Lawmakers wade into redistricting without key data
More than a dozen hearings planned over next six months
Matt Murphy
State House News Service
BOSTON By most accounts, the redistricting process 10 years ago was a huge success. The district maps produced by legislative leaders avoided challenges in federal court for the first time in decades and most stakeholders walked away feeling heard.
Despite losing a Congressional seat, the Legislature created double the number of majority-minority districts in the Massachusetts House and established the newly drawn U.S. House district now held by U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley the first Black woman to represent the state in Congress.
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Elections have consequences and Democrats are about to receive a difficult reminder of how impactful the repercussions can be.
The second decade of the 21st Century ended Dec. 31 and that means the U.S. Census will be done counting the nation’s people, the population of every state, including New Hampshire, and the residents of each city, town or unincorporated place.
And as a result, before the current two-year legislative term ends, the state’s political boundaries will be redrawn for Congressional, Executive Council, Senate and House seats as well as county districts.
Democrats lost control of the Executive Council, Senate and House after the last general election so they will not be in charge of drawing those boundaries. Republicans will be as they have for the last century or so.
CONVERSE LODGE A.F. & A.M. STEPS UP & LEADS BLOOD DRIVE
Wor Robert D. Frechette, Blood Committee Chairman for Converse Lodge A.F. & A.M. instituted in Malden, was able to fulfill the American Red Cross request for filling in for a Blood Drive that was scheduled for another building but was not allowed to have it there because of Covid-19 concerns by leading a blood drive at the Wakefield/Lynnfield Masonic Building in Wakefield MA on Friday, March 12, 2021. He has four other Blood Drives scheduled for this year, with a goal to exceed last year’s total of 485 pints of blood. Wor Frechette is no stranger to this activity. He has been Converse Lodges Blood committee chairman for over 10 years, coordinating blood drives several times each year.
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