Get your pencils and scorecards ready for this year’s starting line-up Governor-elect Mike Braun names the largest complement of state agency directors to date headed into Christmas, an intriguing mix of holdovers, former leaders and staffers, current and former [...]
Senator-elect builds on 2021 memo with new working class plan U.S. Sen.-elect Jim Banks (R) releases a two-page “Policy Vision for the 119th Congress” that he titles “Working Families First.” The memo not only outlines his objectives to Hoosier [...]
Team Braun details priorities, policy proposals, implementation Governor-elect Mike Braun (R) sheds some additional light on his administrative and policy priorities this week, eager to put wins on the board as quickly as possible out of the gates, even [...]
Reps. Yakym, Houchin make intentions, ambitions known When election week ended, it looked like two Hoosiers with not even five years of total congressional service between them would be making credible bids for leadership roles in their party . [...]
Harris, McCormick, McCray, Wells all lose; supermajority intact Two years ago analysts puzzled over why Hoosiers – particularly women – didn’t rebel against the Republican legislative supermajority just two months removed from passage of a strict abortion ban . [...]
Demos seek leverage, cash from events, polling Democrats are beginning to feel optimistic about their chances in the gubernatorial race this fall, a prospect that would have been unthinkable back in early May . . . but we are [...]
Republican CoA jurists now double Democrat-appointed judges Governor Eric Holcomb (R) appoints Judge Mary A. DeBoer of the Porter County Circuit Court No. 1 to the Indiana Court of Appeals. The Valparaiso resident will succeed retired judge Patricia A. [...]
GOP political heavyweight pleads guilty to 27 felonies, but . . . At a Monday plea change hearing, former Clark County sheriff Jamey Noel (R) pleads guilty to 27 felony charges under a plea negotiation which would see four [...]
Corporations may contribute to independent expenditure PACs In a First Amendment pre-enforcement challenge to Indiana campaign-finance restrictions that prohibit corporations from making contributions to independent-expenditure political action committees (commonly known as super PACs), a U.S. Court of Appeals for [...]
Coming to terms with end of terms – we portend a change in change We’ve reached a delicate point not only in the Holcomb Administration but in the general life cycle of state government. We’re not only approaching the [...]