Elected leaders in Virginia have been pursuing a more progressive and productive path on a number of important issues of late than the lawmakers south of the border. The state has leapt ahead in its embrace of solar energy, is slated to become the first southern state to enact its own voting rights act, and will legalize marijuana in the near future. What’s more, as today’s lead Capitol Broadcasting Company editorial on WRAL.com points out, the Old Dominion is also outpacing North Carolina in another popular and vitally important area: putting an end to partisan gerrymandering through redistricting reform.