New Florida redistricting plans would greatly benefit Republicans in Congress and might hurt Black voters’ chances at electing candidates of their choice.
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Andrew Pantazi is the founding editor of The Tributary. He previously worked as a reporter at The Florida Times-Union where he helped organize the newsroom's union with the NewsGuild-CWA. He and his wife, Lauren, are both Jacksonville natives raising their two sons in the city. You can contact him at Andrew.Pantazi@JaxTrib.org.
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Florida Senate releases first redistricting maps: ‘This isn’t the bloodbath we’re seeing in other states’
Joe Biden would’ve won 12 of 28 congressional districts, while Andrew Gillum and Bill Nelson would’ve won 14 seats. Hillary Clinton would’ve won a majority of the seats.
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Today is Jacksonville’s deadline to register to vote in special City Council election
Since the presidential election, Democrats have about 14,000 fewer voters, Republicans have 12,000 fewer voters, minor parties have an extra 900 voters and there are about 650 fewer independent voters.
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Tributary poll: Jacksonville residents trust local news, oppose Texas-style abortion law
A Tributary poll of 806 Jacksonville voters found residents were more likely to trust local over national news.
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Today, Jacksonville’s City Council will vote on redistricting maps it hasn’t shared with the public.
Jacksonville’s City Council redistricting committee is set to vote on new maps today at 2 p.m. that will likely further entrench already-gerrymandered maps to favor Republicans if the past map proposals are any indicator.
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Explore Florida’s diversity — and segregation — with The Tributary’s newest tool
The Tributary’s newest tool, launched Thursday, allows you to explore a racial-dot map of every person in Florida. Seeing the racial diversity of the state in this way is useful in many ways. It highlights the segregation of communities likes St. Petersburg, where the southern portion of the city is overwhelmingly Black and the rest […]
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The effort to split Riverside and Avondale died. But Republicans’ redistricting advantage lives.
An effort to split the historic Riverside and Avondale neighborhoods, which sparked frustration from residents who said the neighborhoods should be kept together, died Tuesday before it had even fully started.
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Jacksonville City Council’s redistricting plan will likely favor Republicans
Jacksonville’s City Council is on the verge of approving a redistricting plan that will continue the current map’s heavy bias favoring local Republicans.
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Florida’s redistricting website is ready for your map proposals
The Florida Legislature’s dedicated redistricting website launched this week, which kicks off the ability for the public — and paid consultants — to submit their own map proposals.
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The Florida Senate says 2021 redistricting won’t be a repeat of 2011
The Florida state Sen. Ray Rodrigues kicked off this redistricting cycle with an important admission: The Florida Legislature messed up last time, and legislators can’t allow that to happen again.