Peters Considers Moving Out of 37th State Senate District
Peters Township officials flirted with the idea of moving out of newly elected state Sen. Matt Smith’s district and into state Sen. Tim Solobay’s area.
Peters Township officials flirted with the idea of moving out of newly elected state Sen. Matt Smith’s district and into state Sen. Tim Solobay’s area. Councilman David Ball proposed the idea Monday night through a resolution that would’ve asked the state to move the township from the 37th state Senatorial District that snakes across the South Hills of Pittsburgh and into Solobay’s 46th Senate district. Ball pointed to the fact that Peters Township is the only community in Washington and Greene counties that is attached to the South Hills district in the 2012 redistricting plan. He suggested the community would have a “significant voice” with state and county agencies if they were included in Solobay’s district instead. “This, over the …
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Bernard Bender
10:31 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
I think we should call and email our councilman and tell them how we feel, and encourage others to do the same http://www.peterstownship.com/index.asp?Type=B_DIR&SEC=%7BBC99A76D-3578-4A46-AE77-8FBA69C0F145%7D . We have more in common with Canonsburg and Southpointe than we do Mt. Lebanon. more ›