Opinion category, Page 308
Letter to the editor: What would Jesus do?
Jesus was a refugee. Jesus welcomed the stranger. Jesus cared for the poor. Jesus healed the sick. Jesus fed the hungry. Jesus stood for the oppressed. Jesus forgave his debtors. Jesus blessed the meek. Jesus opposed the proud. Jesus loved his enemies. Jesus was anti-racist. Jesus didn’t carry a weapon....
Letter to the editor: Our country is crumbling from within
Thank goodness we have F-22 fighter jets using $400,000 Sidewinder missiles to shoot down a cheap, innocuous hobby balloon. Our circus sideshows have now taken to the skies. But no matter what the distraction, the inevitable collapse of the big-top tent can’t be stopped. No need to worry about China...
Letter to the editor: Commission should help, not hinder, Bushy Run
I am a past president of the Bushy Run Battlefield Heritage Society and have been a volunteer at Bushy Run for many years. During my term as president, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission tried to close Bushy Run. Thanks to the society members, friends and Sen. Kim Ward, we...
Editorial: Teacher financial aid would fill state education needs
Pennsylvania needs teachers. The U.S. Census Bureau puts the number of children in the state at 20% of its population of 13 million. That’s more than 2.6 million. It has 500 public school districts with more than 3,200 individual schools. That doesn’t include charters, parochial schools, private schools, preschools or...
Jonah Goldberg: How the U.S. can turn China from a foe into a friendly competitor
The House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party held its first hearing this week. In interviews and joint statements Chair Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and ranking member Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., have made it clear they are determined to make this committee a...
Peter Morici: AI programs like ChatGPT are going to serve us — and that’s the scary part
OpenAI’s ChatGPT3 is impressive and frightening. The artificial intelligence program can write authoritative-sounding scholarly papers, computer code and poetry, and solve math problems — though with some errors. It passed a tough undergraduate microbiology exam. and graduate law and business school exams from the Universities of Minnesota and Pennsylvania. It’s...
Letter to the editor: What Republicans voted against
One hundred percent of Republicans in Congress voted against prosecuting rich tax cheats, cheaper insulin and cheaper prescription drug prices. They voted against cheaper gas, voting rights bills, ending gerrymandering, fighting climate change, the stimulus checks, Roe v. Wade and the child tax credits. How will you vote the next...
Letter to the editor: It’s time to legalize marijuana
Regarding the article “Pa. Department of Health sues to keep medical marijuana program data secret” (Feb. 20, TribLIVE), on Spotlight PA’s open records request about how often physicians approve patients for medical marijuana use: Privacy and transparency often are at odds but don’t have to be. Pittsburgh’s Management Science Associates...
Letter to the editor: Fetterman should be removed from Senate
John Fetterman should be expelled from the Senate. Just look at a short timeline. In October, he tells the audience at the debate with Dr. Mehmet Oz to have a “good night” before it even started. Then we find out he needed a teleprompter. He wins in November and is...
Letter to the editor: Reschenthaler and socialism
I believe, after reading the letter “Does Reschenthaler know what socialism is?” (Feb. 17, TribLIVE), that there is a good reason to perhaps question his ability to represent the people in the area — or any area of the country. If he can’t recognize socialism practices in our own country,...
Editorial: The lessons of Mark Rozzi’s short-lived speakership
Mark Rozzi says he accomplished what he wanted as Pennsylvania’s speaker of the House of Representatives. That would be the two votes he oversaw last week, getting the House to pass its half of legislation that could lead to child sex abuse victims — like Rozzi — having a window...
Letter to the editor: Shapiro must protect RGGI
Pennsylvania recently joined the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a multi-state, bipartisan program to cut carbon pollution coming from power plants. This pollution is a leading contributor to climate change, and Pennsylvania produces more of it than all but four other states in the country. RGGI has been a big...
