Committee passes elections bill but removes provisions limiting absentee voting and governor’s powers
Follow our legislative coverage at The Indiana Citizen, in partnership with TheStatehouseFile.com UPDATE: An elections bill that drew sharp criticism for provisions limiting absentee voting and weakening the governor’s authority to reschedule an election was heavily amended “...”
John Krull commentary: Business and rights of conscience in Georgia
Major league baseball’s decision to pull the All-Star game away from Atlanta has provoked outrage on the right. The MLB did so to distance the game from the Georgia state government’s attempts to rig elections. The Georgia legislature passed and Georgia’s governor, Republic “...”
Elections bill stalls in committee after testimony in opposition; vote now scheduled for Thursday
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 “...”
Transformed and rewired: Sen. Fady Qaddoura’s life in public service
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 “...”
House committee to hear bill with absentee-voting requirements similar to Georgia legislation
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 “...”
John Krull commentary: Another alt-right self-pity party
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 “...”
Final ICRC hearing focuses on 2nd Congressional District and the tradeoffs of “compactness”
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 “...”
John Krull commentary: Georgia on our minds
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 “...”
John Krull commentary: Evan Bayh, Joe Biden and unlearned lessons
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 “...”
Proposal for redistricting reform is short-lived as parliamentary move ends debate
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 “...”