This Week in Statehouse Action: Full Moon Fever edition

Legislative redistricting in Ohio, extremism in North Carolina, and some good news in Pennsylvania

If you know me IRL or follow me on Twitter (I will never call it X) or BlueSky, you probably already know that I’m something of a moon nerd.

I guess it’s the result of growing up Full Bumpkin in the middle of nowhere –  night skies without light pollution, Farmers’ Almanacs on waiting area tables in various businesses, etc. etc.

However I got here, I’m super jazzed about today’s Harvest Moon – which is also a supermoon (the last one of the year).

In the years where September’s full moon occurs early in the month, it’s known as the Corn Moon, because it falls during the general time period when that crop is ready for harvest.

The Harvest Moon is whichever full moon – September’s or October’s – occurs closest to the autumnal equinox (which, as an erudite reader of this missive, you know was just last Saturday). So, 2023 trades the Corn Moon for the Harvest Moon.

The full moon closest to the equinox tends to rise around sunset for two or three days in a row (although it’s not technically tota…