This is a challenging time for Pasquotank County and the city of Elizabeth City. As we bear a tragic loss and intense national scrutiny, our community is showing its collective strength through peaceful protest and responsible calls for justice.

The League of Women Voters of the U.S. is calling for today, Thursday, April 29, to be a “Day of Action” by promoting redistricting reform nationwide. We are joining that effort here in northeastern North Carolina by strongly encouraging the General Assembly to adopt redistricting reform for…

A few weeks ago, President Joe Biden said that no amendment was untouchable. Then in Rob Phillips' column, he states several opinions about the 2nd Amendment, including his belief that it will not last forever. In Phillips' article, he never mentions the Bill of Rights. And that's the key. B…

If the judge doesn't authorize the release of the body camera footage in Andrew Brown Jr.'s fatal shooting by sheriff's deputies, we will come and live in your city until he or she does. We will be peaceful but not kind.

I don't really know how to even start this letter, but I feel what I have to say is most worthy.

I grew up hearing: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." I conclude that this means that one should keep on trying to do the same thing, until he succeeds.

I’m a Boy Scout who has lived here in Elizabeth City my whole life. I have never seen so much unrest in our community as I did on April 21, when a man was shot and killed by the Pasquotank Sheriff’s Department.

I would ask your readers to please inspect their medical bills closely and tell their provider prior to receiving service that they must use a pathologist, anesthesiologist, etc., who is also in their participating healthcare network.

The following is a sampling of comments from The Daily Advance’s Facebook page on Wednesday’s fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. by a Pasquotank sheriff’s deputy who was serving a search warrant at Brown’s address in Elizabeth City:

In the March 25th edition of the Chowan Herald, Ricky Browder, a member of the Edenton-Chowan Board of Education, succinctly expressed a very positive vision for our students and county regarding the new high school in Edenton.

You got to wonder how long before Congresswoman Maxine Moore Waters of California gets the notion to walk over to someone she dislikes and slaps them. What if when she told Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio to shut his mouth, he would have walked over and slugged her?

I cannot understand why these giant retail chain stores are falling short by not having enough motorized carts for the handicapped and seniors. These stores have thousands of people who enter their premises every day and they make tons of money.

The best chance that any culture or institution has of surviving sweeping changes is brought about by its being built around irreducible, clearly defined principles.

The editorial in your Tuesday, April 6, edition suggests that N.C. Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt should concentrate on kids, not politicians. This implies that all is right with our schools, which is totally incorrect.

The League of Women Voters of Northeastern North Carolina is announcing a statewide effort to promote redistricting reform in North Carolina, especially on April 29 of this year. We’re calling it the “Day of Action” or the “People Powered Fair Maps Initiative.” On that day, League members ac…

Perhaps the scientists are right in saying that about 14 billion years have passed since “the Big Bang,” but that time feels like a much shorter time — about 6,000 years as the Bible says.

Two recent letters in The Daily Advance — one by yours truly and another excellent letter by a frequent letter-writer — were little discussions of America as a “Christian nation.”