Letter to the editor: The wealthy do pay more
My thanks to the writer of the letter “The facts on who pays income tax” (Feb. 13, TribLIVE), for supporting my point that roughly 50% of wage earners don’t pay income tax (“What’s ‘fair share’ when it comes to taxes?” Jan. 24, TribLIVE). He correctly pointed out that the writer...
Cal Thomas: On Ukraine — pay any price? Bear any burden?
“…we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty.” — John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 Those were simpler, though not less dangerous times. The Soviet Union was seen as America’s No....
Elwood Watson: Depression and the expectations of men
Sen. John Fetterman’s announcement that he has checked himself into a hospital was met with bipartisan praise. Far right politicians from Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas to fellow Pennsylvania centrist representative, Susan Wild, to New York left-wing congressmen Richie Torres lavished support on the senator for publicly disclosing and confronting...
Letter to the editor: Anti-Israel propagandaVideo
The letter “Stop funding Israeli violence” (Feb. 10, TribLIVE) provides an excellent illustration of what I had cited in my letter about anti-Israeli propaganda (“Israel not apartheid government,” Jan. 30,TribLIVE). In a letter bereft of facts and laden with emotional anti-Israeli propaganda, the writer attributes all violence to Israel while...
Letter to the editor: American greatness disappearing
America today is a fractured nation. Some would frame this as a civil war between two political and ideological extremes, with the majority of people somewhere in the middle. I believe the war has been waged by leftist extremists intent on demolishing traditional America and replacing it with a new...
Letter to the editor: Why can’t we stop the mass shootings?
I always read the editorials and letters on the opinion page. The column by Jason Park, “A 3-part strategy to reduce mass shootings” (Feb. 14, TribLIVE), was wonderful. It is indeed a clear and knowledgeable read on the subject and was quite apropos for Valentine’s Day. Since then, we have...
Editorial: PennDOT sign cleanup shows slow response time
As the song goes: signs, signs, everywhere signs. Except in Gilpin. In Gilpin, signs were disappearing. Signs advertising restaurants. Signs advertising businesses. Signs on little metal legs, stuck into the ground near major roads. It was suspicious. These kinds of signs being removed isn’t unusual. It is just more typical...
Letter to the editor: Recalling Pelosi’s SOTU rudeness
In response to the letter “State of the Union rudeness uncalled for” (Feb. 21, TribLIVE), regarding rude behavior from some members of Congress during President Biden’s address: What would you call it when the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, looks into a camera and tears up a copy of...
Letter to the editor: Hospital war has repercussions for patients
The war between Allegheny Health Network and UPMC was unfortunate, but it now seems that some of the smaller area hospitals are having a fight of their own. My doctor works for Armstrong County Memorial Hospital. ACMH’s medical director sent me a letter telling me that, as of mid-April, my...
Tom Purcell: Hey, ChatGPT, don’t quit your day job
It’s at once amazing and troublesome. I speak of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence application that was launched last November by OpenAI. In a matter of seconds, it can write apparently accurate articles or answer questions on a multitude of subjects. When I asked ChatGPT what it is, it responded this...
Dr. Val Arkoosh: DHS needs help to prepare Pennsylvanians for Medicaid changes
As a doctor, I know firsthand the importance of having quality, affordable, consistent health care coverage in order to be healthy and thrive. Everyone deserves the dignity and peace of mind of knowing they can see a doctor they trust, or get essential preventive care like cancer screenings for themselves...
David P. Hardy: Where is all the education money going?
State and national media are spotlighting Pennsylvania’s education funding system in the wake of a long-awaited Commonwealth Court decision. While the court did not issue a specific remedy, it acknowledged failures within the state’s education funding system. The court called for reforms that give all our students a meaningful opportunity...
Alison Dagnes: Misperceptions of Pa.’s college students
Misunderstandings about college students run deep and tend to be alleged with sweeping generalizations. Those on the right boost the perception that college students are lazy elites who occasionally get out of bed to do drugs and yell about insufficiently woke Republicans. Those on the left reinforce the belief that...
