Letters to the Editor category, Page 367
Letter to the editor: Voting for Trump with smiles
Al Duerig’s letter “Wild claims about climate change, Trump, reparations” (Aug. 19, TribLIVE) is both laughable and insulting to letter-writer Rudy Gagliardi. I think Duerig is another hate-filled Democrat who can’t accept the obvious. I have been on this earth more years that I care to admit, and the climate...
Letter to the editor: Trump’s words vs. his actions
Rudy Gagliardi’s “Trump will get my vote” (Aug. 15, TribLIVE) was the most delusional, untrue letter I’ve read. Don’t insult us by calling yourself a Democrat. President Trump has not done what he promised, like fixing health care and infrastructure, ending wasteful wars, building a wall that Mexico will pay...
Letter to the editor: Chronic wasting disease
Chronic wasting disease can easily be transmitted by saliva dropped when deer feed next to each other, but aerosol transmission is many times more effective. A snort (as many bowhunters can tell you) is common, a sneeze into the crowd, maybe more often as an infected animal weakens, or just...
Letter to the editor: Mistick shows no fairness
I usually avoid reading Joseph Mistick’s commentaries because of his disdain for conservatives. However, when I noticed his commentary “El Paso, Dayton shootings & reckless words” (Aug. 10, TribLIVE), I thought maybe, just maybe, Mistick would express some honesty/fairness. Silly me. Mistick’s suggestion that President Trump inspired someone to kill...
Letter to the editor: Good riddance to Jeffrey Epstein
Although his suffering was nothing compared to the lasting pain and anguish he dealt to young, vulnerable girls, the self-inflicted death penalty of serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein is a positive outcome. The myriad adolescents whom Epstein indelibly scarred will not now need to relive at a trial the horror...
Letter to the editor: Paper ballots easy fix for voter fraud
It’s pitiful how stupid our government is being, spending millions upon millions of taxpayer dollars to try to prevent voter fraud of any kind when all they have to do is go back to pencil and paper with a ballot box. Instead of wasting our money on machines that either...
Letter to the editor: No air conditioning in Greensburg Salem schools
It’s that time of year again, back to school, and I am again writing that I am terribly upset that Greensburg Salem schools are opening this year, again, with no air conditioning in mostly all schools, except for one elementary school. Why is that? I believe this is a tragedy....
Letter to the editor: Going vegan can help clean up planet
This World Water Week, Aug. 25-30, we can all do something to help conserve water and keep our waterways clean: Go vegan. The water footprint of vegan foods — the amount of water it takes to produce them — is generally much smaller than that of animal-derived ones. For example,...
Letter to the editor: Wolf’s charter school blindside
When one of your biggest donor’s competitors is providing a better service, what do you do? “Blindside” them with rules and regulations to cripple them (“Gov. Wolf calls for sweeping reforms for charter schools in Pennsylvania,” Aug. 13, TribLIVE). Gov. Wolf, we know the teachers’ union is in your pocket;...
Sounding off: What is ‘supremacy’?
I offer this opinion at the risk of being labeled, but I believe that it’s important that the term “supremacy” deserves greater scrutiny. I first heard the term years ago. It gradually and ultimately disappeared as a result of the civil rights movement begun in the ’60s. The left has...
Letter to the editor: Now’s not the time to restrict guns
At a time in the history of our country when we have seen massive undocumented immigration, now is not the time to pass legislation restricting the rights of Americans to obtain and utilize guns for protection. Jackie Frazier Bellevue...
Letter to the editor: Killers deserve swift, final justice
Recently two Jewish leaders from Squirrel Hill announced they have petitioned U.S. Attorney General William Barr to seek a plea deal to spare the life of Robert Bowers, the killer of 11 Jewish worshippers in Squirrel Hill in October 2018 (“Dor Hadash, New Light leaders urge AG to accept life...
