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April 09 2021

Holcomb signs civics education bill, seen as an early step toward improving Indiana’s civic health

Follow our legislative coverage at The Indiana Citizen, in partnership with TheStatehouseFile.com UPDATE: Gov. Eric Holcomb on April 8 signed House Enrolled Act 1384 into law. Under the legislation, civics education will become a required class in Indiana middle schools and a 15- “...”

April 08 2021

John Krull commentary: Lawmakers send cash and constitution into the shredder

The conservative Indiana lawmakers who say they love constitutional principles have a funny way of showing it. The state’s lawmakers in the Indiana General Assembly just sent their plan to curtail some of the Indiana governor’s emergency powers to Gov. Eric Holcomb’s desk. “...”

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April 08 2021

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 “...”

April 06 2021

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 “...”

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April 06 2021

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 “...”

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April 02 2021

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 “...”

April 02 2021

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 “...”

March 30 2021

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 “...”

March 28 2021

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 “...”

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March 26 2021

The Indiana Citizen’s guide to your elected officials

U.S. SENATE Todd Young (R) Mike Braun (R) U.S. CONGRESS Frank Mrvan (D) Rudy Yakym (R) Jim Banks (R) James Baird (R) Victoria Spartz (R) Greg Pence (R) Andre Carson (D) Larry Bucshon (R) Erin Houchin (R) GOVERNOR Eric Holcomb (R) LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR Suzanne Crouch (R) “...”