Until recently only political parties had the manpower and the tools to redraw boundaries while keeping districts equal in population.
"While the math of redistricting is strongly in favor of preserving our Hudson Valley district," he said, "I believe my accomplishments should serve as something of a catalyst" for keeping the district intact.
Foley, however, represented a moderately conservative Congressional district in Eastern Washington, and his leadership position in the House may have been the only thing keeping the district from going Republican.
Private fund-raising will have to be a component of keeping the district afloat in this economy, Mr. Stern said, but he agreed that it was unrealistic to ask outsiders to bankroll the Knights again.
She and a Hofstra colleague, Alan J. Singer, have urged officials to disperse the junior and high school students and eventually reopen Roosevelt High School as a magnet school, while keeping the district's elementary schools open.
In spite of the budget crisis, we have maintained our programs while keeping the district fiscally sound.
But when the city interviewed Magnolia Park property owners earlier this year, Davidson-Guerra sait it was mostly those with non-retail offices who didn't support keeping the district.
Any is likely preferable to the status quo, which gave rise to the current map's racially skewed configuration; it packs African American voters into districts around Richmond and Hampton Roads, thereby diminishing their overall electoral muscle while keeping adjacent districts more heavily white — and Republican.
BIDs sometimes co-sponsor major urban projects, in addition to keeping an improvement district clean, safe, attractive and welcoming.
It is possible the Regents simply want to scare the Legislature into pumping more money into the Roosevelt district, keeping it afloat for another few years at least.
