The Rose Institute’s Doug Johnson was featured on KNBC’s “News Conference” segment in an interview about California’s Citizens Redistricting Commission’s draft redistricting maps. Johnson is an expert of redistricting and California politcs. He and redistricting commissioner Maria Blanco engaged in a dialoge concerning the goals of the redistricting commission, the challenges faced, and what work… Continue Reading
The Rose Institute has an added facet to its publications – interactivity. New Rose applications allow for dynamic user interaction with mapped data and geography, as can be seen in several of the institute’s recent analyses. Continue Reading
The Rose Institute is pleased to announce an update to its interactive map application for California population growth. In addition to viewing raw population change at the Census block group level, users can now see how California has grown at both the county and congressional district levels–both percentage changes and raw changes. As expected, the… Continue Reading
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Every ten years, Missouri’s lawmakers redraw the state’s congressional map in order to address population changes as reflected by the annual census. While the process is always highly politically charged, the state’s loss of one of its nine congressional seats this year added to the political sharpness of the process. The new map was debated… Continue Reading
On April 14, Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe (D) signed into law the proposed redistricting plan for the state’s four congressional districts. The House and Senate voted a day earlier (61-19 and 23-11, respectively) to approve the plan. Arkansas was officially the first state to complete its decennial congressional redistricting plan, with many more states to… Continue Reading
By David W. Meyer ’12 The recent release of the 2010 Census data confirms that the population of the Inland Empire has grown considerably in the last decade. Since the 2000 count, Riverside County has grown by about 40 percent, while San Bernardino County has grown by about 20 percent. The majority of the growth… Continue Reading
By Elizabeth A. Johnson ’11 On April 12, 2011 Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a mandate that one-third of electricity in California must come from renewable sources by 2020. California had previously required investor-owned utilities to generate 20 percent of their electricity from clean sources by 2010, with a three year grace period. The… Continue Reading
Virginia’s 2011 redistricting will not produce ideal congressional districts for either Republicans or Democrats. Unlike in 2001, when Republicans completely controlled the redistricting process, the Old Dominion’s government is now divided, with Republicans in control of the governor’s office and the House of Delegates and Democrats in control of the Senate. As a consequence, neither… Continue Reading
Simply put, 2011 redistricting in Louisiana is likely to be ugly. A combination of factors make the 2011 redistricting a high stakes situation for both parties and will likely make the process a partisan fight. This article will detail Louisiana redistricting with a general overview of the state followed by a close examination of each current… Continue Reading
