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...goal was to talk to as many people as possible in my precinct,” he explains. “So I’d spend the day out in other precincts where people don’t know...
...legislator would agree to the elimination of her or his district,” he said, adding that in a brief conversation with Balser, long before any redistricting maps were released, he discussed having his district changed “by a precinct...
...district has grown in population such that had we maintained the same precinct lines it could say the same,” Barrios told the council...
Representative Paul Demakis—whose precinct gained a large chunk of Cambridge under the new redistricting—was the only member of the Cambridge delegation who voted in favor of the redistricting. Demakis also implied that Barrios was to blame for the drastic redistricting...
...worst. Even though a mass attack is considered unlikely, doctors in South Florida and New York have been besieged with demands for ciprofloxacin, or Cipro, the only antibiotic specifically approved for treating anthrax. Police all over the U.S. have been fielding calls reporting suspicious substances; on Friday a single precinct in New York City responded to three different alerts, quarantining one building in lower Manhattan for two hours. The city's emergency rooms were besieged as well. "There's a lot of anxiety," reports Dr. Marc Stoller of the city's Beth Israel Medical Center...