Fair Maps: Advocate urges redistricting reform

It's easy to say electoral districts should be drawn in a fair, nonpartisan way, but how can it be done? Local residents debated that question during the Fair Maps Town Hall Thursday night at the Pasquotank County Courthouse in Elizabeth City. The event featured government reform advocates and gerrymandering opponents Jane Pinsky, of the NC Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform, and Bob Phillips, of Common Cause North Carolina.

Redistricting not cause of Dems’ political woes

I am writing this letter to better inform the public about the meeting of the League of Women Voters of Northeastern North Carolina that took place in Elizabeth City on Saturday, Feb. 25. My first thought is that most of the people at the meeting are delusional. They want to blame the Democratic Party's losses on gerrymandering of districts and not on the real facts that have changed in North Carolina and the nation.