Activists Protest Redistricting Plan At Dallas City Hall
More than 100 Hispanic activists took to Dallas City Hall Wednesday, upset with a proposed council redistricting plan that they say will dilute their voting power.
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More than 100 Hispanic activists took to Dallas City Hall Wednesday, upset with a proposed council redistricting plan that they say will dilute their voting power.
Protesters will gather at Dallas City Hall Wednesday morning to call for changes to the new map for Dallas City Council districts. They're calling it "Occupy City Hall", although they have no official ties to the "Occupy Dallas" protest.
Two ongoing legal cases to determine whether new voting maps drawn by the Republican-controlled Legislature discriminate against minorities have cast uncertainty over Texas' 2012 elections.
She is known as the prosecutor who took on Dallas City Hall in the largest corruption trial in the city's history. Now Sarah Saldaña is ready to continue fighting public corruption as the new U.S. Attorney for North Texas.
Drawing new lines in Dallas is a controversial proposal. On Wednesday a plan was formally presented to the city council.
The Federal Government's Weed-and-Seed program is ending, and that is going to hit a coalition of East Dallas neighbors especially hard. The Ferguson Road Initiative is composed of 35 areas groups located along Ferguson Road between Interstates 30 and 635, the LBJ Freeway.
