The Washington State Redistricting Commission will unveil its proposals for Western Washington’s legislative districts during a public meeting in Olympia scheduled for 10:30am this morning, new maps that are expected to receive approval from the four commissioners and allow the process to move on to creating the maps for congressional districts and legislative districts in Eastern Washington, a source on

With the holidays upon us, it’s hard to think about politics. But intense negotiations are occurring in Olympia by the Washington State Redistricting Commission, which is trying to draw our state’s new boundaries for the 10 congressional and 49 legislative districts in the state. With a January 1, 2012 deadline looming, time is ticking away. And as each day passes,

If dictionaries catered to all of our senses you would look up “redistricting” to see a picture of pillow, smell the aroma of warm milk, and hear the white noise of gently lapping ocean waves on the beach. To put it another way, it’s not a scintillating topic for those fortunate enough not to be obsessed with politics. Even to

The four appointed commissioners on Washington State Redistricting Commission released their proposals to redraw the political lines and recalibrate legislative and congressional districts to account for shifts in population, as well as add a new 10th Congressional District, at a Tuesday morning meeting in Olympia. Though there were significant differences in the approaches taken by Democrats and Republicans, the most

The Washington State Redistricting Commission presented its maps this morning at an open session in Olympia, and NW Daily Marker has obtained the proposals submitted by House-appointed Commissioner Tom Huff. The maps presented by Huff and the three other commissioners will be available on the Redistricting Commision website at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday. Check back with NW Daily Marker for complete

Voters and politicos in Washington state will have their first real opportunity to discuss real geography on Tuesday when the bipartisan State Redistricting Commission reveals four maps (one congressional and one legislative from each party’s two-man appointed delegation) to redraw the political lines and situate a new 10th Congressional District. In an odd sort of role reversal, Democrats have been

Despite all attempts to depoliticize Washington State’s redistricting process by taking it out of the hands of the legislature, it appears that political infighting may again be getting in the way of a speedy drawing of new voting lines. Only this time it is not the usual red and blue shirts holding up progress, but an internal rift among Democrats

Public hearings on the remapping of Washington state’s congressional and legislative districts kicked off last week, a process that will continue through the middle of summer as the five-member Washington State Redistricting Commission takes their road show to at least 11 more locations across the state (scroll down to end for the most recent schedule) before the tour wraps in