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Letter to the editor: Celebrating Black History Month
The Pennsylvania State Education Association proudly joins educators and support professionals across the nation in celebrating Black History Month. Throughout February, Pennsylvania educators will put a special focus on the sizable contributions and achievements of Black Americans in a variety of subjects, including history, literature, science, music and the arts....
Letter to the editor: Compromise is best for America
I watched President Biden’s State of the Union address and Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ response. OK, majority House Republicans, where is the platform you’ll use to make great changes? We are coming back from a major issue that almost left our country undone. You complain and yell “We have...
Gary Franks: The real cost of racism? Nearly a trillion dollars every year.
Racists and those who perpetuate unfair employment practices participate in and are an integral part of costing the United States trillions of dollars yearly. Yes, that’s more than what we spend on the entire defense budget. With this money, we could in 10 years approach eliminating our $31 trillion debt,...
S.E. Cupp: In Nikki Haley, Trump gets first real challenger for nomination
Nearly three months after former President Donald Trump announced he was running again for president, he has his first major competitor (with apologies to Steve Laffey) in former South Carolina Gov. and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley. In her video announcement Tuesday, Haley boasted of the need for “generational change,”...
Jane Hoffman: With Big Tech making billions off our personal data, it’s time for the U.S. to pull in the reins
Every day, the $6.7 trillion Big Tech industry affects our lives in ways that empower and harm. Despite recent hits in earnings, current layoffs and Google getting slapped with yet another lawsuit from the Justice Department, the tech giants are still all-powerful in our society, economy and daily lives. These...
Letter to the editor: Residents should voice opinions on Harrold school’s future
On Feb. 21, the Hempfield Area School Board will hold a meeting at 7 p.m. at Harrold Middle School to determine whether or not to close the school. I sincerely hope residents will show up and voice their opinions. Some of the school board members feel there is no money...
Letter to the editor: Keep saving lives with AIDS relief
At 20 years, PEPFAR counts 25 million lives saved from HIV/AIDS. Congress must keep up the fight! Everyone around the world deserves a life of dignity and opportunity. As President Biden noted in his State of the Union address, Congress can move us closer to that reality — and a...
Lori Falce: Why can’t Hollywood find real fat people?
I love Brendan Fraser. Throughout the 1990s, I loved him in good movies like “School Ties” and “Gods and Monsters.” I loved him in bad movies like “Encino Man” and “Dudley Do-Right.” I flat out adored him in “The Mummy.” And so I was thrilled with the resurgence of his...
Laurels & lances: Loss, objection and dropped charges
Laurel: To a bittersweet farewell. On Tuesday, the community turned out to line the roads along a a twisting path from Baldwin to McKeesport, ending at Jefferson Memorial Cemetery on Curry Hollow Road. They were there to say goodbye to McKeesport police Officer Sean Sluganski, who was killed in the...
Letter to the editor: Does Reschenthaler know what socialism is?
“Fascism is anti-Marxism which seeks to destroy the enemy by the evolvement of a radically opposed and yet related ideology and by the use of almost identical and yet typically modified methods, always, however within the unyielding framework of national self-assertion and autonomy.” — Ernst Nolte Rep. Guy Reschenthaler recently...
Paul Kengor: Remembering one of Pittsburgh’s and America’s most influential Black columnists, George Schuyler
“Why does Black History Month ignore the author of ‘the most talked about column in Negro America?’” asks a column by Mary Grabar in The American Spectator. Grabar is certainly qualified to ask. For years she has worked on a major biography of George Schuyler. Who was Schuyler, and why...
Letter to the editor: Divided states of America
Reading your newspaper, I fear for this country. I’m no psychic, but you cannot say that we live in a United States any longer, but a divided states. I predict the dismantling of our union: If Texas breaks away first, other states will follow. As Europe joins together and America...
