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 “...”
‘NEW TERRITORY’: Marion County Election officials consider applying new election worker protection law to voting incident
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen December 13, 2024 Before making a decision whether to refer the matter to prosecutors, the Marion County Election Board wants to hear from the Indianapolis man who walked into a voting center on Election Day with two handguns and a knife. T “...”
LOSING PATIENCE: Plaintiffs in Anderson redistricting fight ask for a deadline
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen December 13, 2024 Plaintiffs in the lawsuit over the city of Anderson Common Council’s failure to redraw its council district map have filed a motion asking the federal court to start setting deadlines. The motion to set deadline, filed w “...”
LEAVING THE SENATE: Gov.-Elect Mike Braun recalls legislative successes, offers advice in farewell address
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen December 12, 2024 In his farewell speech to the U.S. Senate Wednesday, Mike Braun, Indiana governor-elect, recalled a memory from his earliest days on Capitol Hill. He had attended his first State of the Union address in 2019 and was walkin “...”