The Rocky Mount Telegram sought John Locke Foundation President John Hood‘s expert opinion this week for an article about redistricting reform. (John Hood — president of the John Locke Foundation, a conservative-leaning think tank — said in a telephone interview that he would like to see a redistricting process that’s more mathematical than political. Hood said he would prefer an independent commission — made up of unaffiliated voters, Republicans and Democrats — apply neutral rules to decide the shape and placement of new electoral districts.) An editorial in Manteo’s Coastland Times cited Hood’s recent column asking readers whether they are “smarter than a fifth-grader.” N.C. Senate Republicans’ daily press emails cited Hood’s columns this week on education funding, energy subsidies, and “delusions of the Left.”
