You know how sometimes you're really excited to *do* something and then forget to tell anyone? ✨I'm now the California Politics Editor for The Sacramento Bee.✨ Hear @thebuckeyeflame.com's @kenschneck.bsky.social say nice things before we geek out (and I talk baseball). pca.st/episode/51e8...

I got to celebrate my silly little dysentery joke with @rtdna.bsky.social This project meant so much to me. And I'm so grateful to everyone who helped make it real — advocates who did play testing, reporters who jumped on stories and editors who said, "let's do it." ipbs.org/projects/ind...

📣 Celebrate over 100 years of LGBTQ+ media! 🏳️‍🌈 Join us for the 2nd annual Local LGBTQ+ Media Giving Day on Oct. 8, 2025, during #LGBTQHistoryMonth. TODAY! Support queer journalism with one tax-deductible donation: givebutter.com/LGBTQequityf.... Let’s keep our stories alive! #LGBTQMediaDay

The chaos returns for a three-peat!! We've got big issues, fun facts and a love letter to the complicated stew of small town Pride celebrations.

I've seen a lot of baseball at Victory Field the last three weeks. So much so, that the beer guy next to my usual section and I are on a first name basis.

🎶They say it's your birthday!🎶 2025 has been a weird year. But my birthday has been a delightful bright spot — especially going to three games at Victory Field. 💜

My silly little dysentery joke is part of this prestigious group! www.npr.org/sections/npr...

*slaps podcasting app* THIS EPISODE CAN FIT SO MUCH QUEER JOY IN IT! (Seriously, you'll learn important things about the world, hear about amazing journalism and giggle at The Rainbow Beast)

In a rare New Year's resolution, I promised myself that I would say yes to more things with my friends. Today's adventure: Seeing the Scissor Sisters and Kesha in concert. Shedding tears to "This Place About To Blow" wasn't on the bingo card. But it's 2008 and we're partying.

It's me! This was truly so much fun to do. I love "This News Is So Gay" and being a panelist (and the unofficial Sportsball reporter) was an absolute delight. Go listen! I accidentally wrote an "it's complicated" love letter to Indiana in the middle of the podcast.

Being a reasonably devout Catholic prepared me for a number of things. Receiving genuine, heartfelt praise for my last decade of work was not one of them.

(Because humor is the only coping mechanism available to me at the moment) Damn. The worst bit is that I haven't updated my portfolio site since 2019.

And 16 days later, I was informed that the @ipbnews.bsky.social team (including myself) would be laid off at the end of this year. It's heartbreaking. But there's still a lot to be proud of. I'm going to have some self-indulgent grieving and then get to the business of figuring out what's next.

It's impossible to imagine: But 10 years ago ON THIS VERY DAY, I started my full-time journalism career. I wish I could tell that fresh-faced 22-year-old half of the things we would do. I think she'd be pretty proud 💜

What happens when someone asks the @ipbnews.bsky.social text group a question that I also wanted to know? I write a big ol' web story and make everyone else learn. indianapublicradio.org/news/2025/06...

First American pope and the Catholics on my team are being Very Normal. ... what's the over-under that Pope Leo XIV has been to Riot Fest?

The IEDC has been highly criticized — most of the controversy traces back to the LEAP district and concerns over water use. news.wnin.org/2025-04-08/b...

Opening Day at Victory Field!! 💜 According to my dad, we've attended 30 out of the last 32 Opening Days together.

The bill makes no requirements for what a determination of an athlete’s gender is. But the amendment would have prohibited invasive inspections of genitalia.

As lawmakers plow through the second half of the legislative session, here's our guide to how the budget writing process works:

All it took was calling and emailing a dozen county and local health departments in Indiana to get a handful to confirm the validity of an email I was sent.

The little engine that could has surpassed 100 bills!

"We want to be very clear: Governor Braun, we don’t need or want that kind of protection.”

“Trans and nonbinary people are not a threat. They’re not an enemy. They’re not a villain. They’re your neighbors,” she said. “They’re the people in your churches and synagogues. They are part of this community, of society. They are Hoosiers as well.”

You'll get a text specifically from me! Be warned: If you have a weird, complicated voting question, you will get a response from an extremely excitable digital editor.

Those deadlines? They're coming. The official deadline is bills must be heard on third reading on *Thursday, Feb. 20*. (source: iga.in.gov/session/2025...) The odds of bills that haven't been heard in committee are looking pretty slim.

Only one Democrat voted against the collegiate transgender women sports ban heard by a committee on Wednesday.

We do stories about Indiana's employment report every month. But what does the data actually capture? And how useful is it?

Tis the season: Here's a quick overview of where we are at currently in the legislative session. Most bills are waiting for their committee hearings, recommitted to fiscal committees, or on second or third reading. (Steps 3, 4, 5 and 6 here: ipbs.org/projects/ass...)

I've never been as comfortable as my cat, half-asleep in a sunbeam, using a cardboard box as a pillow.

A measure to roll back the "aid and abet" provision of Indiana's gender-affirming care ban for transgender youth has not been heard in committee.

While Gov. Mike Braun was delivering his inaugural State of the State address, nearly all the members of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus were at a rally in support of DEI initiatives — just down the hall from their fellow lawmakers. www.wboi.org/2025-01-29/b...

It's a story from two years ago, but the information is still good: www.wbaa.org/2023-02-13/w...

Every kid in j-school wants to be a journalist until they're explaining how the legislative session works at appointments.

I love the em-dash = AI discourse. Friends. Enemies. Others. Every reporter I've edited in the last 14 years *loved* em-dashes. I *love* em-dashes. I once had a reporter (the only reporter who has correctly used a semi-colon in a news story) try to wedge three em-dashes into a single sentence.

IT'S ALIVEEEEE! (I broke something and it took three weeks to fix.) Enjoy the 2025 legislative bill tracker: A scary castle filled with dozens of bills and lots of really, really good journalism. ipbs.org/projects/202...

Genuinely, this little Oregon Trail-style game is the thing I am proudest of – and it's mostly for the joke in the link preview. (But seriously, you'll accidentally learn something!)