Follow our legislative coverage at The Indiana Citizen, in partnership with TheStatehouseFile.com UPDATE: An elections bill with a provision likened to controversial legislation in Georgia stalled briefly Tuesday morning in a House committee after more than two hours of testimony “...”
Eleven years ago, when Fady Qaddoura first began working as an intern for the Indiana Senate legal office, a former staffer in the IT department asked him his name and where he was from. Qaddoura answered, and the staffer said, “Oh, you’re one of these effing terrorists that “...”
Follow our legislative coverage at The Indiana Citizen, in partnership with TheStatehouseFile.com In 2020, Gov. Eric Holcomb delayed the primary election from May until June and loosened restrictions on absentee voting as Indiana coped with the outbreak of COVID-19. Under legis “...”
Poor Jim Lucas. The Republican Indiana representative from Seymour who just loves, loves, loves guns and racially charged memes is in the middle of another controversy. This latest dust-up is a particularly Lucas-like tragic farce. It’s filled with alt-right half-truths and out “...”
Follow our coverage of redistricting at The Indiana Citizen At first glance, Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District as drawn during the last redistricting process in 2011 didn’t look a lot different from the 2nd Congressional District drawn during the previous one in 2001. Both “...”
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 “...”