Letter to the editor: Reflecting on ATI’s storied history
Allegheny Technologies (ATI) has been a steady footprint in the area since 1924 with its first patent to commercialize stainless steel. The company started as Allegheny Steel & Iron in Brackenridge, then, in 1938, merged with Ludlum Steel in Watervliet, N.Y., and became Allegheny Ludlum. Headquarters stayed in Pittsburgh for...
Editorial: Our children are under fire, and it’s time something gives
On Tuesday, Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey was stretched thin. Events called him in two directions. The funeral for slain McKeesport police Officer Sean Sluganski was scheduled for noon at St. Albert the Great Church in Baldwin. It was just a few hours later that he was speaking with media in...
Letter to the editor: Trump should make way for new America-first leader
I think former President Trump’s policies were beneficial for the vast majority of American citizens, but I also think he is unelectable in 2024 because his constant Twitter rants and name-calling have turned off a majority of voters. He should step aside and let a new conservative candidate lead the...
Jonah Goldberg: ‘Buy American’ might sound good, but it’s bipartisan folly
You hear it all the time, including from me: Our politics is too partisan, too polarized, too divided. Why can’t both parties work together for the common good? But it’s worth pointing out that sometimes bipartisan consensus is awful. The worst form of elite agreement is usually the product of...
Colin McNickle: Points of order on Gainey’s tax-exempt review
A City of Pittsburgh perhaps already licking its chops that a review of current tax-exempt properties will yield enough new tax dollars to make up for exhausted federal bailout dollars would be wise to consider looking more inward, concludes a new analysis by the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy. “If...
Letter to the editor: Trump was not a great president
I am amazed that you would print the letter “Trump, like Reagan, was a great president” (Jan. 23, TribLIVE). He certainly was not! He said the covid was like a flu and would go away. He got it and so did his family and many in his office. You have...
Letter to the editor: Speaker Rozzi needs to get to work
Pennsylvanians should be outraged that the last time the gavel was used by House Speaker Mark Rozzi, D-Berks, the House was adjourned until Feb. 27. Unfortunately, the last time the House was in session was Jan. 3, when people were sworn into office. Get to work, Mark Rozzi! We are...
Editorial: Is Westmoreland Republicans’ endorsement too early?
Endorsement is the stamp of approval that an organization — or an individual — gives a candidate in an election. Unions do it. Professional associations do it. Other elected officials do it. News organizations can decide to do it. Although the Tribune-Review and some other news agencies don’t believe it...
Letter to the editor: Money won’t solve gun violence problem
Letter-writer Bhavini Patel “We must address our gun violence problem” (Feb. 8, TribLIVE) insists that throwing money at the problem in the form of afterschool, job training, educational, homeownership and other programs in communities of color and low-income neighborhoods is the answer. I would remind Patel that this nation has...
Elwood Watson: Underestimate Biden at your own political peril
Let’s face it, when Fox News gives a Democrat a B+, you know he or she really delivered an exceptional performance. That was the grade the rabidly right-wing media network gave President Biden on his State of the Union address. As someone who usually doesn’t watch these annual speeches to...
Makenzie White: Yukon hazardous waste facility expansion concerning for public health
In South Huntingdon Township — five miles west of New Stanton and overlooking the community of Yukon — MAX Environmental Technologies Inc. is applying to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for the approval of a landfill expansion called Landfill No. 7. The facility accepts a variety of hazardous...
Cal Thomas: Monitoring the foreigners buying our farmland
While the military is focused on foreign objects flying over American and Canadian territory, a more disturbing threat to our national security is occurring on the ground. Federal, state and local governments are behind in their response to the acquisition of American land by people and companies associated with the...
Letter to the editor: Marjorie Taylor Greene, an asset to the Democrats
President Biden wiped the floor with the GOP during his State of the Union address. Being five steps ahead of the GOP by calling them out was on point, calm and focused. He actually appeared to be happy and enjoying himself. Also a shout-out goes to you, Marjorie Taylor Greene,...
