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 “...”
CLASSROOM TALLY: IU logs majority of complaints under state law regulating campus instruction
By Steve Hinnefeld The Indiana Citizen September 16, 2026 Indiana University accounted for well over half the complaints against faculty filed last year under Indiana’s “intellectual diversity” law, according to Commission for Higher Education data. Statewide, 33 complaints “...”
POSSIBLE EXEMPTION: Lt. Gov. Beckwith optimistic legislature will end home property taxes
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen September 16, 2026 Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith rode into office partly on a wave of anger over property taxes and now he is optimistic that at least the taxes on family homes will be eliminated during the upcoming legislative session, which he “...”
PUBLIC DIALOGUE: Hoosiers United to host forum about Christian nationalism, Moreau will lead panel discussion
By Greta Lapp Klassen The Indiana Citizen September 15, 2026 Hoosiers United for the Separation of Church and State will be putting the spotlight on the growth of Christian nationalism in Indiana schools and at the Statehouse this Saturday, Sept. 19 at its second annual Larry H “...”