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We Need More Information About the NCGA Proposed Maps
North Carolina

We Need More Information About the NCGA Proposed Maps

Imagine that your child's school cafeteria had recurring problems last year with food poisoning and peanut contamination (despite a no-peanut-allergen requirement). Then imagine that the cafeteria announced that it was allowing public scrutiny

  • Blake Esselstyn
1 min read
How NC's Public Hearing Sites for New Maps Relate to Overturned Districts
North Carolina

How NC's Public Hearing Sites for New Maps Relate to Overturned Districts

[Updated 2:30 PM ET to include map showing distances.] Yesterday's announcement about the public hearing sites for comments on the proposed new maps raised a number of questions, not least of which

  • Blake Esselstyn
1 min read
Where the New NC Maps Provide No Suspense
North Carolina

Where the New NC Maps Provide No Suspense

What is the opposite of 'suspenseful'? During this month of suspense about the maps in North Carolina, it's worth pointing out that there are some aspects that are a foregone conclusion. The maps

  • Blake Esselstyn
2 min read
Where Are The Maps? (NC)
North Carolina

Where Are The Maps? (NC)

So it's a 31-day sprint – new legislative maps for North Carolina are supposed to be enacted by one month from today. The 28 racially gerrymandered districts need to be fixed quickly, but you'd

  • Blake Esselstyn
2 min read
And now ... the Overturned NC House Districts Map
North Carolina

And now ... the Overturned NC House Districts Map

Late yesterday, we learned of another hearing related to the upcoming redrawing of legislative maps and special election to follow. My previous post introduced an interactive map of the NC Senate districts that

  • Blake Esselstyn
1 min read
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