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Se necesitaron semanas de largas reuniones nocturnas llenas de debates torpes y dibujos digitales, así como de un poema haiku y al menos dos canciones como comentario público. Pero finalmente el miércoles 10 de noviembre por la noche, la comisión de redistribución de distritos independiente de California alcanzó un hito clave:...
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It took weeks of long, late-night meetings full of wonky debate and digital line drawing — as well as a haiku and at least two songs as public comment. But Wednesday night, California’s independent redistricting commission reached a key milestone: Its first official maps are out. The citizen panel voted unanimously to release...
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Long Beach alberga uno de los puertos más activos de los EE. UU., un aeropuerto de propiedad de la ciudad, el lugar de nacimiento del rapero Snoop Dogg y, por supuesto, la playa. También es el hogar de muchas comunidades diferentes: un campus de Cal State, jóvenes profesionales y...
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Long Beach is home to one of the busiest ports in the U.S., a city-owned airport, the birthplace of rapper Snoop Dogg and, of course, the beach. It’s also home to many different communities: a Cal State campus, young professionals and senior citizens downtown in need of affordable housing,...
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La redistribución de distritos (el rediseño de mapas para los escaños locales, legislativos y del Congreso) ocurre cada diez años después del censo. ¿Su objetivo? Asegurarse de que todos estén representados por igual. En 2008, los votantes de California quitaron de la Legislatura la redistribución de distritos para las...
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Redistricting — the redrawing of maps for congressional, legislative and local seats — happens every ten years after the Census. Its goal? To make sure everyone is represented equally. In 2008, California voters took redistricting for state offices away from the Legislature — which often drew maps to the...
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Mark Hedin Ethnic Media Services The most recent data on Arizona’s population, from the 2020 Census, shows that the state is continuing to grow and diversify. But through the redistricting process that follows that new census data, Arizona is failing in its duty to ensure equal political representation for...
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Por Mark Hedin Ethnic Media Services Los datos más recientes sobre la población de Arizona, del Censo del 2020, muestra que el estado sigue creciendo y diversificándose. Pero mediante el proceso de redistribución de los distritos electorales que sigue a esos nuevos datos del censo, Arizona no está cumpliendo...
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Across the country, with both state and federal moratoria on evictions for non-payment of rent set to expire September 30, more than 2 million adult renters are at imminent risk of eviction, 880,000 of them in California. Carolina Reid, of U.C. Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation, cited these...