The Alaska Redistricting Board has approved new political boundaries that significantly change some state Senate districts. Executive Director Taylor Bickford, says there’s still a few minor details to iron out.
But under the plan, the Mat-Su will gain a House seat and southeast Alaska will lose a House seat and half a Senate seat.
Bickford says the plan gives the Mat Su five House seats, based on an ideal population number for each House district.
Bickford says bits and pieces of alternative plans submitted to the Board were woven into the final draft.
The Board will meet again next week before finalizing the draft on June 14.
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APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone.
Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA
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