Re: [Mpls] (no subject)

[Brobson34]

Scott McGerik appropriately calls into question a paragraph of a recent City Pages article I wrote on redistricting--specifically a sentence that says the Hawthorne neighborhood has been added to the 5th Ward.
The initial notion that Hawthorne had been added to the 5th Ward was first published in a April 13 Star Tribune article, which states, "The adopted map also significantly changed the Fifth Ward, adding some of the city's most impoverished neighborhoods, Jordan and Hawthorne." When I went to the redrawn map on the city's redistricting map to doublecheck this at the time, it looked to me like Hawthorne was indeed in the Fifth. The map I looked at was slightly less detailed than the one Scott refers to in his post, but when I went to *that* one it becomes apparent to me that I didn't notice the map boundary line that runs right on top of the Hawthorne neighborhood boundary line and thus is hard to pick up; and I further assumed that the river was the boundary on the other side, as it is in some areas.
In short, careless reporting. I appreciate him setting the record straight.

Britt Robson
Lyndale