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 “...”
Suggestion from the 4th District: Should redistricting reform start at the grassroots?
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 “...”
John Krull Commentary: Yesterday’s wrongs, today’s suffering
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 “...”
Senate unanimously passes civics education bill
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 “...”
“Our districts are a mess:” ICRC hearing focuses on NE Indiana
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 “...”