OVERDRAFT RELIEF? Consumer advocates in Indiana hope new federal rule lowering bank fees inspires Hoosier lawmakers to offer similar help
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen January 9, 2025 Anti-poverty advocates in Indiana are hoping a new federal rule that could save consumers billions in overdraft fees will spur state lawmakers to legislate similar economic reforms to help Hoosiers. The final overdraft rule, “...”
TSF story: First Indiana Senate meeting of 2025 is a tribute to outgoing Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch
This story was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By Anna Cecil and Chloe White TheStatehouseFile.com January 8, 2025 Indiana’s 124th legislative session began with a heartwarming tribute to 52nd Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch. Senators passed a special resolution honoring “...”
JUDICIAL LEGACIES: Presidents Biden and Trump leave lasting (although different) impacts on the federal courts
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen January 3, 2025 When President Joe Biden reached 235 judicial confirmations – the most of any president in a single term – he marked the achievement by calling attention to his efforts to diversify the federal bench. He noted, in a Dec. “...”
Krull Commentary: Jimmy Carter, in all his humanity
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 30, 2024 Few presidents and former presidents have been more misunderstood than Jimmy Carter. During his years in the White House, he was caricatured as a naïve, moralizing “...”
‘REMARKABLE SERVICE’: Hoosiers mourn President Jimmy Carter, honor legacy of peace and volunteerism
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen December 30, 2024 Flowers are being laid at President Jimmy Carter’s plaque on the grounds of the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site in Indianapolis, not only honoring the 39th president, who passed away Sunday at age 100 but also unders “...”
HAMILTON’S WORDS: Indiana law librarian finds treasure written by a founding father to a young nation
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen December 26, 2024 The basement of the Indiana Supreme Court Law Library is home to papers of former justices, renovation records and other things that tell the story of the state’s judicial system, but while inventorying all the different “...”
DENYING ACCESS: Indiana AG Rokita turns down request to see voter list sent to federal government
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen December 24, 2024 The Indiana Attorney General’s Office has denied a public records request for access to the list of nearly 600,000 Hoosier voters whose citizenship the state’s top lawyer and the secretary of state are questioning, but “...”
JUDICIAL MOVES: Indiana Legislature likely to start reallocating court resources, rather than adding to them
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen December 20, 2024 One Indiana lawmaker is expecting the Indiana General Assembly to step back this coming session from continually approving requests for more trial court judges and, instead, start shifting judicial resources from slower co “...”
TSF story: LEADERSHIP AT A CROSSROADS: Holcomb talks his tumultuous eight years as governor
This story was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By Arianna Hunt The Statehouse File December 18, 2024 In a little over 600 hours, Governor Eric Holcomb leaves office, making one of the final significant events of his tenure the execution of Joseph Corcoran for the mu “...”
OPEN-RECORDS UNCERTAINTY: FSSA counsel seeks clarity from Indiana Supreme Court on advisory documents exception to open records law
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen December 18, 2024 When the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration argued to the Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday that a white paper submitted to the agency as part of a Medicaid settlement negotiation was not subject to public d “...”