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June 16 2024

GOP CONVENTION UPSET: Beckwith pulls off shocker, defeating Mike Braun’s pick in race for lieutenant governor

By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen June 16, 2024 After pulling off a stunning victory and capturing the Indiana Republican Party’s nomination for lieutenant governor, Noblesville pastor Micah Beckwith said he would work to make Indiana  GOP gubernatorial nominee Mike Brau “...”

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June 14 2024

ROKITA’S EDGE: Despite controversies, AG is unopposed for GOP nomination due to popularity with party faithful

  By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen June 14, 2024   Four years ago, Todd Rokita warned Republicans that the conduct of then-Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill would be a drag on the entire state GOP ticket in the 2020 general election.   Hill had just had h “...”

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June 14 2024

ROKITA CRITIC APPEALS: Tully turns to Indiana Supreme Court to get advisory report on AG’s moonlighting

  By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen June 13, 2024   Indianapolis resident Barbara Tully has appealed to the Indiana Supreme Court in her fight to learn more about the private-sector job Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita continued to hold when he first took offi “...”

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June 12 2024

PRESUMED QUALIFIED: 10 Marion County judges recommended for retention — even ones who didn’t do interviews

(Editor’s note: This article has been updated to clarify Marion County Superior Court Judge William Nelson spoke with the counsel for the Marion County Judicial Selection Committee, and Lacy Johnson, committee member and attorney, made the motion to recommend all 10 judges “...”

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June 10 2024

BUILDING SUPPORT: Nearly 500 advocates write to Gov. Holcomb seeking state housing commission

  By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen June 10, 2024   A letter signed by nearly 500 Hoosier organizations and individuals was presented to Gov. Eric Holcomb on Monday as part of a continued effort to persuade him to establish a statewide housing commission to tackle “...”

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June 07 2024

TSF story: The ugly struggle to ban the beautiful but invasive Bradford pear tree

This story was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com.   By Arianna Hunt TheStatehouseFile.com June 6, 2024 The U.S. Department of Agriculture brought the Callery pear tree, commonly known as the Bradford pear, to the U.S. from Asia in 1917 to make pear trees more res “...”

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June 07 2024

REGISTRATION WRANGLE: Indiana Secretary of State Morales testifies at congressional hearing scrutinizing SBA efforts to sign up voters

By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen June 7, 2024 Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales testified before a congressional committee Tuesday, saying the administration of elections in the Hoosier State is the responsibility of his office and he would not welcome federal invol “...”

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June 06 2024

SUPERMAJORITY TARGETED: Indiana Democrats push moderate message to turn more Statehouse seats blue

  By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen June 6, 2024   The party faithful who assembled recently for a Democratic caucus in Jeffersonville would seemingly already understand the push to break the Republican supermajority in the Indiana General Assembly, but, perhaps i “...”

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May 31 2024

‘SWIFT LEGAL CONSEQUENCES’: AG Rokita’s demand to rescind ‘sanctuary city’ policies called political ploy by critics

  By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen May 31, 2024   Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is threatening four municipalities across the state with legal action if they do not rescind local policies that, he says, enable illegal immigration, but state Senate Democrat “...”

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May 30 2024

SOUTHERN INDIANA VOICE: Dant Chesser wins Democratic caucus for House District 71 seat, joins fight to break the supermajority

  By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen May 30, 2024   Vowing to make sure the voice of Southern Indiana is heard in the Statehouse, Wendy Dant Chesser was elected in a quick Democratic caucus Wednesday evening in Jeffersonville to fill the House District 71 seat form “...”