Letters to the Editor category, Page 189
Letter to the editor: Associated Press is not neutral
The Associated Press claims to be a neutral news agency, but it clearly isn’t. I understand that the news business has changed and that newspapers are forced to use outside agencies for content, but why the AP? In the article, “Christian nationalism on the rise in some GOP campaigns” (May...
Letter to the editor: Senate needs to address the big problems
Matthew A. King’s letter calling out Sen. Bob Casey for his vote in favor of allowing continued mink farming in the U.S. (”Casey’s mink vote appalling”) raises interesting issues. We have serious problems in our country with rampant inflation; out-of-control fuel prices; unchecked illegals, many smuggling Fentanyl; increased crime; and...
Letter to the editor: Sen. Kim Ward’s inaction on drug pricing costing Pennsylvanians
Pennsylvanians face unaffordable prices for their drugs. Pharma’s record profits in 2021, estimated at $120 billion, have grown twice as fast as other business sectors. It is long past time for our state legislators to act now on Senate Bill 579, which establishes a pharmaceutical transparency review board. This year...
Letter to the editor: Republicans just want their guns
I am a registered Republican who votes Democrat because I’m a person who likes democracy and rejects fascist theocracy, so I get the Republican mailers for elections. Every single Republican mailer for the primary election bragged about how the candidates unapologetically defended their right to own as many bullets and...
Letter to the editor: Flawed wisdom of parish closings
Regarding the article “Diocese of Pittsburgh announces 10 parishes will be merged into 3 in July” (May 28, TribLIVE): Bishop David Zubik wrote, “This has not been a simple task. Jesus never promised that it would be easy to carry his message of love and mercy to others … our...
Letter to the editor: Americans want gun reform
Guns are now the No. 1 killer of our children. Forget thoughts and prayers, we need answers and action. The overwhelming majority of Americans have been screaming for gun reform for years. We know what needs to happen: get weapons of war off the streets. We have 4% of the...
Letter to the editor: Casey’s abortion flip-flop may cost him
Like father, like son? Maybe not any longer. Bob Casey Sr., a Democrat and governor of Pennsylvania from 1987-95, was an avid Catholic and strong voice for issues involving children’s health and well-being. He was an anti-abortion advocate and was successful in getting abortion-control legislation enacted in Pennsylvania. He was...
Letter to the editor: Bible really ought to be banned, too
This letter comes in response to Megan Tomasic’s article “Hempfield school board to continue discussion of books available to high school students” on the board’s discussions of requests to ban certain books as inappropriate, too sensitive, too sexual for high school students. I posit that the board would have to...
Letter to the editor: Abortion is disobeying commandment
Letter-writer David Ninehouser (“Jesus never preached about abortion,” May 20, TribLIVE) tells us “Jesus speaks not one single, solitary word about abortion.” I refer Mr Ninehouser to the Ten Commandments, which were in place prior to Christ’s coming. The Fifth Commandment tells us, “Thou shall not kill.” Abortion is the...
Letter to the editor: Prayer is not enough to save the innocent from assault weapons
After a shooting of many innocent people, innocent children, we pray; then another and another massacre, and we pray, as we should. But prayer is not enough. I believe that we are given choices to make, making the wrong ones; we then punish ourselves. We need to take responsibility with...
Letter to the editor: Require military service for weapons
In the early 1980s, I purchased a 12-gauge shotgun at Sears in the Westmoreland Mall, and I walked through the mall to carry it out to my car. Unthinkable today, as society’s views on weapons have changed in the last decades. In reflecting on those changing societal views, I think...
Letter to the editor: Lies endanger our society
Years ago, when Walter Cronkite presented the CBS news, you had a high degree of confidence that what you were watching was accurate. The reason for this was a little-known FCC policy called the Fairness Doctrine, which stated that since the airwaves belong to the public, a certain percentage of...
Letter to the editor: Pittsburgh’s accessibility, affordability set it apart
It’s the inaugural Saturday night of my new residency in the Roosevelt apartments here in the City of Bridges. The streets, four floors below, bellow with discordant beats and samples that waft through my window. The accessible pedestrian crosswalk signal beeps off tempo to the live jazz at Con Alma...
Sounding off: Where is our decency and common sense?
I am a gun-owning wife of a military veteran, daughter of a lifelong member of the NRA and mom to a son who was on his school’s rifle team. I would never relinquish our weapons. However, as a responsible gun owner, I am appalled that those on the right have...
Letter to the editor: Consider a rescue for Adopt a Cat Month
They may be America’s most popular pet, but our country’s felines desperately need our help. Not only are thousands of newborn kittens joining the millions of cats already in shelters across the country during spring’s “kitten season,” but a decrease in funding and supplies at many shelters further threaten these...
Letter to the editor: Protecting children from authorities
I believe that every day, Family Court judges knowingly send children to be sexually abused, physically abused, mentally abused. I came to this conclusion because statistics show that 60% of the children found to be sex trafficked in the United States come directly through the child protective services (CPS) system;...
Letter to the editor: Open primaries would benefit all
Regarding the letter “Keep Pa.’s primary as is”: Pennsylvania voters should not have to just “join the party” for a choice between something better than the lesser of two evils in November. In 2020, I can’t have been the only one who wondered why, with 330 million people in this...
Letter to the editor: Babies have no choice
I agreed with letter-writer Wanda Rader that it’s “A sad time for women in our world” (May 23, TribLIVE), especially in the Middle East, until she mentioned Roe v. Wade and her being a feminist. That’s when my temper flared! Does she condone babies being aborted, killed and dismembered, with...
Letter to the editor: Shame on those opposing sensible gun reform
Shame on the NRA and the gun lobbies. Shame on all the spineless politicians who take blood money from them. When the forefathers enacted the Second Amendment, they could never have envisioned the weapons we have now. Weapons that have no other purpose than to shoot as many people as...
Letter to the editor: ‘Liberal’ sounds like what we all believe
I’m a 78-year-old liberal and proud of it. I read the piece “What liberal really means” (May 10, TribLIVE), written by my favorite columnist, Leonard Pitts Jr. I want to thank him for his views because they are exactly where a liberal stands. If you look up the word “liberal”...
Letter to the editor: Why can’t we all just get along?
“When your home is ruined by other people, you leave.” This was my husband’s closing remark during our last household debate. “I brought this up four years ago … life is becoming untenable here,” he says. I feel anguish. Certainly, it pales in comparison to that of Buffalo, N.Y., and...
Letter to the editor: Charles Koch’s plan for public education
Charles Koch of the Koch brothers is part of the uber-wealthy with a net worth of over $63 billion. He spends millions to influence our government, and they gave $20 million to get President Trump’s tax cuts passed. The money was well invested, for in 2018 alone, the brothers saved...
Letter to the editor: Why is Biden trying to destroy us?
I look at this president and ask myself why anyone who has been able to live a lifestyle envied by millions would be doing everything in his power to destroy the people who enabled him to live such a lifestyle. Our IRAs are in dire straits with the Dow Jones...
Letter to the editor: We need a return to law and order
How sad for this country when leftist liberal Democrats resort to violence when decisions are not favorable to their liberal agenda. It is despicable what one activist group has done against the six conservative Supreme Court justices by revealing their home addresses, which may create fear and potential violence against...
Letter to the editor: Biden should reverse direction on fossil fuels
Can our rapidly escalating rate of inflation of prices actually destroy our economy, the world’s strongest? Fuel prices at the pump for cars, trucking, farm machinery, airlines, home heating and fuels used in the manufacture of plastics, fertilizers and consumer goods and foods are skyrocketing. This follows President Biden doing...
