By the time I got home from work today, wordpress.com, where this blog is hosted, was having some kind of meltdown, which made the backend inaccessible. In any event, here are a few posts that caught my eye as I waited for it to get back up:
- VLBC calls for second Congressional district with high number of black voters. I received the press release late last evening on this. And at last night’s redistricting hearing in Norfolk, there were similar calls, including for more minority-majority districts in the General Assembly.
- More redistricting hearings. This time, the General Assembly is hosting them. The Hampton Roads one is March 31 at Hampton University.
- Winners announced in college redistricting competition. “These student groups showed that it is possible to balance many desirable features to create much better districts than the politicians manage to do on their own,” said Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, one of the judges.
- Blogger running for the House of Delegates. Brian Schoeneman, who blogs at Bearing Drift as well as on his own site, Common Sense, has thrown his hat in the ring against Del. Mark Keam in the 35th House district.
- NC Senate considers pardoning Reconstruction-era governor. Just further proof that the parties have flipped positions: a Republican governor was impeached in 1871 mainly for stopping the violence of the KKK.
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And the pardon is on hold.