When your city has grown 40% or so in the past decade, you need a good city demographer, and we've got one. Plus, whatever you think of single-member districts, Robinson pulled off the near-impossible -- producing all the data and the map, actually several maps, showing how (and why) to divide Austin into sensible chunks, under extraordinary logistical and political pressure. Few people have done a better job for City Hall in the past year.
