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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 20, 2012 - 12:17 pm
Above: New York State's new 19th Congressional district. Detail from a document posted on Scribd by Politicker reporter Colin Campbell; embedded below.
It took a federal court to get it done, but New York State finally has its Congressional districts... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 1, 2012 - 1:20 pm
With a joint Senate and Assembly redistricting task force hopelessly mired in partisan bickering, the once-a-decade Congressional redistricting process is now in the hands of a federal court.
Earlier this week, any hope that feuding Albany pols could... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 22, 2011 - 5:05 pm
Congressman Maurice Hinchey put out a press release today announcing that he's being treated for a curable form of colon cancer. From Hinchey's website:
Congressman Maurice D. Hinchey (D-NY) today announced that he is being treated for a curable form of... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 8, 2010 - 1:31 pm
DC Bureau, a nonprofit investigative news outlet, reports that Congressman Maurice Hinchey is denying knowledge of his wife's recent work on behalf of a Texas landmen's organization.
For at least two years of their marriage, Hinchey’s wife, Allison Lee,... Read more