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Listening tour on redistricting visits Pittsburg
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Former State Senator Jim Barone addressing the joint redistricting committees at Memorial Auditorium Thursday morning. - photo by Jordan Meier
PITTSBURG, Kan. — The Kansas House and Senate redistricting committees made a stop at Pittsburg’s Memorial Auditorium on Thursday as part of a statewide “listening tour,” with similar town hall style meetings planned in Overland Park and Kansas City, Kansas later in the day. One issue brought up by more than one speaker at the local meeting on redistricting — which is done once a decade following the U.S. census — was the fact that local-level data from the 2020 census was not yet available Thursday morning, with the 14-city listening tour more than halfway done. The census data was expected to be released later Thursday, but in a form that will still take some time to analyze.