redistricting

The California Citizens Redistricting Commission is unsurprisingly short of the number of applicants it would like to see as evidenced by the commission twice extending its application deadline.

At meetings last week, Berkeley commissioners decided on the next steps for two election-related measures, one related to the city’s redistricting process and another proposing public financing for local candidates.

As Berkeley voters head to the polls Tuesday to vote on a measure that dictates the boundaries of the city’s student-majority district, opponents of the measure are openly criticizing the city for what they consider exceedingly high amounts of money spent on a lawsuit over the proposed lines.

Berkeley voters will decide the fate of highly contested district lines in Tuesday’s election.

In West Berkeley, home to manufacturing companies, environmental issues lie at the forefront in the race for the District 1 council seat.

Now we have our student district, and this November is the first election in which the new lines are being put to the test.

A judge ruled Wednesday that a set of highly contested new district lines will be temporarily used in Berkeley’s November election, pending a decision from voters on whether to implement them permanently.

A judge will decide Wednesday which district lines to use in the Berkeley city election this November, following nearly half a year of controversy that ensued after the suspension of a new map passed by the city council in December.

After the city filed a lawsuit on Thursday to temporarily implement a set of recently overturned district lines for the November election, a law firm and a public interest organization alleged that the Berkeley City Council violated a government transparency law in the way they decided to do so.