Opinion category, Page 374
Letter to the editor: Vote out everyone
Do we Americans have any lawmaker who can come up with a law that will keep the gun out of the hands of the criminal? All lawmakers are trying to keep our minds on guns and anything else so that we the people don’t keep an eye on them. I...
Letter to the editor: Problems with FOP
Regarding the article “Panel says more accountability would make policing safer for communities, officers” (July 12, TribLIVE): It is easy to see the problem. The Fraternal Order of Police, although not mentioned in the article, is most likely responsible for the loopholes and hindering any effort of sincerely “good” police...
Editorial: Good government needs to engage public
The relationship between government and the governed should be collaborative and cooperative. After all, we don’t live in a monarchy. Our leaders aren’t — or shouldn’t be — aristocrats born to the privilege of rule. No, the more local our government, the more familiar the origin story. Borough council members...
Letter to the editor: Where have all the flowers gone?
“Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” Reading that the late Pete Seeger, writer of that song, is being memorialized and honored with the issuance of a U.S. postage stamp was heartwarming to me. Having met Seeger and exchanged letters, one legendary songwriter (Pete) to an aspirant (me), the news made...
Letter to the editor: Ward’s ideas dangerous to our democracy
Sen. Kim Ward’s op-ed “A step toward election integrity in Pa.” (July 24, TribLIVE) was riddled with dangerous ideas that will restrict voting access, all seemingly based on the “voter fraud” lie propagated by Donald Trump. According to all 50 states’ secretaries of state, there was no widespread voter fraud...
Tom Purcell: The keys to living well
Comedian Carl Reiner was good at living well — and he lived well until the age of 98. I recently watched his 2017 HBO documentary, “If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast.” It introduces viewers to several people who are flourishing in their 90s — running races at 100,...
Sharon Pillar: Time for Pa.’s energy freedom
The Public Utility Commission (PUC) warned customers in May that all of the state’s electric utilities intended to significantly raise their prices on June 1, ranging from 6% to 45%. The PUC said this is because “higher wholesale market prices for electricity, fueled in large part by shifts in supply...
Letter to the editor: Dems pleased that Trump wall stopped
President Biden’s hissy fit in stopping the completion of the Trump wall must be pleasing to the Democrats. So now we have an avalanche of illegal immigrants and drugs coming in from Mexican cartels. If one is complicit with evil, one may lose the ability to repent. R. Buck Gray...
Letter to the editor: Inflation, borders, gas prices, crime, drugs, not climate change, the emergency
President Biden recently made the statement, “Let me be clear: Climate change is an emergency.” Let me be clear: While climate change is important, it will take many years to fix. What is an emergency is inflation, control of our borders (200,000 undocumented people crossed our southern border in June),...
Letter to the editor: Taxpayers funding schools their children don’t attend
There is a lot of talk these days about tax dollars being used to fund private and/or parochial schools. This debate has gone on for decades. I have this to say on the subject: People who send their children to these schools are taxpayers! Yes, taxpayers would be funding these...
Letter to the editor: Both Jan. 6, and investigation, reprehensible
The events of Jan. 6, 2021, were reprehensible and troubling. So is the sham investigation (show) put on by the House of Representatives. An investigation starts with no predetermined conclusion, examines all the evidence and presents conclusions in a professional manner. The focus would be to prevent future occurrences. In...
Editorial: Universities need to commit to stopping tuition increases
Pennsylvania’s state-related universities need to address what their response is to their gift from the governor. The state has four universities that fall into this category of public but not really public, private but not really private. They also are some of the largest in Pennsylvania. Penn State — the...
Letter to the editor: Questions on North Huntingdon’s waiver procedure
I recently became aware of a practice by the North Huntingdon commissioners to entertain requests for waivers of building permit fees from nonprofit organizations (“North Huntingdon rejects Norwin request to waive permit fee,” June 13, TribLIVE). Intrigued by this practice, I submitted a Right-to-Know request for waivers requested since 2018....
Letter to the editor: Selective fighting for rights
In her letter “Protesters are protected” (July 18, TribLIVE), Mary Beth Walling defends protesting outside the homes of Supreme Court justices as a justifiable right under the First Amendment. Despite the fact that the examples she gives are of protests that occurred in public places, my supposition is that, by...
Editorial cartoons for the week of Aug. 1
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Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Aug. 1
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Danielle Zanzalari: US chip makers don’t need handouts
Even during high inflation, Congress chooses to waste money by giving it to large corporations that don’t need it. Last week, semiconductor firms convinced Congress to provide free money and tax credits for expanding their U.S. manufacturing business — business expansion they already started in 2020 and 2021. The logic...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Let’s talk about the Nazis
We’ll get to the Nazi flags in a moment. First, however, let us turn to Merriam-Webster for clarification of a point recently made in this space that left a few of you vexed. It came in a passage that noted the right wing’s attempted takeover of state voting apparatuses and...
Letter to the editor: Stop blaming government for everything
I’m tired of people blaming the government for everything they see as wrong in the world. School prayer, for instance. If you’re a praying person, and you raise your kids to be praying persons, and your kid doesn’t pray in school, that’s your fault, not the government’s. Likewise, if you...
Letter to the editor: Biden’s deadly border mismanagement
“51 migrants die in trailer abandoned in Texas heat“ was a headline on page B4 of the Tribune-Review’s June 29 print edition. This horrific death scene is the worst incident of the Biden administration’s “pretend it does not exist” mismanagement of the border humanitarian crisis occurring daily in Texas, Arizona...
Editorial: Wolf and Legislature resort to cartoon cat fighting
Will Pennsylvania ever again have a functional relationship between the Legislature and the governor? It seems unlikely. Indeed, it’s hard to remember a time when the two branches could do their jobs without being at each other’s throats in a round-robin of attacks as predictable as a Tom and Jerry...
Letter to the editor: Jefferson may have OK’d Jan. 6 insurrection
If an insurrection of the Jan. 6 type had occurred back in colony times and enough citizens were sufficiently upset with their government to march on the Capitol as an armed mob, Thomas Jefferson might have been right in there cheering the mob on! Consider this: The Constitution was freshly...
Letter to the editor: Can we be better stewards of the Earth?
In July, I excitedly await the arrival of the monarch butterfly. From the forests of Mexico, the second or third generation of offspring are finding their way to Pennsylvania. Their flight is captivating, how they flit from flower to flower, intent on finding one thing: Milkweed. That’s it, the secret...
Letter to the editor: Wehner a great Pirates broadcaster
I’m a lifelong Pirates fan. Grew up with Bob Prince and Jim Woods doing the games. My father went to a game on rare occasions but listened to every game on the radio. Never could understand why when some of the games were televised. I’m older now and find myself...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Sen. Josh Hawley no profile in courage
In the “Hall of Fame of Political Ignominy,” there is now a special place for Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley. He is the politician who strode confidently into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, while showing a raised fist to the crowd of gathered demonstrators, urging them on, showing them his...
