To paraphrase Gerald Ford, our long, national — er, statewide — nightmare is over.

By an 8-0 vote (one member was absent), the 2011 Reapportionment Commission has made a final, affirmative decision on political boundaries. Those boundaries are explained in this Civil Beat article.

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