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Citizens Decry Gerrymandering in Redistricting
By Tracy Kennedy Capital News Service RICHMOND – Community leaders and concerned citizens turned out en masse Monday to protest proposed redistricting maps at the General Assembly’s final public...
View ArticleCensus Sheds Light on Amelia’s Population
By Jeannette PorterCapital News Service AMELIA, Va. — Amelia County’s return to the redistricting drawing board has raised questions about the demographics of Amelia: Who’s living where? And how have...
View ArticleArea Lawmakers Divided by Redistricting Controversy
By Mark Robinson Capital News Service RICHMOND – Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Bath, and Sen. Emmett Hanger Jr., R-Mount Solon, are friends. And they’ll remain friends, Deeds says, even if a controversial...
View ArticleDemocrats Accuse GOP of Restricting Voting Rights
By Alix Hines and Paige Baxter Capital News Service RICHMOND – Democratic lawmakers blasted Republicans’ recent actions to redraw Senate districts and require voters to show more identification during...
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Democrats Accuse GOP of Restricting Voting Rights
Alix Hines and Paige Baxter Capital News Service RICHMOND – Democratic lawmakers blasted Republicans’ recent actions to redraw Senate districts and require voters to show more identification during a...
View ArticleStorify: An ‘MLK Day Plot’ on Redistricting?
CNS reporter Whitney Spicer curated the social media stream to produce this report about Republicans’ surprise passage of a plan to redraw Senate districts on Martin Luther King Day. [View the story...
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Legislative Issues Fueled Partisan Ill Will
[Editor’s note: This is a special report about partisanship in the Virginia General Assembly. It include a sidebar about the state’s new transportation funding law.] On MLK Day, while a Democratic...
View ArticleRep. Scott: Let Independent Panel Draw Districts
By Ali Mislowsky Capital News Service RICHMOND – U.S. Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, a Democrat representing Virginia’s 3rd Congressional District, says the General Assembly should take some of the...
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