November 19th, 20220By Peter White
Despite new laws to keep people from voting and gerrymandering election districts to take away the power of minority communities, the Republican “red wave” that pollsters predicted ahead of last week’s midterms didn’t happen.
Ethnic Media Services debriefed six experts on their reactions to the election...
July 15th, 20220DEARBORN — The long-running Arab American Political Action Committee (AAPAC) has announced its endorsements for the state-wide August primary elections.
AAPAC is the oldest Arab American political organization, established in 1998 and formed by a group of Arab American professionals who set out to organize and encourage the...
March 12th, 20220SAN DIEGO — San Diego County’s deep rooted Chaldean community says it is being disenfranchised by the County’s redistricting of the area in which most of this ethnic and religious minority group resides.
A group representing the concentrated Chaldean community in the East County has said the county's redistricting efforts have...
January 4th, 20220DEARBORN — U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) has officially announced she will be running for the newly drawn 12th Congressional District covering Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and surrounding cities, and Southfield, in this year's election.
This mean the neighboring 13th Congressional District, covering Detroit, Hamtramck and...
December 29th, 20210The state’s citizen-led, bipartisan Redistricting Commission has adopted its final versions of political maps by the expected timeline.
Although experts are now anticipating legal challenges to the maps, residents at least get a good glimpse into how they could be represented in state House and Senate seats as well as the important...
October 16th, 20210— Amer Zahr is a comedian, writer, speaker and adjunct professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
I have been closely following the Michigan redistricting process as it pertains to Dearborn and the State House. I presented once in front of the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (MICRC) on Sept. 7...
October 16th, 20210– Dr. Hayg Oshagan is a professor at Wayne State University, co-chair of the Detroit City Council Immigration Task Force and the director of New Michigan Media
We are entering the final phase of the redistricting process in Michigan. As you know, Michigan voters passed a law in 2018 that redistricting in our state would be done by...
October 15th, 20210DEARBORN — A fresh set of draft maps for the State House, Senate and federal Congressional districts published by the state’s citizen-led Redistricting Commission have been available for public consideration for the past few weeks.
Those draft maps currently in front of the 13-member Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting...
October 2nd, 20210The state’s citizen-led redistricting effort is approaching some crucial deadlines and draft maps have been released for public consideration that show how the process could potentially rework the state’s political maps.
Michigan voters approved the creation of the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (MICRC) in...
September 24th, 20200LANSING — The state’s newly-formed Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission convened for its inaugural meetings over Zoom last Thursday and Friday.
The 13 randomly selected commissioners sat for agenda and orientation discussions. Those orientation materials, YouTube links of the meetings and a list of the selected...
May 19th, 20200DEARBORN — Many in the state may have heard of the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. Michiganders voted to create the commission in 2018 to give citizens exclusive power over the drawing of district boundaries for the Michigan Senate and House, and the U.S. Congress, every 10 years.
This means that 13...
November 9th, 20180LANSING — All three of the statewide proposals in Michigan passed on Tuesday, November 6.
Proposal One, which legalized recreational marijuana for adults, passed overwhelmingly, 55 to 44 percent, with 2,344,450 voters approving it and 1,849,005 voting no.
Proposal Two's passage means an independent redistricting commission...
September 22nd, 20180DEARBORN — On Thursday, Sept. 20, Emgage, an organization which encourages muslim Americans to engage in local and national politics, hosted a town hall meeting at the Arab American National Museum’s Annex to educate the community on gerrymandering.
Voters Not Politicians, a nonpartisan group working to pass Proposal 2 on...
July 18th, 20181LANSING — The Michigan Supreme Court heard arguments challenging a proposed November ballot initiative to change who draws congressional and legislative districts every decade.
The justices held a special session on Wednesday and asked many questions during 75 minutes of arguments.
Voters Not Politicians, a group backed by the...
September 14th, 20170DEARBORN- No community members shared their feedback at the September 11 Dearborn Board of Education meeting regarding the trustees’ possible solutions for overpopulated high schools, including boundary line changes and class additions, as the turnout was low.
Still, board members expressed the hope that after the October 9 board...
