The Past, Present, and Future of the Kansas City Chiefs' Name
There are growing calls from Native American advocates to change the Kansas City Chiefs' Name. But that name comes with a complicated history, I wrote in last week's column.
Kansas Redistricting 2021
Kansas Current Districts Despite its small size, the Third District near Kansas City is in fact the most-populous one in the state today, requiring rebalancing. The "Big First" (blue) and Second (green) have lost population. Kansas 2021: This Author's Proposed New Districts This map avoids a Missouri-to-Colorado Big First and splits only two counties. No cities are split. In Johnson County, the cities of Gardener, Edgerton, Spring Hill, and DeSoto move to the Second District along with some unincorporated rural areas. The rest of the county stays in the Third District with all of Wyandotte County (Kansas City). Kansas 2021: GOP Gerrymander? Rumors abound that the Republican supermajority may try to split the Third District to eliminate its Democratic-voting majority. The map below shows what that might look like, with the Big First wrapping around the Second to collect Wyandotte County, while Johnson County, which is now majority-Democrati...
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