REMAPPING THE JUDICIARY: Redistricting has unexpectedly emerged as a hot-button topic in New York politics in recent months, with state lawmakers pushing a constitutional amendment to redraw congressional lines before the 2028 elections.
But there’s another mid-decade redistricting question that will be at the forefront of state politics in the coming months: Democratic legislators are hoping for the first remapping of upstate judicial districts since the 1800s.
“The sinking of the Titanic happened more recently than the last time these have been reviewed,” said Assemblymember Jonathan Rivera, a Buffalo Democrat.
Both houses of the Legislature have passed a bill sponsored by Rivera that would increase the number of judicial districts in New York from 13 to 15. That would involve taking the three existing districts centered in Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse and removing the rural counties now within them. Those rural counties would then be mixed together to create two new districts.
I packed my gear for heading out to camp after work tonight, but didn’t finish up packing nor getting groceries or dirving to work. I think I wll still take tomorrow off but first I will go ride my bike both ways to work, then run to the laundromat, get clams and groceries at Price Chopper, then visit my parents house tomorrow morning to check on their cat.
I had thought about driving in today, and heading up to camp after work but I really should get to the laundromat and I was just feeling tired both last night and this morning. Maybe its partially auto anxiety but I also feel like I just got back from Vermont. If I worked until 5 PM tonight, stopped for clams and visited my parents house on the way to Rensselearville I would being set up close to dark, driving my creeky old truck ride likes shit as I struggle to see well enough with my contacts. It reduces my auto anxiety to be driving my clunker in the daylight, when I have a full day to recover should something go wrong. Nothing will, but I swear the clunk it normally makes whne parking was louder then usual. In the daylight tomorrow I can also check the oil and coolant and brake fluid not because there are leaks but it helps my anxiety.
Truth is the best option is to just leave in the morning. But you’re leaving a night in the woods on the table, at one level I tell myself. But that campsite I normally stay at is fairly shaded so this time of year, 3 nights would be tough on the batteries. And I don’t really need an extra night in the woods, those calories from the beer and toxic smoke from cannabis and whatever other shit I burn. There were a big stack of pallets near where I work and I could have gotten one for firewood but I also don’t like potentially leaving nails in the fire pit for myself or others to run over with their 35 inch tires.
Who knows if they even will have clams at the store, 🦪 but I think it would be fun with the sweet corn broiled up in the woods, snacking on them all day, while riding trail and hiking and exploring wildflowers. I might bring my 20-guage shot gun with my assuming I can renew my license on line and see if there are some tree rats I can harvest and toss them into the brine of clams and beer. And I have a few library books I want to get through on Hoopla before my books expire on Monday. Sunday I want to hike and/or ride at Partridge Run.
I will be only a little more then a day out from the Big Snip of my eyes 👀 next week at this time. I thought about going to the Adirondacks this weekend but I have a lot of things to do and I’m hoping by October 4th I’ll be in a place I can take off the following week to head north. If not, it will be the week after. I got to see how long and how strict the restrictions on kayaking and bike riding are, but I think I will do a full week at some point in October. I always worry be using too much vacation and personal time, but then I end up at the end of year having to burn it up before the year is done as I can only roll so much over into the new year.
but I really should get to the laundromat and I was just feeling tired both last night and this morning. Maybe its partially auto anxiety but I also feel like I just got back from Vermont. If I worked until 5 PM tonight, stopped for clams and visited my parents house on the way to Rensselearville I would being set up close to dark, driving my creeky old truck ride likes shit as I struggle to see well enough with my contacts. It reduces my auto anxiety to be driving my clunker in the daylight, when I have a full day to recover should something go wrong. Nothing will, but I swear the clunk it normally makes whne parking was louder then usual. In the daylight tomorrow I can also check the oil and coolant and brake fluid not because there are leaks but it helps my anxiety.
But you’re leaving a night in the woods on the table, at one level I tell myself. 
But that campsite I normally stay at is fairly shaded so this time of year, 3 nights would be tough on the batteries. And I don’t really need an extra night in the woods, those calories from the beer and toxic smoke from cannabis and whatever other shit I burn. 
There were a big stack of pallets near where I work and I could have gotten one for firewood but I also don’t like potentially leaving nails in the fire pit for myself or others to run over with their 35 inch tires.
Sunday I want to hike and/or ride at Partridge Run. 
I got to see how long and how strict the restrictions on kayaking and bike riding are, but I think I will do a full week at some point in October. I always worry be using too much vacation and personal time, but then I end up at the end of year having to burn it up before the year is done as I can only roll so much over into the new year.
