Congressional Maps

On today’s episode of The Confluence: The state Supreme Court selected the map dictating the commonwealth’s congressional districts, but some lawmakers continue to argue the map is partisan; teachers are reaching a breaking point, after two years of teaching in a pandemic and instances of violence; and the founder of the Pittsburgh Labor Choir explains why singing is an important part of social justice movements.

Pennsylvania's new congressional map puts some U.S. House candidates in western Pennsylvania into new districts.

Gov. Tom Wolf is releasing priorities for drawing Pennsylvania’s new congressional districts given to him by panel he picked, with an emphasis on openness, fairness and reflecting statewide voter preferences.

On today’s program: The chair of Fair Districts PA explains how state leaders are taking different approaches to the process of drawing new maps for Congressional seats, now that census data has been released; kindergarten enrollment dropped 10% last year in the region, and some are concerned this year’s class of kindergarteners will have vastly different social and academic skills; and a look at how the state Game Commission takes census of the black bear population, a process that starts with doughnuts.

Pennsylvania's governor and elections officials want the state's highest court to stand by its ruling establishing new congressional districts.Democratic…