Many Americans have Georgia on their minds these days. The Peach State has become a kind of Rorschach test for this country. People on opposite sides of the United States’ great partisan and ideological dividing line look at the same facts and events in Georgia and see entirely “...”
Some lessons people have to learn again and again. And some lessons they never learn at all. Years ago, when Evan Bayh was governor, a Republican chieftain told me his party had made a fundamental mistake with the then young prince of the Indiana Democratic Party. This was near t “...”
Follow our legislative coverage at The Indiana Citizen, in partnership with TheStatehouseFile.com For the first time in its 2021 session, the Indiana General Assembly was poised Thursday to debate the issue of redistricting – one of its most momentous duties of 2021, the once-e “...”
Follow our coverage of redistricting at The Indiana Citizen If the Indiana Citizens Redistricting Commission is going to get its way, prying the constitutional duty of redrawing congressional and state legislative district lines from a reluctant Indiana General Assembly, maybe th “...”
If there is one thing we Americans should know by now, it is that the mistakes we have made as a nation—the wrongs we have done—live on. With tragic results. This is particularly true of those wrongs born of bigotry. We still struggle with the consequences of the decision to “...”
Follow our legislative coverage at The Indiana Citizen, in partnership with TheStatehouseFile.com UPDATE: The Indiana Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed House Bill 1384, which would require that civics education become a required class in Indiana middle schools. Because the bil “...”
Even in a Saturday afternoon Zoom meeting, the issue of how to redraw Indiana’s congressional and General Assembly districts drew a crowd. At least 80 people joined the videoconference March 13. About a dozen people, in addition to the public hearing’s organizers, spoke that “...”
Gov Eric Holcomb announced Rep. Holli Sullivan (above), R-Evansville, as Indiana’s new secretary of state Tuesday afternoon as Connie Lawson resigns. Sullivan follows in the footsteps of Lawson, the longest serving secretary of state in Indiana’s history. She will be only the “...”
These days, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb must feel like he’s channeling the late vaudeville comedian Joey Adams. Adams was the first to say, “With friends like these, who needs enemies?” Holcomb is having a rough, rough 2021 legislative session. Indiana lawmakers swatted down “...”
The Indy Eleven, Indianapolis’ professional soccer team, could have a permanent home in Marion County. Senate Bill 385, which extends the date for the team to finalize its plans, is moving through the House. The bill was discussed Tuesday in the House Ways and Means Committee, “...”