Stuff you need to know, 7.12.23

“New Mexico Supreme Court Outlines Guidance for Handling Gerrymandering Lawsuit”
by Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press; posted in The Paper
July 10, 2023

The high court set a deadline of October for a district court in Roswell to resolve the case, while stating in its order that, given the political nature of redistricting, a reasonable degree of partisan gerrymandering is permissible under the New Mexico Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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