Redistricting and More (Guest: Kyle Melinn)

The Michigan Supreme Court tells the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission that its closed-door meeting violated the state constitution. However, the newly released memos from that meeting were a big nothing-burger, raising questions of why the Commission created the controversy in the first place. Joining the conversation is one of the state’s top political writers, Kyle Melinn of the Michigan Information & Research Service (MIRS). The MIRS daily newsletter is a must-read for everyone involved in state public policy. Melinn is news editor of the MIRS report. He also hosts the weekly MIRS Monday Podcast, a bipartisan review of the top political and policy stories in the state. He is a graduate of Michigan State University, beginning his journalism career at a daily newspaper in Dalton Georgia before joining MIRS in 2001…making him a 20-year veteran of the state’s political wars. In 2019, for the 14th consecutive year, MIRS was voted “Most Effective Capitol News Coverage” securing 66 percent of the votes in an independent survey conducted by EPIC/MRA of Lansing lawmakers, lobbyists and staff. In addition, Melinn was voted “Most Effective Reporter in Covering the Capitol” in that same Insider’s Survey.