From the Chicago Tribune:
A group of legislators that examines U.S. Census data plans to study redistricting over the next few months. A resolution by Republican Sen. Mike Delph of Carmel that prompted the study says the panel should make recommendations to promote easily identifiable boundaries that don’t split up communities.Under the current system, lawmakers in Indiana draw new legislative maps. That’s expected to make the 2010 legislative campaigns more intense — especially in the narrowly divided House — because the parties in power will wield the mapmaking pens following the 2010 Census.