Spring field silent on gerrymandering issue

To the Editor: At their March Monthly Meeting, the Springfield Board of Commissioners announced that they would not consider a resolution to denounce gerrymandering and urge for an independent commission to establish voting districts.

Instead they are opting to wait until the current court cases run their course. More than 200 municipalities around the state, representing more than five million residents, have taken a different approach and have passed such resolutions. Local municipalities, such as Radnor, Haverford and Swarthmore, have shown leadership in advocating an end to the back-room politics of today’s redistricting process and urging a return to the idea that the voters should pick their elected officials and not the other way around.

Sadly, Springfield will not be among them. both nuclear-armed North Korea and Iran, arguing that the president can and should initiate these catastrophic wars.

Combining Mr. Bolton’s penchant for relying on military solutions with the erratic and mercurial nature of our current president is a recipe for disaster on an international scale.

It is time for Congress to act by passing The Preventing Preemptive War in North Korea Act of 2017, S. 2047/HR 4837, to remind the president that he cannot unilaterally declare war without authority from Congress. Our senators and congressmen from Pennsylvania must lead on this issue.