
Mayor, Lawmaker Reach Deal On Winston-Salem Wards
A deal between State Rep. Donnie Lambeth (R-Forsyth) and Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines could end a dispute over the city’s ward boundaries.
A deal between State Rep. Donnie Lambeth (R-Forsyth) and Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines could end a dispute over the city’s ward boundaries.
North Carolina’s embattled congressional districts went before the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday in a case that has the potential to change the way legislative maps are drawn nationwide.
There’s been a lot of talk over the last few years about who should be drawing North Carolina’s legislative districts and how it might be done.
The Supreme Court is plunging back into the issue of whether electoral districts can be too partisan.
With an election looming, courts earlier this year declared congressional districts in two states to be unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. One map was redrawn. The other was not.