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Looking at the current New York state government, you could almost forget that until recently it was an ineffective embarrassment, a decidedly non-functional democracy.
Since Andrew Cuomo was elected governor, things have been looking up in our state. There’s been ethics reform and mandate relief; same-sex couples are finally allowed to marry here; the 2 percent tax cap should help force more modest spending levels; and in 2011 there was the rarest of occurrences in Albany — legislators balanced the budget and passed it on time.
Read More: http://www.liherald.com/stories/A-veto-by-Cuomo-may-save-redistricting,38839
Under the proposed redistricting maps for New York State, some Oceanside residents may find themselves with a new district in the Assembly.
The maps, released late last month, are based on data from the 2010 census. The New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment created the maps. While some districts are drastically redrawn, others remain very much the same. The biggest change is in the western-most part of Nassau County, which will be receiving an entirely new district.
Read More: http://www.liherald.com/stories/Redistricting-changes-little-for-Oceanside-and-Island-Park,38779
The issue of redistricting — the redrawing of state Senate, Assembly and congressional district lines to reflect population shifts reported by the U.S. Census so that each district has a more or less equal number of people — sounds as interesting to most citizens as last month’s presidential poll numbers. There’s a vague sense that the topic is important to politicians, but most of their constituents don’t know much, if anything, about the redistricting process or its real-life consequences.
They should, because the way redistricting is being done in Albany subverts the public interest, according to the Citizens Union’s “Reshaping New York” research and policy analysis issued last month. And we agree.
Read More: http://www.liherald.com/stories/Redistricting-reform-delayed-is-reform-denied,37568
In a 3-2 decision last Thursday, New York State Appellate Division judges upheld new boundaries drawn by Nassau Republican lawmakers for the county’s 19 legislative districts. If the state Court of Appeals rules in favor of the Republican plan on Aug. 24, the GOP’s legislative map will reshape a number of districts, including those covering the Five Towns, Elmont, Baldwin and Merrick-Bellmore.
Read More: http://www.liherald.com/stories/Court-OKs-GOPs-redistricting-map-,34775
