Listen to Voter Services chair Joan Gentry talk about our redistricting mapping project in an interview with League member Maggie Castrey on our KSMU radio program Making Democracy Work. Read the Springfield News-Leader’s story on our redistricting mapping program, written by the News-Leader’s new Missouri politics and government reporter Galen Bacharier.
Citizen input needed for redistricting map project
League joins Community Partnership of the Ozarks to sponsor June 29 map meeting Once each decade, maps based on U.S. Census results determine how many people represent us in Washington D.C. and how many Electoral College votes Missouri gets. The census also impacts voting districts for state representative and state senate seats, and how many federal dollars come to our …
League leader addresses Board of Education
Voter Services chair affirms diversity and equity in message to Springfield Public Schools’ Board of Education June 22, 2021 To: Members of the Board of Education of the Springfield (Mo.) Public School District I am here to speak in support of our school district’s focus area on equity and diversity. I am a retired middle school teacher, having taught 7th …