by jpitney | Feb 17, 2025 | 2776, California Politics, Congress, Declaration of Independence, Disabilities, Dreier, Emergency, Environment, Race, Redistricting, Trade, Transparency, Vaccine
Jenny Jarvie and Grace Toohey at LAT: What went wrong with L.A. county’s warnings and evacuations is now the subject of two different investigations after Times reporting found that emergency wireless alerts went out to west Altadena almost five hours after fire began...
by jpitney | Jan 24, 2025 | 2776, California Politics, Electoral College, Environment, History, Immigration, Jobs, Lincoln, Mass Media, Race, Redistricting, Trade, Vaccine
Connor Sheets at LAT: Los Angeles County officials missed dozens of opportunities for water infrastructure improvements that experts say probably would have enabled firefighters to save more homes during the Palisades fire, public records show. As crews battled...
by jpitney | Sep 4, 2023 | California Politics, Redistricting
Claremont McKenna College alums Ryder Smith, Douglas Johnson, and Christopher Skinnell discuss voting rights and redistricting in California local government.
by jpitney | Dec 21, 2021 | California Politics, Elections, Population, Redistricting
From the Final Report of the Los Angeles County Redistricting Commission: Although beyond the scope of the LA County CRC, the Commissioners received frequent input regarding the size of the SDs and the benefits of increasing the number of County Supervisors....
by jpitney | Nov 24, 2021 | California Politics, Local Government, Redistricting, Uncategorized
The 2020 census found that Los Angeles County had slightly more than ten million people. Each of its five supervisors represents about two million. To put it another way, any supervisorial district has more people than the entire state of Nebraska. The immensity of...
by jpitney | Aug 10, 2020 | California Politics, Redistricting
The California Redistricting Commission is looking to hire three major posts: Executive Director Communications Director Chief Counsel Job information for all 3 posts is available at the bottom of https://shapecaliforniasfuture.auditor.ca.gov/first-8.html h/t Doug...
