The following was written by Breanna Cooper of the Indianapolis Recorder through The Indiana Citizen redistricting reporting project, which was organized with assistance from the Hoosier State Press Association. Once a decade, Indiana’s congressional district, state Senate and “...”
A day after releasing most of their proposed congressional and legislative district maps, Indiana House Republicans offered their first public explanation of how they’ve conducted this year’s redistricting process and sought to defend it against charges of gerrymander “...”
The leaders who came to the Indiana Statehouse on Wednesday represented six different faiths but delivered a single message, telling Indiana lawmakers that the decennial redistricting that they will soon begin is more than a political process. “The only way our democracy “...”
Thursday’s release of the 2020 census data to be used for congressional and legislative redistricting showed Indiana following national trends of the greatest growth in metropolitan areas and lesser growth or population loss in more rural areas. “The country’s population is “...”
In the final hours before the last of nine public hearings on the upcoming redistricting process, a group of about 80 rallied outside the Indiana Statehouse Wednesday to renew their push for a transparent and nonpartisan redrawing of the state’s congressional and legislativ “...”
More than 30 northeast Indiana residents offered their thoughts on redistricting Aug. 7 before a panel of state legislators in Fort Wayne. The general message for lawmakers: You can draw better districts than you did in 2011. Karen Nesius Roeger told the joint hearing of the Indi “...”
When Indiana’s legislative leaders were choosing sites for their nine public hearings on redistricting, they opted against Lake County, scheduling a Friday afternoon hearing instead in adjacent if less populous Porter County. But since the hearing didn’t go to Lake Co “...”
July 8, 2021 Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston and Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray are tentatively planning on completing new congressional, state House and state Senate districts by Oct. 1, using so-called “legacy” data from the U.S. Census Bureau that will become avail “...”
Both are already on record in opposition, but a group of about 60 supporters of the federal For the People Act rallied in Downtown Indianapolis Tuesday to urge Sens. Mike Braun and Todd Young to reconsider their stances on the election-reform legislation. The lunch-hour rally, or “...”
Life is full of surprises—and some of them are pleasant ones. We Hoosiers received one of the good surprises a few days ago when we discovered that U.S. Rep. Trey Hollingsworth, R-Indiana, has both a conscience and a spine. Hollingsworth was one of 35 Republican members of the “...”
