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SOUTHEASTERN N.C. — The changes to local electoral maps brought by this year’s redistricting process range from subtle relocations of neighborhood chunks…

Hampshire border before going to the coast, it looked like a salamander and gary bander. get it? the gerrymandering on the republican side now and no recent years has been intense and brazen. just listen to this republican statement legislator from north carolina. >> we want to make clear that we to the extent are going to use political data in drawing this map to gain partisan advantage on the map. >> then there is the racism. take texas. you heard the phase democracy dies in darkness, right? a...

Political data in drawing this map. it is to gain partisan advantage on the map. >> then theres the racism. take texas. you heard the phrase democracy dies in darkness, right? well, as political journalist aary berman points out that is exactly what happened in the overnight hours of last wednesday morning when around 3:30 a.m. republicans in the texas house voted to redraw the state house map in a way that dilutes the voting power of growing communities of color. white people make up 40% of the...

“All Roads Lead to Rio Rancho” was the title of Thursday morning’s Rio Rancho Roundtable NAIOP meeting at Premiere Cinemas and, orange barrels aside, there was some good news for area motorists — with much more to come, when funding is found. Probably the biggest news is that the two-year US 550 project, which includes an innovative “continuous-flow” merge from NM 528, is nearing completion. That project is expected to wrap up next month, according to project manager Patsy Najar of t...