTUE: Legal scholar peruses Founding Fathers’ libraries and gains new understanding of meaning behind ‘the pursuit of happiness’
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen May 2, 2025 Stuck at home with extra time on his hands courtesy of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, legal scholar and author Jeffrey Rosen started diving into the treatises and tomes the Founding Fathers read as they crafted the nation’s found “...”
‘PROPAGANDA MILL’? Lt. Gov. Beckwith lauds WallBuilders think tank accused of eroding separation of church and state
By Sydney Byerly and Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen May 1, 2025 When Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith cited WallBuilders to defend his controversial comments about the Three-Fifths Compromise, he called the Texas-based nonprofit “the gold standard for learning the real his “...”
TSF story: Indiana lawmakers highlight best and worst bills from 2025 legislative session
This story was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By Anna Cecil TheStatehouseFile.com April 30, 2025 Less than a week ago, the Indiana General Assembly declared “sine die,” effectively ending the 2025 legislative session. Out of the hundreds of bills that made it t “...”
BECKWITH FACES BACKLASH: Indiana lieutenant governor’s comments about Three-Fifths Compromise draw ire of Democrats and historians
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen April 29, 2025 Days after making national news for claiming in a social media post that the Three-Fifths Compromise “helped to root out slavery,” Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith is accusing others of spreading falsehoods about U.S. hist “...”
VOTER VERIFICATION BATTLE PERSISTS: Lawsuit filed by AG Rokita and SOS Morales against federal agencies is latest round in fight over citizenship status
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen April 25, 2025 The lawsuit Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita and Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales filed last week against the federal government for failing to verify the citizenship status of nearly 600,000 Hoosier voters comes “...”
MONEY MATTERS: Lawmakers pass budget, leaving out Lt. Gov. Beckwith’s request for additional dollars
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen April 25, 2025 As gavel echoed off the wooden podium of the Senate and the last of the Indiana legislators shouted, “Sine die,” adjourning the 2025 legislative session about 1:38 a.m. on April 25, Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s chances of get “...”
TSF Story: Democrats react to new state budget accommodating $2B less than expected
This story was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By Schyler Altherr TheStatehouseFile.com April 23, 2025 On Wednesday afternoon, Democrats were learning in real time about the Republicans’ budget proposal, which could cut higher education funding and add funding to “...”