What a difference a decade makes …
Washington’s population has grown by leaps and bounds during the past 10 years — by over 14 percent, to a new nose-count of 6,724,540. The growth: over 830,000 people. But that growth, of course, hasn’t been uniform all around the Evergreen State, and so our current legislative and congressional districts are out of whack, population-wise. One of the main purposes of the U.S. Census is to allow us to redistrict every decade so that districts meet the legal requirements for …