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Orange County Residents Ask Redistricting Commission to Keep Groups Together
 150 150 Agustin Gurza
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Nearly 75 residents of Orange County spoke Friday night before the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, voicing remarkable consensus on three principles for drawing new political boundaries: Keep cities together; don’t split ethnic groups; and stay within county lines.

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Criticism of Redistricting Commission’s Progress is Unfounded
 150 150 John Guenther
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Another week, another blast at the Citizens Redistricting Commission. But, all the Commission did was take a preliminary step to interpret an ambiguous area in redistricting law.

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50-state project to measure corruption risks
 150 150 John Guenther
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The State Accountability Project is an unprecedented effort to create a 50-state ranking of government transparency and accountability.

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Senate budget hearing a gerrymandering special
 150 150 John Guenther
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The Sacramento Bee’s Kevin Yamamura takes a closer look at the gerrymandering of CA legislative districts which led to one district line being drawn right through a college campus.

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CA’s reform movement underway, even if some don’t know it
 150 150 Ed Coghlan
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‘I read the cover story in The Economist this week about what the reporter (Andreas Kluth) believes is a dysfunctional government in California. He essentially argues that there’s too much democracy, that the initiative process has created unwieldy ballot box budgeting and that has paralyzed the state. I thought it was very simplistic.

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Cuts to higher ed: the master plan turncoats
 150 150 John Guenther
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Some of the same state legislators who benefited from the higher education system now won’t act to keep it whole.

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