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A Chester County lawyer and civil rights advocate has been laser-sharp focused on making educational equality his priority. 83-year-old Michael Churchill was…
Sitting side by side, the Lower Merion School District and Philadelphia School District provide a perfect example of the disparity in school funding for Pennsylvania…
Philip Hensley, 29, has won the inaugural Draw the Lines PA competition with his new interpretation of the state’s congressional map, writes Kevin Tustin…
On the eve of his election battle with first-time candidate Christina Sappey, first-term State Representative Eric Roe speaks to VISTA Today about growing…
Draw the Lines PA is attempting to teach Pennsylvanians how to the fix the state’s gerrymandered electoral map by letting them draw the lines…
Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania have filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging a ruling that the state’s congressional districts were illegally…
A new bill recently approved by Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives could potentially reduce the number of reps in the state legislature, writes Katie Meyer…
While the new congressional map replaced heavily gerrymandered districts with more balanced ones, the larger question on how to reform the entire redistricting process remains…
Pennsylvania’s congressional map was considered to be one of the most gerrymandered in our nation’s history, but several experts have helped change that…
The Republican challenges of the new Pennsylvania congressional district map have been rejected by federal District Court and the U.S. Supreme Court one day…
Pennsylvania’s new congressional map released by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court comes close to achieving partisan balance, write Nate Cohn, Matthew Bloch, and Kevin Quealy…
Democrats are urging Gov. Tom Wolf to reject the new Republican-proposed congressional map of Pennsylvania as it is still biased in favor of the…
Eighth-grade students at the Westtown School decided to redraw Pennsylvania’s congressional map with the help of their math teacher, Jon Kimmel, writes Michael…
The Supreme Court has refused the request by Pennsylvania Republicans to block redrawing the congressional map until after the 2018 state elections, writes Robert Barnes…
While it can be easy for the opponents of gerrymandering to point to current congressional maps, finding a way to fix them is not so…
In a 4-3 vote, the state Supreme court has found the current Congressional maps unconstitutional and ruled that new maps must be drawn and…
The Commonwealth Court judge hearing the high-profile gerrymandering case has recommended that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court uphold the state’s controversial map of congressional…
While testifying recently at the state gerrymandering trial, West Chester University political science professor John J. Kennedy said that Pennsylvania’s congressional map takes splitting…
Pennsylvania’s Seventh Congressional District that includes parts of Chester and Delaware counties has long been a textbook example of gerrymandering, writes Joel Naroff for…
Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District – which encompasses parts of five counties, including Chester County – is often cited as a textbook case of gerrymandering, writes Wallace…
Whether or not the Seventh Congressional District looks like Goofy kicking Donald Duck, East Marlborough Township is ready to kick gerrymandering out of politics.
Last…
When political districts look more like ink spills than common groupings of people and communities, their politicians have a greater chance of acting less like…
The issue of redistricting is quickly becoming a hot topic across the nation, and it was recently discussed in Chester County at a borough meeting…
For decades, politicians have redrawn district lines to benefit their party, and that practice — known as gerrymandering — has only gotten worse with the help of…
A recent joint report from Harvard and Sydney universities has ranked Pennsylvania as one of the worst states in the nation for electoral integrity, writes…
Chester County received an indirect shoutout by President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address Tuesday, though it was anything but positive.
The…
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