Letter to the editor: Left’s gun-control propaganda
It is August, and as they say, “make hay while the sun shines.” Democratic presidential hopefuls have been doing just that, known to take advantage of every opportunity to use whatever advantage that is afforded them to win an election and gain power. To date this year, 1,636 people have...
Letter to the editor: Cancellation of dangerous movie
The decision to cancel the film “The Hunt” due to criticism after the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, was hopefully a wake-up call for the liberal entertainment industry. Universal Films, owned by Comcast, produced “The Hunt,” in which a group of “elites” kidnap and hunt “deplorables”...
Letter to the editor: Where’s Trump’s wall?
Well, it’s been six months, and I just wanted to check in on the emergency at the border. Are the troops stationed there safe and well supplied and staying clear of harm’s way? No casualties, I hope, from the “invasion” of women, children and infants. I’m just asking because it...
Letter to the editor: Let’s get serious about our problems
When is it time we can be done with this? People put up billboards with harmful messaging that is influential and may be effective enough to encourage harm. The Republican Party of Fayette County puts congresswomen’s faces on dartboards, believing it’s funny to use their pictures as targets at the...
Letter to the editor: Fly flag to honor John McCain
I am hoping other Pennsylvanians will join with me this Sunday, Aug. 25, and fly the American flag at their residence and/or place of business marking the one-year anniversary of U.S. Sen. John McCain’s death. Considering the present state of our national discourse, I believe paying tribute to those who...
Letter to the editor: Gun violence & cultural change
We all stand horrified at gun violence. However afraid, we must continue to stand for freedom. Red flag laws or gun prohibitions will not halt our problem. At best, they may slow the pace or change the weapons used; at worst, they will invite a police state or pathway for...
Letter to the editor: Unfair sentence compared to DUI
I read about the man from Scottdale who robbed a Dollar General for $402 and got a sentence of up to 10 years (“Cops: A week after burglary, Scottdale Dollar General gets robbed,” Aug. 14, TribLIVE). My husband was killed by a drunk driver with no insurance, no license; he...
Letter to the editor: Mueller exonerated Trump?
Regarding Guy Reschenthaler’s op-ed “Mueller show’s over; it’s time to move on” (Aug. 7, TribLIVE), I have to question him on his comment “In fact, despite Mueller’s report exonerating the president … .” I read your newspaper daily, and I follow all news very closely, so my question is: What?...
Letter to the editor: How much greed is in a gallon of gas?
I totally agree with Robert Ober’s letter “Petroleum industry greed.” There is too much greed in a $3 gallon of gasoline. The oil company greed (the drillers, a tedious and dirty job) charges $1.38 per gallon (at $58 per 42-gallon barrel). Then the refinery greed (it runs 24 hours a...
Letter to the editor: Understanding can make for new ‘good old days’
If we’re ever going to have constructive dialogs about the changes facing America today, our younger and older generations need to try harder to understand each other. For example, when us older folks say that we sometimes yearn for “the good old days,” no, we don’t mean we want the...
Letter to the editor: Baltimore brawl typical Democrat behavior
The “Baltimore brawl” going on between Congressman Elijah Cummings, who represents that district, and President Trump is a perfect example of the cancer that is destroying American culture. Cummings started the brawl by personally attacking Trump’s head of Homeland Security in a public hearing. Trump defended his administrator, calling Cummings...
Letter to the editor: Walter Williams’ op-ed misleading
On a recent Saturday morning I opened the paper to an op-ed by Walter Williams (“Being a racist is easy today,” Aug. 2, TribLIVE), who has built a career as a black conservative, and who appears to have extreme right-wing views which are biased, if not racist. I am a...
Letter to the editor: On clergy abuse, action needed
Regarding the Aug. 7 front-page article “Nearly 1,900 calls fielded by hotline”: I can only follow the page 2 continuation headline — “Shapiro blames Senate GOP for lack of reform” with one question: What are they waiting for? Tom Duffey Reynoldsville...
