Letters to the Editor category, Page 322
Letter to the editor: Turquoise Takeover for lung cancer
During this challenging time, it’s important for all those living with lung disease, including covid-19 and lung cancer, to feel hope, optimism and support amid the pandemic. About every five minutes in the U.S., a woman is diagnosed with lung cancer, and the disease represents more than one in five...
Letter to the editor: Tax dollars propping up UPMC
The article “UPMC to get $1 billion in federal aid after hard hit from coronavirus pandemic” (May 29, TribLIVE) explains that UPMC sustained a $41 million operating loss for the first three months of this year. In response, UPMC has received $255 million through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic...
Letter to the editor: On Flag Day, are we still as patriotic?
June 14, Flag Day. A day set aside for observance that is not often remembered. The terrorist attack on 9/11 triggered a call for patriotism. Streets were lined with flags displayed proudly on homes and businesses. Many wore American flag lapel pins symbolizing support for the nation. It’s been 20...
Letter to the editor: Solving our leadership crisis
The country does not have a police brutality crisis. It has a leadership crisis at the top of every government and every political organization in the country. This is America. We are not being governed as we deserve. We need to start at the top. President Trump needs to step...
Letter to the editor: Gov. Wolf ignores citizens’ wishes
Dear Gov. Wolf, Once again you desire to stymie the wishes of the citizens of our great commonwealth. Both legislative houses of the state of Pennsylvania have passed the bill that would rescind your expanded emergency declaration concerning the covid-19 health scare. The representatives of the people have acted upon...
Sounding off: How will you behave in the next pandemic?
How will you behave during the next pandemic if the virus kills children, adults and seniors equally? Would President Trump behave differently if his family was at risk? Would he treat preventable deaths as just part of doing business? Would you insist on opening everything and not wear a mask...
Letter to the editor: Trump derangement syndrome
The writer of the letter “Trump and responsibility of presidency” (May 30, TribLIVE) blasts the abilities and legacy of President Trump. Our Constitution allows for free speech. However, slander and suffering from “Trump derangement syndrome” is not a virtue to be shared. Our Constitution allows one vote for one candidate....
Letter to the editor: Pittsburgh Mills never needed, wanted
After a 30-day engagement and marriage in 1974, I was about to meet the relatives. The wife’s aunts and uncles were siting around the kitchen table mired in a heated discussion. They glanced up and greeted me and returned to the subject matter at hand: “We don’t need no damned...
Letter to the editor: Leaders must address hunger
Last week, I graduated from Winchester Thurston School. Instead of walking across a stage in front of my school community, I watched my name flicker across a laptop screen from my kitchen. What I miss more than the ceremony itself are the goodbyes to my classmates and teachers that cannot...
Letter to the editor: Don’t like president? Send stimulus check back.
Letter-writer Joe Palumbo (“Will America survive Trump?,” June 3, TribLIVE) wrote about his bad feelings for our president, but said he received his $1,200 stimulus check. If he was so unhappy with the president, he should have sent the check back so a deserving person could use this badly needed...
Letter to the editor: Trump and responsibility
President Truman famously said “The buck stops here.” But for Trump, it seems to be “I take no responsibility.” He said at the Republican National Convention in 2016 the following: “The most sacred duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to...
Letter to the editor: Police should take vacation
One sure way to highlight the need to control supposedly peaceful protests that morph into violent confrontation, looting and destruction of property is for police to withdraw from the troubled areas. Law enforcement officers en masse should take a one-week vacation and let mayors, city officials, and their political allies...
Letter to the editor: Ending injustice
The backlash of unrest on our city streets exposes two unresolved problems. The first is the immediate issue, which is an egregious absence, or at the very least, a massive delay of legal justice when it comes to felonies committed by white law enforcement against black people. The second, deeper...
Letter to the editor: Thanks to front-line workers
I read Monica Bensko’s letter “Thoughts from a front-line cashier” (May 21, TribLIVE) at least eight times. It was one of the most well written and clear pronouncements of what really should be important today. She didn’t scream or make half-true comments. She very kindly explained something most people seem...
Letter to the editor: Lesson in ‘forced choice’
Lori Falce’s column “Trolleys, Star Trek and a pandemic” (May 21, TribLIVE) was not only timely with respect to the current virus situation, it really is a constant in much of our every day lives. I first became familiar with the concept in graduate psychology at West Virginia University in...
Letter to the editor: Enough with property tax hikes
Enough is enough. When are citizens going to band together and say enough when these school boards decide to raise your property taxes 2 or 3 mills every year? Especially during this black period in our country. More than 40 million people in our country have filed for unemployment, and...
Letter to the editor: We carry our sanctuary with us
I just read yet another letter in the debate about the spiritual perils of churches closed because of covid-19 concerns. I sympathize with those who have lost what for them seems essential to their worship, but I recently came across a perspective from Christian pastor and author A.W. Tozer that,...
Letter to the editor: Health care and mask mandates
When government decides to do something, constitutional limitations mean nothing. It assumes its citizens will go along with the power grab without questioning the legality of it. President Obama wanted the Affordable Care Act passed. To help pay for this first cousin of national health care, the government mandated everyone...
Letter to the editor: Trump shirks, deflects, takes credit
Trump sought to take credit for the coronavirus relief package passed by Congress by, in an unprecedented move, having his name put on IRS checks issued to the public as part of that bill. Here’s a modest proposal that makes more sense: Trump’s name should appear on death certificates of...
Letter to the editor: Ending surprise medical bills important now
In these days of the covid-19 pandemic, there is one easy, positive action our state legislators can take right now to help: They can vote to pass House Bill 1862, which would end the practice of surprise medical billing. One in three Pennsylvanians has received surprise medical bills. This occurs...
Letter to the editor: We must hold racists accountable
Distractions are easily accessible. During the ongoing protests, it’s convenient to hide in our distractions and wait for things to pass. Some even shift focus away from protests’ purpose. People don’t protest for a political agenda. They protest for a far more important agenda: for the lives of black people...
Letter to the editor: Greensburg Salem should cut administration
The Trib reported in at least two articles (“Proposed Greensburg Salem budget cuts staff instead of raising taxes,” May 27, TribLIVE; “Divided Greensburg Salem School Board rejects proposed budget,” May 20, TribLIVE) the Greensburg Salem School Board has drafted a 2020-21 budget that specifies eliminating some teacher and librarian positions,...
Letter to the editor: Now that we’ve gone ‘green,’ it’s up to us
Our government has told us precisely how to protect ourselves and our families from the likelihood of falling victim to the coronavirus. For our safety, leaders are instructing the various types of businesses precisely how they must operate to stay open. So now that we are “green,” continued control over...
Letter to the editor: On decency, George Will should look in mirror
George Will has been a Trump basher and hater from the day President Trump announced his candidacy. However, even given his disdain for the president, his rant June 4 exceeded all boundaries of decency and fairness. The only place I have seen such a spewing of insulting hatred is on...
Letter to the editor: Would you jump for Trump?
During his Senate testimony, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned of serious negative health consequences as several governors remove safety restrictions without meeting White House-approved CDC guidelines. President Trump deemed Fauci’s warning “unacceptable.” If Sir Isaac Newton, with his ideas about gravity, warned you jumping off a cliff would likely lead to...
