‘THEY CONTROL THE IDEOLOGY’: Beckwith urges greater attention on school board races at Clarksville town hall
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen October 6, 2026 CLARKSVILLE, Ind. — Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith urged both churches and voters Monday night to pay closer attention to Indiana’s school board races, arguing that local boards have an outsized influence over public education, in “...”
VOTING ISSUES: How Ballard, other SOS candidates stand on election reform in Indiana
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen October 5, 2026 When Greg Ballard stepped before reporters for another news conference at the Statehouse last week, he announced his newest proposal for what has become a key issue in his campaign: election administration. All the candidate “...”
TRANSPARENCY ISSUES: Gov. Braun appoints new public access counselor after complaints mount
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen October 5, 2026 Former Bartholomew County Circuit Court Magistrate Judge Brittney Long has been named Indiana’s public access counselor, replacing attorney Jennifer Ruby, whose 18-month tenure in that job was marked by long delays in resp “...”
MARATHON HEARING: Anger over August power outages erupts during legislative committee meeting
By Olivia O’Neal TheStatehouseFile.com September 30, 2026 Lawmakers sat through a six-hour committee meeting on Wednesday, grappling with understanding what happened on Aug. 11, when Hoosiers in the Northwestern part of the state lost power for up to two weeks after severe “...”
HOMESTEAD TAX: Constituents skeptical of Sen. Mishler’s plan to revamp property taxes
By Dan Spalding News Now Warsaw September 30, 2026 WARSAW — A trio of top Republican state lawmakers unveiled a plan on Tuesday in Warsaw to revamp the state’s property tax system by using local income tax money to cover all of the homestead property tax credit. The plan woul “...”
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Supreme Court says Indiana and other states can use SAVE tool; critics cite voting barriers
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen September 28, 2026 Indiana will again be able to use the federal SAVE system to check Hoosier voters’ citizenship status, following Friday’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that allows all states to access the database that voter-right “...”
UNEXCUSED ABSENCE: High-school freshman with medical conditions caught in Indiana’s crackdown on absenteeism
By Olivia O’Neal TheStatehouseFile.com September 25, 2026 In March 2026, as Layna Ziegler was about to begin her second semester at Western Boone Junior-Senior High School in Thorntown, her parents, Crystal and Jacob Ziegler, unexpectedly received a letter from the Boone Co “...”
VIDEO OUTREACH: ReCenter Indiana starts campaign to get young adults to the polls
Staff Report The Indiana Citizen September 22, 2026 ReCenter Indiana is launching a six-week video ad campaign aimed at encouraging young adults to go to the polls and exercise their right to vote this November. The 30-second videos, directed at 18- to 24-year-olds in Marion, Ham “...”
Indiana’s DEI fight moves from Statehouse to classrooms as school board elections turn partisan
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen September 21, 2026 As Indiana prepares for its first school board elections in which candidates can identify their political party affiliation on the ballot, conservative elected officials and activists are increasingly focusing on individual “...”
PUBLIC DOLLARS: Indiana school voucher spending, enrollment set records
By Steve Hinnefeld The Indiana Citizen September 17, 2026 Spending on Indiana’s private school voucher program topped a half billion dollars in 2025-26, according to a report released this week by the Indiana Department of Education. A record 80,548 students participated in the “...”