Tagged: redistricting

This week on Talking Politics, we delve the controversy and complexity surrounding the debate over the redrawing of both state and federal representative districts.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• Missouri leads the U.S. in methamphetamine lab seizures in 2011.
• A bipartisan commission says it's close to a Missouri Senate District map compromise.
• A state senator wants the full chamber to debate the I-70 toll road proposal.

Two lawsuits challenging Missouri’s new congressional district map have been heard for a second time by the State Supreme Court. The cases returned to the high court after the map was upheld two weeks ago by a Cole County judge.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• The state Supreme Court tosses out ethics rules passed by the legislature in 2010
• Derrick Washington pleads guilty to assault
• A trial judge throws out a lawsuit concerning the new congressional house districts
• Attorney General Chris Koster writes to the SCOTUS concerning the federal health care mandate

Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• Missouri high court to consider redistricting challenge
• Northwest Missouri levee districts get grants
• Missouri's senator at odds on Obama's contraceptive plan