INDY Week – Wake County Commissioners Weighing Two Sites for Athens Drive Community Library Replacement

Sep 222025
 

When many southwest Raleigh residents went to the polls in 2024 to cast a “yes” vote for Wake County’s $142 million public libraries bond, they expected that a successful bond referendum would ensure that their community library would remain in their community.  County staff, they say, had made the community that promise in 2022 after the library, housed inside Athens Drive Magnet High School since it opened in 1978, was thrice threatened with closure and saw its operating hours starkly reduced due to safety concerns and the pandemic.  “We supported the bond based on this promise and if we are betrayed, we should never forget it,” Yevonne Brannon, a neighborhood activist and former county commissioner, wrote…

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Ballot Access News – New Bills in Congress to Ban Mid-Decade Redistricting of U.S. House Seats and to Require Each State to Have a Non-Partisan Redistricting Commission

Sep 222025
 

New bills in Congress have been introduced to reform redistricting for U.S. House. They are S2885, and HR 5449. The Senate bill has three co-sponsors, and the House bill has 52 co-sponsors. All the co-sponsors are Democrats, except that independent U.S. Senator Angus King is a co-sponsor.

Here is the text of the bill. The House bill was introduced September 18 by Zoe Lofgren of California, and the Senate bill was introduced September 19 by Alex Padilla, also of California.

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