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Rose’s Johnson on California census data

With Tuesday’s release of the 2010 Census data for California, Rose Institute Fellow Douglas Johnson has been cited on the results in USA Today, Bloomberg and the San Bernardino Sun. In these articles, he discusses California’s slowing growth, the population shift from the coast towards the inland parts of the state and the role Hispanics… Continue Reading

Rose Fellow Douglas Johnson on Claremont City Council race

Rose Institute Fellow Douglas Johnson was quoted in a recent article at the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin on Claremont’s City Council race. Titled “8 at the plate,” the article was published on February 26 and discusses the eight candidates running for three spots on the City Council. Johnson says, “”open seats really tend to bring… Continue Reading

Rose’s Johnson cited in The Hill

Rose Fellow Douglas Johnson was quoted in a recent article at The Hill on Freshman House of Representatives member Bobby Schilling, a Republican from Illinois. Published on February 14, the article tells Schilling’s story, how he went from being a union representative to a financial planning consultant to a pizzeria owner to a politician. The… Continue Reading

Rose’s Twitter feed featured in Redistricting Report

Redistricting Partners featured the Rose Institute’s Twitter feed in its bi-weekly newsletter, “The Redistricting Report.” In its February 14th edition, the report cited the Rose’s tweets from the Citizen’s Redistricting Commission meeting held in Claremont at the Claremont University Consortium on February 12th. The Rose has been tweeting through all of the meetings; the particular… Continue Reading

Rose Fellow Testifies to CA Redistricting Commission

Rose Fellow Douglas Johnson spent an hour today with the California Citizens Redistricting Commission discussing the stages of independent redistricting processes and a brief general history of California redistricting. The PowerPoint is online here. The PowerPoint includes academic and judicial definitions of various redistricting criteria. Those were included based on the Commission’s earlier discussions about… Continue Reading

Rose Institute Launches Redistricting in America: The Definitive Site for Congressional Redistricting News and Analysis

The Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College today announced the creation of Redistricting in America (www.redistrictinginamerica.org), a site featuring information, news, and analysis on congressional redistricting in all fifty states. “Previously, anyone interested in congressional redistricting had to search many different, and sometimes confusing sites, to find relevant political and… Continue Reading