Episode 86: MapQuest

So, you may have heard Michigan is getting new congressional and legislative maps as part of the decennial redistricting process.  Or, maybe you’re like Joe and Carly and could not care less.  Either way, Michigan has a new system for drawing these power maps, and whatever words you want to use to describe the old process, this new process has been… interesting (Laura has another word).

Today, we talk to Ben Solis, reporter at Gongwer News Service.  As part of a questionable, new-employee hazing process, our friend Zach Gorchow assigned poor Ben to follow every minute of this redistricting process and write about it.  Now, Ben is quite an expert on it all.

What’s up with redistricting?  How is it working?  Who is doing it?  Do they know what they’re doing?  Will it ever be over?  Ben answers all these questions and more before Nick’s attempted bromance moves the conversation to the Cleveland Browns.

It’s the Cold Oatmeal podcast.